2022 NCAA Tournament Bracket Advice, Best Strategy Tips for Winning March Madness Pools

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2022 NCAA Tournament Bracket Advice, Best Strategy Tips for Winning March Madness Pools. Strategy 1: Zig When Your Opponents Zag. Strategy 2: Pick a team that you think fewer of your opponents will favor in their brackets. For example, if you are in a bracket pool full of Baylor graduates, you can assume that Baylor will be the NCAA champion pick or at least a finalist pick in high percentage of brackets compared to national averages.

2022 NCAA Tournament Bracket Advice, Best Strategy Tips for Winning March Madness Pools.

In March Madness, people dream of being the only person to predict the next Cinderella story. Many people make reckless picks in their brackets and eliminate teams that they think will go on a deep run. Algorithmical bracket picks outperform the public. In 2009, the Journal of Applied Social Psychology published a study about NCAA Tournament predictions. The study found that picking the better seeded team in every matchup would have outscored the national average bracket score on ESPN.

The larger the pool, the more risks you need to take with your picks to maximize your chance of winning. In a small pool there might be only a few other entries with the same champion pick as you. If you're competing against 500, 1,000, or 10,00 entries, you have to be more contrarian. The team has run millions of bracket pool simulations to develop the logic behind their customized bracket picks.

Some pools award points based on the difference in seed number between the winning and losing team. In a seed difference scoring system, you should pick No. 12 seeds to win more often than you would in a traditional scoring. Some pools base point scoring on round number multiplied by the seed numbers of the teams. They also reward players who pick upsets. For example, picking a No 10 seed to make the Sweet 16 yields 30 points, while picking No 1 seed for the national championship yields only 21 points.

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