I-mockery Bracket Bunch 2011

[Tadao]

Do I get points for predicting a team will lose?

[Pentegarn]

Originally Posted by Tadao

Do I get points for predicting a team will lose?

If you did we'd all be in a tie for first

[Tadao]

Originally Posted by Tadao

Do I get points for predicting a team will lose?

Originally Posted by Pentegarn

If you did we'd all be in a tie for first

What I mean is that I predicted Florida to lose to Utah, instead it will be Florida vrs. Butler. If Florida loses to Butler I should still get points because I predicted that game is where the will be off the bracket. I doubt that counts though.

[Colonel Flagg]

Originally Posted by Tadao

What I mean is that I predicted Florida to lose to Utah, instead it will be Florida vrs. Butler. If Florida loses to Butler I should still get points because I predicted that game is where the will be off the bracket. I doubt that counts though.

Your last statement is correct - it doesn't count.

If you picked the losers instead of the winners, then you'd have to pick ALL the losers from the very beginning, and this would be an entirely different pool altogether. It might be fun to try it once (as a separate bracktbunch bracket?), to see who could come closest to obtaining zero points. Maybe next year ....

[Pentegarn]

Originally Posted by Colonel Flagg

Ythen you'd have to pick ALL the losers from the very beginning, and this would be an entirely different pool altogether. It might be fun to try it once (as a separate bracktbunch bracket?), to see who could come closest to obtaining zero points. Maybe next year ....

Would be an easier bracket to fill I think. Have all the 16s in your final four and call it a day

Or as I call it, Pub's bracket

[Esuohlim]

Originally Posted by Pentegarn

Would be an easier bracket to fill I think. Have all the 16s in your final four and call it a day

Or as I call it, Pub's bracket

Obviously everyone would pick the 16 seeds in the final four, but then there's the little nuances that would make it interesting, such as this year with the guaranteed Sweet 16 spot for a 12 or 13 seed. We should try it next year :sports

[Pentegarn]

Originally Posted by Tadao

What I mean is that I predicted Florida to lose to Utah, instead it will be Florida vrs. Butler. If Florida loses to Butler I should still get points because I predicted that game is where the will be off the bracket. I doubt that counts though.

Oh serious question. I see.

No you have to have the winning team picked, so if you picked someone else to knock off Florida in that round, but they lost previously, you can't score points for the team that beat them doing so because you did not predict them getting there in the first place. That's why the further along your predictions are correct, the more points they are worth.