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General Discussions => No Glove No Love => Topic started by: antbach on March 09, 2006, 11:16:37 am
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Hey all, March Madness is a coming! This year I will be putting together TWO pools! The first will be on Yahoo! as in years past, and will be the FREE pool. The other will be a MONEY pool (info down below) through EPSN\'s service.
For the free Yahoo! pool use the following:
CLICK HERE (http://tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.com/)
Group ID# - 28039
Group Name - thebreakfast.info
Group Password - lovelake
Last Year\'s Thread (http://thebreakfast.info/forum/showthread.php?t=3564&highlight=2005+ncaa)
Last year\'s final standings:
1 Throw It Down Big Man 137
2 oldnewbie 130
3 helluvabracket 115
4 Wolverines 114
5 weekapaug19 111
6 peck\'s picks 107
7 SDBreakfast Picks 106
8 jefft 102
9 Spacedawg 101
10 Don Bean 92
11 WOLFMAN 91
12 Iverson 79
13 antcantwin 78
14 team nelltor 77
14 Sermon 77
16 Caged Wisdom 65
17 inertia1215 60
18 ZigZags 53
19 CoppenWRath 51
20 Milford Ser-Heads 47
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thebreakfast.info 2006 NCAA Tourny Challenge
Cost: $5 per entry
Limit: up to FIVE entries per person (espn\'s rule, not mine)
Payment info:
- PayPal* (Do not mention Pool, Gambling, NCAA, etc. in your PayPal payment! Ask for an invoice FIRST!)
- Cash (in person)
- Check, Money Order, or Cash via snail mail (cash at your own risk)
* Add $0.50 per entry for PayPal payments to cover PayPal fees. Leftover change from Fees will go to .info.
Scoring info:
- ESPN\'s scoring system is different than Yahoo!\'s. The following is a breakdown of their point system that will be used for this pool:
Round 1 - 10 points per pick
Round 2 - 20 points per pick
Round 3 - 40 points per pick
Round 4 - 80 points per pick
Round 5 - 120 points per pick
Round 6 - 160 points per pick
Their tiebreaker scenario\'s will be used. For more information on all of the rules of ESPN\'s system Click Here. (http://games.espn.go.com/tcmen/story?pageName=rules)
Payout information:
- Payouts will be paid whichever way the winners desire (same payout options as payment options, note to winner(s) who chose to be paid via PayPal: there may be a fee deducted from the payout by PayPal for their fees).
Top three entries will be paid as follows:
- 1st Place: 50% of total Prize Pool
- 2nd Place: 30%
- 3rd place: 20%
To enter:
- Contact me via .info PM, email: abachinski@snet.net, or AIM: Ant8tnA
- Register for ESPN\'s Men\'s Tournament Challenge HERE (http://games.espn.go.com/tcmen/frontpage) (you will have to register with ESPN first, if not already registered).
- Search the groups for ".info" and you will find ".info Tourny Challenge" on the list. I will provide you with the password after I receive your payment*.
*Payments being mailed via snail mail will be allowed to access the group. PAYMENTS VIA SNAIL MAIL MUST BE POSTMARKED NO LATER THAN WEDNESDAY MARCH 8, 2006. ENVELOPES NOT POSTMARKED BY THIS DATE WILL VOID YOUR ENTRY FOR THE AND YOUR PAYMENT WILL BE RETURNED, UNLESS PRIOR ARRANGEMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE WITH ME.
- Entries will lock via ESPN at the start of the first tournament game on Thursday March 9, 2006. ESPN allows you FIVE entries. If you are paying for TWO entries, please only put those TWO as part of the group. If you fill out 5 on ESPN, the Group will lock at the start of the first game so you will not be able to switch in a different entry.
- Please note that your entries into our pool are also valid for ESPN\'s prizes! but remember, only your paid entries are allowed in the group for the .info pool\'s purpose, so choose wisely.
Any other questions, comments, or concerns feel free to contact me. I am not sure if there is chatter allowed via the ESPN group, but if there is please do not mention money, gambling, etc. on that page, keep all conversation on .info.
