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All Things Considered => General Discussion--Non food Related => Topic started by: Bentley on March 01, 2022, 11:09:37 AM

Title: 2022 Pellet Fan March Madness
Post by: Bentley on March 01, 2022, 11:09:37 AM
If you were in last years Tourney you should receive a link to the email you used to sign up.  If you don't get it or were not in last years and want to join, please do.  We have a bit of fun with it!

Below are picture of this years prizes!


2022 Pellet Fan March Madness (https://tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.com/t1/group/7581/invitation?key=ec410b9e38182de2)

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Title: Re: 2022 Pellet Fan March Madness
Post by: 02ebz06 on March 01, 2022, 11:17:45 AM
Prizes are an airplane and a Bentley ?
Title: Re: 2022 Pellet Fan March Madness
Post by: Bentley on March 01, 2022, 12:11:46 PM
We are in negotiations with those manufactures as we speak!
Title: Re: 2022 Pellet Fan March Madness
Post by: 02ebz06 on March 01, 2022, 12:17:27 PM
WOW! Quite the prizes.
Airplane not too practical but a Bentley would be nice.  ;D
You should win the Bentley, Bentley.  Hahahahaha
Title: Re: 2022 Pellet Fan March Madness
Post by: Bentley on March 04, 2022, 10:11:59 AM
5 have joined, at least we will have a little competition, so I can talk Smak!
Title: Re: 2022 Pellet Fan March Madness
Post by: Bar-B-Lew on March 04, 2022, 10:46:12 AM
Send out a reminder after next weekends conference tournaments and I will probably sign up to join in your smack talking.
Title: Re: 2022 Pellet Fan March Madness
Post by: Bentley on March 13, 2022, 08:21:27 PM
OK, this year I decided to just go all top picks in every round.  Will be curious to see how long it takes to blow up my bracket
Title: Re: 2022 Pellet Fan March Madness
Post by: Bar-B-Lew on March 13, 2022, 08:44:24 PM
I'm in.  Lots of upsets.
Title: Re: 2022 Pellet Fan March Madness
Post by: jdmessner on March 14, 2022, 12:36:23 AM
I'm in because of the prizes!! This year I can pick with my head and not my heart because most of the teams I like won't be making much of a run.

In honor of coach K retiring I think there should be another contest: "Who will Coach K lose to in his final game"!
Title: Re: 2022 Pellet Fan March Madness
Post by: hughver on March 14, 2022, 06:45:33 PM
Just finished my selections. Go bulldogs!
Title: Re: 2022 Pellet Fan March Madness
Post by: jdmessner on March 17, 2022, 07:05:05 AM
So it begins!  Looking forward to the tournament. 

I did encounter a glitch (on my end) trying to sign in to do the bracket. My wife has a Yahoo account and I don't. To make a long story short I tried to set up my own account and did something wrong. I am listed in the contest as both John and Sam. I could only fill out the bracket as Sam. That is why there is one bracket with no entries.
Title: Re: 2022 Pellet Fan March Madness
Post by: Bar-B-Lew on March 17, 2022, 01:27:35 PM
So far, my first two upset picks are losing in the only two games being played right now.
Title: Re: 2022 Pellet Fan March Madness
Post by: hughver on March 17, 2022, 01:40:59 PM
Luckily for you, the first two don't count. You are on a roll!  :clap:
Title: Re: 2022 Pellet Fan March Madness
Post by: Bar-B-Lew on March 17, 2022, 01:46:57 PM
Luckily for you, the first two don't count. You are on a roll!  :clap:

Nope...first two today that do count.
Title: Re: 2022 Pellet Fan March Madness
Post by: Kristin Meredith on March 19, 2022, 08:02:41 AM
My brackets are nothing but a sea of red!!! :pig:
Title: Re: 2022 Pellet Fan March Madness
Post by: Bar-B-Lew on March 19, 2022, 08:17:28 AM
Not much separation in scores amongst us yet.  Will see what the rest of the weekend brings.
Title: Re: 2022 Pellet Fan March Madness
Post by: jdmessner on March 21, 2022, 08:39:16 AM
It was a crazy weekend. I had Kentucky going to the final four. That wasn't a good pick, but in my defense I did have North Carolina over Baylor.

