Tournament of Guessing
Mar. 20th, 2008 03:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fleaFor the past 4 years, a friend has organized a basketball pool for friends and family. Some know and care a lot about basketball; others of us, not so much. In the past, methodologies for choosing winners have involved a cat named Sparky and a dog named Pauly, 19th century memoirists from Southern religious colleges, and the inimitable logic of my friend's cousin ("UNC always wins. Schools with funny nicknames ('La Tech') win. Anything associated with televangelists loses."). This year, Casper and the Dillo have entered brackets. We are doing the women's playoff. Here is how the process went down:
The methodologies were both complex and random. For Casper's, the left side of the bracket was filled out this way: I had a men's bracket and read out the matchups on the left side of the men's bracket. She made her picks. I then translated the choices to the women's bracket based on seed numbers. She did the right side of the women's bracket directly, again by me reading aloud the matchups. (At once point she said, "why are they playing over and over?") As you will see, she is once again a strong contender for the Illustrious Titles "most wrong in the first round" and "topping out on points first."
For Dillo's bracket, I attempted to have him point to the teams he chose. This did not work. So I used my magical maternal mind-reading skills and divined his intentions. The left side of the bracket was filled out by translating seed numbers from the right side of the men's bracket. The right side of the bracket was done in the normal fashion. (Why yes, I had a problem with printing out the wrong brackets. Thanks for noticing.) I think Dillo actually has some chance of winning. I will note that his overall choices for the winners included "AIRPLANE!" and "BUS!" but I manged to figure out that he meant "UNC" and "MARYLAND" by this.
The methodologies were both complex and random. For Casper's, the left side of the bracket was filled out this way: I had a men's bracket and read out the matchups on the left side of the men's bracket. She made her picks. I then translated the choices to the women's bracket based on seed numbers. She did the right side of the women's bracket directly, again by me reading aloud the matchups. (At once point she said, "why are they playing over and over?") As you will see, she is once again a strong contender for the Illustrious Titles "most wrong in the first round" and "topping out on points first."
For Dillo's bracket, I attempted to have him point to the teams he chose. This did not work. So I used my magical maternal mind-reading skills and divined his intentions. The left side of the bracket was filled out by translating seed numbers from the right side of the men's bracket. The right side of the bracket was done in the normal fashion. (Why yes, I had a problem with printing out the wrong brackets. Thanks for noticing.) I think Dillo actually has some chance of winning. I will note that his overall choices for the winners included "AIRPLANE!" and "BUS!" but I manged to figure out that he meant "UNC" and "MARYLAND" by this.