Will be a yahoo group so if you don't have a free yahoo acct then get one. I'll put up/a group tonight or tomorrow
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Will be a yahoo group so if you don't have a free yahoo acct then get one. I'll put up/a group tonight or tomorrow
OK--ITS UP
LINK HERE
Your pool ID# is 152801 and your password is: julius (all lower case)
I have decided to up the prize based on warren buffett/dan gilberts motivation. If anybody gets ALL first round games correct they get 1 dollar (yes, big whoop) but it goes up by 10 fold for each round that they get perfect. In other words if you get the first rd correct its a buck, then you get all 2nd it $11, if you get the 3rd its $111, you get the 4th its $1,111, the 5th then its $11,111, all then you pocket $111,111... sure, its not a billion but I ain't Buffett and you don't have to go all the way to get payed off.
Doc, I know the odds are well against it--but for your sake, do you want to limit this to members of this board (just in case a bunch of others join the bracket contest from word-of-mouth, etc.?)
LOL, I'm not overly worried. last year NOBODY on ESPN got the entire first round correct. If somebody does, I'll gladly send them a dollar. If somebody makes it 100% thru two rounds, I'll send them $11 buck but if they make it 3 rounds then I'm calling them a cheater!
I'll add that the its for OUR group only. Not any world wide thing.
Unnecessary rant deleted. My apologies for the previous post. Apparently my acceptance to the group was delayed.
Game on.
Krank, I was going to set up a Yahoo account for you and make it happen. Glad it worked.
Super nice of you, Darrell. Thanks. Glad it worked too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Darrell KSR
Yahoo giving me all kinds of trouble...as usual. The last time I had anything to do with them was the last bracket game they sponsored, and I had similar trouble then. Related to an old AOL e-mail account I had, Yahoo now doesn't recognize my registered account which I used to set up my bracket yesterday but instead require me receiving and replying to an e-mail at the old AOL e-mail addy...which no longer exists. :533:
So...one just uses the online help or contacts Yahoo via their toll free number, right? The e-mail support is not active and I sat on hold for fourty minutes waiting for them to accept my call...which was very, very important to them of course.
Since my cell phone is tied to the Billion dollar give away bracket registration, under my new and up to date e-mail account that Yahoo won't recognize...I can't register again without sacrificing the brackets I created (including that one) The cell number is how I am identified as a participant...which is forever linked to an active account Yahoo now doesn't recognize. And I'm not about to give them another phone number or spend hours trying to getn them on the phone.
I assume the giveaway has them limiting their help services, and is what's swamping their phone lines.
:mad0049:
Anyway..the bottomline is, I'm finished with those yahoos and I'll rely on updates here as to how Im doing.
As for my other bracket...well WB will call me and hand deliver I'm sure when I win the1,000,000,000.00 :rockon:
Dave, your picks are in. I see your bracket (not the picks, just he bracket, can't see the actual picks until the games start)Quote:
Originally Posted by kingcat
I'd like to play but even though I play other yahoo games they won't let me join unless I give them my cell number. That ain't happening
Collin's picks are my 13-year old son's. I really don't remember, but he claims he played last year and won, as he was the only rational one that picked Louisville. He's probably right.
I'm trying to spring free here in a minute and put my own in, but the family is represented if I don't get my picks in.
I'm in. Easy.
Not a lot of thought put into the picks, but really, I don't think studying this much at the end of the season, ignoring general knowledge from games that occurred all year, is going to improve my picks much anyway--same philosophy I used in school not to study for finals.
Oops.
;)
Thanks for running it again, Doc.
I don't believe you have to give your cell # to make a bracket and join a pool. Only to participate in the giveaway..correct?
Thanks Doc. Yeah, I can't access them however because Yahoo doesn't recognize that user name.Quote:
Originally Posted by Doc
But yet I can't use it in registering again because it's already registered to me, but instead of the active gmail account I now use (and when I signed up), it is tied to an old AOL account that has been inactive for months.
When I try to get it straitened out using the available help functions, Yahoo will only send my info to the alternate e-mail...at AOL.
Other than those failed attempts, getting them on the phone has proven hopeless.
Anyway, I'm happy to have some picks up there, even though I can't visit them myself.
Well, that's weird. Collin's picks are no longer there. I saw them earlier, but he's not listed. He has his own Yahoo email account, and used his own cell phone, so it had nothing to do with me entering, too, but somehow he got booted out. He will be very unhappy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Darrell KSR
Wouldn't let me in period. That's weird because we use Yahoo for our NASCAR league and our College football pick em league and I've never had to do that before.Quote:
Originally Posted by kingcat
Sorry, I didn't know that.
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Originally Posted by fastkat
My account is safe. Only one person (Terminus) was close on day one but he missed one so everybody is out of the running for the cash.Quote:
Originally Posted by Darrell KSR
Won't let me back in to look at my bracket now. Just says I'm not a member of this group. Don't know if I'm still there or not.
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Originally Posted by Catfan73
You're there, in LAST place! I can see you bracket. If you can't I suspect its because you have the red hue on your monitor turned off (LOL)
Standings this morning - this is ugly, because I don't know how to format, but they are in top-to-bottom order.
If you look at Mike--in 1st place--here are what the numbers mean:
32 = number of correct picks. That's not what has him in first place, though.
38 = total points. That's what has him in first place.
174 = total possible points. If he gets all his picks correct the rest of the tournament (that are still possible), that's how many points he can get.
1 = place in our pool.
Standings
Rank
Owner
Bracket
Correct Picks
Points
Possible Pts
1
mike
Terminus's Tweakers
32
38
174
1
Brad Tune
Brad Tune's Primo Bracket
31
38
120
3
Doc
Un-Doc-umented workers
31
37
181
3
Collin
Collin's Optimal Bracket
31
37
175
5
DonnieK
thedonnie123's Top Bracket
31
36
168
5
patrick
Patrick's CR Bracket
31
36
180
5
James
James's Groovy Bracket
30
36
166
8
Darrell
Darrell's Definitive Bracket
30
35
173
9
Eric
BigBlue92-1
28
34
168
9
Tim G
Tim G's Tip-Top Bracket
28
34
170
9
Brian
BEvans' Brilliant Bracket
29
34
168
12
David
Kingcat's Pix
29
33
163
12
Krankenstein
UKrankALLTime#ONEWinS#NINEnow!
29
33
169
14
Bill
CatFan73's Bodacious Bracket
25
30
168
Hey, I didn't say it was pretty. Just bodacious.
I'm top dog right now. Got 12 of the sweet 16 correct which is cool and 7 of my elite 8 picks (Kansas out) still alive
I'm hoping to fall WAY behind after Friday night.
In case anybody was interested in who the winner was, well, twas I.
And I was also the winner over on the Wichita State group. Figured I'd put my entry in over on their group too. Seems I was top dog there as well.
Want to know something extremely sad?
I put in an entry in a court reporter's pool here in town. Had 242 entries. I came in 5th place. Picked Kentucky to lose in the Sweet Sixteen to Louisville. Yes, if I had them going to the championship game, I would've won.
This sucks. Cost me a $250 gift certificate to Ruth's Chris. Will I ever pick against Kentucky again? I don't know, but I'm now not inclined to do so.
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Originally Posted by Doc