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Bracket Challenges
Home » Fantasy Sports » Fantasy Sports: The Other Sports » Bracket ChallengesPosted by Your Guide on June 2, 2006 8:25 PM
The bracket is one of the most recognizable icons in American sports, primarily for one big reason: the annual NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Tournament. Some of the most classic sports terms come from this event, like Cinderella, bracket buster, Sweet Sixteen, Elite Eight, Final Four, March Madness, upset, and buzzer beater! It logically goes to follow that fantasy sports would take advantage of this enormous event.
Each March when the tournament field is selected, thousands of web sites offer bracket challenges, which are, in effect, fantasy sports. Players are asked to predict the winners of each tournament game (much like in the pick ‘em games). Players’ brackets are scored for accuracy, with higher point totals being awarded for games in the later rounds of the tournament. So, a player who selects three of the final four teams may score higher than a player who picks a lot of first round upsets but misses with their Final Four picks.
Nearly all of these contests are free to play, and they often offer cash prizes to the winner (and substantial cash prizes to a player who selects every single game correctly, something that happens once every few years). This provides great incentive to participate in bracket challenges early each spring.
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