I've always loved and hated doing brackets for the NCAA Tournament. On one hand, I'm not a huge college hoops follower, so having a bracket or two gives me rooting interests and makes the games between teams I generally couldn't care less about, a heck of a lot more fun. But on the other hand, I suck at picking brackets. I don't know what I'm doing and I generally have no luck at all, so my brackets are usually dead by the end of the first week and I'm barely paying attention in the Final 4. Until recently.
My girlfriend's brother-in-law ran a family pool that made picks round-by-round. Which means no matter how awful your first round picks might have been, you still get a chance to make accuarate picks on ALL of the games in the second round, and so forth. Secondly, you get bonus points equal to the difference between the seeds for picking an upset. So if you pick a 12 beating a 5 in the first round, you get 2 points for the win plus 7 points for the upset. This makes for some crazy standings changes all the way through and some interesting strategy in making picks. This year he had an iPhone/iPad app created to run a pool round-by-round with those rules called Bracket Madness. So I'm starting a Discredited Non-Classy Pool on the Bracket Madness app for anyone who wishes to play by those rules and has an Apple device. I'd love feedback on it and if enough people like it, we can run with those rules next year when the app is available for Android and Chrome as well. FYI, the app costs 99 cents to download.
The bracket name is: Discredited Non-Classy OV Picks (Pay no attention to other OV or Obstructed View groups, I made a couple with screwed up settings and nobody could join, but I can't delete them either.)
Password is: jabroni
Just search for the bracket name once you get in. Download the app to begin the madness! http://goo.gl/s7iGy
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For a more traditional bracket that you can play from your phone or online, we have a Group on the ESPN Tournament Challenge game:
Get in the action now: http://games.espn.go.com/tournament-challenge-bracket/en/group?groupID=133246&ex_cid=tcmen-invite-email
Group: Discredited NonClassy OV
Password: jabroni
Hope everyone joins one or the other or gets really crazy and joins both. Should be an interesting tournament. It looks like any team can lose to any other team at any time. Peasants! Let the Madness Commence!
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I downloaded the app and it’s really easy to use. It’s only a buck so anyone here who is interesting in doing a bracket with us, spend a buck on this and we’ll appreciate it.
dmick89Quote Reply
@ dmick89:
Don’t tell me what to do.
Suburban kidQuote Reply
Having worked there for 12 years, I have to say the last place you’ll escape corruption is Rosemont.
frysredjacketQuote Reply
@ frysredjacket:
Yeah, but it’s fresh corruption instead of the same old shit.
Aisle424Quote Reply
@ Aisle424:
Well, as long as its fresh…
frysredjacketQuote Reply
I was in awe of Wrigley once in my life. The first time I was there. Every trip since then has been one disaster or disappointment after another. Drunks, racists, crumbling structures, nasty food, disgusting bathrooms…
What the fuck exactly are we gonna miss? The legacy of win- never mind.
frysredjacketQuote Reply
Well, if you are 10, or 15, you go to Wrigley and you watch a game and it is great. And if you are 38, you go to Wrigley and you ignore nearly everything before you sit down and also the comfort of the seat you are in, and you look around, and if you aren’t way back up high with an OV (the steel one, not the internet one), you think: This is a beautiful place. And there is some satisfaction in knowing that more than 125 million people have had the same experience over 100 years. That’s pretty cool. You can forgive that everything under your butt is pretty much crap.
Then you move to Pittsburgh. And you experience a baseball park where the only thing you have to ignore is the 435 Pirates fans that are there. And you realize that at Wrigley, the Emperor has no clothes.
Fine, if they move, but no public money.
SVBQuote Reply
@ dmick89:
dmick–I don’t think you finished your bracket because ESPN says the Possible Point Remaining for your bracket is 0, and for the rest of us it is 1920.
SVBQuote Reply
Is there an inside story about Harry P being the owner of OV?
SVBQuote Reply
SVBQuote Reply
@ SVB:
Yeah, I didn’t get time to do it yesterday so I put off to first thing today.
dmick89Quote Reply
@ SVB:
I’m having a hard time remembering.
dmick89Quote Reply
.@ dmick89:
HP at one time had his own site and contributed to several others simultaneously; he was seemingly everywhere, almost to the point where he seemed to own the entire Internet.
And if you own the entire Internet, you own all websites including OV.
Something like that, but I also suck at memory
Suburban kidQuote Reply
@ Suburban kid:
That sounds about right. Close enough, anyway.
Aisle424Quote Reply
Never thought about this, but it must mean Al Gore is HP’s father.
dmick89Quote Reply
Or did Al Gore invent him?
dmick89Quote Reply
I’m pretty sure HP invented baseball so that he could invent pitching, so that he could then invent pitch f/x.
EdwinQuote Reply
Scott Baker —> Shut down
Everyone —> Collective Meh
AkabariQuote Reply
Not a fan of the Marlins.
http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/03/19/great-moments-in-customer-service-the-marlins-threaten-to-sue-longtime-season-ticket-holders/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Rice CubeQuote Reply
New Shit
MylesQuote Reply
Akabari wrote:
Well, not exactly. A big key to this team not repeating its 100 loss death spiral was supposed to be the depth in pitching.
We haven’t started the season yet and the rotation has gone from:
Garza
Samardzija
Jackson
Baker
Wood/Feldman/Villanueva
NOT TOO SHITTY!!
to
Samardzija
Jackson
Wood
Feldman
Villanueva (with Raley and Rusin now a heartbeat away from the rotation)
PRETTY FUCKING SHITTY!!!
Aisle424Quote Reply
hey, I’m unable to subscribe for your RSS feed. Can you support or do you know why? thanks to your info.
QuibidsQuote Reply