Welcome to the March Madness Draft blog. Ever since I discovered the intoxicating world of fantasy sports, I've loved me a good draft. There's something joyous about analyzing a list of options and building a team of dudes based on your own evaluation. While I've participated in many normal fantasy drafts, I've also invented random ones just for the excuse to have a draft with my buddies for bragging rights or chunk change. Some of these ideas include:
- The XFL Fantasy Draft (He Hate Me a top 5 pick w/ consensus #1 pick John Avery)
- Strat-O-Matic Baseball Draft (1 guy per team rosters)
- HR Derby (w/ one guy only from each team)
- Walks Derby
- Fumbles Derby
- Fantasy Winter Olympics (1 guy per country)
- Fantasy Curling
Okay so those last two I made up but if there were willing participants I'd be game..
March Madness is one if not the greatest sporting events around. But what sets it apart from all the others? The BRACKET! We all go kookoo for cocoa puffs over filling out that bracket and hitching our wagons to a set of teams hoping they can survive and advance. The fact is nobody knows what will happen but it's a helluva fun time finding out.
Now what if you had to fill out your bracket in November instead of March!???
That's what my buddy and I decided to do three years ago. It was an idea so ridiculous and pointless that you knew it was pure gold . We'd each "draft" a team of the 65 contenders we thought would make the Big Dance. A veritable "Kenny vs Spenny" of who is better at predicting the upcoming season of college basketball ensued.
Before doing the draft I was on the same wavelength as a typical college basketball fan:. I'd follow my own teams and check out a game here and there. As football season ended, my interest would gradually rise. By the time Championship Week rolled into town, I'd try to cram as much college basketball as humanly possible into my memory so I'd be prepared for the illegal office pool the next week. And of course, I'd be giving my bracket the ol' heave-ho and be mathematically eliminated the next weekend. All of that changed once we started doing the draft (still not having any success at picking the bracket correctly though)
That's what my buddy and I decided to do three years ago. It was an idea so ridiculous and pointless that you knew it was pure gold . We'd each "draft" a team of the 65 contenders we thought would make the Big Dance. A veritable "Kenny vs Spenny" of who is better at predicting the upcoming season of college basketball ensued.
Before doing the draft I was on the same wavelength as a typical college basketball fan:. I'd follow my own teams and check out a game here and there. As football season ended, my interest would gradually rise. By the time Championship Week rolled into town, I'd try to cram as much college basketball as humanly possible into my memory so I'd be prepared for the illegal office pool the next week. And of course, I'd be giving my bracket the ol' heave-ho and be mathematically eliminated the next weekend. All of that changed once we started doing the draft (still not having any success at picking the bracket correctly though)
So if you're new to this blog (heck I'm new to this blog) to crystallize it down to the core, it's about...
- Documenting an irrational competition between friends involving the NCAA tournament
- The planning and strategy for said competition
- Tracking the entire landscape of Division I college basketball from Air Force to Youngstown St
- Any and all things college basketball related
We'll be talking about the draft itself, scoring and strategy in future posts.
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