Note to Paul Ryan: I am not sure what ESPN\'s policy is for you since you are an employee. If you are interested in participating and are not allowed to create an entry(s), let me know and I\'ll figure something out. This also goes for anyone else who is employed by ESPN or their parent companies.
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nice.
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I\'m in.
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The Champ is here!
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Maybe, this year I will some of this weekends College Championships and get me some edumacation.
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bump for selection sunday
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bump
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I know one guy who picked Monmouth. Oh yeah! I\'ll gladly add one point to my total. No really, it\'s no trouble at all. Pitchie\'s in the lead! The rest of the field trembles! Albany 95, UConn 37! Let\'s go Red Storm!
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We had 20 people last year, only 8 right now. Get in there!
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We had 20 people last year, only 8 right now. Get in there!
:that:
Also, the money pool has ZERO entries! But, I was expecting that, oh well, I\'ll try again next year. I still recommend if people are going to fill out brackets to do so anywhere and everywhere with sillyness, there are plenty of prizes to be won on the intraweb with free entries (and I have yet to fill out one)
for those filling out brackets on ESPN and want to join the group, search as stated above, password is: surreal
The Yahoo! group will be the official .info Pool though, for bragging rights and such.
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I am going over to Yahoo! right now to get down.
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peck\'s picks are in.
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<- could care less, I only watch the games because I get paid to. ;)
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12 Players. We need at least 8 more to match last year! Only a few hours left, make those picks!
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i will def. be down for this. its on espn right? still not sure on the $5 paypal, can anyone help me out with this. i think i have an account but I cant remember my password or anything.
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there is no more $5 entry pool! No interest. But the group on ESPN is open for those filling out silly amounts of brackets (like me, cos I had nothing to do at work yesterday) on multiple sites. The Yahoo! Group is the Official .info Pool for bragging rights (see Drew\'s entry)
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so whats the password for espn
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can someone PM me their picks RIGHT NOW?? i have a pool at work and i know nothing about most sports and i want a fighting chance. thanks!
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^i could send you a PDF of two of my entries (different pools). I dont know much either, I usually wing it. Unless its too late
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cobb i just sent u some pm style. good luck. i am a huge sports nut, so u may be in good shape
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just heard on the radio that they had to evacuate the site in San Diego. Leith, whatchya do?
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good tourney so far.
a nice day one with me of course picking montana and no one else did,
big upset in day 2 wiht iowa losing, never saw that one coming
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Iowa was my first Elite 8 team to bite it, but surely won\'t be the last.
Meanwhile, even though I picked them, good riddance to my second most-hated Big East team: the Seton Hall Pirates. Consider me the conductor of the Wichita State bandwagon.
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Have you ever heard of anyone completing a perfect bracket prior to the tournament? I\'m wondering what the probability (stated as odds) would be.
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Have you ever heard of anyone completing a perfect bracket prior to the tournament? I\'m wondering what the probability (stated as odds) would be.
every year there are at least 1 person who completes a perfect bracket. I have never heard of anyone personally but have seen them on espn.com over the last few years.
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yeah me too, but its gotta be hard. and if albany wins tonite up now down by 1 with 5 mins to go noone will have a perfect bracket
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just heard on the radio that they had to evacuate the site in San Diego. Leith, whatchya do?
Yeah the bomb dog got a hit off the hot dog stand. Yes you read that right the hot dog stand.:lol:
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Have you ever heard of anyone completing a perfect bracket prior to the tournament? I\'m wondering what the probability (stated as odds) would be.
for the record, those perfect brackets on espn on fake. this was actually on the local news last night, they had somebody do the math. While I do not remember the exact number, it was said you have a better chance of hitting Powerball than picking a perfect bracket. I think the odds number was something like: 9,235,567,326,874,546 to 1, no joke, it was definitely over a trillion to one.
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I think those are the same odds of Connecticut winning the title after last night\'s disgusting performance.
Go Wildcats!
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uconn got real lucky last nite, they should of lost. albany blew it. they were up by 12 with less than 8 mins and lost by 13
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UConn sucks!
I hate UConn basketball. They can suck a fat one, hopefully, they lose tomorrow.
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is it me or is that our good friend walsh shooting three\'s for west virginia?
loudwook...aka...pittsnoggle?
i\'m already convinced that chuck garvey is the long lost son of jim boheim.
