How to Run March Madness "Blind Draw" Pool
What is a March Madness Blind Draw Office Pool?
This is just a different variation to the normal NCAA Tournament bracket the most are used to. Begin by getting the Printable NCAA March Madness Bracket. The steps below explain how to run this pool.
Step 1
Get some friends, family, and co-workers together. You can do this with as few as 2 people and as many as 64, but I like to have about 8. You should have everyone there for the drawing.
Step 2
Begin by putting the names of the 64 teams on individual pieces of paper and placing them into a hat(or something similar). Decide the order of the drawing and then the drawing may begin. Each person draws one team out of the hat until everyone has a team, then the second round of the drawing will begin following the same procedure as the first round. You will do this until all of the teams are gone. At the end of the drawing everyone should have the same amount of teams. If there are left over teams in the hat, these teams will not be used.
Example: You have 6 players, each player will get 10 teams leaving 4 teams that will not be used. If you have 8 players each player will get 8 teams and no teams will be left.
Step 3
After the drawing the teams you have will be your teams for the entire tournament. For each game/round your team wins you will be awarded points based on the "normal" Ncaa tournament scoring system(round 1=1pt, round 2 =2pts ect...). If one of your teams loses the first round that team will not get you any points for the whole tournament. After the championship game total up everyone's points, the person with the highest total wins the prize pool.
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