Hello and welcome to episode 34 of the official EstablishTheRun.com podcast. My name is

at 1110. One of America's great gambling events is upon us. It is, of course, March

Madness season, aka bracket season. And although we don't cover college basketball

here at ETR, we are unhealthily obsessed with pure, pure gambling games, and the

micro slash macro strategy around those games. So here we are to discuss March Madness.

I am joined by two sharps in the college basketball space, Jason Lisk, of TeamRankings.com,

of pool genius in our own Jack Miller, a closet college basketball freak. Jason has

gone. Welcome back to the show. It's going great. Thanks for having me on. It's always

good to be back with you. Jack, is it going today? Going well. This is probably my favorite

week of the year. So pumped beyond talking with you guys again.

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that code because they love us here at ETR that's poolgenius.com slash ETR. Alright, let's

start here, Jason. Just brackets 101. What is the simplest strategy? If you could just

help her someone as quick as you can, the simplest strategy, the overarching strategy

for what we're trying to accomplish, what we're trying to do when we fill out our bracket

in a sophisticated way, what is brackets 101? 101. Don't be as risky as most people think

you should be. Just identify those top five to eight teams, isolate some. You're going

to get enough variation in how people pick the final eight, final four, just from one

of the favorites that you don't have to take big swings in most schools. Unless you're

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