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Pick-The-Bracket Pools

Pick each game in the NCAA tournament!

The office classic. Pick the winner of every NCAA Basketball Tournament game.

Is Pick-The-Bracket the game you're after? If yes, click the blue Continue button below. Otherwise, select another College Basketball game

Starting Teams

Full 64 Team Bracket or Sweet 16?

Start your pool in Round 1 or Round 3?

Round 1 - 64 Team Bracket

Round 3 - "Sweet 16" Bracket

Scoring Setup

Start With Defaults or Customize Now

You may change all your settings later.

Customize Now - Step me through the options

Customize Later - Start With Defaults

Scoring - Round Values

The number of points you get per win, by round.

Normally the points per win doubles with each round but you may customize the points here:

Points Per Win

Round of 64:

Round of 32:

Sweet 16:

Elite 8:

Final 4:

Championship:

Upset Bonus

Award Extra Points for Picking Lower Seeds. Or not.

Use option B, C, D, E or F to award bonus points for correctly picking upsets.

Scoring Options:

A. Round Value (No upset bonus.)

B. Round Value × Team Seed

C. Round Number × Team Seed

D. Round Value + Team Seed

E. Round Value + (lower seed - higher seed)*

F. Round Value + (lower seed - higher seed) × Round Number*

* = For picking lower seeded teams. Otherwise points = round value.

Scoring - Special Bonus

Award extra points for sweeps and for picking a bonus team.

Rnd 1 Region Sweep:

8/9 Matchup Sweep:

7/10 Matchup Sweep:

6/11 Matchup Sweep:

5/12 Matchup Sweep:

Bonus Team:

Use Bonus Team

Tiebreakers

Standings Based On:

Total Points

Tiebreaker #1:

Tiebreaker #2:

Pick Deadlines

There are 2 deadlines: one for making your picks and one for making your total points prediction tiebreaker. Since you don't know the two teams playing in the Championship until April, you can use a later deadline for the tiebreaker. (We have more deadline options that you can choose later).

Select the deadline for making your picks. We recommend using the tip off time of the first game, which is Thu, Mar-21 9:15 AM Pacific . (We have more deadline options that you can choose later).

Select the deadline for making your picks. We recommend using the tip off time of the first game, which is Thu, Mar-28 4:09 PM Pacific . (We have more deadline options that you can choose later).

Picks:

1 Hour Before First Tipoff: Mar-28 3:09 PM

First Tipoff: Mar-28 4:09 PM

1 Hour Before First Tipoff: Mar-21 8:15 AM

First Tipoff: Mar-21 9:15 AM

Tiebreaker:

Same as my pick deadline: Mar-21 9:15 AM

Same as my pick deadline: Mar-28 4:09 PM

Championship Game Tip Off: Apr-08 6:20 PM

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Website Fee

We charge a fee for using our site.

The season fee to use our website for Pick-The-Bracket is $1.25 per entry with a minimum of $12.50 which covers the first 10 entries. For example, if you have 8 entries, the cost will be $12.50. If you have 20 entries, the cost will be $25.

No Obligation You will have a week or more to test out our site before having to pay and we encourage you to take advantage of the free trial period. If you decide not to use OFP, simply don't pay and we will disable your pool after the free trial period ends.

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