May Madness Bracket Challenge

[laxreference]

I'm excited to announce that LacrosseReference will be hosting a Bracket Challenge this year for both the Men's and Women's NCAA tournament. Just like March Madness for basketball, except I'll have a few LacrosseReference wrinkles thrown in too.

The site is live now, so you can register an account and set up a group to play against friends.

And stay tuned to this thread for updates on scoring/rules/etc as we get closer to Selection Sunday.

Happy picking.

[laxreference]

I put together a quick post to lay out some dates for the Bracket Challenge.

I also went through my scoring philosophy and laid out a couple LacrosseReference-specific features you can look forward to.

[laxreference]

Ok, the bracket is out, which means that the Bracket Challenge is officially open.

Picks can be made until the first game of the tournament starts. Invite friends into a group or just compete against all submissions. I'm going to try and do some pick analytics too, like win probability for a bracket within a group and some sort of value-metric for each entry.

The highest scoring men's and women's bracket will get a free year of LacrosseReference PRO.

I know that in basketball, having a bracket always make it a bit more entertaining to follow the games; I hope this will do the same for lacrosse!

[laxreference]

It's that time again. The Bracket Challenge opens Sunday night when the bracket is announced. If you want to create a group to compete against friends, you can do that now.

[joewillie78]

Thanks, just signed up.
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Joewillie78

[laxreference]

The Bracket Challenge is officially open. To sign-up (or create a group to compete against), use this link.

If you just want an easy way to post your picks, you can use this link.

[CU77]

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[laxreference]

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I'm noticing a pattern...

[CU77]

Everybody agrees the Ivy League was the best conference this year ...

[laxreference]

Less than 11 hours to get your bracket submitted. Picks lock with the start of the first play-in game at 6 pm.

Winner of the MLAX Bracket Challenge gets a free year subscription to LR PRO.

[joewillie78]

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77, just finished mine. I have a final4 of:
Cornell
Yale
Harvard
Brown

Final I have:
Cornell
Brown

Winner( come on)
Cornell

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Joewillie78

[joewillie78]

By the way. I call my Bracket the:

"Up yours squint, crack, Anus bracket"

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Joewillie78

[joewillie78]

Did anyone NOT have VT and Del in their bracket?
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Joewillie78

[ICGrad]

Did anyone NOT have VT and Del in their bracket?
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Joewillie78

I had Manhattan going to the Final 4. Dammit...

I mean, they were one of those high quality wins Duke had that helped propel them to that #7 RPI. I figured they were a shoo-in.

[joewillie78]

Did anyone NOT have VT and Del in their bracket?
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Joewillie78

I had Manhattan going to the Final 4. Dammit...

I mean, they were one of those high quality wins Duke had that helped propel them to that #7 RPI. I figured they were a shoo-in.

IC grad,
You are becoming more cynical than me. Keep up the great work. Lol

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Joewillie78

[laxreference]

Did anyone NOT have VT and Del in their bracket?
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Joewillie78

A shocking number. 40 or 50 picked at least one of them to lose. 3 brackets picked RMU and Manhattan.

[Hoxwurth]

Is it easy to post how many people picked each team to win? After a quick glance it looked like over 2/3 picked Maryland, and I'm curious to know the breakdown for the favorites (e.g., Maryland, Georgetown, the Ivies in general, Virginia, and Rutgers).

[ICGrad]

Did anyone NOT have VT and Del in their bracket?
GOBIGRED
Joewillie78

A shocking number. 40 or 50 picked at least one of them to lose. 3 brackets picked RMU and Manhattan.

Probably not that shocking. My guess is a decent number of people who entered brackets don't pay a ton of attention to teams outside of the top 25-30, and given the very low points involved with play-in games didn't bother to do the 30 seconds worth of research required to make decent picks.

[joewillie78]

Who's leading in the Bracket challenge?
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Joewillie78

[laxreference]

Quite a lot of people. There are still 58 perfect brackets after the Cornell win.