March Madness!! We all love this time of year everyone gets to pretend that they know anything about college basketball by filling out brackets based on whatever set of criteria is important to that particular person. These criteria range from; in-depth, professional analysis, casual game watching and public information dissemination, good feelings about a team, picking every team that shows up on the left of Yahoo's Tourney Pick em' breakdown (http://tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.com/t1/group/152577), and finally by which team nickname would win in a fight. There are many other ways that one can fill out their bracket, but these are the criteria which I and my unwitting subjects have chosen to use to determine which method really works. The participants to this little Pavlovian experiment are as follows:
Jason King YahooSports.com columnist and college basketball Expert
http://tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.com/t1/615531
I wanted to use Doug Gotlieb's picks but the Evil 4 Letter charges a fee to become an insider to see his and other "experts" picks so........ESPN FU!
Myself "SuperDad". An avid sports fan with above average knowledge about many sports and teams. I watch sports and enjoy pretty much any sport. I don't play many sports, except bowling or Xbox games, because I am old and very horribly out of shape. This does not stop me from critiquing pro athletes for their shortcomings. And to be honest, I don't stop with pro athletes. I'll critique pretty much anyone.
My Wife "Irish Girl" is an opinionated, feisty, full blood Irish Lass. Born in Belfast and filled with Irish angst and stubbornness, she grew up around sports(especially soccer) and has no problem telling you her views, and she will not be swayed from her opinions despite overwhelming evidence against her. What can you say, shes Irish.
My 3 year old son "Soccer Star" is the kind of kid that just gravitates towards sports. Give him a ball of any kind and he is happy. He can watch any sport on TV and find a way to play it. He loves basketball and had fun making his picks. I pulled up each match up for him and told him to pick a team based on the picture provided by Yahoo. He basically picked every team that showed up on the left side of the screen, except one; #12 Utah St. No reason why just changed it up.
The final participant was completed by my pitting each teams nickname/mascot against each other in single combat. I tried to imagine which would win and that determined the winner. It was purely subjective with only minimal research done but I believe the results would hold up in a real life scenario. Some interesting stats:
68 teams.
41 Animals: Including 4 Tigers, 4 Wildcats, and 4 Bulldogs
21 Humans: 4 Ancient Warriors; 2 Trojans, Spartan, Aztec
2 Insects: Spider, Hornet
2 Plant/Tree: Buckeye, Sycamore
1 Event: Red Storm
1 Humanoid: Blue Devil
I will post all of the picks the day of the games, along with a running scoreboard and commentary for all 5 participants. I'll give expert(or totally irrational) reasons for picks and commentary about the games. You can see our total brackets through the first link and I'll update picks as the tourney continues. So please join me daily and feel free to lob questions or comments. Thanks. See you tomorrow.
SuperDad
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