It’s that time of year again, and while you can go to just about any media outlet for March Madness advice, I’m fairly confident you won’t get most of the stuff that I’m going to write about here. I think that’s a good thing?

As preliminary thoughts, feel free to check out my two posts from last year:

Value and March Madness

What are the actual odds of someone picking a perfect bracket?

Okay, here are some thoughts and general strategies.

1- Your first round choices depend on your scoring system. And maybe even your second round picks, too.

Most pools can generally be separated into one of two categories – those with upset points or those without upset points.

Strangely enough, the vast majority of people entering picks in pools with upset points pick the same way as they would in pools without upset points. This is silly. In upset pools, for example…