March Madness

It's T-shirt time! I mean it's bracket time! It's that time of year to set your NCAA college basketball bracket for a chance to win some moo-lah. You don't have to be in a pool for a chance to win money as Yahoo is offering $1 million for a perfect bracket, but the chances of that happening is 1 in 18,446,744,073,709,551,616. Good luck with that.

Besides playing in the freebie one, I'm in a $20 pool with 334 people with a prize pool of over $6500. It's worth a shot. It's like playing the lottery except you get to root for your number, which makes watching the games that more interesting. The drawback of being invested in such a massive pool with a slim chance of winning, I can't get any work done. From checking scores to talking trash on Google chat, my productivity has come crashing to a halt.

My strategy was to pick uncommon winners, i.e. don't pick KU to win it all even though they have a good chance of doing so, but not to get too crazy like picking Oakland for the Final Four. So my dark horse is Florida. They're a #2 seed so it's not that entirely impossible and not many people will pick them. Let's do this!