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Pastimes : 2001 NCAA College Basketball March Madness -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas M. who wrote (4)	3/12/2001 11:14:00 AM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to 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

To: Thomas M. who wrote (4)	3/16/2001 6:17:05 AM
From: Robert F. Newton	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 260

<Last year, I simply picked the higher seed to win every game in the first 2 rounds, and I did really well, because there were a remarkably low number of upsets. I nailed 28 of the 32 games in the first round with my no-brainer approach! Does that mean we are due for more upsets this year? We shall see . . .> Hey Thomas............Nice observation. Upsets galore and we still have another day. The ending of the Hampton/Iowa State game was absolutely incredible. I love this game!!!!!!!!!! My Final Four - Maryland, Michigan State, Duke & Kansas Sleeper Pick: Temple upsetting Florida in Round 2