🏀 2023 NCAA March Madness Tournament Pool 🏀

[ChiBitCTy]

I’m running a 2023 NCAA March Madness Tournament pool. We’ve got roughly 6-8 participants so far and looking for more, buy in is .0013BTC. Winner takes all.

 I posted about this inside this thread - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5442051.msg61851231#msg61851231

If you’re interested please let me know! The more we can get the better.

Sign up here - https://tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.com/mens-basketball-bracket/group/31295/invitation?key=cd7ec6210dc36b5f

Buy in: .0013BTC
Payment address: (Winner takes all)

Tournament starts Tuesday, so if you’re going to play please sign up and send entry amount asap!

[yahoo62278]

Looks like there are 7 of us in. Good luck to everyone!!!

[OgNasty]

I completely missed March madness this year. I’m not sure what happened but it completely slipped my mind until it was too late. I’m hearing that it has been a crazy year and almost all of the brackets are already disqualified. Knowing that I’m guessing I would already be out of the running anyways. Still a cool initiative though.

[yahoo62278]

Looks like 2 of you just took huge hits. Purdue beat by a #16 seed. BRUTAL!!! It's such a crazy year though, none of the teams are dominant. Still anyone's game at this point as points should go up each round. It's all going to depend on who gets the most teams in the Final Four IMO.

[ChiBitCTy]

Looks like 2 of you just took huge hits. Purdue beat by a #16 seed. BRUTAL!!! It's such a crazy year though, none of the teams are dominant. Still anyone's game at this point as points should go up each round. It's all going to depend on who gets the most teams in the Final Four IMO.

Yeap thats me 🙋‍♂️ Purdue was considered the best team most of this year I think weren’t they?  This is what you get when you make picks based on your heart not your head..I think Matt Painter coached for 2 years when I was at SIU, awesome coach. What in the f was this. Wasn’t this the second time or maybe 3rd that a 1 lost to a 16? SMH. You’re right the field is very even which is awesome, bud a 1 losing to a 16 shouldn’t happen. Fack.  

@OG…I’ll run this again next year and remind you to get in. And yes, for ESPN there’s now 0 perfect brackets out of 20 million.

[wheelz1200]

Looks like 2 of you just took huge hits. Purdue beat by a #16 seed. BRUTAL!!! It's such a crazy year though, none of the teams are dominant. Still anyone's game at this point as points should go up each round. It's all going to depend on who gets the most teams in the Final Four IMO.

Yeap thats me 🙋‍♂️ Purdue was considered the best team most of this year I think weren’t they?  This is what you get when you make picks based on your heart not your head..I think Matt Painter coached for 2 years when I was at SIU, awesome coach. What in the f was this. Wasn’t this the second time or maybe 3rd that a 1 lost to a 16? SMH. You’re right the field is very even which is awesome, bud a 1 losing to a 16 shouldn’t happen. Fack.  

@OG…I’ll run this again next year and remind you to get in. And yes, for ESPN there’s now 0 perfect brackets out of 20 million.

2nd time in history.  16 seeds were 1-150 in history and Virginia a couple years ago lost to a 16 seed for the first time.  Purdue lost last year to st Peter's  who was a 15 seed.  Weak sauce.  Funny thing is they had the tallest guy in college at 7'4" and  FD had the smallest team in the country.  Their biggest guy was 6'6" and edey (7 foot dude) got 1 shot attempt in the last 12 minutes.  Painter is getting fired...no doubt.

[ChiBitCTy]

Looks like 2 of you just took huge hits. Purdue beat by a #16 seed. BRUTAL!!! It's such a crazy year though, none of the teams are dominant. Still anyone's game at this point as points should go up each round. It's all going to depend on who gets the most teams in the Final Four IMO.

Yeap thats me 🙋‍♂️ Purdue was considered the best team most of this year I think weren’t they?  This is what you get when you make picks based on your heart not your head..I think Matt Painter coached for 2 years when I was at SIU, awesome coach. What in the f was this. Wasn’t this the second time or maybe 3rd that a 1 lost to a 16? SMH. You’re right the field is very even which is awesome, bud a 1 losing to a 16 shouldn’t happen. Fack.  

@OG…I’ll run this again next year and remind you to get in. And yes, for ESPN there’s now 0 perfect brackets out of 20 million.

