March Madness bracket variations?

peacemaker

I'm putting together a promotional event that's based on the NCAA tournament and I'm looking for some ideas outside of the straight barckets. Aside from the traditional bracket scoring I've got the following...

Upset Brackets - Difference in seeds x Round # (12 beats a 4 in round 2 = (12-4)*2 = 16 points)

Pick 8 - Choose 8 teams and get their seed value for each win (a 1 seed winning it all gets 6 points, while a 7 seed winning two rounds would get 14)

Sweet 16 Pool - A rebirth for those who misjudged the opening rounds.


Has anyone seen creative ways to play the tourney? I intentionally left out a Survivor format as I'm dealing with a large group and daily contact may be an issue.

Any help is greatly appreciated...

waddy

Really the tourney that is run on this site every year for the NCAA tourney is great.
I think it is run off of Tournamentpools.com
Scoring is a bit different that standard scoring, upsets count for more.

64%nbahalf

I play at a sportsbook that awards 64 points to the team you think will go the farthest and 1 point to the team that you believe will go out earliest. Rank all teams 1-64 and for every game they win you get that amount of points. If you had north carolina at 63 every time they won you would be awarded 63 points. Highest point totals would be accumulated to decide winner.

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3. SCORING
The scoring for the contest is determined by each participant’s team selections.
Using your knowledge of NCAA teams, players' skills and statistics the participant will rank each of the 64 NCAA tournament teams numbering them 1 thru 64. 64 being the highest (best score) and 1 being the lowest (worst score).
Each time a game is final, you accumulate the points of the winning team to your Total Score.
For example:
Team Your point selection
Duke: 64
Georgia: 3
In the above example, if Duke wins, 64 points will be added to your Total Score. If Georgia wins, 3 points will be added to your Total Score. The same scoring applies for all tourney games in all tournament rounds up until the tournament Champion is determined.

NOTE: In actuality there are 65 teams selected for the March Tournament. The playoff game to determine the 64th team is played on the Tuesday before the Tournament starts. So that we can accept entries before that game is played we are calling the winner of that game TBA (for “to be announced”). This way our contestants can begin putting in their selections on the Sunday night before the Thursday game and do not have to wait until the playoff game is played on that Tuesday.

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peacemaker

Thanks guys. I found this variation...

Here are the basics.

Limited to the first 10 two person teams

Buy-in is $200.00 per team for total payout of $2,000

Each team drafts 20 players from the field of 65.

The pool is based upon the total amount of points that the team's 20 players score.

Here is an example:

Team 1 drafts Tyler Hansbrough of North Carolina. North Carolina ends up winning five games to get to the championship game of the tournament. Hansbrough scores 15 in the first round, 12 in the second round, 28 in the sweet 16 game, 18 in regional finals, 20 in the final four game and 16 in the championship game. His point total would be (15+12+28+18+20+16) = 91

Let's say one of Team 1's players was Davidson's Steph Curry. He scores 33 in the first round but Davidson loses. Then his total would be the 33. You do this for all twenty players on each team. Total score wins.

Doze

this year I took part in this kind for the first time. like the squares you buy for the super bowl (100 squares 10x10) numbers on top and numbers on side. you have losing team as the side numbers and winning team numbvers on top. each game can hit. first round smaller amounts and work your way to the championship game. if you keep the 200 fee you can have the championship worth 5 grand, final four games 2500 elite eight 1000 sweet 16 500 250 and 100. that was a very quick total on rounds but i believe that close to 20 grand.


no skill. every opne is familiar, chance to win big with a one time bet. can win every game in theory