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I wouldn't worry about it - with the way the scoring system works, so long as you pick the final 4 and the champion, you'll be fine.

Well, Rob and Frank are like Oil and Water...they aren't going to get along so I suggest Frank use the ignore list and I wish Rob would change his signature. I see no other reason to use that quote other than he knows it bothers Frank. I'm not going to make him change it (Frank's name isn't being used and I doubt more than 5% of this board's posters would know what it refers to except that Frank continues to bring it up), and I'm also not going to tell Frank he can't make anti-grading or anti-quoting posts.

My suggestion to Frank if he doesn't want to killfile Rob is to make an anti-Lajoie signature file. :)

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For the record, FrankWakefield, I was a member of this board (and the one before that and the one before that) for many years prior to your arrival. I'm probably not the vintage card wizard you clearly are, but I know a couple of things about a couple of things. You complain about Rob running people off the board, well guys like you have run plenty of people off as well. I don't post nearly as much as I used to, but I still do read the board. Not as obsessively as I used to because it's still tough to get to the meat when you have to wade through so much crap like people constantly whining about someone's signature line. It's still worth it, though, because there is still an incredible wealth of knowledge on this board.

Oh, and I did go back and search for "official" quote threads. I found two that seemed like they might be the "official" ones and read through them both. You owe me 20 minutes of life.

The point is, I don't need to be "in the know" about whatever cat fight you and Rob have about quoting. It's clear that it's between you two and it sounds like he even tried to take it off the board and e-mail you privately, which you responded to by publicly posting a response on the board asking him not to you e-mail you.

Anyway, I hope you guys can figure out a way to co-exist without it driving you, and eventually everyone, completely crazy. There is still value in much of what both of you post.

Good luck.

-Ryan



Don't vote to float your boat with a quote or you'll surely get someone's goat!

Scott- Don't get down in the dumps. One year I was buried near the bottom after Day 1 and came back and won it. The key is for your teams which others ignored to make nice runs. I am looking for Texas to pull some upsets (I hate the Shorthorns but...) and other Big 12 teams like Baylor to make a strong showing.
Like Yogi said, "it ain't over 'till it's over."
tbob

you two act like your six!

Go Wisconsin and Marquette. As long as those Upper Midwest Super powers advance, my bracket will be just fine :). Great tourney so far.

I really dislike Georgetown now.

Rawn

WOW! Big East now 1-3!

Can't figure GTown out. They play 1-2 games every yr here in the Dunkin Donuts Ctr & Ohio has probably never been here!

What an embarassment for the Big East! If Nova hadn't lucked out they would be 0-4. Notre Dame, Marquette, Georgetown, who's next? I have Pitt and West Virginia going to the Final Four (and no further) so I hope they don't take the gas too! :eek:

Uw! Go huskies!
 

Oh man, I'm hoarse after that UW-Marquette game... UW was down by 15 and came back to win it! I sort of feel bad for Marquette, I really like their team and style of play.

Everyone wrote off the PAC-10 this year, and its true there was no dominant team, but there were a lot of good teams like UW and Cal.

Day 1 leaders:

T1 vintagebaseball101 (C. Biggers): 130 points

T1 WooPigSooieeRazorback (J. Feagin): 130

T3 brian-nolff (b. nolff): 120

T3 trophybob27 (B. Marquette): 120

T3 GregsterP (G. Perry): 120

T3 wastewaterengineer (A. B): 120

T3 Ken Wirt (K. Wirt): 120

T3 Cliftonspizza8 (M. Brockman): 120

It looks live every single entrant has already lost at least 1 team from his projected sweet 16. Great day 1.

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I'm in two pools and dead last in both. :(

is your PPR good (1760) then so is your sweet 16
 

The easy way to see if the guy(s) ahead of you on any given day of is projested to have a run that will be better then yours, is to look at the the persons PPR the higher the number is shows that the bracket has be best chance to go deeper. If you have a 1760 PPR after day one (which 3 people are) your still in great shape to score points and jump places in our little Net 54 group. An your

Good point. Actually, the leaderboard should be ranked by adding the PPR with your current score; that's who is really winning.

WOW, what happened to Georgetown, that is why you gotta love March Madness, you truly never know what is going to happen.

Texas put a dent in my bracket but seeing them lose was consolation. (All true Arkies hate the Horns, just ask James) :D

President Obama's Bracket
 

See how your doing against your president. As of this post he would be tied for 2nd place. At 150 pts.

http://games.espn.go.com/tcmen/en/entry?entryID=3288143

Upside down horns! Death to Texa**! Wooooo Pig Sooiee Razorback!

James

Day 2 leaders

1. WooPigSooieeRazorback (J. Feagin): 260

T2. vintagebaseball101 (C. Biggers): 250

T2. trophybob27 (B. Marquette): 250

T2. wastewaterengineer (A. B): 250

T2. Sox1903wschamp (M. Steele): 250

How did Wharton do against Malone?

That *thud* was me going from first place to about 300,000th place with the loss of my National Championship team. Oh well, always next year :)

Villanova had nothing down the stretch. Poor performance.

