March Madness
Being a Brit, I know nothing at all about Basketball. Hence every March I join the rest of the country in entering the March Madness Fantasy College Basketball competition. I have just one goal: Beat as many of my American friends as possible.
This is the fourth year I've entered and I've normally come middle of the pack, and once I came fourth. This year I started up at the bottom, reached sixth at one point today and settled at eighth after this afternoon's games.
I love it! It's such a cool distraction, and as far as I can tell everyone enters a pool or two with friends and co-workers.
Previously my strategy to picking the picks has been: If I haven't heard of either team, or I've heard of both of them, go with the best seed, otherwise pick the team I've heard of.
This works quite well and gets me a few underdog winners which gets good points (we score on seed x 2^(round-1)). Unfortunately, I've now been around long enough that I've heard of most the teams, so my strategy this year is: If the seed differential is three or less, go with the underdog, otherwise pick the best team.
Seems to be working OK so far!
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