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Stacker Sports- Day 77
814 sats \ 12 comments \ @grayruby 20 Feb 2024 Stacker_Sports
Quiet week with no NBA games until Thursday.
Meanwhile in the NHL, apparently the Minnesota Wild and Vancouver Canucks were playing D like they were in the NBA all star game. 10-7 Wild. A lot of high scoring games in the NHL lately. I am not sure what to attribute to the scoring outburst, maybe just the time of season.
Speaking of NHL. I will be rolling out the NHL Trade contest likely tomorrow. A bit short on time today as my wife and son are travelling to Texas and I need to get them to the airport this afternoon. But I will post it tomorrow.
I also want to coordinate something for March Madness so any ideas would be helpful. I don't want to do a traditional bracket, It's too many games to pick and manage. We could devise some sort of survivor pool or I could just do a pick 'em for each round or maybe both. Please share your ideas.
2 more days until Spring Training games start!
Sats for all, GR
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100 sats \ 4 replies \ @Undisciplined 20 Feb 2024
I thought the survivor pool for the NBA In-Season Tournament got really interesting once we entered the elimination rounds, so I recommend that. It's also relatively easy to manage a survivor pool. I'll post a big chunk of the reward, if you want to go that route.
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30 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby OP 20 Feb 2024
Yes that worked very well. There is only 6 rounds though in the March Madness tournament and 64 teams so might need some restrictions. I don't want people just picking 2 and 1 seeds all the way.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 20 Feb 2024
Right. Plus, the bracket removes some of the matchup uncertainty that the NBA had.
Still, if it's single elimination, there's a lot of risk in picking second seeds early on, in order to save the ones for later. Point differentials are easy enough tie-breakers, though.
Alternatively, you could do it lottery style and split the pot if there are multiple winners. That would incentivize picking some lower probability outcomes that will come with a bigger prize.
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50 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 20 Feb 2024
Sounds good. I didn't participate. Here's something I found online: https://www.runyourpool.com/march-madness-survivor-pools.cfm
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70 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby OP 20 Feb 2024
Another option would be you need to make 4 picks in round of 64, 2 picks in round of 32, and then one from 16 on.
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50 sats \ 6 replies \ @siggy47 20 Feb 2024
Interesting. A survivor pool might work. I'll do some investigating.
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70 sats \ 5 replies \ @grayruby OP 20 Feb 2024
Agreed but as I was just discussing with undisciplined I think we will need some restrictions. Otherwise everyone is just going to use top seeds the whole way. Maybe something like you can't use one seeds until elite 8, two until round of 16, 3 until round of 32. Thoughts?
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50 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined 20 Feb 2024
How about points for each survivor equal to their seed? That way one seeds are worth way less than the others.
Hit on a 15th seed in round 1 and you make everyone else scramble with their later picks, because safe picks won't score that much.
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300 sats \ 2 replies \ @grayruby OP 20 Feb 2024
I like that. Maybe 1-4 seeds are worth 1 point. 5-8 are worth 2. 9-12 worth 4 and 13-16 worth 6 or something along those lines. I think we may have a very short survivor pool if we assign points by seed. If someone hits on a 15 in the first round it's pretty much over because you are either unlikely to catch them or everyone knocks themselves out trying.
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50 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 20 Feb 2024
If someone hits on a 15 in the first round it's pretty much over because you are either unlikely to catch them or everyone knocks themselves out trying.
Doesn't that chaos sound fun, though?
Plus, I think it would be more likely that someone hits on a 7 or 8 and pushes the rest of us to play it a little riskier (or just hope that person gets eliminated).
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458 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby OP 20 Feb 2024
True. I will post some options tomorrow and see how the community feels about it. I will tag everyone that participated in the In season tournament pool and see if they are interested and what format people prefer.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby OP 20 Feb 2024
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