Episode 352: How to Win Your March Madness Bracket Pool
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🗓️ 15 March 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Adam Levitan sits down with college basketball specialists Jason Lisk and Jack Miller to discuss the optimal strategy around this year's NCAA Bracket Pools.
Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
- Macro strategy
- Teams peaking
- How to make your picks
- Sneaky squads
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Timestamps:
2:26 - Do people pick too many upsets?
6:04 - How much does seeding in matchups matter?
7:11 - Which teams are better than their record?
10:56 - Win probability against public opinion
16:49 - How to pick later rounds in brackets
21:09 - #1 Arizona
22:21 - #1 Gonzaga
23:31 - #1 Baylor
27:25 - #1 Kansas
29:43 - Favorite sleepers
34:46 - Tournament winner picks
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, hello, and welcome to episode 352 of the official established the run.com podcast. |
| 0:21.7 | My name is Adam Levittent and one of the years greatest gambling events is upon us. |
| 0:28.7 | It is, of course, the NCAA basketball tournament, aka March Madness to discuss optimal strategy |
| 0:34.7 | for this gift from God or two people neck deep in the college hoop streets. |
| 0:38.7 | It is Jason Lisk from teamwreckings.com and is our own Jack Miller who was beating the |
| 0:45.7 | college hoops player prop markets so badly he's been evicted from all sportsbooks. |
| 0:50.0 | Jason, good evening. |
| 0:51.6 | Happy March Madness. |
| 0:52.6 | How's it going? |
| 0:53.6 | Yeah, thanks so much. |
| 0:54.6 | I don't even know what day it is. |
| 0:55.6 | Has the game started yet? |
| 0:56.6 | Are we good? |
| 0:58.6 | We're good. |
| 0:59.6 | We're good. |
| 1:00.6 | Jack, good. |
| 1:01.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:02.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:03.6 | Happy to be here. |
| 1:04.6 | Excited for the tourney. |
| 1:05.6 | Last excited that Illinois is in Arizona's region. |
| 1:08.6 | But excited to talk college basketball. |
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