WILLI WONKA and CUSEFAN present to first annual...

[BUNK MORELAND]

What we could do

Count me in.....this is totally awesome! What start men....:cool:

Is have some sort of prelims to determine seedings for the real tourney..

Say using the conference tourneys for prelims .. Just a suggestion ....

[BoKnows]

I am in....though was not seeded in the previous brackets....dont worry I dont feel slighted Willie!:p

[bookiekilla]

Stiff...that's a great idea!

And I have no problem taking the seed I got in cuse and willi's bracket...I'll just have to take on Hofin and his Nuts in the 2nd round and then beat X....;)

[joepa66]

Count me in.....this is totally awesome! What start men....:cool:

[rjp]

I think that's a pretty neat format Stif if enough people join up.

Just like in fantasy football... I have more points than everyone else but still lose every week because the guy I play has more than me!

[Silver & Black]

I personally like it, but I also like the idea of using Willi and Cuse's seedings

[Stifler's Mom]

OK, first of all, we'd need 64 participants, just like the NCAA Tourney. That probably shouldn't be too difficult considering we have way more members than that already, and most of us were already active posters at the other joint.

I suppose registration would be on a first come serve basis until we get to 64, since for the idea to work, we would need exactly 64 people.

As for the format...

It would work just like the March Madness tourney, with everyone receiving a seed in one of the 4 brackets. Names could be drawn randomly for seeds and "regions", it could be computer generated, or whatever.

You would pick every game on the card that ROUND (not day, since not every team plays every day) and so would your opponent. The one with the most correct selections (ATS) moves on to the next round. So you would be making all 32 picks in the first ROUND, and if you beat your opponent, you move on.

This would continue in every round until some is the champion.

Obviously we would need to use a tie-breaker once we get to maybe the elite 8. We could either pick both sides and totals at that point (to make more plays and a tie less likely), OR just do the old standard "whoever comes closest to the total" on a certain game, which would be specified in advance and everyone in that round would use the same game for their totals tiebreaker. Wouldn't be fair if we had people taking a guess at 4 different games.

IMO, the fun of this is that if you go say 12-20, but your opponent does worse, you still get to move on....just as if you were actually in the tourney and your opposition had a bad game as well, and you managed to do enough to win.

On the other hand, you could go 26-6 and LOSE to a guy who goes 27-5....same way with in the tourney. You may meet the hot team (or handicapper) in this case, and even though you play (handicap) great, there was just nothing you could do to come out the winner on that given day.

Well, this is my idea. I think it would be fun, and I doubt there are any other contests out there like it....and like i said, I'll post the lines and grade the plays if there are enough interested players....weather it's just for fun, or if there are actually prizes involved.

If there are enough who like this idea, and Kevin gives the OK, I'll open a thread for registration a little later this afternoon, along with writing up some "official" rules.

[CuseFan10]

I'm in for $20 if someone comes up with a solid idea. No need for Kevin to pay for anything.

WILLI - Did you post the results or are you still tweaking it?

[Silver & Black]

for the March Madness Tourney, How about points based on the Seed of the team that wins. ex - #1 beats #4, and you had #1, you get 1 point. on the flip side, #4 beats #1 and you have #4, you get 4 points.

[Silver & Black]

I'm in for $20...

First round goes from mon-th
Second round fri-sun
etc..etc...etc.

must play Min 7 games per round...against the spread.

We could start Monday 03/05
if we don't have 64 we give first round bye's

[Stifler's Mom]

I have an idea....gimme a sec and I'll post it and see what everyone thinks.

[Jerbeek]

As for prizes, I have talked to Kevin about it but we haven't decided what to do.

[Jerbeek]

If you have a suggestion for a format let me know. Here is what I was thinking:

There are 63 games total, we will put a line and total on all 63 games so that means there are 126 possible plays. (or we could do sides only). We could say you need to make 40 plays and the winner is the person with the most correct.

OR

We could also do something were you got 10 - 3 star picks, 10 - 2 star picks and 10 - 1 star picks.

OR

Another option would be a bracket contest but everybody is usually already in one of those and there is no handicapping angle.

OR

We could do an elimination where each round you get rid of half the field and the rest advance to the next day. Not sure how this would work but I am sure we could figure out something.

[beermantm]

or known bufoons (Rothko and beerman)

I resemble that remark!!!

[bookiekilla]

Count me in for $20