Sunday, March 12, 2023

Legion March Madness: Selection Sunday + First Four part 1

Welcome to Legion March Madness! In celebration of the 65th anniversary of the Legion, for the last year I've been polling members of the Legion of Substitute Podcasters Facebook group to pick a "winner" for each year of the Legion's existence. Some years had no or too few new characters, so I doubled up some years which left me with some wild-cards at the end. I ended up with 68 entries to correspond with the 68 slots in the NCAA Basketball Tournament. Now it's up to you to vote for an overall winner, March Madness style. 

Below is the bracket with each of the winners, seeded according to a formula I made up that considers the number of votes received, the number of voters, and a "strength of schedule" based on the total number of votes that week. Each bracket will have two days of voting, culminating with the winner being decided on the night of that day's "game". The winners will move on, single elimination, until we get a Sweet 16, Final Four, and a Champion.

You'll notice some small numbers on the far left and far right, the inside numbers 1-68 are the overall seed for the entire tourney while the outside numbers 1-17 are the seed for that bracket.


Now the First Four, played on Antares II, are the play-in games, to make the #16 seed in each bracket. Tuesday's games are in the New Earth (yellow) and Aleph (grapefruit) brackets. Click the Twitter poll to vote - note that the way Twitter embeds its polls now, it will open up a new tab for you to actually cast your vote. You'll have two days to vote, the poll will close on Tuesday night and the winner will move on.

Who do you think will be in the Final Four and who will win the tournament? Who's your Cinderella pick this year? What upsets do you predict?

Posted by Michael at 3/12/2023 06:00:00 PM

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