2nd time in history.  16 seeds were 1-150 in history and Virginia a couple years ago lost to a 16 seed for the first time.  Purdue lost last year to st Peter's  who was a 15 seed.  Weak sauce.  Funny thing is they had the tallest guy in college at 7'4" and  FD had the smallest team in the country.  Their biggest guy was 6'6" and edey (7 foot dude) got 1 shot attempt in the last 12 minutes.  Painter is getting fired...no doubt.

So just learned Painter actually played PG for Purdue for 4 seasons, while Bruce Webber was an assistant to Keady. They both came to SIU and absolutely killed it. Painter was an assistant under Bruce till he left for IL, his one year as my schools coach he was MVC coach of the year, and had us ranked #15 in the nation, which is huge of course for a mid major. Wheelz you prob remember those Saluki teams, we were stacked back then and the MVC had creighton (& Kyle korver) and Wichita state, so was a really good conference . When he left it all fell apart. The guy can coach and recruit, he’s 413-197 career at Purdue, last two seasons being his best w 29 wins. He’s likely not going anywhere anytime soon IMO…but yeah today was his worst loss ever that’s for sure.

[wheelz1200]

Looks like 2 of you just took huge hits. Purdue beat by a #16 seed. BRUTAL!!! It's such a crazy year though, none of the teams are dominant. Still anyone's game at this point as points should go up each round. It's all going to depend on who gets the most teams in the Final Four IMO.

Yeap thats me 🙋‍♂️ Purdue was considered the best team most of this year I think weren’t they?  This is what you get when you make picks based on your heart not your head..I think Matt Painter coached for 2 years when I was at SIU, awesome coach. What in the f was this. Wasn’t this the second time or maybe 3rd that a 1 lost to a 16? SMH. You’re right the field is very even which is awesome, bud a 1 losing to a 16 shouldn’t happen. Fack.  

@OG…I’ll run this again next year and remind you to get in. And yes, for ESPN there’s now 0 perfect brackets out of 20 million.

2nd time in history.  16 seeds were 1-150 in history and Virginia a couple years ago lost to a 16 seed for the first time.  Purdue lost last year to st Peter's  who was a 15 seed.  Weak sauce.  Funny thing is they had the tallest guy in college at 7'4" and  FD had the smallest team in the country.  Their biggest guy was 6'6" and edey (7 foot dude) got 1 shot attempt in the last 12 minutes.  Painter is getting fired...no doubt.

So just learned Painter actually played PG for Purdue for 4 seasons, while Bruce Webber was an assistant to Keady. They both came to SIU and absolutely killed it. Painter was an assistant under Bruce till he left for IL, his one year as my schools coach he was MVC coach of the year, and had us ranked #15 in the nation, which is huge of course for a mid major. Wheelz you prob remember those Saluki teams, we were stacked back then and the MVC had creighton (& Kyle korver) and Wichita state, so was a really good conference . When he left it all fell apart. The guy can coach and recruit, he’s 413-197 career at Purdue, last two seasons being his best w 29 wins. He’s likely not going anywhere anytime soon IMO…but yeah today was his worst loss ever that’s for sure.

Yep that conference was stacked as a mid major.  Nobody wanted to book them as part of theor non conference schedule in the beginning of the year.  Parity was good back them.  Probably right but it hasn't been a good look.  2021 they lost to a 13 seed, last year to a 15 seed and this year to a 16 seed.  They've had good seasons but theor tourny runs have been horrible.

[ChiBitCTy]

Looks like 2 of you just took huge hits. Purdue beat by a #16 seed. BRUTAL!!! It's such a crazy year though, none of the teams are dominant. Still anyone's game at this point as points should go up each round. It's all going to depend on who gets the most teams in the Final Four IMO.

Yeap thats me 🙋‍♂️ Purdue was considered the best team most of this year I think weren’t they?  This is what you get when you make picks based on your heart not your head..I think Matt Painter coached for 2 years when I was at SIU, awesome coach. What in the f was this. Wasn’t this the second time or maybe 3rd that a 1 lost to a 16? SMH. You’re right the field is very even which is awesome, bud a 1 losing to a 16 shouldn’t happen. Fack.  

@OG…I’ll run this again next year and remind you to get in. And yes, for ESPN there’s now 0 perfect brackets out of 20 million.

2nd time in history.  16 seeds were 1-150 in history and Virginia a couple years ago lost to a 16 seed for the first time.  Purdue lost last year to st Peter's  who was a 15 seed.  Weak sauce.  Funny thing is they had the tallest guy in college at 7'4" and  FD had the smallest team in the country.  Their biggest guy was 6'6" and edey (7 foot dude) got 1 shot attempt in the last 12 minutes.  Painter is getting fired...no doubt.

