Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Mean Mean Green
North Texas Mean Green, I have to admit, I've never heard the team nickname before, though I'm not too familiar with the Sun Belt Conference. What matters is this, Mean Green are in the tournament which tips off in 9 days. Five other teams have claimed their bid into the tournament over Monday and Tuesday nights conference finals. The other five teams with automatic tournament bids are: Virginia Commonwealth, Gonzaga Bulldogs, Niagra Purple Eagles, Wright State Raiders, Oral Roberts Golden Eagles.
Sunday, March 4, 2007
Creighton Bluejays Earn MVC Title Over Salukis
The Creighton Bluejays, winners of the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament, earn a bid into the big tournament for the seventh time in nine years. They become the sixth team to get an automatic bid for this years tourney.
Updated Conference Winners Link
Pre-register for the 2007 office pool
Updated Conference Winners Link
Pre-register for the 2007 office pool
Tips On How To Win Your Office Pool
I wanted to post a few tips on being successful in your local office pool. Over the past 10 years of running an online office pool, the winners of all of my office pool all posted at the very least a 70% success rate on their picks. The best was a 79% success rate in my 2003 office pool despite not correctly picking the winner of the championship match up.
My goal is to give you some tips on how to beat the odds over the average person in your pool. Picking only the higher seeds is not going to make a hill of beans by the championship game, picking a lot of upsets is very risky and usually doesn't pay off, so hopefully you'll do better in this years office pool. I've analyzed the winning pick sheets and here are a few tips and trends I've noticed through the years of my winners. I'll post more helpful tips in the next week and a half to give you some success for this years office pool.
My goal is to give you some tips on how to beat the odds over the average person in your pool. Picking only the higher seeds is not going to make a hill of beans by the championship game, picking a lot of upsets is very risky and usually doesn't pay off, so hopefully you'll do better in this years office pool. I've analyzed the winning pick sheets and here are a few tips and trends I've noticed through the years of my winners. I'll post more helpful tips in the next week and a half to give you some success for this years office pool.
- Pick all of the number 1 seeds to win their first round games. Since 1985, all number 1 seeds have won their games over the number 16 seeds 100% of the time.
- Don't pick a number 1 seed to be one of the last four teams, let along the national title, if the school wasn't in the playoffs the previous year.
- Pick at least one number 2 seed to lose before the second round games complete.
- Don't pick more than two of the four number 1 regional seeds to reach the final weekend of games when only four teams remain in the tournament.
- Pick at one number 3 seed team to lose in the first round of games.
Saturday, March 3, 2007
Four More Schools Earn Automatic Bids
Today we saw four more schools earn automatic bids by winning their conference tournament. Belmont Bruins, Winthrop Eagles, Eastern Kentucky Colonels, and Davidson Wildcats.
To see all of the schools who have earned automatic bids: click here
Pre-register for the 2007 OfficePool64.com contest: click here
To see all of the schools who have earned automatic bids: click here
Pre-register for the 2007 OfficePool64.com contest: click here
Pre-Register For Office Pool 64
You can now pre-register for the 2007 office pool. Fill out the form with your information that is needed. When the pairings are announced on Sunday, March 11, 2007, I'll send out an email when this website has been updated and you can then enter you office pool picks.
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