They key to winning NCAA Tournament pools is finding leverage in specific spots to differentiate yourself from the competition.
I create a leverage score for every team to determine which schools the market is overrating or underrating. The goal is the maximize our leverage score.
My March Madness Bracket Builder allows users to tailor their brackets using my leverage scores and general strategies that cater to your specific pools.
For example, if you live in North Carolina, it’s likely that your pools will be more Duke heavy than pools elsewhere throughout the country. With that, you might want to pivot and find leverage by having one of these teams out earlier than expected.
My bracket builder (which you can download below) can help pinpoint the spot where that makes the most sense.
March Madness Bracket Builder
Here’s a quick key to my March Madness Bracket Builder:
- Chance to win (Win%): My projected chance of that team winning a matchup.
- Chance to advance (Adv%): My projected odds of that team advancing past that matchup (factoring in previous games).
- Brackets Taken In (Users%): The percentage of users on Yahoo! who are taking that team to advance to the next round as of writing.
The First Round matchups in the builder are set, but as you work through different possible outcomes in later rounds, you can compare how the leverage changes.
Click here to download my bracket builder as a spreadsheet.
Tip: If you plan on using Google Sheets to interact with the builder, I recommend making a copy first in case you want to start again with my default settings.
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