March Madness Brackets and Points

[member 428835]

Hi PF!

I am trying to make a march madness (college basketball tournament) bracket with some friends. Last year we used common apps, but they all score each round exponentially (first round of 64 teams worth 1 point for a correct pick, second round of 32 teams worth 2 points, third round of 16 teams worth 4 points, etc).

None of us like this scheme since you basically need to pick the winning team to win. Do any of you know if you can either customize your own bracket via ESPN's app (I've looked into it but don't think you can) or if you can't does anyone know an app where you can customize points?

Thanks!

 

[Bystander]

Write your own.

 

[member 428835]

Write your own.

Yea we thought about doing this but I know nothing about app development. Maybe I'll look into it?

 

[Bystander]

Got to be as good as trying to retrofit someone else's; you could be the next billionaire.

 

[member 428835]

Hahahahahha I think too many viewers prefer simple algorithms (though probably most don't even understand how the current exponential point system operates). I'm thinking of making upsets worth more, etc.

 

[Ygggdrasil]

Not sure about apps, but here's a scoring system that I like, which was designed by a statistician (first link is a news piece describing it, the second link actually has the scoring system):
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/seattle-biostatisticians-ncaa-pool-runs-pretty-deep/
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABPub/2011/03/14/2014497267.pdf

Not sure if there are any apps that easily implement the scoring system.