March Madness - Thurdsday, 3 games in

It's halftime of my WMU / Syracuse game and I have some time to figure out some stats.  The first is that with everything I've got, I don't have a blank bracket to fill in, which would be really helpful.  I am at my brothers place, so I don't know how to print anything.  Booo...

Anyway, WMU started of the second half on the right foot.  Time for a mighty comeback for the Broncos.

If anyone thought we there was going to be a perfect bracket, I am here to rain on your parade.  3 games in to the tournament and we have <10% of brackets that are clean.  That includes a Wisconsin game in which exactly 0 people took American.  That doesn't mean good things for a perfect bracket.

I am closing off entries, so if you aren't in by now, you can go pound sand.  The final tally is 247 entries.  It was a ton easier to enter this year since there were only about 50-60 that I needed to enter after the tipoff.  I liked that.  I think next year, I won't even bother with the on-line registration.  You can use whatever you want to generate a bracket as long as you send it to me.

Anyway, there are 3 games going on right now, so here are the pick distributions:

Cincinnati: 147
Harvard: 100  (Harvard has been winning all the way so far, BTW)

Syracuse: 216
Western Michigan: 31  (probably skewed high for a 3/14 game compliments of my home town friends)

Oregon: 190
BYU: 57

Good luck to everyone.  I'll be back with more updates and standings later.  Good luck!!!!!


Also a big shout out to Alex Nieto.  He gave me some code I used to do the rankings which is really, really slick.  I am a bit of an Excel junkie, so I find this kind of stuff really interesting.