Let the Madness Begin!
Getting you ready for the Round of 64.
It’s that time of year again! With the play-in games tipping off later today, we’re less than 48 hours away from a full day of single elimination basketball.
In preparation for the tournament, we have released multiple pieces of content across different Hoop Vision platforms. We’ll get to those in a second, but first I want to extend an invitation to join the second annual Hoop Vision bracket contest.
The pool — which is being hosted at ESPN — is completely free to register. First place will receive an exclusive HV hoodie and second through fifth place will receive HV dri-fit t-shirts.
We would love to have you join!
Click/tap to register for the Hoop Vision bracket contest
Tournament Preview Podcast with Jason Lisk (PoolGenius)
This morning, we published a brand new Solving Basketball episode discussing all things bracket strategy with Jason Lisk of PoolGenius.
The 47-minute episode can be found below or on any of your preferred podcast platforms.
We started the episode by discussing Jason’s four strategies for optimizing your March Madness bracket pool:
Understand your scoring system
Assess risk and value
Adjust strategy for pool size
Avoid the “golden rules”
On the back half of the podcast, we dove into this year’s bracket and the Final Four contenders in each region.
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PoolGenius is the industry leader in bracket pools. They have a bracket optimizer product that allows you to enter in the details of your specific pool(s) — the scoring system, the number of entries, and the prize payouts — and then uses a machine learning algorithm to generate the optimal bracket for that pool.
By using the following link, Hoop Vision readers can get 10-55% off the bracket optimizer for this year’s March Madness picks.
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All 68 NCAA Tournament Teams in 12 Minutes
We also published our annual “68 Teams” video — featuring one scouting fact or theme for every team in the field.
This season’s edition can be found below. For reference, here are also the 2019, 2021, and 2022 versions.
A big thank you to the team of scouts that helped with this video.
Eric Shapiro, Lucas Shapiro, Justin Clareman, Jason Fang, and Brian Geisinger.
Their help was instrumental in making the video as high-quality and substantive as possible. Please consider giving them a follow on Twitter.
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We’ll be back in a few days to breakdown the early NCAA Tournament action. Enjoy the madness!!
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