Dumb question on bracket contests

Konza, I built a bracket in Excel that allows you to adjust winnings and scoring. I would be happy to share. It is pretty complicated in design (as you might surmise) but simple to use. It has a lot of things you can control. For instance, you can decide how you want to score upsets and how you want to pay winnings. It is designed based on the actual odds of each seed winning in each round. It is designed to be 1000 points for a perfect bracket and you can pick how many points you want each round to bed. For instance you can say that Round 1 will be 500 of the 1000 points to more heavily weight Round 1. It assigns point to each game based on the seed and allocates the assigned points based on ration of all possible points. If you understood any of that I will be amazed. As I said it is actually super easy to use and it has a sheet you send out to participants that they pick based on a drop down menu. They send that sheet back and you simply cut and paste their picks. An online site has lots of advantages but the one it does not have is the formulas and flexibility I have built into my sheet.

Those are the two that I've used, and frankly they're about equal. IIRC, they both allow you to create a closed group (limit it to your team and other invitees) but also give you stats on how you're doing nationally. They also, I think, both have different scoring options...so you can weight by round or not.

Honestly, if you're not looking to reinvent the wheel, these things are great and totally turnkey. Set and forget. Once the games start, people can log on and see where they are in the standings, check everybody's brackets, the whole enchilada.

You might check this site, Konza.

www.TourneyTime.com .