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Precision Sports Statistics Inc announces its 2002 March Madness NCAA Challenge is here.
Precision Sports Statistics Inc's March Madness Challenge is a free contest open to both customers and other interested parties. Before the tipoff of the first NCAA college basketball tournament, each participants goes to the Entry Form and makes their predictions for all 63 games of the tournament. Points are awarded for each correct prediction, and point values are based on round and seed. Similar to many other NCAA contests, games become more important as each round of the tournament progresses. Second round games are worth twice as much as first round games, third round games are worth twice as much as second round games, etc. But unlike most other NCAA contests, ours is weighted by the seed of each team. What this means a #4-seeded team winning a game is worth twice as much as a #2-seeded team winning a game (in the same round), and only half as much as a #8-seeded team winning a game (also in the same round). By including the seed # in the weighting of each game, more games (including those first round 8 vs. 9 matchups) become more important in the final outcome. At the end of NCAA tournament, merchandise prizes will be awarded to the entrants with the highest point totals. Please thank our sponsors by visiting their websites.
The challenge is open to both Precision Sports Statistics customers and other interested parties.
Current Precision Sports Statistics Baseball, Basketball, and Football customers will use their league number and 4-digit password code to enter.
(League commissioners must use their 4-digit team password and not their
4-digit commissioner password.)
Non customers can complete an
Guest Entry Form and have a valid password sent to them by email. Only one guest entry per email address is allowed.
Each participant must complete an the entry form and chooses 1 winner for each of the 63 games in the 2002 NCAA Division 1 College Basketball Tournament.
The entry form will be available starting at 9am on Monday, March 12th and must be submitted before the tipoff of the first game (usually 11:30am on Thursday March 15th).
Scoring: Points are awarded for each correctly winner of each of the 63 games
of the NCAA tournament. The number of points is equal to the winning team's
seed number times the round weight. Round weights are 1,2,4,8,16, and 32
for the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th rounds respectively. Here is the
point values in table format:
| Round | Points for Correct Pick | Example |
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| 32 first round games | Seed # of points | (#1 seed wins = 1 Pt. #16 seed wins = 16 Pts.) |
| 16 second round games | 2 * Seed # of points | (#1 seed wins = 2 Pts. #16 seed wins = 32 Pts.) |
| 8 third round games | 4 * Seed # of points | (#1 seed wins = 4 Pts. #16 seed wins = 64 Pts.) |
| 4 Regional Final games | 8 * Seed # of points | (#1 seed wins = 8 Pts. #16 seed wins = 128 Pts.) |
| 2 Semi Final games | 16 * Seed # of points | (#1 seed wins = 16 Pts. #16 seed wins = 256 Pts.) |
| 1 Championship game | 32 * Seed # of points | (#1 seed wins = 32 Pts. #16 seed wins = 512 Pts.) |
Participants who do not submit a fully completed valid entry form are eliminated.
The challenge ends at the end of the final game of the tournament.
Prizes will be awarded to the two participants with the highest point totals at the end of the challenge. In the event of a tie, prize winners will be selected randomly from the tied entries. Winners give Precision Sports Statistics Inc. permission to publish their name, league #, and state in a winner's list.
A link will be provided from this page to updates, which will be posted before 10am the day after any game.
All questions/problems/disputes will be resolved by Precsion Sports Statistics Inc.
Last year's prizes were:
The First Place prize will be a copy of EA Sports' NBA Live 99.
The second place prize will be a free entry into a Precision Sports Statistics 2002/2003 Basketball Individual League.
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