Swift Fish Net

I don’t follow NCAA basketball at all during the regular season other than reading the occasional sports headline, so when it comes time to fill in the brackets for tournament challenge contest entries in March, my picks come down to fairly random guesses with an occasional upset thrown in. My picks tend to be biased by schools I have actually heard of or upsets that I would like to see happen when I don’t particularly like a team. In order to remove that level of bias from my picks this year, all of my entries are chosen randomly by a script I wrote with the weighting based on historical records of seed versus seed in the NCAA tournament. There is also some weighting based on the actual difference in seed value as certain match-ups don’t occur very frequently because they arise from upsets.

If you want to see these “SwiftPicks” in action, check the SwiftFish groups in both the men’s and women’s ESPN Tournament Challenges at ESPN.com. The men’s picks are all entered as of the March 20 start, and I hopefully can get the women’s picks entered by the time those games start this weekend.