How To Fill Out Your Bracket!

10 Rules to help you pick a winning bracket

Justin
4 min readMar 15, 2022
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When filling out your tournament, it’s easy to overcomplicate things. You might be tempted to pick a team based on their past tournament performance. Maybe you choose them because of the coach they have.

I have even made tournament picks based on location. Even though these are neutral courts, many teams have a clear advantage in large part to their traveling fanbase.

I’m going to give you 10 strategies that are guaranteed to help you find success with your bracket, and help you win your bracket challenge with friends, or at the workplace.

10. When in doubt, go with your gut and eyes
Most of the people filling out brackets did not watch much college basketball throughout the season. That’s ok! Just don’t try and convince yourself that you are an expert.

If you are undecided on a certain pick, use your gut and follow the eye test. Analytics are great, but the tournament is all about matchups. Use the eye test and pick the team that you believe is better.

9. The Champion will be a #1, #2, or, #3 seed
20 of the last 21 National Champions have been a top #3 seed. So there’s no reason for you to go against this trend this year.

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Justin

Texan, I write about sports, relationships, social issues and life lessons. Follow me on Twitter @Jthewriter1482