#781679 - Mon Mar 26 2012 12:27 PM
Re: Results & Standings .. March Madness
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This is collge basketball. However, most of the players recieved athletic scholarships to go their respective schools, and are probably going into the NBA, even before their four years at school are up. They do attend classes and gain an education, but it might not come in handy until they retire at 40.
That's true for the top players, but most of the players in the tournament won't make it that far. There's only 30 teams in the NBA, and they only draft 60 players each year (including international players).
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#783088 - Sun Apr 01 2012 03:17 AM
Results & Standings .. March Madness
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Registered: Sun Dec 26 1999
Posts: 54484
Loc: Sydney
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15 players lodged tipsMarch Madness Day 9
5th Round |
| Mar 15 & 16
Mar 17 & 18
Mar 22 & 23
Mar 24 & 25
Sat Mar 31
Mon April 2 | 1st Round
2nd Round
3rd Round
4th Round
5th Round
6th Round | 32 games
16 games
8 games
4 games
2 games
1 game | 1 pt
2 pts
3 pts
4 pts
6 pts
9 pts |
Regional Semi-Finals
Regional Finals
National Semi-Finals
National Final |
Sweet Sixteen
Elite Eight
Final Four | | Seedings: for a correct pick, a team's seeding is added to above pts | Final is East/Mid-West vs. West/South |
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Results
| picks | seeds |
61-69
62-64
| 5 8 10 8
2v2
4v1
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Ohio State v Kansas
Louisville v Kentucky
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BxBarracuda Howie72 kevinatilusa George95 LeoDaVinci
BxBarracuda Howie72 kevinatilusa dg_dave gtho4 jonnowales N-Bomb srini701 | | | 13 | 18 | 13x6 + 18 = 96 |
Standings
LW TW | |
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TW LW hi-lo picks pts pks pts | mk mpt | winner
----- ----- ------ day 9 ------ | |-------------
1 1 1-8 George95 40 229 1 8 41 237 | 237 | 1 Mich St (139)
2 3 2-10 Howie72 39 211 2 15 41 226 | 42 237 | 2 Kansas (150)
3 5 3-9 BxBarracuda 35 207 2 15 37 222 | 38 232 | 1 Kentucky
4 2 1-4 themonarch 38 220 0 38 220 | 220 | 2 Missouri
5 4 3-6 srini701 39 209 1 7 40 216 | 216 | 1 UNC
6 7 6-11 jonnowales 39 203 1 7 40 210 | 210 | 3 Georgetown
7 5 4-6 illiniman14 39 207 0 39 207 | 207 | 2 Ohio St (135)
8 8 7-12 N-Bomb 36 190 1 7 37 197 | 38 207 | 1 Kentucky (151)
9 9 1-10 dg_dave 34 187 1 5 35 194 | 36 204 | 1 Kentucky
10 12 10-14 kevinatilusa 34 172 2 15 36 187 | 37 197 | 1 Kentucky
11 10 4-11 toocool4u 36 182 0 36 182 | 182 | 2 Missouri (112)
12 11 4-12 Sypher 34 174 0 34 174 | 174 | 1 UNC
13 14 4-14 gtho4 34 165 1 7 35 172 | 36 182 | 1 Kentucky (113)
14 13 12-14 ozzz2002 31 166 0 31 166 | 166 | 7 Notre Dame
15 15 15-15 LeoDaVinci 33 152 1 8 34 160 | 35 171 | 1 Kansas
13 96 | |
perfect pick 60 419 2 15 62 434 | |
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mk = maximum number correct picks, if all remaining are correct.
mpt= maximum points if all remaining picks are correct.
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Day 8 saw the Final Four play the national semi-fianls, deciding the last two for the final on Monday night. Three of us picked the card, five of us scored zilch, and the rest picked one right.
The winner of the tipping comp will be decided on Monday night, which is unusual. The usual situation is no-one has a live pick and the winner is decided before the final is played .. one year the winner was decided at the Elite Eight stage as no-one was left with a live pick for the Final Four, let alone the final. Seven of us have a live pick for the winner .. that's almost half the field (x2 Kansas, x5 Kentucky).
This year's MM tipping comp will be a simple turkey shoot between George95 and Howie72 .. see table below.
If Kentucky win George95 will win gold. If Kansas beat Kentucky we have a dead-heat and the cbs countback will then be used as the tie-breaker. We have never had the gold medal in an MM tipping comp decided on a countback. However, we have had a countback for one of the podium positions .. LeoDaVinci remembers these details.
