How Do You Pick Your Picks?

and so didn’t have much time to think about it. this is good, because i usually overthink things. at this point, i’m humble enough to know that i don’t really know what i’m doing, and realizing that the favorites win most of the time, i just filled out my bracket with ‘all favorites’, then made a couple changes if i had any knowledge of the actual teams involved.

i’ll definitely finish in the top half, and i’m almost certain i won’t finish in the top 5, or even 10.

I only pay attention to Pac-10 basketball, so I don’t know anything about 90% of the teams in the tournament. My strategy is to pick most of the favorites to win, and then choose a few teams I like to get an upset, and a few teams I don’t like to get upset. My strategy usually results in thoroughly mediocre brackets, but I love filling them out anyway because it gives me someone to root for in every game.

I don’t know much of anything about teams outside the Pac-10, so my picks are mostly guesses. I spent about ten minutes using some of the stats Yahoo provided to shape my picks. If two close seeds are playing one another, I’ll usually choose the one who played in a stronger conference, or the one with the largest average margin of victory (especially if it’s in a premiere conference). This worked great until last night’s madness upset my brackets.

In the CGB league, I hit “Top Seeds” and then Finish.
In the SBN league (the famed SBN League), I hit “Popular Picks” and then Finish.
In ATQ league, I hit “Random Picks” and then Finish. I think that Morehead St. was facing off against Minnesota in the Championship game. Minn was winning it all there. I have 16 correct picks there. Random gave me literally a 50% success rate. But its going to go downhill, because I only have like 58 potential points left!

And usually went with higher seeds except on a few occasions

I go by rags’ method…although I’m not doing too hot!