So just learned Painter actually played PG for Purdue for 4 seasons, while Bruce Webber was an assistant to Keady. They both came to SIU and absolutely killed it. Painter was an assistant under Bruce till he left for IL, his one year as my schools coach he was MVC coach of the year, and had us ranked #15 in the nation, which is huge of course for a mid major. Wheelz you prob remember those Saluki teams, we were stacked back then and the MVC had creighton (& Kyle korver) and Wichita state, so was a really good conference . When he left it all fell apart. The guy can coach and recruit, he’s 413-197 career at Purdue, last two seasons being his best w 29 wins. He’s likely not going anywhere anytime soon IMO…but yeah today was his worst loss ever that’s for sure.

Yep that conference was stacked as a mid major.  Nobody wanted to book them as part of theor non conference schedule in the beginning of the year.  Parity was good back them.  Probably right but it hasn't been a good look.  2021 they lost to a 13 seed, last year to a 15 seed and this year to a 16 seed.  They've had good seasons but theor tourny runs have been horrible.

We couldn’t get anyone to play us..even Webber, who was at SIU for quite a while, refused to schedule his own protégée /former team..despite knowing how much even just playing us would mean to the program. I remember reading an article in our school newspaper discussing it and being pissed off lol. We almost played IL in the tourney but they lost and we advanced..IL was my team growing up , so of course wanted to see them play each other.

Anyways I hear ya, his tournament losses have been a big black eye. Just feel like being an alumni player, coming off two big seasons and the fact that Gene Keady was there for an eternity, they may give him some more time.

Regardless..my brackets are bust , that was prob my quickest exit ever lol.

[yahoo62278]

Regardless..my brackets are bust , that was prob my quickest exit ever lol.

We may all lose our champ in rd 2. Duke is about to lose to Tennessee making 2 more people disappointed. Only leaves Kansas, Alabama, and my Huskies. We all lose in this round, it's still a game man.

[ChiBitCTy]

Regardless..my brackets are bust , that was prob my quickest exit ever lol.

We may all lose our champ in rd 2. Duke is about to lose to Tennessee making 2 more people disappointed. Only leaves Kansas, Alabama, and my Huskies. We all lose in this round, it's still a game man.

So apparently we’ve got two randoms in this league.. two people joined but never told me ..who would do that lol. Not sure who you are yahoo.  One of those teams I thought was phishhead from the forum but he said he forgot. So..once I know who your team is we can get the real standings. My bad..didn’t know someone would weirdly do that ..certainly a first

[yahoo62278]

What a game. Alabama vs San Diego state was awesome. I did not expect San Diego to win at all.

The pool is winding down. Annie and myself are the only ones still alive. Everyone else is officially eliminated.

Looks like if Houston and Texas lose tonight, I win. I'll see what the points look like in a couple hours as Houston is about to lose.

[yahoo62278]

@ChiBitCTy it's officially over. I have 68 points and noone can catch me. 1LiwxmZC1v3d5J7XeMT4c8FKpuJwV3QjqH Here is the btc address to send the winnings to. Thanks for the contest and good luck next year.

[Woodie]

@ChiBitCTy it's officially over. I have 68 points and noone can catch me.

Congrats Yahoo, mad skills at play

And It would be nice to see you in action in some of  the Sportsbet pools available with the skillset you possess 

[yahoo62278]

@ChiBitCTy it's officially over. I have 68 points and noone can catch me.

Congrats Yahoo, mad skills at play

And It would be nice to see you in action in some of  the Sportsbet pools available with the skillset you possess  

Thanks. American sports i'm ok in. Soccer, cricket, rugby, and all that stuff i'd do terrible on. Most of the pools I see have to do with soccer and other than the World Cup, and I do not care for soccer.

[ChiBitCTy]

Congrats yahoo, will get you paid out in the next day or two when I’m with my wallet to do so.

Heck of a tournament so far.

Edit- payment to yahoo - tx -e15a523aa7fb737eaf3e61c136d26913c46fa6f5702ffb6a58717e03a1d9e7a0

[yahoo62278]

Congrats yahoo, will get you paid out in the next day or two when I’m with my wallet to do so.

Heck of a tournament so far.

Edit- payment to yahoo - tx -e15a523aa7fb737eaf3e61c136d26913c46fa6f5702ffb6a58717e03a1d9e7a0

Payment received. Thank you for organizing this for everyone. Maybe next time we can get a bigger list of participants.