Bracketologist

I entered two brackets this year. The first, run by Jake at Utterly Boringwas on Yahoo!. I started out in the middle of the pack, but slowly worked my way to the top. Come the Final Four, I needed UCLA to win against LSU for me to win. Otherwise, I would finish a disappointing third. Lo and behold, UCLA won and the points I got from that pushed me to the top with no one picking either Florida or UCLA to win it all. For that less than impressive performance, I won this T-Shirt from Ruthless Bastard. In my other bracket, a small one with no prizes with some law school classmates, I was near the top most of the tourney. Again, by the time the Final Four rolled around, I needed UCLA to win for me to get to first. This time however, my utter dominance of the ESPN based bracket will come down to a tie-breaker in the final game based on points. If the scores are in the sixties I win. If they are in the seventies, I come in second. According to ESPN, my bracket was in the 93.8 percentile, meaningin only 6.2 of 100 people picked better than I. Given that two years ago I was a bracket stud, based heavily on me picking Georgia Tech to go to the finals against UConn, I would say I have earned my degree as a Bracketologist.