Four of the non-podium positions may also require the tie-breaker and, if Kansas win, LeoDaVinci will move off the bottom rung for the first & only time. |
Kansas v Kentucky | Kansas win
237 George95
237 Howie72
222 BxBarracuda
220 themonarch
| Kentucky win
237 George95
232 BxBarracuda
226 Howie72
220 themonarch
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Edited by gtho4 (Sun Apr 01 2012 06:38 PM)
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#783511 - Tue Apr 03 2012 12:01 AM
Results & Standings .. March Madness
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Registered: Sun Dec 26 1999
Posts: 54484
Loc: Sydney
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15 players lodged tipsMarch Madness Day 10
6th Round |
| Mar 15 & 16
Mar 17 & 18
Mar 22 & 23
Mar 24 & 25
Sat Mar 31
Mon April 2 | 1st Round
2nd Round
3rd Round
4th Round
5th Round
6th Round | 32 games
16 games
8 games
4 games
2 games
1 game | 1 pt
2 pts
3 pts
4 pts
6 pts
9 pts |
Regional Semi-Finals
Regional Finals
National Semi-Finals
National Final |
Sweet Sixteen
Elite Eight
Final Four | | Seedings: for a correct pick, a team's seeding is added to above pts | Final is East/Mid-West vs. West/South |
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National Final
| picks | seeds |
59-67
| 5
5
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2v1
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Kansas v Kentucky
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BxBarracuda dg_dave gtho4 kevinatilusa N-Bomb
| | 5 | 5 | 5x9 + 5 = 50 |
Final Standings
LW TW
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TW LW hi-lo picks pts pks pts
----- ----- ------ day 10 ------
1 1 1-8 George95 41 237 41 237 (139)
2 3 2-9 BxBarracuda 37 222 1 10 38 232
3 2 2-10 Howie72 41 226 41 226 Ks (150)
4 4 1-4 themonarch 38 220 38 220
5 5 3-6 srini701 40 216 40 216
6 6 6-11 jonnowales 40 210 40 210
7 7 4-6 illiniman14 39 207 39 207 (135) 126
8 8 7-12 N-Bomb 37 197 1 10 38 207 (151)
9 9 1-10 dg_dave 35 194 1 10 36 204
10 10 10-14 kevinatilusa 36 187 1 10 37 197
11 13 4-14 gtho4 35 172 1 10 36 182 (113) 126
12 11 4-12 toocool4u 36 182 36 182 (112)
13 12 4-12 Sypher 34 174 34 174
14 14 12-14 ozzz2002 31 166 31 166
15 15 15-15 LeoDaVinci 34 160 34 160 Ks
5 50
perfect pick 62 434 1 10 63 444
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It's all over, George95 wins the MM tipping comp! He may have run out of live picks, but he led form start to finish to grab gold. BxBarracuda moves up to 2nd place, for the first and only time, to grab silver .. and Howie72 collects the bronze medal.
1. George95
2. BxBarracuda
3. Howie72
This brings to an end the 11th edition of Madness here at FT, and our 11th different winner. This equals the FT record .. the NFL comp ran for 11 years and saw 11 different winners, before a repeat winner emerged.
We nearly had a repeat winner this year ... however, even if Kansas had had scored another 9 pts and won the final, Howie72 would've lost the gold medal on a countback .. he needed both teams to score another 10 pts between them (he had 150pts for the final vs 139 pts for George95).
One day someone will win this twice; it can't go on forever .. and then we'll wait for someone to retain their title. Thank you linesmen and women, thank you ballboys and girls .. and congratulations to the three medallists! |
2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | Lord Andry
gtho4
TemplarLLM
Sypher
thejazzkickazz | 38 64
39 62
37 60
34 58
35 56 | izzi
gtho4
rudogg
marchmadness
ElfTwinkle | 46 59
45 53
42 49
40 47
39 47 | wez
Sarah606
gtho4
izzi
JuniorTheJaws | 37 216
39 212
41 208
40 195
28 185 | ElfTwinkle
kevinatilusa . .
linkan
Sarah606
Blinkybill | 43 220
41 212
38 194
37 183
26 181 | Blinkybill
LeoDaVinci
ElfTwinkle . .
gtho4
dg_dave | 32 205
33 189
39 189
36 184
34 181 | Howie72
dg_dave
Nannanut
Blinkybill
DakotaNorth | 51 260
50 253
50 244
48 235
47 226 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | | ralzzz
LeoDaVinci
doomed
Nannanut
JuniorTheJaws | 46 243
43 223
42 215
44 213
43 212 | jonnowales
dg_dave
Sypher
ralzzz
LeoDaVinci | 49 256
46 248
47 238
44 219
42 218 | illiniman14
LeoDaVinci
jonnowales
themonarch
kevinatilusa . . | 39 223
39 221
39 219
39 213
38 210 | N-Bomb
rxbigdawg
toocool4u
Sypher
illiniman14 | 38 210
35 192
37 191
37 180
35 178 | George95
BxBarracuda
Howie72
themonarch
srini701 | 41 237
38 232
41 226
38 220
40 216 | | |
pts for first 2 comps were 1-1-2-3-4-5 plus seedings
then from 2004 onwards 1-2-3-4-6-9 plus seedings 2006 : no-one picked any of the Final Four, not one
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#783515 - Tue Apr 03 2012 12:42 AM
Re: Results & Standings .. March Madness
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Well done, to both the Georges.  I am reserving my spot to be Winner Number 12, next year...
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#783518 - Tue Apr 03 2012 01:19 AM
Re: Results & Standings .. March Madness
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You're welcome to No.12...I'll take 13 !!
Thanks G for running this and well done to all...
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#783538 - Tue Apr 03 2012 04:11 AM
Re: Results & Standings .. March Madness
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I'll fight with ozzz for number 12, since Sypher is a nice guy Really well done to all 3 medallists and big thanks to George for those nice write-ups!
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#783556 - Tue Apr 03 2012 05:54 AM
Re: Results & Standings .. March Madness
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Yay! 11 different winners? That's me done I guess. Thanks to George for the write-ups, as well as Howie for such a good fight to the finish and Bx who stealthy ended up in second.
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#783658 - Tue Apr 03 2012 05:09 PM
Re: Results & Standings .. March Madness
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I rocked this comp, by George!
Congratulations to George and good work to George for writing this up.
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#783720 - Tue Apr 03 2012 08:15 PM
Re: Results & Standings .. March Madness
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Loc: Southeastern Connecticut USA
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Congrats to the podium placers and thanks for another fun tipping competition.
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