2018 5AF March Madness Pool

Postby **shafnutz05** » Mon Mar 12, 2018 12:50 pm

I went ahead and created a group on Yahoo...password is "letsgopens"

https://tournament.fantasysports.yahoo. ... oc_trk=lnk

Good luck! Let me know if there are any issues.

Postby **Silentom** » Mon Mar 12, 2018 1:01 pm

Is there a prize involved?

Postby **count2infinity** » Mon Mar 12, 2018 1:30 pm

If you win, you get to ban Om for a month.

Postby **dodint** » Mon Mar 12, 2018 1:32 pm

Postby **Silentom** » Mon Mar 12, 2018 1:33 pm

What if I win?

Postby **count2infinity** » Mon Mar 12, 2018 1:33 pm

Prize is the same regardless of who wins.

Postby **Silentom** » Mon Mar 12, 2018 1:43 pm

Postby **willeyeam** » Mon Mar 12, 2018 1:47 pm

i cant wait til i win this sht

Postby **dodint** » Mon Mar 12, 2018 1:48 pm

We're all winners.

Postby **Silentom** » Mon Mar 12, 2018 2:42 pm

y1nz h8 m3 c@u$3 @1nt m3

Postby **Kraftster** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 9:06 am

i cant wait til i win this sht

How you feeling about this year, mang?

Postby **willeyeam** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 9:17 am

i cant wait til i win this sht
How you feeling about this year, mang?

this is the least i've watched in my life with Pitt and Akron both being piles of poop this year, so I have no feel. So I'll probably end up doing better than usual

you?

Postby **RonnieFranchise** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 2:40 pm

Oh noez muh bracketz

#preemptive

Postby **Kraftster** » Wed Mar 14, 2018 8:32 am

i cant wait til i win this sht
How you feeling about this year, mang?
this is the least i've watched in my life with Pitt and Akron both being piles of poop this year, so I have no feel. So I'll probably end up doing better than usual you?

I was feeling great because I did a ton of prep. Then I domed a hop juju growler by myself during the auction and made some missteps.

Jalen Brunson - Villanova (1) - $10
Tyus Battle - Syracuse (11*) - $1
Garrison Matthews - Lipscomb (15) - $2
Joshua Langford - Michigan State (3) - $4
Phil Cofer - Florida State (9) - $2
Collin Sexton - Alabama (9) - $4
Aaron Holiday - UCLA (11*) - $1 (oops)
Bryce Brown - Auburn (4) - $4
Khadeen Carrington - Seton Hall (8) - $3 (I was literally wooing it up over this move and then realized I said Khadeen Carrington and not Desi Rodriguez)
Vince Edwards - Purdue (2) - $5
Rodney Bullock - Providence (10) - $3
Zach Norvell Jr. - Gonzaga (4) - $4
Kamar Baldwin - Butler (10) - $4
E.C. Matthews - Rhode Island (7) - $1
Dylan Osetkowski - Texas (10) - $2

Postby **willeyeam** » Wed Mar 14, 2018 8:40 am

@Kraftster oh man I don't think I ever realized yours was an auction.. ours is just a straight draft. curious how much Trae Young went for in yours? And Bagley, assuming he was the highest.

Postby **willeyeam** » Wed Mar 14, 2018 8:41 am

Sexton could be nice if he gets you two games. Also a fan of the edwards pick up for $5.

Postby **Kraftster** » Wed Mar 14, 2018 9:11 am

@Kraftster oh man I don't think I ever realized yours was an auction.. ours is just a straight draft. curious how much Trae Young went for in yours? And Bagley, assuming he was the highest.

I executed pretty well on my strategy, which is based around needing the fewest # of games to get to my goal. Picking outcomes seems much more difficult than leaning on dependable scorers. So, I use a formula to generate and aggregate z scores for ppg, shot attempts/game, and pct of team shots. Obviously, I desperately need Syracuse to win now that UCLA lost...

I am two-time defending champ, so I threw out first. I tossed Trae out at $5. I would have been forced to take him at that price, but I had the plan of not going any higher. I wanted to get it out of the way early to know whether he was going to be on my team. One guy ended up bidding $6, and no one went any higher. To be honest, I really don't want him. They haven't won a road game in 2018. He is a gem under my profile, but I just don't think you can rely upon that team.

Bagley went for $14, which you can discount $2 because the guy that got him is crazy. Also, he doesn't like $13, so he went from $11 to bidding $14.

Postby **Kraftster** » Wed Mar 14, 2018 9:16 am

@Kraftster oh man I don't think I ever realized yours was an auction.. ours is just a straight draft. curious how much Trae Young went for in yours? And Bagley, assuming he was the highest.

You have to go auction, man. It is so much fun.

Postby **willeyeam** » Wed Mar 14, 2018 9:27 am

@Kraftster oh man I don't think I ever realized yours was an auction.. ours is just a straight draft. curious how much Trae Young went for in yours? And Bagley, assuming he was the highest.
You have to go auction, man. It is so much fun.

I think this thing's been going on for 35 years or so. We still fill our teams out on copied sheets from the Croatian home's first draft sheet they had, so I doubt it'll ever change lol

Postby **skullman80** » Wed Mar 14, 2018 9:57 am

I'm in.

Postby **count2infinity** » Wed Mar 14, 2018 9:58 am

I see EPP joined in the fun.

Postby **Silentom** » Wed Mar 14, 2018 9:58 am

Postby **Orlando Penguin** » Wed Mar 14, 2018 10:02 am

Hope everyone pays attention to the injury report before finalizing brackets. A potentially big one hit the wire last nite.

Postby **count2infinity** » Wed Mar 14, 2018 10:04 am

Arizona, right?

Postby **willeyeam** » Wed Mar 14, 2018 10:37 am

@Kraftster oh man I don't think I ever realized yours was an auction.. ours is just a straight draft. curious how much Trae Young went for in yours? And Bagley, assuming he was the highest.
I executed pretty well on my strategy, which is based around needing the fewest # of games to get to my goal. Picking outcomes seems much more difficult than leaning on dependable scorers. So, I use a formula to generate and aggregate z scores for ppg, shot attempts/game, and pct of team shots. Obviously, I desperately need Syracuse to win now that UCLA lost...

I am two-time defending champ, so I threw out first. I tossed Trae out at $5. I would have been forced to take him at that price, but I had the plan of not going any higher. I wanted to get it out of the way early to know whether he was going to be on my team. One guy ended up bidding $6, and no one went any higher. To be honest, I really don't want him. They haven't won a road game in 2018. He is a gem under my profile, but I just don't think you can rely upon that team.

Bagley went for $14, which you can discount $2 because the guy that got him is crazy. Also, he doesn't like $13, so he went from $11 to bidding $14.

Interesting.. I tried to get cute with it and add some different things in there like you did, I had usage in there last year. Really at the end of the day points are all that matters so I just went with points and i factor in an average of least games a team can play, the most they could realistically play, and what I expect by filling out a bracket. So a lot of it is based on projecting how many games they play.

So, I use a formula to generate and aggregate z scores

@slappybrown TRIGGERED