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Pastimes : 2001 NCAA College Basketball March Madness
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To: Thomas M. who wrote (4)3/12/2001 11:14:00 AM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell  Read Replies (3) of 260
 
Sportsline has various scoring rules you can implement. One variation is to assign points based on seeding, i.e. you would add the seed to your per round game score as a bonus. For example, if you correctly picked a 16 seed to upset a 1 seed you would get 16+1=17 points for that game instead of 1+1=2 points had you picked the favorite. Compare this to getting 1 point no matter who you chose. The disadvantage is that with only a few people in a pool you might get one upset-minded person with an insurmountable lead early and that might ruin the fun (as we'd be rewarding such picking this would increase such a likelihood). I'm pretty sure I can change the rules at any point, so after we get a group of people together we can debate whether to do this.

- Jeff
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