Make a copy of our workbook to create your own bracket, and check back in with our live workbook throughout the tournament to view game results updated daily. Use the new Zoom functionality to zoom in and out of your bracket, and check out ’s OpenAI integration in the Teams worksheet, where we’ve asked OpenAI to return the locations of all of the schools in the tournament.
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Live Bracket, which we’ll update daily with the results of every tournament game,.Our 2023 March Madness Bracket workbook is the perfect place to make your own picks and follow the tournament as it happens. Use ’s sharing and collaboration features to share your bracket with friends or on social media. Put together a bracket pool with your friends and family for some friendly competition, and compare brackets with one another as the tournament progresses. Sometimes, the numbers do lie.įinally, creating a bracket is more fun when you can compare yours to others. Maybe there’s a team that you have a good feeling about regardless of the conventional wisdom surrounding their odds.
You could read dozens of articles and tournament guides from experts and model your bracket after statistically-likely outcomes, but sometimes it’s best to trust your gut feeling. In this tournament, there is no impossible, only improbable. It’s tempting to pick the higher-seeded team for each matchup, but this is a surefire way to have your bracket busted on Day 1. March Madness is famous for its upsets and “Cinderella stories” – low-seeded teams that make a deep run in the tournament. But there are a few things to keep in mind as you fill yours out.įirst and foremost, don’t just take the higher seed in the matchup. There’s no “right” way to fill your bracket, and the odds are stacked against you even with a well-researched bracket modeled after the experts’. So don’t sweat your picks, because your bracket is sure to be busted anyways. If you know a thing or two about college basketball and make informed bracket decisions, your odds improve to about 1 in 120 billion – or, a few orders of magnitude worse than the odds of winning the lottery. That’s because there are more than 9.2 quintillion bracket possibilities, or as many seconds as there are in 292 billion years. To put that number into perspective, that’s almost twice the number of college students in the US and more than 15 times the average number of viewers for a regular season NBA game.Įven if each of those 36.5 million people created a unique bracket, they’d only cover 0.0000000004% of the possible bracket combinations. It’s estimated that last year, 36.5 million people – around 10% of the US population – created a March Madness bracket. March Madness may be a college basketball tournament, but bracketology – the art of creating predictive tournament brackets – isn’t just for college students or basketball fans. Read on to learn more about the not-so-scientific discipline of “bracketology”.įill your bracket in the Your Picks worksheet Bracketology by the Numbers Create a copy of the workbook to make your own picks and compare them with ours, and check back in with our live workbook throughout the tournament, updated daily with game results. This year, we’ve created a 2023 March Madness Bracket workbook for you to log predictions of your own. Making a tournament bracket gives fans an easy way to make tournament predictions and compare them with their friends. One loss, and you’re out.įor those sitting on the couch instead of competing on the court, the tournament provides an alternative competition: creating brackets. To earn that and the right to “cut down the nets”, they have to survive a six-round single-elimination tournament held across the nation. The annual tournament features 68 of America’s best teams vying for the biggest prize in college basketball, a national championship. The beginning of the NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament – or March Madness, as it’s more commonly known – is as sure a sign of spring as warmer weather, longer days, and changing clocks.
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