You need to have JavaScript enabled to use this page. To enable JavaScript, follow these instructions. Yahoo questions? Sign up here. No bonus points - Everyone's picks stand on their own. Upset Pick - A flat bonus amount is awarded for correctly picking upsets, and commissioners can change the bonus value on a round-by-round basis. Tiebreakers If two or more players in a group finish with the same overall point total after a national champion is crowned, we'll use the following system to break the tie for tiebreakers, we only take predicted points into consideration : First tiebreaker - Closest prediction of total points scored by both teams wins.
Second tiebreaker - Closest prediction for points scored by the winning team. Seed numbers change every season, so make sure the listing you're looking at is up-to-date. Enter the names of the participating teams in the first round column.
Write in the name of each NCAA team on the line that matches their seed number. In the first round of games, high seeds play against low seeds. The 1 seed in each division will play the 16 seed, the 2 seed will play the 15 seed, 3 will play 14, and so on. Predict a winner for each game. Go down the list of the 64 teams and decide which out of each pairing will win their first round game.
A 16 seed is unlikely to beat a 1 seed, for instance, so picking the 1 seed will give you the best chance of scoring. Part 2. Note the winner of each game on your bracket. The simplest way to do this is to circle correct predictions or cross out incorrect ones.
After each round, half the number of teams from the previous round will move on until only two teams remain. You can also highlight the names of the winning teams to make them more visible at a glance.
Award yourself points for correct predictions. Put the number of points you receive for each correct prediction in parentheses next to the circled team name, or tally them up on a separate sheet of paper. Add up your points for each correct pick to get your final score. The player with the highest number of points at the end of the tournament wins their pool. In a system, for instance, your score will be out of total points, while in a system it will be out of Determine the winner of your pool.
Once you've got your final score tallied up, compare it with those of the people you're playing against to see who had the most accurate predictions. If you're playing in a casual office pool, the task of reviewing players' brackets and declaring a winner will usually be assigned to an impartial third party.
In these pools, you'll simply fill out your bracket, make your predictions, and let the moderators take care of the rest. Many players like to fill out their own brackets alone or with a small group of friends just for fun. Part 3. Try out other scoring systems. You can also find pools running systems like , , and Different systems award different numbers of points for different stages of the tournament.
This means that some systems reward players more for correction predictions in the early rounds, while some put more emphasis on the last few games. Enter pools based on your play style to better your chances. If you tend to choose winners based on statistical probability, sticking to pools that are weighted more evenly will allow you to rack up points for each correct prediction you make.
Use bonus points or multipliers to make your pool more interesting. Up the stakes by awarding twice the number of points to players who correctly predict an upset. Below are the following sites for the second round:. Below are the following sites for each of the four regionals, comprised of the Sweet 16 and Elite Eight rounds:.
The Elite Eight serves as the national quarterfinal round of the NCAA Tournament, consisting of four games played between eight teams over the course of two days Monday, March 29 and Tuesday, March All games will be played at one site:. It will be held in Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.
Tips on winning your March Madness bracket. Your bracket will consist of 64 teams — after completion of the First Four play-in games — divided evenly among the West, Midwest, East and South regions. The first round will be determined by the NCAA selection committee on a seeding system: A 1-seed considered the best team in its region , will play a seed considered the worst , a 2-seed will play a seed, and so on.
Pick which team you expect to win the first round and have them advance to the second by writing their name on the ensuing matchup line. From there, repeat the process until you have predicted the entire tournament throughout the first and second rounds, Sweet 16, Elite Eight, Final Four and NCAA championship game. Predict the score of the championship game as a final potential tiebreaker with anyone who may have the same score as you by the end of the tournament.
How to make your March Madness bracket work. You can use whatever methodology you want to fill out your bracket, but higher seeds are usually favored in their respective matchups, especially in earlier rounds. Otherwise, you could potentially cost yourself a higher score.
Your bracket can be altered as much as you want before the tournament starts; once play has begun, however, it is locked in. The most common scoring method features one point for every correct prediction in the first round; two points for every prediction in the second round; four points for the Sweet 16; eight points for the Elite Eight; 16 points for the Final Four; and 32 points for picking the NCAA champion. This scoring method places greater weight on correct predictions further into the tournament.
For example, simply predicting the correct NCAA Tournament champion is worth as many points for your bracket 32 as a perfect first round. Keep this in mind as you make your picks.
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