This Bracket Based On Cute Mascots Is Destroying Everyone In Our Office Pool
The latest evidence: A bracket based on school mascots is running away with 1st place in Business Insider's 63-person office pool.
The bracket, made by BI's assistant manager editor Lyndsay Hemphill, is based on a crazy strategy.
Lyndsay doesn't follow sports, but she has enough experience with March Madness to know that everyone's bracket seems to fall apart no matter what.
So she decided to have some fun with this year's office pool.
"I didn't really have time to do any research, nor did I want to stress out about my picks too much," she said. "So I picked my bracket based on entirely subjective biases towards schools that I like and how cute their animal mascots are in real life."
It turned out to be incredibly effective.
Her Final Four: Colorado (Buffaloes), UConn (Huskies), Wisconsin (Badgers), and Kentucky (Wildcats).
Three out of four right. Nate Silver only got one out of four right.
Her bracket is in the 99th percentile on Yahoo.
Here it is:
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BI's Will Wei was one of the many skeptics initially:
@WillWei Which, in case you were wondering, means Huskies vs Badgers in the final. Try not to be jealous of my awesome picks.
- Lyndsay Hemphill (@lyndsayhemphill) March 17, 2014
Lyndsay's mascot choices are pretty unimpeachable here. She has a dog (UConn Huskies) and a badger (Wisconsin Badgers) in the final game.
UConn's mascot is live dog named Jonathan. That's hard to beat.
"I knew as soon as I saw UConn that I was going to pick the Huskies to win it all. Nothing beats puppy dog eyes," she said.
Just unfair for the rest of the mascots that this guy's involved:
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