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BIRD33's 2008 March Madness $100 Pickem! - cLaY - 04-01-2008
BIRD33 Wrote:Duke Grad.
Still no bold predictions of a Kansas championship?You've been oddly quiet.Years of being beaten down by your team show.
Any one of the four teams has a legit shot at winning it all. It's hard to call it.
I do think Kansas can play with and beat the Tarheels. Our defense is top notch. We like to run as much as they do. And Sasha Kaun will limit Tyler's effectiveness. It usually takes one guy from UNC to beat the other team, and I just don't know if Kansas will let that happen. I think KUs balance prevails. It will be fun watching the Sherron Collins vs. Ty Lawson matchup. They're like twins.
Watching Memphis against Texas scared me. They're scary when they play like that. I'm anxious to see what UCLA throws their way to try and stop that.
Going with a KU Memphis final. I'll make that prediction when it happens.
BIRD33's 2008 March Madness $100 Pickem! - cLaY - 04-01-2008
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BIRD33's 2008 March Madness $100 Pickem! - Flumper Barflusterbutt - 04-01-2008
BIRD33 Wrote:This is the first time ever all #1 seeds made the final four.Pick the same way next year and see how you do.
I played the odds. Straight up. I know that no 4 number one seeds have ever made it, but its ridiculous to think that someone could pick which ones will make it and which ones won't. I didn't play by the seeds, just the odds of them going all the way. Those 4 happened to be at the top, so i went with them. Same way I made every pick in my pool.
Same logic i tried to pound through your dumb ass a year ago. Anyone that thinks they can sit up at night and watch ESPN and get clues and hints from their buddies to predict how this works, has no clue. I can school you all day on this. I love you.
BIRD33's 2008 March Madness $100 Pickem! - Flumper Barflusterbutt - 04-01-2008
cLaY Wrote:Going with a KU Memphis final.
Hello!
I love you.
BIRD33's 2008 March Madness $100 Pickem! - BIRD33 - 04-01-2008
cLaY Wrote:
You trying to convince me or you they can win it all?In years past you'd have been predicting a championship already.You've been conditioned like a beaten dog.They are deeper then UNC and probably have more pro's.
BIRD33's 2008 March Madness $100 Pickem! - BIRD33 - 04-01-2008
Flumper Barflusterbutt Wrote:I played the odds. Straight up. I know that no 4 number one seeds have ever made it, but its ridiculous to think that someone could pick which ones will make it and which ones won't. I didn't play by the seeds, just the odds of them going all the way. Those 4 happened to be at the top, so i went with them. Same way I made every pick in my pool.
Same logic i tried to pound through your dumb ass a year ago. Anyone that thinks they can sit up at night and watch ESPN and get clues and hints from their buddies to predict how this works, has no clue. I can school you all day on this. I love you.
Which part of your strategy has only worked once in the last 30 years do you not understand?You got lucky.
BIRD33's 2008 March Madness $100 Pickem! - Flumper Barflusterbutt - 04-01-2008
BIRD33 Wrote:Which part of your strategy has only worked once in the last 30 years do you not understand?You got lucky.
You can't be serious. I am always (spelled ALWAYS) in the top of these things. I have probably won or got second in 50% of the March Madness pools that I've ever gotten into. Luck has nothing to do with a solid strategy that has been proven over time. Your method, on the other hand, would have been shit house luck if you had done any good. I love you.
BIRD33's 2008 March Madness $100 Pickem! - BIRD33 - 04-01-2008
Flumper Barflusterbutt Wrote:You can't be serious. I am always (spelled ALWAYS) in the top of these things. I have probably won or got second in 50% of the March Madness pools that I've ever gotten into. Luck has nothing to do with a solid strategy that has been proven over time. Your method, on the other hand, would have been shit house luck if you had done any good. I love you.
My method is watching basketball.Yours is picking the teams with the least threatning black guys and coolest uniforms.I won this same tourney last year.I repeat you just got lucky.
BIRD33's 2008 March Madness $100 Pickem! - Flumper Barflusterbutt - 04-01-2008
BIRD33 Wrote:My method is watching basketball.Yours is picking the teams with the least threatning black guys and coolest uniforms.I won this same tourney last year.I repeat you just got lucky.
