Who Won The March Madness Pool?

harsh, B, very harsh. but also way off base. Ms. Representation has a problem here, folks--she hears what she wants to hear, namely that someone made a mistake that leaves her the winner. sorry, that's not even close to the truth.

NCAA’s not my forte. I just like to gamble. so I do the “control” bracket. each year my final four is #1/#1/#1/#1. finalists and winners were chosen with coin flips, darts, whatever.

this year someone said the NCAA does rank from #1-65, so i could be fully "control" if i wanted, nailing the actual ranked finalists and winner. sounded great. i looked for it, couldn't find it, neither could anybody else I talked to. Mr A said something about Las Vegas odds putting NC on top, and whoever else in places 2/3/4. well, it's better than nothing, more “control-ish” than just guessing, so i said sure, let's follow those numbers. wrote it down, paid for it, done.

Ms. Representation would like this to look like the “control” joke is some kind of weird contract: I committed to the ‘real’ control (the official NCAA rankings) so my Vegas-odds-informed bracket is illegitimate. that’s not logical, that’s nuts.

question: if the opposite had happened, who would have supported the same logic? imagine if…
1) I’m Mr. Control, but my finalists/winner follows Vegas odds
2) my bracket got trounced
3) then I found the real NCAA rankings, a.k.a. the “real control,”
4) those real rankings won the pool, so…ta da! i win!
5) now i've got to argue "oops, I wrote the wrong thing down—my REAL bet was the REAL control, which is the REAL NCAA rankings, so fork over the money." even tho my bracket says I lost big time.

it would never happen, because I’d never try to make that argument—it’s not logical, it’s not fair, it doesn’t even survive the laugh test. the brackets stand as written. mine was 100% filled out and paid for on time. and my bracket beat the stuffing out of Ms. Representation.