I Gave up on March Madness Brackets Front Porch Republic

Ithaca, NY. Over the years, I’ve gotten NCAA men’s basketball tournament brackets down to a science. I used to run my own blind trials, using a website that removed team names and allowed me to choose my champion based on statistics instead of cognitive biases. And every year, I’d put my head in my hands as some midwestern school bricked the three-pointers I was sure it would make and once again dashed my hopes of winning my bracket pool. The pain worsened when my friends moved our competition to ESPN’s bracket platform where I could see precisely how my selections…