Another crap performance by a Big East team in Providence (this time Villanova) who has played in this venue every yr since the Big East was formed & even before that!

That should have been a big advantage to both Villanova & GTown!

WOW! And this is the yr I decide NOT to pick any upsets!:(

Northern Iowa just threw a monkey wrench into quite a few brackets.

Things just got interesting!

Wacky tournament so far!

Has any team in collegiate history choked more than the Jayhawk basketball team? They did it again to the Panthers. The brackets are going to be funky.

Unless there is a huge upset winner of the national title this year at least half of the Net54 just lost their shot at the Hal Chase Trophy.

Tourney
 

All I can say so far is O-U-C-H !!

All *I* can say is my PPR is 1300! GO Syracuse!

Leaders after two rounds

1. frankb22 (F. Betti): 460 points, 680 possible points remaining

T2. Archania (D Rosenberg): 450, 920 PPR

T2. wastewaterengineer (A. B): 450, 600 PPR

T2. GrayGhost1062 (S. Roberts): 450, 1,120 PPR

Complete standings

I can't believe out of almost 100 entries, I'm the only person to pick Kansas St. to win it all....well, I guess I know what has to happen for me to win this thing....

JP,

Honestly not sure you'll have enough points even if Kansas State wins it all. Does anyone else have them making the finals, but losing? If so, you might need an upset or two to further bust their bracket. As long as you're within 320 of the leader going into the championship game, you're good. If you do win it, it's the greatest comeback ever and exactly what March Madness is all about.

Good luck!

-Ryan

Go Cornell.

Although I haven't live in NJ fo 8 years, I still own two Princeton season tickets four rows behind the PU bench. The one thing that always hurt the old Princeton/Penn teams in the tourney was lack of size. The Big Red have some big boys up front. Kentucky's gonna have their hands full.




"I'm gonna kill you." -- John Chaney

In the Possible Points Remaining column I'm in second place! :) Of course I think the guy ahead of me also has Kentucky picked to win it all so if they do I probably still can't win. :(

Another one bites the dust.

whoa.....another #1 goes down..at least I still have West Virginia alive LOL

That was my 1 chance to win--a really bad effort by Syracuse.

Friday morning leaders

1. tbarlage1927 (T. B), 590 points, 480 possible points remaining, champion: Kansas

2. frankb22 (F. Betti), 580, 520 PPR, Kansas

3. GrayGhost1062 (S. Roberts), 570, 720 PPR, Kentucky

Six tied with 560 points

Complete standings

In the West both 1's, both 2's, both 3's and both 4's have been eliminated. The lowest seed left is a 5.

Win or lose I am happy to have picked Butler to reach the Final 4 !

GO CATS !

This means that one of the teams in the Championship Game will be a 5 or 6 seed.

Huge props to Scott T who nailed both Butler and WV into the final 4.

I've got Baylor and West Virginia in the Final 4. trying to see if I can climb out of 60th place and make a run :) If Tennessee and Baylor both win tomorrow and Baylor slips in to the championship game, it ought to destroy the remianing brackets.

The early rounds don't matter so much as the final rounds. The points are stacked towards those that guess the later and final rounds.

This is proof (as we Hooisers say) that even a blind squirrel will find an acorn every once in a while. Sadly, I had Kansas winning the whole thing so I will enjoy being on top of the leaderboard while it lasts. :)

Go Bulter!

Go Baylor! (even though I picked Duke)

I like to see "other" teams win the NCAA rather than the usual suspects.

Leaders heading to the Final Four

1. Scott T (S. Opottamus), 860 points; 160 possible points remaing; champion: Kansas

2. joggerdru (d. andrews), 770; 480 ppr; Michigan State

3. stonegrasmere (W. Stone), 760; 480 ppr; Duke

T4. mwieder (M. Wieder), 740; 160 ppr; Kansas

T4. frankb22 (F. Betti), 740; 0 ppr; Kansas

Also:

T12. theskyisblue23 (m. neal), 680; 480 ppr; Duke

Complete standings

I could be wrong, and feel free to peruse the official standings here, but this is how I see the Net54 pool playing out:

If Duke beats Butler:

1. stonegrasmere (W. Stone) -- 1,240 points
2. theskyisblue23 (m. neal) -- 1,160 points
T3. LA.Lakers. (J. Garner) -- 1,020 points
T3. Scott T (S. Opottamus) -- 1,020 points
(Tiebreaker to be used to determine third place)

If Butler beats Duke:

1. Scott T (S. Opottamus) -- 1,020 points
2. stonegrasmere (W. Stone) -- 920 points
3. brian-nolff (b. nolff) -- 880 points

Good luck to the contenders; hope it's a good game. (The above projections are not official.)

cmon duke, with a low score!!!!!!!

It really is distasteful for me to say, but, Go Dukies!!!

Contest?! A contest? This is what you do with your friends?

Go Duke !

There's always a place for a Seinfeld moment.

