# 2014 SDMB March Madness Tournament Pool
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-sdmb-march-madness-tournament-pool/683834
**Category:** The Game Room
**Created:** [March 16, 2014, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-sdmb-march-madness-tournament-pool/683834 "2014-03-16T14:28:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 17
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### Author:  [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2014, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-sdmb-march-madness-tournament-pool/683834/1 "2014-03-16T14:28:45Z")
To borrow a phrase from the Death Pool,
_ **“It’s the most wonderful time of the year!“** _
The SDMB group has been renewed for another year in Yahoo!'s NCAA Tournament Pool.
Link: [Yahoo Fantasy Men's Tourney Pick'em](https://tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.com/quickenloansbracket)
Group Name: SDMB Bracketeers
Group ID\*: 75461
Password: Cecil123
You can sign in with either a Yahoo!, gmail, or Facebook account.
Brackets must be completed by **1:00am EDT on Thursday March 20**. Note that this is earlier than in past years, where I think they allowed brackets to be entered up until tip-off of the first game on Thursday.
Limit of three brackets per person.
Scoring: Last year I experimented with the “Progressive” scoring model (1-2-3-4-5-6 points per round) with an extra point for each upset pick, rather than the “Traditional” scoring model of 1-2-4-8-16-32 points per round.
This year I’m going to go back to the “Traditional” scoring model, but will keep the extra point for upset picks **only for the opening weekend (round of 64 and round of 32).**
Let the Madness begin!
- Please let me know if this group ID works. For some reason Yahoo! isn’t displaying it anywhere on the group page that I’ve been able to see, it only shows in the URL for the group page.
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### Author:  [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2014, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-sdmb-march-madness-tournament-pool/683834/2 "2014-03-16T23:02:27Z")
And… the brackets are up!
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### Author:  [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2014, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-sdmb-march-madness-tournament-pool/683834/3 "2014-03-17T04:02:38Z")
Shooter Flatch ain’t gonna watch any paint dry.
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### Author:  [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2014, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-sdmb-march-madness-tournament-pool/683834/4 "2014-03-17T04:45:51Z")
Glad we are back! I had a thread wondering. Will post my bracket tomorrow.
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### Author:  [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2014, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-sdmb-march-madness-tournament-pool/683834/5 "2014-03-17T18:30:38Z")
Did you change the password? I’m getting the following message:
“There was a problem
The password is incorrect. Please make sure that it matches the password that you got from the commissioner. The commissioner may also have changed the password since they last sent it to you. (Error #109)”
I’ve copied and pasted multiple times, and tried entering it manually.
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### Author:  [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2014, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-sdmb-march-madness-tournament-pool/683834/6 "2014-03-17T23:33:40Z")
Sorry, try lowercase - **cecil123**. I mostly copied and pasted from last year’s thread, and now that you mention it, I think we had the same problem last year. :smack:
ETA: Forgot to mention, but Yahoo has added an annoying new feature where you have to enter your cell # so it can send you a text message with a code number you have to enter before you can join. I think this may be the last year doing this on Yahoo. ☹
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### Author:  [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2014, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-sdmb-march-madness-tournament-pool/683834/7 "2014-03-17T23:46:09Z")
Yeah, hope my text comes through. Did do a paper bracket.
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### Author:  [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2014, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-sdmb-march-madness-tournament-pool/683834/8 "2014-03-17T23:48:26Z")
Can’t see it, so I may miss this year.
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### Author:  [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2014, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-sdmb-march-madness-tournament-pool/683834/9 "2014-03-17T23:54:44Z")
> [@etv78](#):
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> Can’t see it, so I may miss this year.
The other thing that happened to me when I was renewing for this year is that after they sent the pin to my phone and I entered it, it told me that there was a problem registering my phone number. But after I signed out of Yahoo and signed back in, I was able to get into the group. The whole registration process just seems really glitchy this year. (Of course me giving out a bad password doesn’t help!)
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### Author:  [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2014, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-sdmb-march-madness-tournament-pool/683834/10 "2014-03-18T00:03:12Z")
Would after the “play-in” games be too late?
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### Author:  [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2014, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-sdmb-march-madness-tournament-pool/683834/11 "2014-03-18T00:51:09Z")
Well, I’d be happy to join, but Yahoo isn’t getting my phone number. Would somebody please get rid of the idiots running that company already?
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### Author:  [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2014, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-sdmb-march-madness-tournament-pool/683834/12 "2014-03-18T01:53:49Z")
I’m not doing it unless they stop making me enter my phone #. Can I suggest that we use an alternative to Yahoo?
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### Author:  [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2014, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-sdmb-march-madness-tournament-pool/683834/14 "2014-03-18T17:02:09Z")
> [@Shoeless](#):
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> ETA: Forgot to mention, but Yahoo has added an annoying new feature where you have to enter your cell # so it can send you a text message with a code number you have to enter before you can join. I think this may be the last year doing this on Yahoo. ☹
Annoying indeed. I almost decided to proceed no further over that. Fortunately, it appears easy to opt out of receiving any actual text messages, but yes they have your # anyway.
> [@Shoeless](#):
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> The other thing that happened to me when I was renewing for this year is that after they sent the pin to my phone and I entered it, it told me that there was a problem registering my phone number. But after I signed out of Yahoo and signed back in, I was able to get into the group. The whole registration process just seems really glitchy this year. (Of course me giving out a bad password doesn’t help!)
I had the same experience.
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### Author:  [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2014, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-sdmb-march-madness-tournament-pool/683834/15 "2014-03-18T19:18:12Z")
Someone created pool at ESPN, my bracket is posted there.
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### Author:  [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2014, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-sdmb-march-madness-tournament-pool/683834/16 "2014-03-18T19:49:49Z")
I think if someone creates a league on the ESPN page, and posts the league info, I will play that one.
But i won’t play on yahoo, because I don’t want to give my cell phone number out. I don’t understand why that’s a requirement (well, i DO. It’s called revenue), but I don’t want to give yahoo my phone number for text messages.
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### Author:  [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2014, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-sdmb-march-madness-tournament-pool/683834/17 "2014-03-18T22:09:47Z")
OK, I’ve created a group on ESPN.
Group Name: SDMB Bracketeers
Group ID: 540132
Password: cecil123 (lowercase :D)
To avoid confusion, I have started a new thread [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=718677) and will ask the mods to lock this one.
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### Author:  [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2014, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-sdmb-march-madness-tournament-pool/683834/18 "2014-03-18T23:27:29Z")
Done.