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"Sweet 16 Pick-The-Bracket" Format for March Madness

2nd Chance Pools for the Sweet 16

Starting with the Sweet 16 (round 3), pick the winner of every game through the Championship. Custom scoring options, points per round, bonus points for upsets, and various tiebreakers including total points scored in the Championship.

GET STARTED

To get started, simply enter a name for your pool and click the Continue button. From there you will go to the Setup Wizard which will walk you through the steps for customizing your pool.

Name Your Pool:

Cost

The cost for Sweet 16 Pick-The-Bracket Pools is $10.00 for the first 10 entries , $1.00 up to 200 and then $0.25 each after 200.

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Take the Pick-The-Bracket-Tour

Picksheet

The picksheet looks something like what is shown below, but it will start with the Round 3 matchups instead of Round 1. Just click on a team to advance it to the next round. There are built in checks to make sure you don't miss a game or fail to enter a tiebreaker total. Pick confirmations (both emailed and on-screen) are provided. Picksheet

Example Settings

We have included below some example settings pages for the Pick-The-Bracket pool to give you an idea of how it works (please see our General Site Tour for features and functionality that is common to all pool formats on this website).

Round Values

The round value is normally the number of points you get for each win in that round. Some pools use other formulas for scoring (see below) that involves the round value, like for example, the round value * team seed = points.
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Round Value

Upset Bonus (Seed Scoring)

To reward people who pick upsets use one of the options below.
OptionScoring Formula
Option 1
Option 2
Option 3
Option 4
Option 5
* Pts/Win = Round Value if higher seed team wins.
To make the points per win equal to the seed times the round, select Option #2 above and set the round values equal to the round (e.g. 1,2,3,4,5,6).

Tiebreakers

Pick-the-bracket pool standings are always based on Points first. After points, you have several options for tiebreakers.
No.Tiebreaker
1Total Points
2
3

Pick Deadline

Once your pick deadline passes, nobody can enter or change their picks and the poolwide picks become available for everyone to see. If you are using the total points scored in the championship game tiebreaker, you can define when that tiebreaker needs to be in by too.

Pick Deadline: (help)
Tiebreaker Deadline Option:
( Thu, Mar-18 6:00 AM Mountain ) (help)

Trash Talk Messageboard

One of the most widely used features... the Trash Talk board.

Trash Talk

Take a Tour!

For a more detailed look take the Pick-The-Bracket Tour, and if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us.

Otherwise go ahead and start a Pick-The-Bracket pool. We encourage you to start a pool even if you're not sure you're going to run one. This is one of the best ways to check things out, and there is no obligation.

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