Bracket Notes
Posted by: Bradley McDonald
If you sign up for our Second Annual 90&9 Bracket Pool, please email me your name and username, so I can recognize the leaders each round. I promise I won't make fun of you (unless I know you). Remember, the winner also gets a prize from the 90&9 prize vault. Maybe we have another ski boat in stock?
We will use the "Upset Special" scoring system, which rewards more points for upsets that are picked correctly.
Uses default scoring of 1-2-4-8-12-16, but gives additional bonus points for the first four rounds of one-half times the value of the difference in seeds when the lower seed wins. In other words, correctly choosing an 11 seed to beat a 2 seed in the third round is worth:
If you sign up for our Second Annual 90&9 Bracket Pool, please email me your name and username, so I can recognize the leaders each round. I promise I won't make fun of you (unless I know you). Remember, the winner also gets a prize from the 90&9 prize vault. Maybe we have another ski boat in stock?
We will use the "Upset Special" scoring system, which rewards more points for upsets that are picked correctly.
Uses default scoring of 1-2-4-8-12-16, but gives additional bonus points for the first four rounds of one-half times the value of the difference in seeds when the lower seed wins. In other words, correctly choosing an 11 seed to beat a 2 seed in the third round is worth:
| 4 | points (for a third-round correct pick) |
| + .5 X 9 | (one-half the difference of 11 and 2). |
| 8.5 | points |
