AJ ([info]splag) wrote,
@ 2008-03-30 18:14:00
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So I'm doing this ESPN Tourney Challenge thing. Right now I'm in the 99.6th percentile, above all but 0.4% of entrants. And yet, due the the law of "the internet is frigging gigantic", I'm still ranked 12199th. How can I feel good about that?

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(Anonymous)
2008-03-31 02:49 am UTC (link)
Given the status of the tournament, I'd really like to know how a bracket that only picked the favorite (by seed) in every game would be doing in the ESPN pool.

Lee

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Good question
[info]splag
2008-03-31 03:39 am UTC (link)
By my rough estimate, somewhere around 97-98%. People are dumb :)

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Re: Good question
[info]walther
2008-03-31 06:20 am UTC (link)
i'd also like to know the current status of an all-favorites bracket. my guess is that it would be lower than 97-98%, partly because i think that there are a lot of all-favorites brackets that people have entered into the overall espn pool. last year i submitted an all-favorites (up through the final four) bracket as one of my 5 espn tourney challenge entries, based on the assumption that the selection committee was probably a better evaluator of the programs' relative strength than i was. i wouldn't be surprised if a lot of other people were equally unoriginal in this year's espn tourney challenge (as a minor support of this, i just saw online that only 2 out of this year's 3.65m espn brackets correctly picked the entire sweet 16). this year, i was more self-confident and arrogant, as evidenced by the current 75.6 percentile standing of the only bracket i submitted.

99.6 is pretty sweet -- i hope you are using that bracket in a smaller pool to make some cash money!

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Re: Good question
(Anonymous)
2008-04-01 04:04 pm UTC (link)
Sadly, no. Just a pool "for pride". Curse pride!

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