You're Doing It Wrong

[shardavarius]

Things my co-workers probably shouldn't find out: I filled out my March Madness Tournament Bracket with a d20.

I treated each school's ranking as its Basketball skill and rolled opposed skill checks.

For someone who doesn't follow college hoops at all, it seemed like a decent way to do it if a bit too geeky for gen-pop teachers.

Comments

[mattrevanson]

did you inverse their rank? cause a #1 seed should be considered to have a higher skill than a rank 16 team, in general

[shardavarius]

Yeah. Used the skill of the opponent.

[servalan]

Seems as good a way as any to impose logic.

[astridsdream]

That is so awesome and now I want one of the March Madness things to fill out that way. I'd been avoiding it up 'til now, 'cause I had no idea how to calculate these things. Now I do!

[darthparadox]

Awesome. I may have to try that tonight. We don't have an office pool, but I've filled out a few on Yahoo for the hell of it (by which I mean for the vanishingly remote chance at cash prizes). I may also consider adding circumstance bonuses in cases where one team beat the other earlier in the season...

End up with any big upsets?

[shardavarius]

Yes, but I don't have it in front of me to look it up. Obviously, regardless of rank any school that rolled a 20 won, and any school that rolled a 1 lost.

[darthparadox]

...I just rolled a match where both teams critically failed. Looks like "meteor strikes the gym and kills both teams" isn't a possible choice on the bracket, so I'll have to reroll.

My biggest upsets ended up being a pair of 14-beats-3 games in the first round, and then an 8-beats-1 in the second.

[shardavarius]

All I remember is that I had Villanova winning it all.