March Madness Results

March Madness is stooopid! I never liked it to begin with and I think it is a foolish use of one's time. I am glad I didn't come in first because I wouldn't even want to be the winner of some lame game that doesn't adequately demonstrate true ability. I bet winning the CPS bracket brings as much satisfaction as beating a 3 year old at Candy Land. (Actually - Scratch that . . . I like beating my 3 year old at Candy Land.) It is obviously pure luck and whoever wins has no real skill.

Don't get me wrong - I'm not the kind of guy to have sour grapes when things don't go my way - I just think that those who are the winners of the bracket might want to check themselves a little bit. The element of luck is so high when it comes to bracket busting that really the top 3 haven't demonstrated any meaningful intelligence by beating the rest of us. Its mostly luck.

I say mostly, because I don't want to completely discount the element of skill. For instance, Brenda Oneil's bracket is so bad that luck really had nothing to do with it? You know what I'm sayin'? What I'm getting at is this: I have done a pretty complex computation that can determine unequivocally which group of people can be congratulated and which are truly the losers. The top 3 will still be rewarded gift cards, they just need to remember that they basically won a lottery.

Here are the results of my study. Basically it takes great skill and accomplishment to find yourself in the top 35% of participants. If you can do that, than you are a very skilled individual. However, if you are in the bottom 65% of participants than you are probably not skilled. The order in which you fall within your respective % does not matter that much. For example - the top 14 participants are pretty much interchangeable in ability and genius based on the luck factor of the game. And the bottom 27 participants are also equal . . . except they have no geniousness. The only exception might be Brenda who definitely proved she does not have any skills whatsoever and is definitely in a league all her own.

All this intellectual discussion is confusing the bottom 65% so let me get on to some things they can understand. The following individuals are considered pretty much equal based on the scientific study performed above:

• NCAA QDP
• Mawg
• Chadroyce
• JDC15Idaho
• Teambellaindahouse
• Jefe
• Bob
• SlamminJammin
• Check urself b4 u wreck urself
• Blaketology
• Boom goes the Dynamite
• Kenyon Millet's Bracket
• The Wave Table
• I'm Your Huckleberry

You'll notice that I am one of the geniuses. Not surprising right?

Now for the 3 lucky geniuses that were barely better than the other top tier foes and therefor they have earned themselves gift cards:

1. Jeff Rinker as NCAA QDP
2. Duane Call as Mawg
3. Jeff Cotterell as JDC15Idaho

You 3 were obviously luckier than the other 35%ers and will get your gift cards to show for it. Those of you who were horrible enough to be in the bottom 65% - just remember - there is always next year. Thanks for playin' and we will all look forward to March 2013.