Brackets-How to win

[whalewager]

Winning your office pool or other brackets isnt hard. You just gotta have a little more money than most.

One of your brackets should be completely by seed. Go straight down the line and pick strictly by seed until the final 4 and then pick your personal choices from there.

One of your brackets should be favorite by point spread in the first rd and then by seed from there on out until final 4 and then make your personal choices from there. Most know that in the first rd...many higher seeds are not favored when you get past the 5 -12 matchup

One of your brackets should be by point spread in the first rd but you split the favorite and dogs with any point spread that is 5 or less. So, you are betting half of the 5 pt favs will win and half of the 5 point dogs will win. You choose.

One of your brackets should be exactly by the above but you turn around the favs that you chose in the first rd and replace with the dogs....and then replace the dogs that you chose with the favs....

this strategy should win your dumbass office pools with all the women in them...and queers...queers cant pick winners so we allow them in


btw...when you choose your champ...it should be between just 2 teams...

3 at most...its very unlikely that you are going to pick that 3 or 4 seed that wins it so stick with your number one seeds and keep it at 2...max 3

if you can afford more brackets...you can cover all the number ones and be able to throw in a 2 here and there...

the 2nd rd is usually what sets up the bracket winner so you cant be a dumbass

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[PO69]

Welcome to 5 years ago Whale

 

[whalewager]

welcome to these nuts po69...you didnt know any of this you barrelled in sonofabitch

you and me...fight...at the bash

 

[PO69]

As if anyone didnt know this shit!


You are NEVER going to show up at a bash

 

[whalewager]

ill be there if ur there

 

[johnboland]

Which one of the strategies would you use to say try and win the CBS Sports Online Bracket Challenge for $10.000. You can only submit one entry. Well you can only submit one entry under any given name of group to my understanding. Since everyone most likely would play the top seeds all the way through, would the favorite/dog -5 rule be the avenue to take. I like the tip on keeping the champion to just two teams, I always lose games going into the Sweet Sixteen because by then at this point in the tourney, most of the games that had major upset potential, have been played and the rest of the field is solid.

 

[whalewager]

odds are against you...you have to figure out a way to have multiple entries to even have a minute chance

In those type pools...you will have gamblers playing the pointspreads too...majority will play seeds

lucky more than anything in those type pools...

 

[FullyEclipsed]

For someone that is so against martingale systems this makes total sense to buy a shit load of bracket entries to increase the chance to win.

 

[johnboland]

I know a guy who fills his out backwards. He starts with the championship game, back to the final four, back to elite eight, back to the sweet sixteen and so on out ot the 65 team field. He usually has pretty good luck, but he to like all of us will miss that ONE GAME. Any thoughts on filling the brackets out backwards. It is probably just his good luck that makes it so appealing to try.

 

[whalewager]

For someone that is so against martingale systems this makes total sense to buy a shit load of bracket entries to increase the chance to win.

not even close to being the same

 

[whalewager]

I know a guy who fills his out backwards. He starts with the championship game, back to the final four, back to elite eight, back to the sweet sixteen and so on out ot the 65 team field. He usually has pretty good luck, but he to like all of us will miss that ONE GAME. Any thoughts on filling the brackets out backwards. It is probably just his good luck that makes it so appealing to try.

too confusing for me..i only finished 8th grade

 

[whalewager]

For someone that is so against martingale systems this makes total sense to buy a shit load of bracket entries to increase the chance to win.

we are talking office pools and local pools

being an informed gambler in these type of pools is a HUGE advantage...

winning an office pool for a small amount is to some...a bigger high than winning a big bet

 

[FullyEclipsed]

Winning your office pool or other brackets isnt hard. You just gotta have a little more money than most.










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Good advice for not being the same.

 

[whalewager]

Im not even sure what you are talking about. This is an unwarranted attack against my character. Its making me hungry.

Office pool has 100 entries at 5 bucks a pop...500 total

I will risk 50 to win 500...10 selection sheets...

half to more than half of these people have zero shot at winning...

 

[FullyEclipsed]

Good luck. Sounds like you have this here gambling thing all figured out.

 

[whalewager]

yeah...lets hear your advice...how do you do your brackets

 

[FullyEclipsed]

For one I don't disagree with your advice on this subject. But this is how my mind works.

Obviously you or someone else has taken the time to break these numbers down to figure out what the best chances of winning are.

Can you do it on using only 1 bracket entry? Maybe

But you have said in your first post that the chances are much greater to have multiple.

How is this different from martingale I ask?

You have a limit of $50. A chase has a limit. No difference.

 

[whalewager]

who is martingale? a new poster?

 

[FullyEclipsed]

Well you didn't have any good arguments from the last thread so I don't expect any good ones in this one.

Have fun.

 

[johnboland]

According to one NCAA March Madness site, while # 7 seeds are 57-35 vs # 10 seeds in the 1st round, # 10 seeds have better success vs. # 2 seeds in the second round (a la the big upset). There has been at least one #10 upset of #2 in the past ten years. Look for a solid #10 who can make it to the Sweet 16. #8 vs. #9 is a crap shoot because really no statisical edge can be found. Just play the better team. The cinderallas team who have advanced past the first round all have won 9 out of their last 10 going into March Madness. The last time both teams were making their first apperance in the championship game and the final four in the same year was in 1945. Interesting reading. I suppose it depends on how much stock you put in trends.