I am not anti-Duke, nor have I understood the hatred of the Blue Devils (not on this board per se, but in general), but I will be rooting for Butler because as a native Hoosier, it is my duty.

That being said...

Duke 73
Butler 58

I am also dreading the pre-game and the inevitable "David vs. Goliath" and "Hoosier II" comments from the announcers.

Scott,

You have to grow up in North Carolina. In my neighborhood, the pickup games were always between groups of kids who had an affinity with either Wake Forest, N. C. State, Duke or Carolina. I remember the heated rivalry between Frank McGuire (later Dean Smith) and Vic Bubas. My best friends were Duke and Wake Forest fans. Of course, I don't really hate Duke, I have just gotten used to saying that for 50 years.

Edited to add I do despise that weasel headed coach of theirs.

Just kidding

I'm just happy to still be on the first page of the rankings for Net54. Unfortunately there are over 1.6 million brackets ahead of me overall, but who's counting?

It's been a great tournament though, Go Butler!

RC

This is looking like the last year of the 64 team tourney so I hope everyone enjoyed it. With the 96 team tourney next year there will be 32 teams getting a bye and at least 32 teams which don't deserve a bid. Why not just let everybody in as long as you are going to take 6-12 Big East teams next year?
I do like the idea of rewarding regular season conference champs with an automatic bid as well as the tournament champs if you are opening it up to 96 teams. I also like the elimination of the "play-in" game.

Incredible game, almost a storybook finish.

Congrats, stonegrasmere!

Congrats to stonegrasmere (W. Stone), the winner of the 2010 Net54 NCAA Tournament pool with 1,240 points.

theskyisblue23 (m. neal) finished second with 1,160 points.

LA.Lakers. (J. Garner) and Scott T (S. Opottamus) tied for third place with 1,020 points.

For purposes of the awarding of prizes, which can be seen on the first post of this thread, LA.Lakers. (J. Garner) takes third place. A fourth card will be added to the prize pool later today when I get home, and I'll be in contact with the four winners. W. Stone will have his choice of the four cards, m. neal will pick next, then J. Garner, with S. Opottamus getting the card that's remaining. W. Stone also will receive the traveling Hal Chase trophy card to hold for one year. Rhett Yeakley, last year's winner and current holder of the card, will be in touch with the winner.

Click here for final standings of the pool.

Has anyone seen Brian W around? :)

Hey Jeff- your alma mater won. Congratulations!

Even if you're not a Duke fan you should be happy about the outcome because it prevented this headline, which you would have been subjected to ad nauseam:

Butler did it!

Thanks Rob!
 

Big thanks to Rob for running this tourney and offering prizes. This will be my first card thats older than 1950! I read this board all the time but have yet to jump into the pool of super oldies for fear of never being able to come back up for air. I have a feeling this is going to jump start a new area of collecting for me and I'm excited and worried all at the same time! So thanks again Rob, you probably just started me collecting in a new area and cost me tons of dough at the same time!! :)

Rob---

Thanks for running the pool--it was alot of fun!

Congrats to stonegrasmere on the win!

If Boeheim can persude Wes Johnson to stay 1 more yr I'll pick 'em again!

Rob --Thank you

This was fun ---!:)

Sorry for the delay.

Below are the four cards/prizes, with the late addition being a 1921 Holsum Bread of Steve O'Neill. The exhibit card is a 1921 of Steve O'Neil graded 50/4 by SGC.

I thought it would be fun to let the winners post their picks, so stonegrasmere (W. Stone), who finished in first place, has the first choice. (There's no paper loss on any of the backs, and only the DeLong Warneke has any toning to speak of on the back.)

So, stonegrasmere (W. Stone), feel free to post your choice, then we will move on to the second-place finisher. (All winners, please e-mail or PM me the addresses to which you'd like your cards mailed.)

Thanks.

Thanks to the contest organizer and congratulations to all who participated...except for the three people who jumped over me last night by having the intellect to pick Duke! :) :p

If the winner will email me their street address I will get the Hal Chase "trophy" to them.

On a side note...whomever ends up with the Holsum Bread O'Neill and would like cash instead I would be more than happy to make a trade!

-Rhett

rhettyeakley@netzero.com

Hi Rob,

I wanted to also say thanks for the contest. It was great fun.

Thanks again !! I'll take the Lon Warneke Delong.

This has been fun.

Bill Stone:)

Thanks, Bill.

The DeLong is claimed.

Martin, you're on the clock.

Sweet... and thanks, I'd like some Holsum bread.

Thanks, Martin.

LA.Lakers. (J. Garner), you're up. Either the Yuengling's Uhle or Exhibits O'Neil is yours.

The exhibit would be great. Thanks a bunch. PM sent with mailing info.

Thanks, John.

That means Scott T (S. Opottamus) gets the Uhle. Scott, please e-mail or PM me your mailing address.

Hope we can do it again next year.

Rob and Rhett ---just wanted you to know the Hal Case trophy card and the Delong both arrived today. I will enjoy the Delong and will safely keep the trophy card for next years' :) winner. Thanks again for the contest.