Am I really the only person that didn't pick Gonzaga to win it all?

Title: Re: 2022 Pellet Fan March Madness
Post by: Bar-B-Lew on March 24, 2022, 09:35:51 PM
good thing John played in this bracket so that I won't be in last place
Title: Re: 2022 Pellet Fan March Madness
Post by: reubenray on March 25, 2022, 07:20:13 AM
I don't follow basketball much, but I am rooting for my adopted state of Arkansas.
Title: Re: 2022 Pellet Fan March Madness
Post by: Bentley on March 25, 2022, 09:32:01 AM
You can official stick a fork in me.  Well, at least I learned that picking all #1's is not much better then rolling the dice!
Title: Re: 2022 Pellet Fan March Madness
Post by: jdmessner on March 25, 2022, 11:44:09 AM
good thing John played in this bracket so that I won't be in last place

You are welcome! However, the end result is usually the same for me whether I pick or not!! Actually I am playing on my wife's account as Sam. I am doing OK now, but my luck will probably not last! Hang in there, all is not lost.

I am surprised at the number of teams I thought would make a deeper run that are now long gone. I enjoy watching the tournament, but each year I am reminded that this really should be called a tournament championship and not a national championship. The best team in the nation rarely wins. It is the lucky hot team at the end of the year that wins. If they wanted a true national champion take all the division 1 regular season conference champions and put them in the tournament. If you don't win your conference, you don't get in. I would also get rid of conference tournaments. You could have a playoff if division winners didn't play each other or split in the regular season. Make the grind of the season count for something more!
Title: Re: 2022 Pellet Fan March Madness
Post by: Bar-B-Lew on March 25, 2022, 04:25:03 PM
good thing John played in this bracket so that I won't be in last place

You are welcome! However, the end result is usually the same for me whether I pick or not!! Actually I am playing on my wife's account as Sam. I am doing OK now, but my luck will probably not last! Hang in there, all is not lost.

I am surprised at the number of teams I thought would make a deeper run that are now long gone. I enjoy watching the tournament, but each year I am reminded that this really should be called a tournament championship and not a national championship. The best team in the nation rarely wins. It is the lucky hot team at the end of the year that wins. If they wanted a true national champion take all the division 1 regular season conference champions and put them in the tournament. If you don't win your conference, you don't get in. I would also get rid of conference tournaments. You could have a playoff if division winners didn't play each other or split in the regular season. Make the grind of the season count for something more!

You look like Sam will be the winner based on how many points you have potential to score the remainder of the tournament versus the rest of us.  You will finish first and last...hahaha.
Title: Re: 2022 Pellet Fan March Madness
Post by: Bentley on March 27, 2022, 06:17:16 PM
I believe this is the earliest I have ever been able to declare and congratulate a winner!  Way to go JD aka Sam!
Title: Re: 2022 Pellet Fan March Madness
Post by: jdmessner on March 28, 2022, 09:46:39 PM
Wow, I don't usually do well at these kinds of things, normally I lose. Oh, I guess I did that too!! I was looking forward to the prize package, but I am afraid I will need to decline. I don't think I can afford the taxes or insurance!

After watching clips from the Oscars last night I am convinced that Will Smith was merely auditioning for the lead in the movie: The Juan Howard Story!

Any guess as to how the Coach K story ends? He is the kind of guy you love to hate, but I for one would like to see him go out on top. If he does, it will be an impressive run of traditional powerhouses that he went through to get there. 
Title: Re: 2022 Pellet Fan March Madness
Post by: Kristin Meredith on March 29, 2022, 07:31:13 AM
Congrats JD.  Sorry you had to pass on the prize package. My uncles have a private air strip and you could have flown down for a visit! :pig:
Title: Re: 2022 Pellet Fan March Madness
Post by: RobertG on April 05, 2022, 04:34:39 PM
Congratulations JD.   It was a great tournament this year.
Title: Re: 2022 Pellet Fan March Madness
Post by: Bentley on April 05, 2022, 05:09:45 PM
Thanks every one for playing!
Title: Re: 2022 Pellet Fan March Madness
Post by: hughver on April 06, 2022, 01:11:10 PM
Thanks every one for playing!

Thank you for organizing it.