Mike: 28 total picks correct, 8 of the Sweet 16 correct, 5 of his Elite 8 still alive, 3 of his Final Four still alive, and championship game still intact. Further, Mike's entire West bracket (which he had Oregon winning) is dead.
Tim: 31 total picks correct, 10 of the Sweet 16 correct, 7 of his Elite 8 still alive, all four of his Final Four still alive, and championship game still intact.
At first glance, Tim has the better bracket, yet in our Yahoo tournament pool Mike leads by one point. How? In addition to the base 1-2-4-8-16-32 default scoring for Yahoo pools, our pool also gives bonus points based on seed difference:
"For any correct picks where the underdog wins, you will receive bonus points equal to the winning team's seed minus the losing team's seed, multiplied by the seed bonus values above."
Tim has 11 bonus points on the strength of:
- Midwest: 7 Wichita State over 2 Kansas (5 points)
- East: 11 Dayton over 6 Providence (5 points)
- South: 5 Utah over 4 Georgetown (1 point)
- Midwest: 7 Wichita State over 2 Kansas (5 points)
- East: 11 Dayton over 6 Providence (5 points)
- East: 8 NC State over 1 Villanova (7 points)
