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"Basketball Survivor" Format for March Madness

Pick 1 team each day of the Tournament. If they win you advance. If they lose, you're out. Options for Pick a Team Only Once (or Twice or Unlimited), 1 Strike and You're Out (or more), Pick Losers or Winners, Against the Spread or Straight Up, Double Picks, Autopicks, Custom Deadlines and more.

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 Basketball Survivor Pools is $10.00 for the first 10 entries, $1.00 per entry up to 20 and then $0.50 each after 20.

Learn More

The picksheet looks something like this (with the optional day 1 doublepicks on):

Daily Pick Deadline: 7:00 PM

Select Date: | Day: 1 18-Mar-10 | Day 2: 19-Mar-10 |
You have 1 entry in this pool. Click here to add entries.
Your Entries Tie No Your Picks Status
ADMIN: Not In Pick 1  
    Pick 2  
Teams Used: None
Today's Games - View Bracket
8. LSU vs. 9. Butler 10:20 AM - Matchup Analysis
2. Memphis vs. 15. CS Northridge 10:25 AM - Matchup Analysis
8. BYU vs. 9. Texas A&M 10:30 AM - Matchup Analysis
5. Purdue vs. 12. Northern Iowa 12:30 PM - Matchup Analysis
1. North Carolina vs. 16. Radford 12:50 PM - Matchup Analysis
7. California vs. 10. Maryland 12:55 PM - Matchup Analysis
1. Connecticut vs. 16. Chattanooga 1:00 PM - Matchup Analysis
4. Washington vs. 13. Mississippi St 2:55 PM - Matchup Analysis
7. Texas vs. 10. Minnesota 5:10 PM - Matchup Analysis
7. Clemson vs. 10. Michigan 5:10 PM - Matchup Analysis
3. Villanova vs. 14. American 5:20 PM - Matchup Analysis
4. Gonzaga vs. 13. Akron 5:25 PM - Matchup Analysis
2. Oklahoma vs. 15. Morgan St 7:40 PM - Matchup Analysis
2. Duke vs. 15. Binghamton 7:40 PM - Matchup Analysis
6. UCLA vs. 11. Va Commonwealth 7:50 PM - Matchup Analysis
5. Illinois vs. 12. Western Ky 7:55 PM - Matchup Analysis

Example Settings Page

Pool Start Date: Normally Day 1 (help)
Round 1 Double Picks: Pick 2 teams per day in round 1.
Combine Days 7 & 8: Treat Elite 8 round as a single day where you pick 2 teams.
Pick a Team Only Once: Future Option
Against The Spread: Make the picks scored against the spread.

Pick and Tiebreaker Deadlines

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 and/or the Champion Pick tiebreaker, you can define when those tiebreakers need to be in too.

Pick Deadline

Pick Deadline - Daily Time: (help)

Tiebreaker Deadlines

Total Points Prediction:  Championship Game Tip Off
Championship Game Winner

Standings Example

Name Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6
1. PINEAPPLE Ohio StCincinnatiKentuckyIllinoisOklahomaOregon
2. STYMIE Ohio StMississippi StArizonaOklahomaUCLA 
3. PORKY OregonCincinnatiArizonaOklahomaPittsburgh 
4. SPUD AlabamaCincinnatiArizonaIllinoisDuke 
5. BUTCH Ohio StIllinoisIndianaOklahomaPittsburgh 
6. FROGGY Ohio StConnecticutOregonCincinnati  
7. WALDO AlabamaMississippi StNo Pick   
8. BUCKWHEAT KansasCincinnatiAlabama   
9. SPANKY Gonzaga     
10. ALFALFA Gonzaga     

Trash Talk Messageboard

The tournament is just more interesting if you are able to tell your friends how well you are doing after each round or, better still, each game! They'll want to know every time you pick a winner they missed! The Trash Talk board gives you this capability. But if you're the silent type and believe silence is golden, this feature can be disabled too.

POST A NEW MESSAGE
(e.g. "TournamentPools", or "Click here!") (e.g. "http://www.tournamentpools.com")

VIEW:
ALL MESSAGES
BEAUBO
351 days ago 		I had to change the pick deadline for The Artful Slacker. It's now 4PM Mountain.
BEAUBO
354 days ago 		I was logged in as Levon.
(replying to KAYOSS)
KAYOSS
354 days ago 		Kate wants to know why we're talking in 3rd person??
LEVON
354 days ago 		Congratulations to Levon who gets the first point in our derby. 6th place = 1pt. Who's next?
Pool Manager: Delete All Messages

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