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Have you ever heard of anyone completing a perfect bracket prior to the tournament? I\'m wondering what the probability (stated as odds) would be.
for the record, those perfect brackets on espn on fake. this was actually on the local news last night, they had somebody do the math. While I do not remember the exact number, it was said you have a better chance of hitting Powerball than picking a perfect bracket. I think the odds number was something like: 9,235,567,326,874,546 to 1, no joke, it was definitely over a trillion to one.
Forget trillion. The number of ways you can fill out a bracket is 2^63 or 2X2X2 etc. 63 times. The number is approximately 9.22337204X10^18 or 9,223,372,040,000,000,000 which I guess you could read as "9.22 million-trillion". You could run an office pool with a million people in it a year and it could very reasonably take 9 trillion years of that pool for someone to pick a perfect bracket. Stat-man\'s advice: Don\'t believe any perfect bracket story you ever hear.
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bc all the way.
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so how is everyone doing in the tourney? i still got my final four left (texas, zags, gtown, uconn) currently I am tied for 2nd with albany95 uconn 57 or something and behind antbach. what does the winner get again? autographed copies of all breakfast studio albums, including a much antipated, soon to be released new one...
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the winner gets to put
Winner of the 2006 thebreakfast.info NCAA Tournament Pool in their signature if they so desire, otherwise they get nothing.
I am guaranteed to not win. I am in 5 pools including this one and am in 1st place in 3 out of 5 of them, which basically means I am doomed. Anytime I have ever been in first through the first weekend in years past I have ultimately lost and tossed the sheets in the trash after week 2 of the tournament, this year will be no different.
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oh i thought winner won more than just bragging rights. anyways its funny b/c i have 3 tix in this tourney. and I am tied for 2nd with 2 of them and then 5th with the 3rd one. tonite should make or break my tix. i got gonzaga, memphis, lsu, texas
tomorrow: uconn, nova, gtown, ?
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Well, have fun everyone. I\'ve once again clearly shown that I know nothing. I take solace in my contempt for UConn. Go Huskies! I mean, go Washington Huskies!
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Regardless of tonight. I could not win the .info pool. I can\'t believe I was eliminated after the first week, but the awesome yahoo scenario generator tells me that I even if I nailed every pick from round 3 on, antbach would beat me by 1 point.
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w/ duke elimated that gives me a huge boost in the tourney since I already had them being eliminated by g-dub. still got my final 4 so im good, either way the winner should get some sort of breakfast memorible or some sorts
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Two of the greatest finishes in NCAA Tournament history. First, Texas wins with three at the buzzer, then a total fold by Gonzaga at the hands of relentless UCLA.
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after looking over my other pools that have money for the winner, I am praying that I get crushed in this pool. BC better get spanked tonight.
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Can someone please explain to me why the fuck Washington didn\'t foul, up three with seconds on the clock? And can somone please explain the definition of GOALTENDING to the officials. Thanks. Enjoy the tournament.
Go Patriots! Wow, there\'s something I thought I\'d never say.
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Personally, I need UConn to lose tomorrow. With a loss tomorrow, I have a decent shot of winning this bracket. Need Texas to pull through.
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What is up with Leith\'s picks? He\'s got all like 15 and 16 seeds, and only has 9 points while everyone else has 43-66 points. Is he ser? I wonder if he thought 15 and 16 seeds are the good teams?
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Thank you George Mason!
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Congratulations to antbach for clinching the thebreakfast.info 2006 NCAA Tournament Poll!
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Thank you George Mason!
agreed wholeheartedly
What a nice tourney.
So did anyone have any of there pics in the final four?
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Only UCLA. I\'m going to finish high in this and my work pool, but no cigars. But there\'s no tears to be shed with Calhoun and Company DONE DONE DONE!!!
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I picked the entire Final Four!!!
In the Beanpot.
But for real, it looks like 1 guy on Yahoo incredibly picked the entire Final Four. Someone named Tim McKenna. The public tourney message board on yahoo has been swept away in comments for him. He\'s now in second overall. Go to overall leaders to see the board, or view his full picks here:
http://tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.com/men/1143123