NCAA tourney

[Dvdb]

Any interest in doing bracket contest again? This coming from the guy who doesn't follow it until early March, but we did have some fun with it last year.

[cameraman]

I'm always up for 63 random guesses:D

[TravelGal]

I'm always up for 63 random guesses:D

Ditto

[dando]

Dude, I'm in. I'm the resident expert in college hoops. I just pick everything opposite of Don Q. Money! :gomer: :D :p

-Kevin

[Dvdb]

I'll set it up on Poolhost this weekend.

[Insomniac]

I'm in as well. One year, my algorithms will work!

[Gnam]

I'll fill out my bracket the exact opposite of the way I filled out the one at work. I can't lose. :thumbup:

[Methanolandbrats]

Dude, I'm in. I'm the resident expert in college hoops. I just pick everything opposite of Don Q. Money! :gomer: :D :p

-Kevin Hideeho dude, I'm back for a visit. You are a spatial Ed hoops picker :p I remember your picks form a few years ago. :gomer:

[dando]

Hideeho dude, I'm back for a visit. You are a spatial Ed hoops picker :p I remember your picks form a few years ago. :gomer:

All bets are off on this year's tourney. It's going to be a total crap shoot, IMO. Vitale earlier this week said there are 16 teams that could string together a 6-game run to win it all, which is what I was thinking before he opened his pie hole. Now I'm thinking it could 20 if not the entire top 25. UNC isn't even ranked, but Lunardi has them in as a 7 seed in his latest Bracketology, which makes sense since they've made a run in the ACC tourney to the final. This is just nuts.

And yes, bad picks before I learned the science to pick anything opposite of Don Q. :gomer:

Oh, and bite me, Bucky. :p And nice to see you came out of hibernation, warthog....err, Badger homer. :gomer:

-Kevin

[cameraman]

The OffCamberBracketChallenge is up at poolhost. If you were signed up for the NFL pool the same credentials will get you in.

The pick deadline is 12:15 PM eastern on Thursday 3-21.

[Dvdb]

really glad I just set up OffCamberbb13 at Poolhost....................

[cameraman]

really glad I just set up OffCamberbb13 at Poolhost....................

I didn't set it up, it was just there when I logged in to check if you had set it up. I just wanted to know the deadline.

[dando]

[Ernie Banks]Let's play two.[/Ernie Banks]


Banks was known for his catchphrase of, "It's a beautiful day for a ballgame... Let's play two!", expressing his wish to play a doubleheader every day out of his pure love for the game of baseball, especially in his self-described "friendly confines of Wrigley Field." In 1955, he set the record for grand slams in a single season with five, a record that stood for over thirty years.[3]

I'm in so many pools (only one involves actual greenbacks), I can't count them. Looking forward to the 'Sheet of Integrity' discussion on Mike and Mike this week, and whatever wager they agree upon. Golic getting his legs and arms waxed a few years ago (ala 40-year old Virgin) was epic. :rofl:

-Kevin

[dando]

OK, Wisky has Kid 'n Play and a 'dude' with a perm playing for them. :rofl:

-Kevin

[Dvdb]

Bump....

[dando]

Bump....

I'll be in tonight. I need to do picks with the girls.

-Kevin

[TravelGal]

Not to be especially obtuse, but which one? Poolhost OffCamberBracketChallenge?

[Dvdb]

Yep, Tgal. Everyone seems to have congregated to the "old" pool link.

I was going to delete the "new" one, but haven't had a chance to do it yet.

(Just deleted OffCamber13 pool)

At the risk of causing myself hardship this weekend, apparently I am the comish again.

[TravelGal]

Thanks. I concluded that entropy would take over so that's where I went. I've made my picks. Some of them I'm still "reconsidering" though.

I don't think it will be as hard as the foosball pool because there's only one deadline. You're either in or not. Read 'em and weep as we go along. I seem to remember weeping a lot.

[TKGAngel]

For those of us that didn't play in the football pool, what's the password?

[cameraman]

I'm in.

Pool Name is: OffCamberBracketChallenge

Pool ID: OC12

Password: Zanardi

if that doesn't work try

Pool login name: offcamber

password: pchall

[Gnam]

In.

[dando]

Meant to do it last night, but got sidetracked playing Easter Bunny. Now upon login in both Chrome and FF:




Provider error '80004005'

Unspecified error

INETPUB\WWWROOT\POOLHOST\../../inc/connect.inc, line 11

:saywhat:

I shall try again later this AM.

-Kevin

[dando]

Back up. SQL issue resolved.

