For the second year in a row, I am running the NCAA basketball pool at work. The person who had run it in previous years couldn’t swing it last year, so I stepped in. I didn’t have many problems so took it on again this year.
Things are going well, with the exception of my brackets. Everyone paid. We have a few more people playing than last year. The standings are pretty tight. My only real problem is deciding whether to use a web site like ESPN or Yahoo to run the whole thing next year.
Stories like this make me think I’d rather have everything under my control.
Great idea for next year
Do you make up nicknames for pool participants?
I was visiting my folks the other day, and my dad had left his bracket stuff out on the kitchen table (he runs a work pool, too).
One of the sheets of paper had the current standings on it. Here are a few of the nicknames I saw: (real names adjusted to protect the guilty)
Joe “Micro” Brewer
Jimmy “Absolutely” Wright
“Jumpin'” Jack Freight