Rak Madness Basketball 2024
FINAL STANDINGS
WELL the Madness for 2024 has come to an end and UCONN reigns Champ once again! However this time around it was Gerry Angers who takes the crown from Sam Norton. Gerry, aka Boston Breakers in the football pools, Burst to the lead from the 1st round and didn't look back leaving his closest competitor, Rob S 23 pts behind when all said and done. Congrats to Gerry and the rest who finished in the Money.
I welcome all feedback starting with entering picks, the scoring, pay scale whatever I’m interested in hearing.
- 1st Place - Gerry Angers
- 2nd Place - Rob S.
- 3rd Place - Chris Weber
- 4th Place - Jordan Ladson
- 5th Place - Kyle Brett
POT'S GOOD
CHECK OUT THE PAYOUT TO THE WINNER AND 4 THAT FOLLOW HERE
No doubt there will be some growing pains moving to Hundo percent online only because I do not have full control of your picks. For instance if you want to change your bracket name I cannot do that for you and the only instructions I found online were as follows.
How do I change the names of my brackets? From the Lobby, click the appropriate pool under My Pools. Click on the settings icon (the sprocket) on the right side of the page. Click Edit Pool Settings, and a pop up window will appear. Make the desired changes to the pool’s name.
WELCOME to the 2024 Rak Madness Basketball tournament. This is the 31st running (minus covid) of the Madness and last years Champion, Sam Norton is welcoming ALL challengers. Could it be YOU who takes home the Crown this year? The only way to find out is to play… so whatta you say, “YOU WANNA PLAY ?”
CLICK HERE TO JOIN THE MADNESS
No Pay No Play – ALL Payments in by Thursday
First Changes to the Tournament in 2024 from recent years
- 100% of ALL Entries will be done online at CBS Sports
- 100% of ALL the Scoring will be done online CBS Sports including Total Pts tie-breaker
- Scoring has changed from recent years - See Scoring below for explanation.
- Entry Fee - $20 per entry (Venmo & PayPal links below)
- CBS Sports will list Final Standings and that will be the Madness Standings for Payout purposes
- All Entries must be completed by Thursday March 21st at 12 noon est.
- IF prompted for a password to enter your picks use 2024
- IF you do not have a CBS Sports login you'll need to create one
PAYMENT OPTIONS - $20 per Entry
When paying entry via Venmo or PayPal PLEASE be very clear on the NAME of the Entry you are paying.
Scoring
First Round – 1 Point + (Seed)
FIRST ROUND ONLY – If a #12 seed wins over a #5 seed you get 1 pt for the win and 12 more pts for the seed upset for a total of 13pts. On the contrary, if you pick a #5 seed over #12 seed and #5 seed wins, then you would get 1pt for the win and 5 more pts for seed victory for a total of 6 pts. I call this ‘The Rak Madness Twist’. Your welcome.
2nd Round – 5 Points
Sweet 16 – 7 Points
Elite 8 – 9 Points
Final 2 – 11 Points
Champion – 15 Points
PAY OUT - DETERMINED
Since I am unaware of the total number of entries, payouts will be in percentages depending on the number of entries.
Greater than 40 entries 5 Place Payout
- 1st Place – 50% Purse
- 2nd Place – 25% Purse
- 3rd Place – 15% Purse
- 4th Place – 10% Purse
- 5th Place – $20 Back
40 Entries or Less 4 Place Payout
- 1st Place – 60% Purse
- 2nd Place – 25% Purse
- 3rd Place – 15% Purse
- 4th Place – $20 Back
Tie-breakers will be decided by how CBS SPORTS posts the final standings. Since this is the 1st time I’m using CBS Sports and there was no way to test I will rely solely on CBS Final Standings for the payout.
NOTE – $0.50 from every entry will be taken out of the overall purse to help cover the annual Host Gator Website Costs. ALL other monies collected will go to the Purse.