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Fantasy Throwdown Podcast

FTP Ep. # 586: NCAA Pool Game Theory

Fantasy Throwdown Podcast

Dwayne Callender

Sports, Fantasy Sports

5839 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

I give my thoughts on what questions you should be asking heading into your March Madness pools and how to approach strategy for various formats.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Fantasy Throwdown Podcast.

0:04.8

Bringing you the latest from the world of sports, DFS, and gambling.

0:10.6

With over five years of hot takes and millions of downloads later,

0:16.3

I guess he's been doing something right.

0:18.6

Now, sit back and listen to one of the sharpest minds in the game.

0:23.4

Here's your host, Dwayne Calendar.

0:29.3

Welcome to the show, folks.

0:31.1

We are into March Madness.

0:34.6

And I have to say, you know, normally I don't go into the full rant on the selection committee

0:40.6

but we have such an egregious abuse of power that we actually have to talk about the

0:47.2

selection versus getting into the bracket so I indulge me if you will before we get into the various formats and

0:58.5

just overall strategy for some of these pools. Let's just say committee did a terrible job.

1:06.8

This was not supposed to be this difficult of a job. We have selections that clearly don't make any sense.

1:14.1

We have an acting committee chair who is the AD of North Carolina by the name of Bubby Kenningham,

1:22.8

who is somehow finagled a way to get the Tar Heels into this field when the reality of the situation

1:29.6

is North Carolina has 12 losses to Quad 1 teams.

1:34.9

And if you think that's about as ridiculous it sounds, listen to the explanations he gave

1:42.7

when listing out the teams that didn't make the cut.

1:46.8

Because this is where, you know, you know guys are just making up nonsense.

1:52.7

Because not only did this committee somehow seed North Carolina in over West Virginia or Boise State,

1:59.9

but they couldn't even come up with some of the explanations of how Clemson got a five-seat

2:04.9

and Louisville got the 8-9 matchup against Greaton, which we'll talk about as well,

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