How to Use NCAA March Madness Pool Software
Think about how much time it takes to set up and run an NCAA March Madness pool. First, you'll spend an hour or more drawing the brackets and getting copies made for each participant. Hours are lost handwriting brackets for which teams play and choosing the winners. Keeping track of points will take a lot of time as well when done manually. When you use NCAA March Madness pool software, setting up and managing the pool takes a fraction of the time compared to running the pool manually.
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Instructions
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Decide how much you are willing to spend for the software you will use for the NCAA March Madness pool. You can recoup the cost of the software with entrance fees. Free software is also available to help you manage the pool.
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Download the software of choice and save it to your hard drive. You may purchase bracket software on disk as well.
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Install the software on your computer.
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Familiarize yourself with the software by going through an introductory tutorial or simply exploring the options on the software.
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Print out the brackets built by the software and deliver them to the pool participants.
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Enter in the choices made by all of the people in your NCAA March Madness pool.
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Update the brackets for each person at the end of the games. You can get scores from a number of sports websites as the games finish.
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Update the scores for everyone as quickly as possible. Players will want to know their positions in the pool as soon as the games are over.
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Announce the winners to everyone as soon as the tournament ends or when a clear winner is decided. It is possible to have a winner by the Elite 8 round or sooner.
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Tips & Warnings
Get as many people to participate in the league as possible to increase the size of the prize(s) offered to the winner(s).
If you run a great NCAA March Madness pool, more people will want to get in the next year, even if you don't advertise the pool.
Look for software with simple drag-and-drop capabilities to insert teams into the brackets quickly and easily.
Some programs have a "what if" ability you can use to fill in the bracket before you make final decisions on all of the games.
Use the March Madness software to run your own tournaments for 3-on-3 basketball, softball or any other single-elimination tournaments.
Don't get stuck trying to decide how to handle a tie. Set up some type of tie-breaking system before the tournament starts.
