With sixteen teams remaining in this years tournament, there are still 32,768 possible scenarios that still exist for the outcome. I ran the scenarios last night, which took between five to six hours to complete. In the future, you can check the link from the Office Pool Menu on the right under 'Player Scenarios'. The scenarios page will also update after each game completes when the current results page updates.
If you're new to my office pool reports, this report will show you your best possible finish. In turn, it also shows you your worst possible finish. To see what teams you need to root for, under the 'Root For' column, your teams are listed in this order: Champion, Runnerup, Other Field of 8 Teams.
The key item to pay attention to under the 'Root For' column is the number of other combinations. From my years of using the software, the higher that number is, the better your odds of winning the office pool. The current leader is SeanQ1 at 6160 other combinations. As teams are eliminated, the possible scenarios drop, the 'other combinations' number also will drop.
Quick Link: Player Scenarios
4 comments:
Thanks Steve, you're doing a great job! Thanks for all the time and effort you put into this. Good luck to all. CC
Steve,
Where did Ryan Stokes come from? How can you move up 50 spots when there isn't even that many in the deal?
Ryan is a friend of my sister, she got him into the pool.
50 spots is certainly wrong. We have 47 in the pool, I know he wasn't in last place. It has to be an addition error. The point total is correct though.
What I'm wondering is, Ryan had signed up using the public office pool [which has 360 people]. I imported his picks into our pool. I wonder if it's using something from the other pool and causing the error.
Regardless, the Total Points is correct. the Mover/Loser is just eye candy.
I will give feedback to the software author.
Steve
The software author had me clear out the baseline [how it tracks the movers/losers] reset the games to before day 1. then update the current results.
I've regenerated the website and all is well. The glitch had to do with importing from the public website, his picks were based off of the standings from that pool, not ours.
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