2017 March Madness Results

==Introduction==
The results are in! The winner of the 2017 March Madness competition is...it's kind of hard to say!
I guess there are sort of two winners...? And one of the winners was also the loser? But there was another loser because one of us only filled out one bracket?
I don't know.
Yeah, Kenzie has me watching "Girls" so my Gif game might be a little off. You take the good with the bad (and omg this season has been so good. SPOILER: Hannah is pregnant!).
What I do know is that I am way in over my head when it comes to making up/tracking my own scoring for this tournament. Learn from your mistakes. Next year we'll go strictly by Yahoo rules. Well, Yahoo will have become "Oath" thanks to the merger with Verizon. So Oath rules.
So best I can, here are the results of the tournament:
== 2017 March Madness Results ==
2017 Yahoo Standings
Ranking	Bracket 	Score
1 	Patrick 1 	896
2 	Nate 1 	816
3 	Commish 1 	737
4 	Chantel 1 	712
5 	Shotti 1 	704
5 	Papa 1 	704
7 	Papa 2 	670
8 	Chantel 2 	660
9 	Burns 1 	647
10 	Commish 2 	630
10 	Jared 1 	630
11 	Jared 2 	605
13 	Burns 2 	603
14 	Eggplant 1	576
15 	Zach 1 	565
16 	Shotti 2 	554
17 	Eggplant 2	633
18 	Nate 2 	519
19 	Patrick 2 	328
So congratulations Patrick. You managed to both win and lose our March Madness competition. When you average the two brackets together he finished right in the middle of the pack, which is on par for Pat's yearly fantasy performances. 
He was almost outdone by Nate, who finished second and second to last. 
Commish, Papa and Chantel had both of their brackets finish in the top ten. Chantel continues to put half the league in a bodybag while getting simultaneously stuffed in a locker by the other half. She's priming up for a great 3-0 run followed by a 3-7 run in 2017. 
Now let's take a look at the standings when the league bonus points that I created were added in. Nate was the only one who benefited from their free money team, while the Dark Universe team made it all the way to the championship game. Good experiment, utter failure. That's on me. 
2017 March Madness LoC Standings
Bracket 	Bonus points	Final Score
Patrick 1 	67 	963
Nate 1 	46 	862
Commish 1 	39 	776
Papa 1 	40 	744
Shotti 1 	39 	743
Chantel 1 	6 	718
Papa 2 	32 	702
Commish 2 	21 	651
Jared 1 	19 	649
Chantel 2 	-15 	645
Burns 1 	-30 	617
Jared 2 	-3 	602
Eggplant 1	-3 	573
Shotti 2 	-2 	552
Zach 1 	-18 	547
Burns 2 	-69 	534
Nate 2 	2 	521
Eggplant 2	-19 	514
Patrick 	-70 	258
So what exactly does that mean? Well, regardless of which scoring system we use (the Yahoo or the LoC), Patrick still wins and Patrick still loses. So really, what did those bonus points even mean?  
Now to determine how many points get added to the Off-Season Competition!
To reiterate:
1. Combined bracket scores.
2. Divided by ten.
3. Rounded up to the nearest whole number.
2017 March Madness Off-Season Points Earned
Owner 	Combined Bracket Score	Off-Season Points Gained
Papa 	1446 	145
Commish 	1427 	143
Nate 	1383 	139
Chantel 	1363 	137
Shotti 	1295 	130
Jared 	1251 	126
Patrick 	1221 	123
Burns 	1151 	116
Eggplant	1087 	109
Zach 	547 	55
Bold strategy by Zach to only fill out one bracket. Speaks volumes of his confidence. I imagine he thought for sure he had filled out the perfect bracket. Why bother filling out two?  
The DiGennaro boys, meanwhile, finish 1 and 2 with the two best combined brackets. Patrick was really hurt by his last place bracket, lowering him from first to 7th (the Pat Position, as I think we should start calling it). I told him he shouldn't have randomized the second bracket and he said he actually made those picks. He actually had a thought in his head that the defending champion would be upset in the round of 64. That was something that happened in his adult brain.
==Off-Season Standings==
Well, you guys aren't going to believe this. Pretty much nothing changed in the off-season rankings. 
Off-Season Standings
X 	Pre-Tournament	Pre-Tournament	Post-Tournament (Current)	Post-Tournament (Current)
X 	Owner 	Points 	Owner 	Points
1 	Chris 	225 	Chris 	334
2 	Jared 	120 	Jared 	246
3 	Nate 	100 	Nate 	239
4 	Papa 	91 	Papa 	236
5 	Zach 	80 	Chantel 	214
6 	Chantel 	77 	Shotti 	183
7 	Shotti 	53 	Patrick 	153
8 	Patrick 	30 	Commish 	148
9 	Commish 	5 	Zach 	135
10	Burns 	0 	Burns 	116
So basically if Zach had just filled out two identical brackets everyone would be in the same place they are now, except like 100 points richer. But fear not, this is not the end of the off-season competition.
== What's Next? ==
I'm glad you asked.
Our next idea comes to us from Nate the Great. Five points for Nate.
Our next competition will a Draft Day Extravaganza. Sort of like Super Bowl Squares, you each pick a bunch of random spots that then randomly get assigned numbers. Those numbers are draft positions. They'll range from 1-263. You'll get points based on what position is drafted with that pick. For example, a QB would be worth like 30, a defensive tackle would be worth 25, stuff like that. Maybe try to work some skill into it, I'm not sure. I'm working it out in my giant brain right now so stay tuned. I've never done it before so it could be another spectacular failure, but we'll see. In any case, that will be our April leg of the competition. See you soon!