March Madness Draft 2015 (Bracket is up)

[Displaced Flames fan]

UC Irvine and Georgia State

[Drake]

North Dakota St

[Joborule]

Texas Southern

[Tilley]

Hurray Belmont!

[drew24]

Self is afraid to play Wichita State so they intentionally lose to New Mexico State. I'll take the New Mexico State Aggies.

[Senator Clay Davis]

Coastal Carolina I guess.

[Cheerio]

Uab?

[Trojan97]

I'll go with Robert Morris

[drew24]

There's no makeup round because nobody picked a team that didn't get invited to the dance.

Pick up a remaining 16 seed once your team gets knocked out of the first 4 games today and tomorrow.

I'll post the bracket and predictions from 538 and kenpom later today.

[Displaced Flames fan]

If anyone is interested in a full bracket pool see below. So far it's just me and drew so we could use a few more to make it interesting!


It's late, but I thought it might be fun to go beyond our team draft pool and do a full bracket pool as well.

Link to join is here: http://mayhem1426115801.mayhem.cbssp...5_paste_cbsinv


Password is : playangry

Maybe we can make this an annual event.

Let me know if you have any questions.

[drew24]

Bracket is up! Hopefully everyone can read it.

Here are some predictive standings. I don't think they have been close in the past, but I have fun getting them together.

Kenpom standings:

1. Drew= 9.364
2. Trojan = 9.110
3. Cheerio= 8.504
4. Tilley= 8.009
5. Drake=7.786
6. Senator=7.019
7. Jobo=6.760
8. Displaced=6.326

538 (Nate Silver):

1. Trojan = 9.869
2. Drew= 8.707
3. Cheerio= 8.610
4. Drake=8.070
5. Tilley= 7.791
6. Senator=6.943
7. Jobo=6.557
8. Displaced=6.406

[Tilley]

Originally Posted by drew24

Bracket is up! Hopefully everyone can read it.

Kenpom standings:

1. Drew= 9.364
2. Trojan = 9.110
3. Cheerio= 8.504
4. Tilley= 8.009
5. Drake=7.786
6. Senator=7.019
7. Jobo=6.760
8. Displaced=6.326

538 (Adam Silver):

1. Trojan = 9.869
2. Drew= 8.707
3. Cheerio= 8.610
4. Drake=8.070
5. Tilley= 7.791
6. Senator=6.943
7. Jobo=6.557
8. Displaced=6.406

Suspiciously similar to the draft order. We'll have to see when the upsets begin and my first and second choices go up in smoke in the 2nd round.

[drew24]

Originally Posted by Tilley

Suspiciously similar to the draft order.

Here's a decent opportunity to post this humblebrag from last year.

Originally Posted by ineedanother

Was surprised to have 2 final four teams, while picking eighth.

I wouldn't read too much into these rankings. I thought Silver's predictions for the World Cup last year were pretty lousy.

[Tilley]

Originally Posted by drew24

I wouldn't read too much into these rankings. I thought Silver's predictions for the World Cup last year were pretty lousy.

I would expect the order of selection to roughly follow the rankings. I wasn't going to take Hampton or UC Irvine with my 2nd or 3rd pick and I would have given some grief to someone that would have really gone off the board. There will be some variation due to preferences (my ACC preference), but it should be pretty close.

[drew24]

There's a lazy river at the North Florida dorms so out of jealousy I will draft them.

[drew24]

Originally Posted by drew24

There's a lazy river at the North Florida dorms so out of jealousy I will draft them.

This worked out poorly. I'll go for Lafayette now.

[Senator Clay Davis]

Notre Dame escapes Northeastern and the other two 3 seeds playing are in tight battles against the 14 seeds. Welcome back March Madness.

[Trojan97]

Second game and my bracket is busted. Sweet!

[Senator Clay Davis]

I had Iowa State out in the next round anyways so no harm, no foul. It's pretty much a given now that at least one 2 or 3 seed is going to lose in the opening round now. Seems to happen almost every year.

[Senator Clay Davis]

Wow what a nightmare for the Big XII, Baylor as a 3 seed goes down to Georgia State on a deep 3 for the win. Georgia State closes the game on a 13-0 run. What a collapse.