-Kevin

[dando]

Winner, winner, chicken dinner is in. :D

-Kevin

[TravelGal]

STINK. That's the last time I let TravelGuy stand over my shoulder when I'm making my picks. Oddly enough, two of the ones I lost I would have GUESSED correctly. :\

And in related news, I see I didn't select a tie-break score. Oh commish!! Calling the commish. I guess it will be as much of a PITA as the foosball. I'll PM.

[Dvdb]

Dando, you have the same problem....no points for the final?

Hit me up.

[Dvdb]

Didn't you mock me for being "commish" earlier.............and now you want my benevolence?

TGal, you're in at 150 total points.

[dando]

Dando, you have the same problem....no points for the final?

Hit me up.

130. Odd. It took my picks, but they had SQL issues this AM. :\

-Kevin

[Dvdb]

You're good, Kev.............good luck

[Dvdb]

Just an FYI, my bracket will show a change. I mistakenly changed my points instead of Kevin's.

Commish error........carry on

and...............my cable goes out.............perfect

[dando]

You're good, Kev.............good luck

No need for luck. Just against Donkey and against the tokers from CSU and CO. :D

-Kevin

[Dvdb]

CSU tokers up on Mizzou........Tigers have talent but blow as a team. The Haith hate will ramp up tomorrow.

[dando]

CSU tokers up on Mizzou........Tigers have talent but blow as a team. The Haith hate will ramp up tomorrow.

I'm betting I'll be doing the Vinny Prospal scoreboard point by the end of the game. :gomer: :D

-Kevin

[Dvdb]

I wouldn't be surprised, but a CSU win won't break my bracket. I played the homer card on Mizzou knowing they wouldn't advance too far.

[TravelGal]

Didn't you mock me for being "commish" earlier.............and now you want my benevolence?

TGal, you're in at 150 total points.

Yeah, that's why I said I realized it would be as much of a pain as the foosball. I created the pain! But, then I realized I was in good company. ;)


Just an FYI, my bracket will show a change. I mistakenly changed my points instead of Kevin's.

Commish error........carry on

and...............my cable goes out.............perfect

I wondered why yours was all yellow. I knew Mr. d and I were the only two without the required tie breaker. What the heck; I decided it would be high scoring game.

[Dvdb]

Efin Harvard.............

[TravelGal]

Oy, I even had New Mexico in the NEXT round. :shakehead

edit: I see these don't update as quickly as the football ones did.

[Gnam]

It's great that the PAC-12 teams are doing well: 3 teams into the next round, 4 if UCLA wins. Another CA team, St. Mary's, lost but had a good chance to win at the end.

Now, if most of them would just lose that would be swell.

[dando]

Jeebus, what a first day. :eek: I tried to pick chalk this time. :saywhat:

-Kevin

[TravelGal]

I supposed I'm supposed to be happy that Cal won but they ruined that section of my bracket through the sweet 16. Why didn't I pick them instead of St. Mary's?? :cry:

[Insomniac]

Efin Harvard.............

I had 'em, but I'm going to get killed today for not having Florida.

[cameraman]

That I have entirely ignored college basketball, beyond that Utah sucked mightily, seems to have carried over into my oh so well researched picks...

[Gnam]

Efin Harvard.............
Say it correctly now, Haav-ard.

[TravelGal]

Say it correctly now, Haav-ard.

:laugh: but I'm going with Haaa-vaaadh

[dando]

Yo, M&B....wanna poke yer head out now? :rofl:

-Kevin

[Gnam]

Georgetown about to screw the pooch.

Iona, why hast though forsaken me?

[dando]

Jeebus. 15 over 2. 14 over 3. And another 12 over 5. I expected this to be wacky, but holy crap, Batman. :eek:

-Kevin

[dando]

Georgetown about to screw the pooch.

Iona, why hast though forsaken me?

Buckeye love. :gomer:

-Brutus :D

[dando]

Jeebus what a tourney. :eek: I mean holy ****. :eek:

-Kevin

[TravelGal]

Jeebus what a tourney. :eek: I mean holy ****. :eek:

-Kevin

As they used to say in Ohio, when I lived there, "You're not just sayin' that." Geez, my West bracket is already shot to H.......

[dando]

Heart stop pounding now.... :saywhat:

-Kevin

[dando]

Even more shocking that FGUC making the Sweet 16...TG leads the pool. :gomer: :D :p

-Kevin

[TravelGal]

Even more shocking that FGUC making the Sweet 16...TG leads the pool. :gomer: :D :p

-Kevin

Nice of you not to say "even more shocking that TG leads the pool" even though that's what you meant. :rofl: But what's with the :p Buster??

I actually felt pretty good about those first two rounds even though I went for the sentimental pick of SDSU even though I figured they'd only win one. (We lived in San Diego for a few years many eons ago). I'm not so sure about what's left.

