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Subject: Daily Blurb - March 19, 2014


  Posted by: Guru - [330592710] Wed, Mar 19, 2014, 11:01

Quote of the day
"This tournament is idiot proof. That’s been proven over the years." -- ESPN analyst Jay Bilas, commenting that the seeding “mistakes” in this year’s tournament shouldn’t end up significantly impacting the outcome

Daily blurb
I don’t recall a year in which there has been such an overwhelming consensus among all of the NCAA pundits. It seems as though everyone is picking Louisville to face Michigan State in the final game. Both are #4 seeds (whether they should be or not), which probably means that the #4 seed basket will be a heavy long in the RotoGuru Market Madness Contest. (That’s purely speculation, as I haven’t looked over the actual entries yet.) If so, you’ll need to find some other picks to differentiate yourself from the pack. That doesn’t mean you have to pick against the #4s. But you may not be able to rely on those picks to cement your win. And if Louisville and Michigan State do perform as predicted, you’ll probably need to be long each of them and the #4 seed basket to be in the running, as collectively those units would produce 200 bonus points plus the game points.

You get three entries. Maybe you want to use one to go with the flow, and another to take the road less traveled. I’m thinking of doing that myself.

 
1 ArtVark
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      Wed, Mar 19, 2014, 15:46
If you long the 4 seeds, I think that you have to short the 1 seeds. If the 1 seeds make the elite eight, you're going to lose anyway.