NCAA 2024 March Madness Squares Pool
$25 March Madness Squares Pool is back for the 2nd year! Last year seemed to be a success, so i intend to build on that. The basics are: All 63 games starting with the round of 64 will be included. The final score for each game earns a winning square, with prize amounts shown below. Everyone must escrow! The square grid will have winning team across the top, losing team down the side, which is how winning squares for each game will be determined.
I don't have any crypto accounts, so escrow would need to be via paypal, venmo, or cashapp. I can also do zelle if needed.
Payouts would be as follows:
Round of 64: $25 per game
2nd round: $25 per game
3rd round: $50 per game
Elite 8: $75 per game
Final 4: $150 per game
Championship: $300
63 chances to win!
Once all 100 squares are paid for, the board will be randomized with names first, and then numbers. I will randomize names, then send them to a neutral party for verification. Then I would have someone here with no knowledge of the names list randomize 2 sets of numbers. One would be for the winner's side, one for the loser's side. As stated above, each game would be paid based on the final score.
So if the final score of a game is 75 - 70, the square that wins would be winning side 5, losing side 0.
Please feel free to ask any questions you may have. I won't be able to reply back to the thread until tomorrow due to going out of town for the day, but wanted to get it rolling. I will be posting Sweet 16 pools tomorrow afternoon, hoping to get interest in those as well.
Squares list:
Cokeboy99: 4 squares
Notes - Payouts will be the night of the Championship game. I'll post in here after each game with the winning square info. Payouts will all be done after the championship game so as to avoid multiple payouts to the same person. Again, escrow is required and can be done via paypal, cashapp, venmo, or zelle.
When sending escrow payments, make sure you're not using a "pay for goods or services" option that'll charge fees, and DO NOT PUT ANYTHING IN THE NOTES EXCEPT YOUR 2+2 USERNAME!!!
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Nice
I'm proactively blaming Tom for my losses.
Posting to quote later.
My 4-4 seems unlikely to win.
Order of names entered checks out.
Karma bit me in the butt for laughing at Cokeboy trying to keep all of RED's entries tagged. Confirming them was probably a bigger PITA. Thanksalot, RED!
WTH? Is Earl on sabbatical?
Order of names entered checks out.
Karma bit me in the butt for laughing at Cokeboy trying to keep all of RED's entries tagged. Confirming them was probably a bigger PITA. Thanksalot, RED!
WTH? Is Earl on sabbatical?
Thanks! Appreciate the help with name-checking.
RED's entries were a little more difficult to enter, but he definitely helped me fill this thing, so I can't be too upset with him.
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Now I get 0-0.
If 9-9 pays, I'm buying a lotto ticket.
You guys are looking at it all wrong. I'm thankful my 8-8 splashed in this pool where it has a chance to make it out alive rather than in the SB pool.
I can't believe I'm the optimist in this thing.
I went and checked last years scores with the intention of reassuring you guys that you'll be fine with duplicates, but no, you're all screwed. Only happened 3 times last year. Sorry about your luck.
One's enough, if it's the right one!
I mean, Drake will probably get to the next weekend by beating Iowa State 84-74 or something.
Was fully expecting 0-0, 3-3 & 7-7
Smart!
We stayed at a B&B in the UP several years ago that had a few miniature donkeys. If Earl had let me know that he was going to be in the neighborhood, I might have been able to fix him up with a cutie. Of course then he probably would have forgotten all the intel he picked up in Wisconsin.
I went and checked last years scores with the intention of reassuring you guys that you'll be fine with duplicates, but no, you're all screwed. Only happened 3 times last year. Sorry about your luck.
I only looked at 2023 but there appears to be a substantial edge to having your winning column number higher than your losing column 60-35 with 5% ties.
Just need my 8-7 and 9-7 to cash and my theory will be irrefutable
is the 'up' an upper panhandle statement for texas folk?
asking for the great lakes of michigan
Thanks, but I expect the return from my 8-8 square alone to dwarf that of any other spot.
Besides, I expect the karma from my struggles verifying all of your sub-squares to pay off by enhancing my future ability to interpret your posts.
nothing in that part of oklahoma spits just a little