Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Introducing the Hoagie Central SuperBracket

I wanted to come up with an alternate bracket scoring system that rewards picking underdogs.

(For the complete super-long math backstory, you can click here.)

My proposal for year one is simple:

Each game is worth: Seed X Value

Here are the Values per round:
Round of 64 games: 1
Round of 32 games: 2
Sweet 16 games: 3
Elite 8 games: 5
Final Four games: 10
Championship game: 20

We'll see how it goes.

3 comments:

  1. Some interesting and similar discussion from several years ago...ended up not far from what you've suggested here (though as a math nerd I like the use of the Fibonacci numbers :P)

    http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070308154659AA6j0mI

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  2. That system was the first I tried after layout out my hypotheses. http://hoagiecentral.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-latest-in-march-madness-innovation.html
    It ended up being overly complex and not rewarding enough for picking low seeds.

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  3. Ah, somehow I missed your other post...carry on ;)

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