Xanadu!
March 21st, 2011, 5:10pm by Jake
Well, would you look at this! Made my traditional 3 entries into the tournament, and using 3 highly dissimilar methods, I’ve got all 3 entries in the top 25. That includes 3rd place entry Xanadu! I’ve been near the top of the leaderboard before, only to fall one or two games short of a pretty nice payday. Will this be the year Pyslent represents? As for my method, I chose the bracket based upon which teams I acquired in a NCAA tournament auction I join every year. That in turn was largely influenced by sports stats guru turned political predictions guru turned sports prediction guru Nate Silver of 538.com. Thus, Butler & San Diego State in the Final Four, both of which seem quite possible. That might put me over the top in the competition, but there’s still a lot of basketball to play.
March 21st, 2011 at 5:44 pm
Oh, past results:
http://www.pyslent.com/?p=711
http://www.pyslent.com/?p=977
http://www.pyslent.com/?p=1433
http://www.pyslent.com/?p=1832
March 21st, 2011 at 6:27 pm
@Jake I know pyslent has a bots file, but just in case some web crawler doesn’t honor that, would you mind taking out the link to the site? KTHXBAI.
March 21st, 2011 at 6:28 pm
Also, thought the screenshot doesn’t show it, Xanadu! is the top non-fake entry that still has it’s championship team alive. Way to go man!
March 24th, 2011 at 10:10 pm
And just like that, Xanadu! drops to #35.
March 25th, 2011 at 12:32 am
And just like that, right back to 3rd! With getting bounced, I think I still have a pretty decent chance. Go Butler!
March 25th, 2011 at 12:35 am
(Was just going to post, “…Aaaaannnnddd you’re back!”) 🙂
March 26th, 2011 at 2:25 am
If Kansas beats Butler on their way to the championship, I’ll be in real good shape. Does anyone have a shot at 3 Final Four teams?
March 26th, 2011 at 7:03 pm
You’re looking real good right now Jake.
March 26th, 2011 at 7:06 pm
Rock, chalk Jayhawk! If they win out, I’m certain I’ll be the champ.
March 26th, 2011 at 7:10 pm
OK, not quite. I could finish 2nd in a couple of those scenarios. But I’m liking my chances.
March 27th, 2011 at 10:07 pm
I think your best bet right now is Kentucky losing to Butler or VCU in the finals.
March 27th, 2011 at 10:32 pm
Yeah, my championship dreams are over! But that would keep me in the money, top 2 or 3 at least. If Butler beats VCU, I will win my other pool, good for one free dinner.
March 28th, 2011 at 11:17 am
I just ran the scenarios and the best you can do is 6th. Sorry man.
March 28th, 2011 at 12:00 pm
Dang. So close I could taste it! I blame Kansas.
April 2nd, 2011 at 11:52 pm
Huh. Looks like if Butler wins, I’ll finish 3rd (not counting academic progress rate). What’s the cash money for finishing 3rd? I have quite the record of finishing either 6th or getting knocked out of the money in the last game. C’mon Bulldogs!!!
Also, I won my other pool, which earns me a free meal. W00T!
April 3rd, 2011 at 1:56 am
@Jake I must not have considered Butler/VCU winning for some reason…don’t know why. I haven’t done the prize breakdown yet, but I’d guess 3rd would get paid between $200 and $300 or something like that. Go Butler!
April 3rd, 2011 at 3:22 am
That would get me back to break even I bet!