Where was I in last year's ranking? Link to the results? I love you.
BIRD33's 2008 March Madness $100 Pickem! - BIRD33 - 04-01-2008
You tied me for first.Links at the bottom of the page.
BIRD33's 2008 March Madness $100 Pickem! - Flumper Barflusterbutt - 04-02-2008
BIRD33 Wrote:You tied me for first.Links at the bottom of the page.
And I'm lucky? wtf are you talking about? I love you.
BIRD33's 2008 March Madness $100 Pickem! - cLaY - 04-02-2008
This is making the rounds via email...
Our Father, who art in Lawrence,
Hallowed be thy Game.
Thy bracket come.
Thy Rock Chalk will be heard, In San Antonio as it is in Allen
Fieldhouse.
Give us this day our deserved game.
And forgive us our turnovers,
As we forgive Roy who double-crossed against us.
And lead us not into defeat,
But deliver us from East Coast bias,
For Kansas is the basketball kingdom,
And the tradition,
And the glory,
For ever and ever.
Amen.
BIRD33's 2008 March Madness $100 Pickem! - Flumper Barflusterbutt - 04-02-2008
cLaY Wrote:This is making the rounds via email...
Our Father, who art in Lawrence,
Hallowed be thy Game.
Thy bracket come.
Thy Rock Chalk will be heard, In San Antonio as it is in Allen
Fieldhouse.
Give us this day our deserved game.
And forgive us our turnovers,
As we forgive Roy who double-crossed against us.
And lead us not into defeat,
But deliver us from East Coast bias,
For Kansas is the basketball kingdom,
And the tradition,
And the glory,
For ever and ever.
Amen.
:lool: I hope they are right.
BIRD33's 2008 March Madness $100 Pickem! - WoolyGoat - 04-02-2008
Kansas will win it for Paul Pierce!
or John Calipari will win it for UMass!
BIRD33's 2008 March Madness $100 Pickem! - BIRD33 - 04-02-2008
Flumper Barflusterbutt Wrote:And I'm lucky? wtf are you talking about? I love you.
Yes.This year your strategy was nothing but luck.It will by mathematic certainty fail most of the time.This is just an upswing.Theres something be said for a guy earning his points with knowledge rather than some pick a number strategy that could work just as well at a county fair apple pie baking contest.
BIRD33's 2008 March Madness $100 Pickem! - BIRD33 - 04-02-2008
If kansas brought their A game in the other night they are in trouble.
BIRD33's 2008 March Madness $100 Pickem! - cLaY - 04-02-2008
BIRD33 Wrote:If kansas brought their A game in the other night they are in trouble.
Not even close. THey were extremely tense on the offensive end. They over thought every possession. I thought it was pretty evident. Defensively, they looked pretty good. Kansas' A game would be what you saw against Texas. Don't think I've seen their offense click like that all year.
BIRD33's 2008 March Madness $100 Pickem! - Flumper Barflusterbutt - 04-02-2008
BIRD33 Wrote:Yes.This year your strategy was nothing but luck.It will by mathematic certainty fail most of the time.This is just an upswing.Theres something be said for a guy earning his points with knowledge rather than some pick a number strategy that could work just as well at a county fair apple pie baking contest.
dude? I know your internet personna is to never back down, but seriously. You look like an idiot defending your position. You've seen me enter two March Madness competitions and finish "at" or "close" to the top both times. Neither one was luck. My method discounts luck altogether, that's why I use it. I don't go by the seeds, but unfortunately the seeds usually match up pretty close to how the bookies are booking the odds on the teams winning the tournament.
If a tournament ends without the number 1 seeds in the finals, I generally win anyway in these small pools. The guys like you that try to outguess the oddsmakers, hit more wrong than you do right every time. Now you get into a pool with 1000's of entries and the blind hog theory comes into play. I love you.
BIRD33's 2008 March Madness $100 Pickem! - WoolyGoat - 04-02-2008
bird picks for basketball reasons, flump picks based on the odds.
it's not that difficult.
BIRD33's 2008 March Madness $100 Pickem! - snarg - 04-02-2008
i hate to say it, but flump is right
if tweety is not just putting us on, he really is just an idiot