March Madness Snake Draft

[TLankford]

Doing one of these with my buddies tonight. 8 People. 8 Teams each. Standard snake draft. Random order drawing right before we start, so can't really make too much of a strategy. Would like some opinions on this:

Who is your top team @ each seed #, i.e.- #1 seed: LVille, #2 seed: UM, etc etc.

Criteria is simple:

Every win each of your 8 teams gets is worth 1 point. If they are a worse seed than the team they beat, it's 2 points. So basically which team at each seed # do you think has the best chance to win the most games?

Really looking for some insight on the mid-level seeds up to any 6-13 seeds that could make it to through the first weekend unscathed. One of them doing that basically equals a 1 or 2 seed getting to the final 4.

Initial leans:
1: Lville/Kansas

2: Miami/OSU

3: NM/Sparty

4: Michigan/?????

5: Wisc/?????

6: UCLA? Don't know shit about any #6 seeds

7: :shrug:

8: UNC/NCST :shrug: Don't see the other 2 #1's losing before sweet 16.

9-16 seeds....

Would really appreciate any advice on which teams you would change and why, or if you'd help fill in the blanks for me. As you know I spend most of my time on the Football and Golf boards, not so much over here.

But gambling addicts are going to gamble they say, so it's not like I have a choice as to whether or not I participate in this draft :SIB

Thanks :0003

 

[tball]

good luck my 2cents

good luck my 2cents

1's/2's

lville
miami
ohio st
indiana
gonzaga

2-6s

wisconsin*
mich st
duke
kansas
georgetown
st louis*
new mexico
syracuse
florida
vcu
creighton
unlv

the rest

minnesota
unc
nc st
belmont
boise st
davidson
sd state

 

[Packers4Life]

Sounds like a fun pool.

Minnesota and St Marys(If they win tonite) can win a cpl games. Both11 seeds.

Iowa st at a 10 seed.

Creighton(7 Seed) will give Duke all they want in the 2nd Round!!

Good Luck , look forward to see the 8 Teams u get, hope u post them.:toast:

 

[TLankford]

:0008

 

[TLankford]

Thanks guys.

Have Minny circled to take early because them potentially beating UCLA and UF is worth 4 wins for better seeded team.

Like the looks of the other suggestions. Will post our group's picks later tonight or tomorrow

 

[Packers4Life]

Great Thanks:toast:

 

[TLankford]

copy-paste of the email with the list of everyone's teams on it. When we were drinking and getting ready to start we decided to amend the scoring slightly:
Better seed wins: 1 point
Upset <6 seed difference: 2 points
Upset 6+ seed difference: 3 points

The teams are listed by draft order.

1:
Louis. VCU. UNLV. ISU. OU. Nmst. Davidson. Liu/jmu

2:
IU. Mich. Wisc. Pitt. Nova. CSU. Akron. WKent

3:
KU. KState. STL. Temple. Mizz. Cincy. Valproate (not fixing that auto correct). NCAT/LIB

4:
Zags. Marq. OKSt. NCst. SDst. Wichita. Montana. Southern

5:
Miami. Michst. Ucla. ND. Oregon. ILLi. SdakotaSt. Albany

Mine:
Gtown. NMex. Creighton. Minny. Cal. SMC/MTSU. Boise/Lasalle. Pacific

7:
OSU. UF. Memphis. Butler. OMiss. Belmont. Harvard. Iona

8:
Duke. Cuse. UNC. Zona. Buck ell. Colorado. NWSt. FlaGC

Got the 6th pick and hadn't even planned on looking at GTown, but I actually like them after looking at the list. Hopefully get at least 1-2 Ws out of Minny/Cal/SMC/Boise. And Creighton taking down Cincy and Duke would be good. I'm really not expecting that much out of NMexico and didn't like the pick after I made it. We'll see

 

[tball]

thnaks for the heads up - looks like fun, might hafta get one of those arranged

gl man! :0074

 

[the addict]

Indy wins.

 

[hedgehog]

I had first pick in my draft and took Indiana :shrug:

 

[TLankford]

Did this in the past and it seemed like the teams that nobody really paid attention to in the middle seeds were always the ones that randomly popped an upset. Everyone avoided the 11-seed play-ins, I guess just because they weren't a single team set in the bracket?

 

[Packers4Life]

Thanks for update TL:toast:

Dont sell urself short with New Mex , I think they have chance to make Final 4!!:toast:

 

[TLankford]

copy-paste of the email with the list of everyone's teams on it. When we were drinking and getting ready to start we decided to amend the scoring slightly:
Better seed wins: 1 point
Upset <6 seed difference: 2 points
Upset 6+ seed difference: 3 points


Mine:
Gtown. NMex. Creighton. Minny. Cal. SMC/MTSU. Boise/Lasalle. Pacific


Got the 6th pick and hadn't even planned on looking at GTown, but I actually like them after looking at the list. Hopefully get at least 1-2 Ws out of Minny/Cal/SMC/Boise. And Creighton taking down Cincy and Duke would be good. I'm really not expecting that much out of NMexico and didn't like the pick after I made it. We'll see

just had to bump this because I had the only #2 and #3 seed that got knocked out in the first round. FlaGC was the last pick in the draft and knocked out my 1st round pick.................

My top team left is a #7 seed. :0002

But in all honesty I said from the end of the draft until the tourney started that I didn't like NMex and never even thought about GTown.