How To Win Your 2025 March Madness Bracket Pool (Episode 848 with Mike Leone, Alex Hardin, Jack Miller, and Jason Lisk)
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🗓️ 17 March 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
PoolGenius' Jason Lisk joins ETR's Mike Leone, Alex Hardin and Jack Miller to break down the 2025 NCAA Tournament Bracket and provide all the information you need to take down your March Madness Bracket Pools
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. Hello, I'm Mike Leone here doing my best Adam Levitan impression on The Establish to Run podcast, |
| 0:23.1 | episode 848. |
| 0:24.6 | On today's podcast, we're going to talk about the college basketball bracket, March |
| 0:29.0 | Madness Tournament's Best Way to Win Your Pool. |
| 0:32.0 | We've got a very, very, very special guest, Jason Lisk from Pool Genius. |
| 0:36.2 | We've also got Alex and Jack from the ETR team. |
| 0:39.6 | And by the way, if you're interested in betting props or playing DFS during March Madness, |
| 0:44.4 | you need our March Madness product. Led by Alex, we'll have projections, ownership, |
| 0:49.0 | and props, every slate, all in the same package. Head to the CBB tab on Establisha run.com for more. |
| 0:56.9 | We've also partnered with the guys from Pool Genius for this podcast, and we have a deal |
| 1:01.7 | for ETR subscribers. I use their product, and it helps me think through my brackets every |
| 1:06.3 | year. Pool Genius creates optimized brackets, tailored to your pool size and scoring system refined over |
| 1:12.5 | 20 years by data scientists and bracket experts. Whether you're in a small office pool or a large |
| 1:18.3 | contest with upset bonuses, pool genius shows you when to play it safe and when to take calculated |
| 1:23.8 | risks. If you're serious about winning, click the link in the description or visit |
| 1:28.2 | pool genius.com backslash ETR. That's pool genius.com slash etr. All right, let's get into |
| 1:36.1 | the fun stuff. I'll throw it to Jason right away. Just to talk about general strategy for brackets, |
| 1:40.7 | because I know one of the cool things about using pool genius is it's going to give you different results and recommendations based on the size of the pool, the scoring system, and the payout structure. |
| 1:52.2 | Yeah, first I want to say, thanks for having me on, and I'm excited to be with you. |
| 1:56.7 | I think we improved our outside shooting. |
| 1:58.7 | I've seen video, Mike. |
| 2:00.4 | I think this podcast, we've improved out our outside shooting with this version from what I've seen. |
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