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Pastimes : 2003 NCAA College Basketball March Madness -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (138)	3/23/2003 1:52:57 PM
From: Buckey	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 278

I have found that after 15 years of playing these pools that the risk of picking upsets is too great thus I stay the course with the Favs. One year in our office pool - 400 entrants the winner picked the fav right through to the end without exception and came first. Sometimes I pick a 9 over an 8 and a 5 over a 4 but I rarely stray from that course unless I have more than one pick in a given pool. even in years of a lot of upsets I do well. Also I dont follow the sport that closely so I cant make intelligent upset picks anyway LOL Example - say one 10 pick wins every year - so you pick one - well you only have a 25% chance of nailing it thus being 4-0 in those 4 picks but a 75% chance of bieng 2-2. Funny thing is that this pool picking strategy is not typical of my trading and investment strategies which are long shots and as a result I dont trade much anymore LOL and have started to change my investment strategies

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (138)	3/23/2003 7:28:37 PM
From: EL KABONG!!!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 278

Well, my brackets are now officially a total mess... <g> Actually, I wouldn't be in too bad a shape if it weren't for Louisville. I had the Cardinals dancing the final dance with Kentucky. Ouch!!! That one really hurts. Nothing left now except to sit back and root for Pitt to take it all, unlikely as that outcome may be. To do so, they'll probably have to beat both Kentucky and Arizona in head-to-head competition, and have to defeat Marquette in their next game, which in itself will be a formidable task. And the championship game has the definite potential of featuring another #1 seed, either Oklahoma or Texas. So should Pitt win their next 4 games, then they will have undoubtedly earned the championship plus a #1 ranking in the final polls. JMO... KJC