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Re: Ostensibly Hoops

Post by Saint » Mon Mar 28, 2016 11:21 am

That's right. I keep forgetting that I took UVA to beat UNC in this bracket. I had UNC-Okla. in the final of my other 2 brackets.

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Re: Ostensibly Hoops

Post by aTm » Mon Mar 28, 2016 11:23 am

hedge wrote:"The fact that hedge is arguably in the drivers seat here with his shitty bracket is ludicrous."

Not sure how I'm in the driver's seat, as there are two scenarios in which you win and only one scenario in which I win. Granted, one of your scenarios, Syracuse over Nova, seems highly unlikely, but stranger things have happened...
Your scenario has the highest remaining seed winning, and also has the easier first game, whereas OU Villanova are only 50/50 at best to even make the title game since they play each other. In terms of probability (check your beloved odds tracker) your scenario is more likely than the others.
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Re: Ostensibly Hoops

Post by hedge » Mon Mar 28, 2016 11:26 am

I just wanted to hear you say it...
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Re: Ostensibly Hoops

Post by hedge » Mon Mar 28, 2016 11:26 am

Saint wrote:That's right. I keep forgetting that I took UVA to beat UNC in this bracket. I had UNC-Okla. in the final of my other 2 brackets.
I won't let you forget, traitor...
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Re: Ostensibly Hoops

Post by aTm » Mon Mar 28, 2016 11:28 am

Here are the odds tracker percentages...

Hedge wins: 38%
I win: 34%
eCat wins: 22%
Stu wins: 5%
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Re: Ostensibly Hoops

Post by Saint » Mon Mar 28, 2016 11:31 am

hedge wrote:
Saint wrote:That's right. I keep forgetting that I took UVA to beat UNC in this bracket. I had UNC-Okla. in the final of my other 2 brackets.
I won't let you forget, traitor...

You'll fuck up UNC's chances to win it all. Then I'll fuck you up.

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Re: Ostensibly Hoops

Post by hedge » Mon Mar 28, 2016 11:36 am

I'm sure you have Oklahoma in one of your pools, you'll probably be pulling for them...
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Re: Ostensibly Hoops

Post by Saint » Mon Mar 28, 2016 11:38 am

Nope. I'm out of the running in the money bracket and the other was just for fun, like the fun I'll have rearranging your face if you ruin UNC's chance to win it all via association.

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Re: Ostensibly Hoops

Post by hedge » Mon Mar 28, 2016 11:39 am

Half of the people in our pool are already tapped out, no more possible points...
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Re: Ostensibly Hoops

Post by hedge » Mon Mar 28, 2016 11:40 am

"like the fun I'll have rearranging your face if you ruin UNC's chance to win it all via association."

That sounds like a threat from Happy Days...
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Re: Ostensibly Hoops

Post by Bklyn » Mon Mar 28, 2016 11:42 am

Saint wrote: You'll fuck up UNC's chances to win it all. Then I'll fuck you up.
So, Stu is effectively putting on a hedge by rooting against UNC in a pool? Interesting...and excuse the pun.
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Re: Ostensibly Hoops

Post by hedge » Mon Mar 28, 2016 11:44 am

Is there already a nostalgia show for the 1990's out yet? In the 70's they came out with Happy Days and in the 90's it was That 70's Show. Did the 1990's even have enough character as an era to warrant a show? I guess they could have everybody just getting used to the internet and cell phones and the joke would be how arcane the technology was. Of course, I'm still rocking a flip phone, so I face that type of scorn and ridicule every day...
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Re: Ostensibly Hoops

Post by Jungle Rat » Mon Mar 28, 2016 11:49 am

Moron

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Re: Ostensibly Hoops

Post by Bklyn » Mon Mar 28, 2016 11:51 am

We're in the 80s era of nostalgia, right now, with that Goldbergs show (which I've never watched) and some new movie coming out that is reported to be "The Dazed and Confused of the 80s Generation."

You will have to hold your horses a little longer for a 90s era show. Shit, Friends and Seinfeld are still syndicated strong. We haven't gone far enough away from that era yet. This OJ TV show is a good start.
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Re: Ostensibly Hoops

Post by AlabamAlum » Mon Mar 28, 2016 12:15 pm

Is it too late for me to join the bracket?
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Re: Ostensibly Hoops

Post by Saint » Mon Mar 28, 2016 12:22 pm

Who won the Maui brackets this year?

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Re: Ostensibly Hoops

Post by Saint » Mon Mar 28, 2016 1:32 pm

Samuel L. Jackson now dogging K on Twitter.

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Re: Ostensibly Hoops

Post by Cletus » Mon Mar 28, 2016 1:39 pm

Fresh Off the Boat is a show set in the 90s and does a lot of 90s nostalgia.

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Re: Ostensibly Hoops

Post by crashcourse » Mon Mar 28, 2016 1:48 pm

I'm taking Under investigation to beat On probation
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Re: Ostensibly Hoops

Post by hedge » Mon Mar 28, 2016 2:22 pm

The pool over at IC is a much tighter affair than ours. Looks like about 80% of the entrants have Carolina winning it all, with quite a few of them having either Oklahoma or Nova as the loser...
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