Wonder if anyone is up for doing a NCAA Basketball contest? This will have to be done on the honor system as there are way too many teams involved in this for me to keep track of all the points. We could have each person calculate their own numbers. Or we could check one another's??

Could give 1 point for each of the 32 winners from the 64 teams with an additional point given to the right pick from the game that determines the 64th team from the match with the 65th. 33 possible points.

2 points for the 8 winners from the Sweet Sixteen. 16 possible points.

3 points for the 4 winners in the Elite Eight. 12 possible points.

4 points for the 2 winners of the Final Four. 8 possible points

5 points for the winner from the Championship game. 5 possible points.

Final total for all the right picks-- be amazed if anyone gets that-- would be 74 points?


http://www.sportsline.com/collegebas...s/viewable_men

We could do this for the Men and the Women too if anyone is so inclined??

http://sportsline.com/collegebasketb...viewable_women

[aln]

Many of the sports websites such as Yahoo, CBS Sportsline and the such have brackets that calculate points.
One can also create a 'private group' which could be posted here on the TOTV site with password etc so only TOTV members/contributors would be in it.
crap

Originally Posted by aln

Many of the sports websites such as Yahoo, CBS Sportsline and the such have brackets that calculate points.
One can also create a 'private group' which could be posted here on the TOTV site with password etc so only TOTV members/contributors would be in it.
crap

What kind of point systems do they use, aln? Have done some of these but there were a very large number of people also playing these.

[aln]

The whole trick is creating a private group wherein only people you invite are 'counted'.
I have been participating in one with my former co-workers for years. In general, there's only 15-20 people in our group. You also get a private message board.
The points awarded are very similar to what you described above. And once the deadline for filling out a bracket passes (say Thursday morning), everyone can view everyone elses bracket.
I have a engagement today @ 5pm and must get ready and will be gone for a few hours but I'll look further at it when I get back or early tomorrow and will explain more.

Thanks, aln. Would like a way so that the page view numbers on TOTV go up quite a lot too because of this NCAA Basketball contest??

[aln]

I created a group.

To enter go to this link.
http://tournament.fantasysports.yaho...p_select_group

If you don't have a YAHOO ID you must create one.

Then find the JOIN A GROUP link.

The TOTV id # is 68521
The password is golf........ i repeat .... golf

From there you name your bracket,(you can use your TOTV id
and we're off.

NO $$ just bragging rights!!

[zcaveman]

Thanks aln. I am in and ready to make my picks as soon as the tourneys end.

Z

Originally Posted by aln

I created a group.

To enter go to this link.
http://tournament.fantasysports.yaho...p_select_group

If you don't have a YAHOO ID you must create one.

Then find the JOIN A GROUP link.

The TOTV id # is 68521
The password is golf........ i repeat .... golf

From there you name your bracket,(you can use your TOTV id
and we're off.

NO $$ just bragging rights!!

Thanks, aln. :beer2: 040 024

We will have to talk about how we are doing on TOTV though so that I hope we get 500,000 + page views for the 31 days of March 2008.

[schotzyb]

I am all signed up. Just waiting for my Tarheels to take out Clemson this afternoon.

Originally Posted by schotzyb

I am all signed up. Just waiting for my Tarheels to take out Clemson this afternoon.

Why do they call people from North Carolina "tar heels"? Some of the Doggie Doo Run Run regulars were discussing this today and could not seem to come up with an answer that satisfied me. Looked it up via Google but it still seems up in the air as to really where the nickname "Tar Heel" comes from?

Seems all the schools I have actually taken classes at for more than a week (like BYU Law School where I was there about 10 days) are out of the running for the Big Dance. U Nevada-Reno; U of MN; Denver University; and the College of San Mateo if they even have a basketball team??

10 days at a school is not much of a connection. Found the baby rule at the BYU Law School unfair. The professors would not call on you if you had a baby in your lap. Made the law classes quite nosy. :joke: ;D Mormons and their family values. Mean both noisy and nosy.

No babies, dogs, allowed in the U of MN Law School classes where I later graduated (Class of 1989) though.

[zcaveman]

Originally Posted by Taltarzac

Why do they call people from North Carolina "tar heels"? Some of the Doggie Doo Run Run regulars were discussing this today and could not seem to come up with an answer that satisfied me. Looked it up via Google but it still seems up in the air as to really where the nickname "Tar Heel" comes from?

Seems all the schools I have actually taken classes at for more than a week (like BYU Law School where I was there about 10 days) are out of the running for the Big Dance. U Nevada-Reno; U of MN; Denver University; and the College of San Mateo if they even have a basketball team??

10 days at a school is not much of a connection. Found the baby rule at the BYU Law School unfair. The professors would not call on you if you had a baby in your lap. Made the law classes quite nosy. :joke: ;D Mormons and their family values.

No babies, dogs, allowed in the U of MN Law School classes where I later graduated (Class of 1989) though.

ORIGIN OF THE TAR HEELS

http://www.outerbankschamber.com/rel...y/tarheels.cfm

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In Colonial days, North Carolina was a big producer of tar, pitch and turpentine.

During one of the fiercest conflicts of the Civil War, North Carolina troops felt they had been let down by a regiment carrying the colors of another state, and thus carried chips on their shoulders when they pulled back from the front after the battle.

"Any more tar down in the Old North State, boys?" members of the other regiments taunted the battle-weary North Carolinians.

"Not a bit. Jeff Davis bought it all up," retorted the Carolinians.

"How's that, what's he going to do with it?"

"He's gonna put it on your heels to make you stick better in the next fight," answered the soldiers from the land of tar, pitch and turpentine.

Gerneral Lee, hearing of the incident, remarked: "God Bless the Tar Heel Boys."

The nickname stuck.

Source ... Creecy's "Grandfather Tales of North Carolina"

Originally Posted by zcaveman

ORIGIN OF THE TAR HEELS

http://www.outerbankschamber.com/rel...y/tarheels.cfm

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In Colonial days, North Carolina was a big producer of tar, pitch and turpentine.

During one of the fiercest conflicts of the Civil War, North Carolina troops felt they had been let down by a regiment carrying the colors of another state, and thus carried chips on their shoulders when they pulled back from the front after the battle.

"Any more tar down in the Old North State, boys?" members of the other regiments taunted the battle-weary North Carolinians.

"Not a bit. Jeff Davis bought it all up," retorted the Carolinians.

"How's that, what's he going to do with it?"

"He's gonna put it on your heels to make you stick better in the next fight," answered the soldiers from the land of tar, pitch and turpentine.

Gerneral Lee, hearing of the incident, remarked: "God Bless the Tar Heel Boys."

The nickname stuck.

Source ... Creecy's "Grandfather Tales of North Carolina"

Thanks for the information, zcaveman. I did locate something like that from Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_Heel

My bracket is all ready for the TOTV private group NCAA men's tournament. We do not seem to have that many people in this just yet.

[DickY]

I'm in and the picks are made.

[schotzyb]

My picks are made.