OT: NCAA Tournament Thread

LUKE23 · Post #1 » by **LUKE23** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 5:17 pm

Thought we would get a new thread going with the selection show today. I think Marquette gets a 3 and Badgers a 4. A couple teams I do not want to face in round 1 are Long Beach State and Wichita State.

Kerb Hohl · Post #2 » by **Kerb Hohl** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 5:18 pm

Wichita State was a top 5 seed in most bracketologies I saw. I saw them as a 5. I think they lost their conference tournament, so like a 6?

EDIT: Lundardi has them at a 5. Could be a second round opponent.

trwi7 · Post #3 » by **trwi7** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 5:20 pm

Yahoo has Marquette as the first 3 seed playing Ohio and Wisconsin as the third 4 seed playing Long Beach State.

LUKE23 · Post #4 » by **LUKE23** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 5:21 pm

GrendonJennings wrote:Wichita State was a top 5 seed in most bracketologies I saw. I saw them as a 5. I think they lost their conference tournament, so like a 6?

EDIT: Lundardi has them at a 5. Could be a second round opponent.

Oops.

Kerb Hohl · Post #5 » by **Kerb Hohl** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 5:32 pm

I'm doing an auction with some friends this year. First time doing it...anyone do it?

First set of rules we adopted were:
-Everyone puts in $50 (10 or 11 of us).
-Your budget is $50 and you buy teams.
-Each team can only be owned by one person. You can own 1 team or you can own 10.
-Losing Sweet 16 was I think 2.5% of the pot, losing Elite 8 4.5%, losing Final 4 8.5%, losing Championship 15%, winning championship 30%

However, we changed it up because I saw a little bit more of this action online:
-Budget is between $25 and $100
-13-16 seeds are grouped. You can buy "13-16 seed Phoenix"
1% for a first round win.
1.5% for a second round win.
2.5% for a third round win.
3% for a fourth round win.
4% for a fifth round win.
4% for a championship win.

There are other small rules. The changed set made it so every team in the tournament was intriguing. Also, the market sets itself in the second format. In the first one, buying Kentucky was your best value no matter what. In this one, it depends what everyone else pays. If you buy Kentucky for $50 and the pot is $500, you'll only net about +$25 if they win it all. If the pot is larger, you could actually lose money on them.

I'm having a hard time deciding which to go with. Set 2 of rules makes an insane value/reward decision process but option 1 is a little more simple to go with.

This is one of the sites that convinced me:
http://www.calcuttaauctions.com/run-your-own-ncaa-calcutta

wichmae · Post #6 » by **wichmae** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 5:35 pm

Are we going to have a realgm pool?

emunney · Post #7 » by **emunney** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 6:52 pm

I'm not doing any pools this year, but I'm loving FSU right now.

Badgerlander · Post #8 » by **Badgerlander** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 6:58 pm

wichmae wrote:Are we going to have a realgm pool?

viewtopic.php?f=21&t=1165488

MikeIsGood · Post #9 » by **MikeIsGood** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 7:05 pm

Although I can appreciate Davis trying to show off that he has a jumpshot, he does not need to be shooting three pointers.

MikeIsGood · Post #10 » by **MikeIsGood** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 7:09 pm

Wake-up game for Kentucky.

Shinyhubcaps · Post #11 » by **Shinyhubcaps** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 8:43 pm

trwi7 wrote:Yahoo has Marquette as the first 3 seed playing Ohio and Wisconsin as the third 4 seed playing Long Beach State.

Pointless to speculate on match-ups yet. Don't know Marquette's seed, Ohio's seed, either one's region, etc.

Marquette should be a 4-seed and Wisconsin right with them. Not a lot of heavy hitters, the Top 25 should show well in the seeding but there are some good teams from non-power schools.

Kerb Hohl · Post #12 » by **Kerb Hohl** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 9:52 pm

10 minutes to go. I'm fully torqued.

gbmb34 · Post #13 » by **gbmb34** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 10:09 pm

Shinyhubcaps wrote:
trwi7 wrote:Yahoo has Marquette as the first 3 seed playing Ohio and Wisconsin as the third 4 seed playing Long Beach State.

Pointless to speculate on match-ups yet. Don't know Marquette's seed, Ohio's seed, either one's region, etc.

Marquette should be a 4-seed and Wisconsin right with them. Not a lot of heavy hitters, the Top 25 should show well in the seeding but there are some good teams from non-power schools.

Marquette should in no way shape or form be a 4 seed.

worthlessBucks · Post #14 » by **worthlessBucks** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 10:15 pm

The instant analysis/predictions get worse and worse. Yeah, how about that Kentucky/UCONN matchup in round 3 Greg Anthony? Christ.

Kerb Hohl · Post #15 » by **Kerb Hohl** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 10:21 pm

They got the last 3 seed, so they were close to a 4 FWIW.

LUKE23 · Post #16 » by **LUKE23** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 10:22 pm

Marquette got a pretty good draw for being the last 3.

Kerb Hohl · Post #17 » by **Kerb Hohl** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 10:24 pm

The two "undersized" teams in a potential 2/3 matchup of Mizzou and Marquette.

PkrsBcksGphsMqt · Post #18 » by **PkrsBcksGphsMqt** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 10:26 pm

I like Marquette's draw and a Marquette/Mizzou game would be a lot of fun to watch.

Kerb Hohl · Post #19 » by **Kerb Hohl** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 10:26 pm

Not that I'm assuming they'll get there, but the Badgers could easily get a rematch with UNC in round 3. I've always wanted to see them play Syracuse, so that's a chance right now as well for round 3 (or 4, technically now).

PkrsBcksGphsMqt · Post #20 » by **PkrsBcksGphsMqt** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 10:26 pm

I also imagine Marquette will be playing BYU, they aren't too bad, third team out of the WCC.