Welcome to Joey's 21st Annual NCAA Basketball
Tournament Pool
The Third Annual Daniel Cooper Memorial Pool
After the tournament starts you can follow the action on the
Standings Page
This is a private pool, please do not submit a bracket if you haven't
been invited.
If you have questions, please email:
THE COMMISH
Instructions
We've had great success since the great technological upgrade of 2008. The pool will run the same way this year. All
you have to do is submit your bracket on this page (starting
Sunday March 11th) by selecting the teams from the drop down menus. Make sure you pick a
winner for every game and
don't leave the default selection of "Sweet Sixteen" or "4 vs 13" highlighted.
Brackets are due by 11:00am Central Time on Thursday March 15th.
As in 2011, there are Tuesday/Wednesday "first four" games which we will essentially ignore. For the real First Round (Thursday-Friday) games that include a "first four" game participant, you will have 3 choices for
the winner. If you are picking the higher seed, there is no need to wait for the "first four" games to submit your bracket. If you want to pick a "first four" participant to move on, you are welcome to wait until after "first four" games, as long as your bracket is in by the Thursday 11am Central deadline.
Please hit submit only once. I will send you a printable version of your
bracket as a confirmation. I encourage you to grade your own bracket incase
any disputes over scoring arise. I will be grading my own on bracket by
hand as a check of the program.
Scoring
In the first round "Seed Points" will be awarded. That is, if you pick the
correct winner you get the same number of points as their seed in the
region. For example; you pick the #16 seed "Sisters of Mercy St" to beat
the #1 seed "Syracuse", and the Sisters win, you get 16 points for
your gutsy prediction. Whereas if someone takes the safer bet and goes
with the #1 seeded Orange (colors for "mascots" suck btw, induing the Maroons who host this pool's website), he or she only receives 1 point if Syracuse does win. The rest of the scoring will be as follows:
Point values per game, by round:
1-16: First Round
10: Second Round
20: Sweet Sixteen
20: Elite Eight
30: Final Four
50: National Champion
*In the case of a tie, picking the correct national
champion is the 1st tiebreaker, picking the most
semifinal winners correctly is the 2nd tiebreaker,
picking the most elite 8 games correctly is the 3rd
tiebreaker, etc.
Meet Joshua Smith -- a very BIG reason why
UCLA is not in the big dance this year.
GET IN SHAPE TUBBY!!!
