Welcome to the 27th annual March Madness thread! This year's challenge for Silicon Investor members (and their family and friends) will be, once again, on the CBS Sportsline site.
1. To access the pool (when available), click here [note that Sportsline has retained the "si2004" ID from years past]: si2004.mayhem.cbssports.com
Our group password is: si2008 [retained from 16 years ago]
2. If you have don't have a Sportsline account, you will be prompted on how to create one.
Important Note: If you wish to remain totally anonymous, you should either register using an anonymous e-mail account, or, after accessing the pool home page, click on "Options" then "Personal" to control what information about you gets revealed to others in the pool.
3. Scoring will be 1 point for the first round, 2 for the second, 4 for the third (Sweet 16), 8 for fourth (Elite 8), 16 for the fifth (Final 4), and 32 for the championship game. A bonus will also be added equal to the number of the winning seed. For example, in round three if you correctly choose a 9 seed to beat a 3 seed then you get 4 points (for a round three winner) + 9 points (for the seed) = 13 total points.
4. If you use a name different from your SI ID, please indicate here which person is you.
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BTW, the odds of guessing all 63 games correctly is 1 in 9.25 quintillion!
Good luck!
- Jeff
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All Time Standings by Year:
| Year | #Players | First | Second | Third | Fourth | | 1999 | 35 | Jonah123 | Bob047 | Henry Volquarsden | richris | | 2000 | 19 | Jeff Mitchell | Patrick Slevin | Denis Guenette | Tom C | | 2001 | 22 | Robert Fisher | Mike Skyy | Mike Chen | Heyward Hodges | | 2002 | 15 | Kerry Carmichael | J. Conley | Denis Guenette | Scott Edwards | | 2003 | 14 | Buckey | EK!!! | Michael Skyy | Denis Guenette | | 2004 | 25 | Jeff's Son | Tom C | Jeff Mitchell | Salesperson | | 2005 | 18 | Jeff Mitchell | Tom C | Kevin Podsiadlik | Jeff's son | | 2006 | 14 | PlayItdown | (Blank) | Buckey | Kevin Podsiadlik | | 2007 | 20 | J Conley | Michael Skyy | Jim Mack | Tom C | | 2008 | 19 | Stuffed Quahog | Salesperson | Tom C | Bill | | 2009 | 25 | mike sky | Jeff Mitchell | PlayItdown | Augustus Gloop | | 2010 | 20 | mike sky | Big Mackey | PlayItdown | tomc_si | | 2011 | 20 | Bill | Tom C | SE | Sam Snead | | 2012 | 20 | Jim Raynor | Augustus Gloop | Jeff's son | KJC | | 2013 | 23 | Jim M | Augustus Gloop | Tom C | Leslie Hanson | | 2014 | 22 | J Conley | Jeff Mitchell | Jim M | Jeff's son | | 2015 | 22 | Leslie Hanson | Caly | Mike Skyy | Bob Newton | | 2016 | 21 | Jeff Mitchell | mike Skyy | Gloop Jr | longnshort | | 2017 | 19 | Sam Adams | Gloop Jr | Augustus Gloop | Kerry C | | 2018 | 23 | Jeff's son | James L | Buckey | salesperson | | 2019 | 19 | Augustus Gloop | Jeff's son | Gloop's son | Michelino | | 2020 | 0 | Covid | | | | | 2021 | 14 | Jane G | Thomas M | Jeff's son | Gloop's son | | 2022 | 15 | Bill | Kevin | Buckey | Jeff's son | | 2023 | 16 | Thomas M | Augustus Gloop | Gloop Jr | Bonefish | | 2024 | 14 | Jane | Kevin | Jeff | Impossible Dream | | 2025 | 13 | Thomas M | Impossible Dream | Bob Newton | Gloop Jr |
Most wins: Jeff Mitchell (3)
Most Final Fours: Tom C (8); Jeff's son (8), Jeff (7), Gloop (6)
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Boards from years past:
1999: Subject 26408; 2000: Subject 33883; 2001: Subject 50948; 2002: Subject 52504; 2003: Subject 53458; 2004: Subject 54619; 2005: Subject 55531; 2006: Subject 56441; 2007: Subject 57018; 2008:Subject 57400; 2009: Subject 57680; 2010: Subject 57966; 2011: Subject 58154; 2012: Subject 58585; 2013:Subject 59110; 2014: Subject 59372; 2015: Subject 59582; 2016: Subject 59664; 2017: Subject 59822; 2018: Subject 59937; 2019: Subject 60015; 2020: Subject 60097; 2021: Subject 60219; 2022: Subject 60298; 2024: Subject 60343 |
