I did merely an okay job of projecting this year’s field, at least based on the Bracket Matrix’s rankings, where I rank 140th out of the more than 200 brackets submitted. (I no longer feel quite so bad about wasting my winters away on this exercise.) My Paymon score of 345 was 27 points off the leading bracket’s, projected by old friend Patrick Stevens of The Washington Post, and 21 points lower than the Matrix’s consensus of 366. But it was also 102 points better than the worst performing bracket.
Yes, I correctly selected 67 of 68 teams, but let’s be real here.