Bracketeering: The Layman's Guide to Picking the Madness in March

by Andrew Clark

Six years ago Andrew Clark began developing his own objective, statistics-based approach to picking the winner of the NCAA basketball tournament. The results: He has correctly chosen four of the last six champions using only one "sheet of integrity." In Bracketeering, Clark reveals his secrets by sharing a set of simple rules for each round of the tournament to help even the most casual of basketball fans pick their brackets and beat the so-called "experts" in their office pools. For readers who want to go deeper into the math behind Clark's rules, he tells them where to go find the information and how to use it effectively.

64 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2010

About the author

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Andrew Clark is a graduate of the Suffolk University School of Law in Boston, Massachusetts, and of the University of Massachusetts-Boston. His writings have appeared in The Boston Globe, The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, and other publications. He is also a pretty good stand-up comedian.

Reviews

[Justin DeWeese · Rating 4 out of 5]

Got this book for $1 at a bookstore that was closing down years ago but it has never been with me when I'm making my March Madness picks until this year. A quick read and the tips make sense - maybe I shouldn't review it until I see how my brackets do. Good examples of prior years to show why he values certain statistics while making picks.

[Tal Hirshberg · Rating 5 out of 5]

I bring this book out every March. It has some great basic tips to follow, and it's a great way to remember what has made my brackets so successful in the past. Great stats to look for when debating teams you haven't seen at all this year.