2006 Championship Bracket Challenge

by **Andy Sharp** on Sat May 06, 2006 3:23 pm

So what do you think, I added a feature that returns a report of the percentage of prognosticators who picked each team to win each game. It's rather interesting, in some games the lower seeds have been predicted more . . .

What do you think, should this data continue to be for my eyes only or is there a time that it should be made publicly viewable?

FYI: gambling was a cause for the decline of lacrosse earlier last century and I am sure none of us want that to happen again.

Your thoughts?

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by **NomaBlueCollar** on Sat May 06, 2006 3:48 pm

First off you are the man for putting all this together

i think the new feature is a great idea! i cant find the link though...

also, will we be able to view others' brackets come tourney time?

by **FredaFelcher** on Mon May 08, 2006 10:04 pm

Any last second predictions? My money is on all three RMLC teams to go to the final four.

by **NomaBlueCollar** on Tue May 09, 2006 2:03 am

Its now officially gameday. wish i could be there to watch it all go down.

Semis: Noma over CU, CSU over Mich

Noma over CSU in the 'ship.

by **Andy Sharp** on Tue May 09, 2006 12:20 pm

The entries are piling up, here are the current numbers:

Div A: 349
Div B: 112
NCAA DI: 39

The games are about to begin. I don't know if I'll be able to flip the switch to lock out entries as the Div A games start at 1pm, but I will be sure to delete any entries timestamped after the cut-off.

Div B entries are open till Wednesday at 1pm CT.

NCAA DI open till Saturday.

I will open up the viewing of other's picks when I get a second later this afternoon, probably as I enter the first scores around 3pm CT.

I don't think I'll lay out all the predictors odds for every game, but here are the percentages for championship picks:
#1 Colorado State 42.2
#16 Texas 0.3
#8 Arizona 0.8
#9 Oregon 2.5
#4 Michigan 11.9
#13 Oakland 0.3
#5 Brigham Young 6.5
#12 Lindenwood 1.7
#2 Sonoma State 13.3
#15 Northeastern 0.3
#7 UC San Diego 3.1
#10 UC Santa Barbara 2.3
#3 Colorado 9.6
#14 MN - Duluth 1.1
#6 Florida State 3.7
#11 Cal Poly SLO 0.0

by **Steno** on Tue May 09, 2006 2:44 pm

why do the div b brackets have scores recorded, all 0 to 1?

by **Andy Sharp** on Tue May 09, 2006 2:52 pm

lax202 wrote:why do the div b brackets have scores recorded, all 0 to 1?

Yeah, USL moved those games to today and they ended up being forfeits. :roll:

Actually I'm doing some testing.

by **lil lady lax fan** on Tue May 09, 2006 6:22 pm

Thanks for doing all this Andy. It looks great!

I'm in an even happier mood since I picked all winners in the first round!! Thanks Waterboy for getting us ready for this with your picks on point. Oh, and BTW, I'm ahead of you at the moment...

by **WaterBoy** on Tue May 09, 2006 6:25 pm

and if you're going to pick them all right... you're going to be ahead of me for quite a bit of the tournament (i.e. all of it).

by **lil lady lax fan** on Tue May 09, 2006 6:27 pm

WaterBoy wrote:and if you're going to pick them all right... you're going to be ahead of me for quite a bit of the tournament (i.e. all of it).

Picking Texas to win it all probably was a poor move... :lol:

by **metallax1** on Tue May 09, 2006 6:33 pm

213th place after the first day... i'm in the perfect position to pounce at the leaders! watch out for this cinderella story, coming out of nowhere!

by **Andy Sharp** on Wed May 10, 2006 1:45 am

Some have mentioned some miscalculations in the bonus points. At this moment I haven't figured out what's going wrong. If anyone has the time to figure it out, your help would be appreciated.

I believe it might have something to do with CSU's 12 point margin. The way I have it, that is reduced to 11 and those that chose > 10 margin get 5 points. One other possible area for confusion, you only get bonus points if you've chosen the correct winner. I don't know if either of these help explain the variances, but if anyone can figure it out and possibly explain a better formula, more power to you.

Note: I am here as a coach, so if things don't get reported as quickly as they have in the past these next few days, I hope you will understand.

by **CATLAX MAN** on Wed May 10, 2006 10:57 am

I think you might be right about the CSU margin. That's the first place I'd look.

by **laxfan25** on Wed May 10, 2006 5:24 pm

Well I hope I'm a better official than I am a lacrosse prognosticator. My B bracket took a beating today, as well as Michigan losing in the A's. Had them winning it all!

by **Joe Oakland** on Wed May 10, 2006 6:17 pm

My B bracket died today too!! My champion (Calvin) lost!

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