{"id":1221,"date":"2018-03-13T01:24:30","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T01:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=1221"},"modified":"2018-03-13T01:24:30","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T01:24:30","slug":"the-lunatic-is-a-master-bracketologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=1221","title":{"rendered":"The Lunatic is a master bracketologist"},"content":{"rendered":"

That’s right – the Lunatic’s insane bracket that predicted the committee beat 4 of the 6 media bracketologists – including ESPN’s Joe Lunardi and CBS’s Jerry Palm.<\/p>\n

Of course, my wife documented my craziness that led to what I think is my best performance ever in my weekend insanity to do in one weekend what the media spends the entire season doing.\u00a0 This year, I actually printed out the team sheets that the NCAA committee uses, and started ranking them on the floor of my living room.<\/p>\n

You might ask, why I didn’t do this at a table.\u00a0 Well, if I did that, I would have to leave the room that had the ACC Championship and Pac 12 Championship games on.\u00a0 So, my wife took a picture and put it on Facebook.\u00a0 It was at the start, so it didn’t have the full blown bracket lying across the floor – but it did have my computer on the floor, with me kneeling over tons of sheets getting spread out as I started to evaluate the teams,<\/p>\n

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And now it is pretty obvious of why I am the Crazed Lunatic.\u00a0 But the Crazed Lunatic’s crazy methods apparently for at least one year made him a better bracketologist than some of the biggest ones in the media.<\/p>\n

Of course, we now know that this means the Lunatic’s picks will go down in flames – I used all of my success on the silly bracketology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That’s right – the Lunatic’s insane bracket that predicted the committee beat 4 of the 6 media bracketologists – including ESPN’s Joe Lunardi and CBS’s Jerry Palm. Of course, my wife documented my craziness that led to what I think is my best performance ever in my weekend insanity to do in one weekend what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1223,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions\/1223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}