{"id":2467,"date":"2023-03-16T03:16:24","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T03:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=2467"},"modified":"2023-03-16T03:16:24","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T03:16:24","slug":"the-lunatic-releases-his-picks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=2467","title":{"rendered":"The Lunatic releases his picks!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, so much for my simulator.\u00a0 The only double digit seed it predicted would win was Nevada (52% chance) against Nevada, and Boise State (56% chance) against Northwestern.\u00a0 With all the talented double digit seeds available (especially in the 5\/12 games), the only teams it thinks can pull the upsets are from the Mountain West (including the team losing by 21 points at the moment to Arizona State &#8211; if you are wondering, if Arizona State plays TCU, TCU goes from a 48% chance to a 60% chance).\u00a0 I guess one day is not enough time to build a simulator.<\/p>\n<p>So, I am going to stick with what I had.\u00a0 In my dream picks, I will change my final from what I said in the podcast.\u00a0 It is ridiculous to think that Texas will lose a tournament game in Houston &#8211; but my dream pick would be to have to keep playing teams we already played.\u00a0 So, Purdue will beat Gonzaga in the final.<\/p>\n<p>In my sane picks, I keep the same final 4, but have Alabama beat Texas.\u00a0 Here are links to the full set of picks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/CRAZED-LUNATIC-SANE.pdf\">CRAZED LUNATIC SANE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/CRAZED-LUNATIC-DREAM.pdf\">CRAZED LUNATIC DREAM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, so much for my simulator.\u00a0 The only double digit seed it predicted would win was Nevada (52% chance) against Nevada, and Boise State (56% chance) against Northwestern.\u00a0 With all the talented double digit seeds available (especially in the 5\/12 games), the only teams it thinks can pull the upsets are from the Mountain West [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467","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=2467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2470,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467\/revisions\/2470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}