Monday, March 21, 2005
Sports: Busting My Bracket
My standings after March Madness' first weekend:
SSD-LM/FoLM pool (which I organized): 9(t)/39 overall; 4(t)/17 among people picking North Carolina to win; odds of winning pool ($273): virtually nil; odds of placing in the money (2nd- $78, 3rd- $39) if UNC wins: about 30%.
Orange Whoopass pool: 10(t)/24 overall; 5/5 among people picking North Carolina to win; odds of winning pool (Astros t-shirt): absolutely nil; odds of winning second place (Astros coffee mug) if UNC wins: virtually nil.
Dummocrats.Com pool: 3/25 overall; 1/9 among people picking North Carolina to win; odds of winning pool (at least $25): surprisingly good.
A big "f you" goes out to Kansas, Wake Forest and Oklahoma. I should have known better than to put my money on Big XII teams. It was almost worth it, though, to see the dejected Jayhawk crowd file out of the Fox and Hound Friday night, after they persisted in bashing Texas beforehand.
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SSD-LM/FoLM pool (which I organized): 9(t)/39 overall; 4(t)/17 among people picking North Carolina to win; odds of winning pool ($273): virtually nil; odds of placing in the money (2nd- $78, 3rd- $39) if UNC wins: about 30%.
Orange Whoopass pool: 10(t)/24 overall; 5/5 among people picking North Carolina to win; odds of winning pool (Astros t-shirt): absolutely nil; odds of winning second place (Astros coffee mug) if UNC wins: virtually nil.
Dummocrats.Com pool: 3/25 overall; 1/9 among people picking North Carolina to win; odds of winning pool (at least $25): surprisingly good.
A big "f you" goes out to Kansas, Wake Forest and Oklahoma. I should have known better than to put my money on Big XII teams. It was almost worth it, though, to see the dejected Jayhawk crowd file out of the Fox and Hound Friday night, after they persisted in bashing Texas beforehand.
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