This article gives more detail on what you should do with the play-in games, but you basically have 2 options: Option 1: Just don't count the play-in games, pick your winners based on a field of 64. We wrote a short article titled Do you Count the First Four Games in your College Basketball Pool.

Anyway, you're still wondering how to incorporate these games into your office pool. But, the NCAA committee has decided they need to have a couple of 11 and 13 seeds participate in these play-in games instead of two of the 16 seeds. It wouldn't be so bad if all four of the play-in games were going to make up the 16 seed in each different region. Yes, the NCAA has really threw us for a loop with these new play in games. This gives the people that correctly pick the tournament champion an advantage, but does not completely eliminate the people that didn't correctly guess the champion. I do however feel that picking the winner in a field of 64(68) does have importance, so I prefer to use the first scoring method in the list above 1,2,3,4,6,10. I definitely don't like the idea of putting all of the weight on the championship game, you are basically eliminating everyone that does not correctly guess the winner of the tournament. Others think that picking the most games correctly should weigh more on the outcome, like in the example 1,2,3,4,5,6.

Which basically means the winner of the office pool must correctly pick the winner of the championship game. Some people prefer to place a great deal of weight on picking the championship game correctly, like in the example 1,2,4,8,16,32. Total Points Possible for ESPN Tournament Challenge - 1,920 What system do we use? Total Points Possible for Yahoo, CBS, FoxSports and - 192 Remember the point value shown is for each game, multiply the number of games per round by the points per game/round then add all of the rounds together to come up with the Total Points Possible. These are the top online Tournament Challenge sites.Īs you can see, CBS, FoxSports, and Yahoo all use the same scoring system and even though ESPN has higher point values they are exactly proportioned to the others (each round is 10x the amount of points). NCAA Point Systems used by ESPN, Yahoo, FoxSports, and CBS:

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