Hey there everybody welcome back to the Fantasy Pro's football podcast.

It is me your old friend Dan Harris just popping by for a very quick March madness episode.

If you love March madness if you do not love March madness it does not matter I want you to stick around for at least a couple of minutes so that I can fill you in on all the cool things that we are doing with it.

And then if you like March madness even a little bit or if you just like me just stick around for the entire show we've got some great stuff coming up there is no Joe there is no tags there is no yates on this episode it is just me and Matt Perol host of the betting pros daily juice podcast you can find him on Twitter at sports talk Matt you can find me on Twitter at Dan Harris.

You can find the greatest March madness competition and tools over at betting pros dot com which we will talk about in a second Matt March madness is back you've had 20 minutes to digest the bracket and see how excited are you are you ready to break it all down.

Yeah I think it's going to be great considering we didn't get this last year so it's incredible that we have a bracket there are some big questions about how we get some of these teams to be cleared Virginia being the loudest Kansas being the other but we've got a bracket.

So if it's got to get kind of twisted and turned around and made into a pretzel to make it happen so be it but I'm really happy to have it.

So Matt host the daily juice podcast as I mentioned if you have not checked it out do it you can find it at betting pros if it's betting pros like calm slash podcast as all of our podcasts regardless but also just search for it anywhere you listen to podcasts the daily juice it's great when you want against the spread stuff Matt and are going to be doing that on the betting pros podcast this week he's also doing 80,000 live streams on youtube.com slash betting pros so that's what we'll be doing there.

This is not really about the spread this is just a bracket competition bracket talk so I want to talk to you about two really cool things that we are doing both begin and end with the URL betting pros dot com slash March I want you to remember that betting pros dot com slash March first the single best tool that is available to help you win your bracket competition and second to tell you about the competition that we are running and the ridiculous prizes that you can win both of these things are entirely free.

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Or you can put in your own custom scoring what about pool size while your optimal bracket is going to be different if you're in a pool with five people versus 10,000 people versus a million people you can select your pool size and finally how do you want to optimize your bracket fantasy pros you know us we do consensus rankings that's what you love you love the EC are sometimes you just want to rely on the EC are you don't want to make any tweaks you just say let me see what these guys say I'm going with it completely sometimes you want to look at the Vegas lines and the over unders and sort of make your fantasy

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generally here as I said Matt's impressions how we see it going you can go check out our you know YouTube dot com slash betting pros check out our betting pros podcast check out the daily juice if you want things broken down by the spread so Matt is just came out we're

recording this shortly after the bracket drop so anything stick out to you here is like wow pretty shocking biggest surprise essentially of the way the brackets came out well nothing

shocking I mean I think we're always talking about teams that make it in teams that don't make it right so you've got Drake in which was really a big deal for me I was hopeful I

wanted them in Louisville not being in you know people probably are a little angry about that but I you know I thought Drake I want more magic I've been

talking about this for years just dating back to my I went to school in the 810 I covered the Missouri Valley for you know till eight nine years and I'm

just a little guy lover with this tournament so they're the magic so I want more little guys in I want less brand names and more

Layla Chicago's more Drake's you know more Albertine Christians I want more the smaller guys so overall I was glad he drank it in the valley get two teams in the on the other

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