[dando]

Nice of you not to say "even more shocking that TG leads the pool" even though that's what you meant. :rofl: But what's with the :p Buster??

I actually felt pretty good about those first two rounds even though I went for the sentimental pick of SDSU even though I figured they'd only win one. (We lived in San Diego for a few years many eons ago). I'm not so sure about what's left.

Just giving a little poke. :p I've been known to do that now and then to folks around here. :D

-Kevin

[cameraman]

I'm still in the running for first one out:D

[Dvdb]

Looks like another "interesting" evening........brackets shattering further?

[TravelGal]

If I meet anyone from Syracuse, I plan to shoot them. OK j/k but last year I had them all the way and they lost. This year I had them to lose and they won. :mad:

[dando]

Looks like another "interesting" evening........brackets shattering further?

Brackets are in flames. The U and IU out. Now for TSUN to lose tonight. :D

-Kevin

[Insomniac]

I don't know how I'm tied for the lead in this.

[Gnam]

If you're not first, you're last. :p

[Insomniac]

It didn't last long, I'm cooked.

[TravelGal]

I guess I'm making up for the football season where I thought I would do well and barely beat the 50% average for a coin flip. Honestly, Insomniac, the rise and fall is a tad beyond my bracket building imagination. It took me 10 minutes last night to figure out why the commish has the same number of points but I have more possible total points. Hint: Indiana. :rolleyes:

[Insomniac]

I guess I'm making up for the football season where I thought I would do well and barely beat the 50% average for a coin flip. Honestly, Insomniac, the rise and fall is a tad beyond my bracket building imagination. It took me 10 minutes last night to figure out why the commish has the same number of points but I have more possible total points. Hint: Indiana. :rolleyes:

Heh, I figure with my champ out and half my final 4 out, the odds are long.

[cameraman]

Well Ohio is down 20 so unless Wichita collapses...

[TravelGal]

Well Ohio is down 20 so unless Wichita collapses...

They are starting to look like the real deal. I sure didn't see that one coming. :p

[dando]

Couldn't hit water falling out of a boat last night. I blame Don Q. :irked: :gomer: The west region is a fuster cluck. :saywhat: :eek:

-Kevin

[dando]

This is nuts. I've seen TSUN play several times this season. They aren't this good. Now rooting for Duke to bust the rest of my bracket. :saywhat:

-Kevin

[dando]

Jeebus. Ware's shattered leg. :eek:

-Kevin <=== vomits

[dando]

$.02 from a moron...

The 'cuse zone will shut TSUN down, but I don't see anyone taking down Louisville.

</Pitino hater from his days coaching the Celtics...he didn't earn a $.10 of his $100m+ there>

:saywhat:

-Kevin

[TKGAngel]

Jeebus. Ware's shattered leg. :eek:

-Kevin <=== vomits

The wire service photo of Ware before the trainers got to him is making the rounds of Twitter tonight. I accidentally saw it and am still nauseous.

[dando]

The wire service photo of Ware before the trainers got to him is making the rounds of Twitter tonight. I accidentally saw it and am still nauseous.

Won't look, never will. The way CBS panned away, I had to replay it. Thankfully it was across the court to see it in detail. The reaction by the players on both sides was enough. :yuck:

-Kevin

[cameraman]

It is odd that he would suffer an open fracture like that, usually the ligaments will give up long before the bone does. That was as comprehensive a failure as you're ever going to see. Given the number of people playing hoops and the extreme rarity of a break like that you have to wonder if there was something wrong with the bone prior to the break. Maybe a stress fracture when he was younger.

[TravelGal]

Scoreboard!!!!:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

[Dvdb]

Congrats to TravelGal. Sorry there is no prize, but I can extend laurels and hardy handshakes......:laugh:

[Gnam]

Way to go TravelGal! A true Cinderella story. ;)

[TravelGal]

Congrats to TravelGal. Sorry there is no prize, but I can extend laurels and hardy handshakes......:laugh:


Way to go TravelGal! A true Cinderella story. ;)

Thank you, thank you. I'm adjusting my tiara as we speak. It's refreshing (for me) to be at the other end of the list for a change.

TravelGuy thought my biggest coup was predicting a high-scoring game in advance. He thought the final would be 120 max. :D

[Dvdb]

May want to use the next few months to study up on the NFL. September will be here before you know it.

[TravelGal]

May want to use the next few months to study up on the NFL. September will be here before you know it.

pbbbbbbbbbbbt. But yes, perhaps a trifle more attention would keep me from the cellar. But then, who would you have to look down to?

[Insomniac]

I'm the true winner. Everyone above me made/changed picks late. :D









Congrats TravelGal!