Rules and Regulations
March Madness Tournament Pick'em Contest
Overview
Take the court with FantasyLineup.com’s March Madness Tournament Pick'em Contest, a bracket-style game that lets you show your college basketball skills by picking the winners of this year's tournament games.
Create a private/custom league and/or join a public league. All you have to do to play is enter your bracket picks by tip-off of the first game on Thursday, March 20.
You'll get points for every correct pick you make, and while you're watching all the action unfold, we do all the hard work of gathering statistics, computing point totals and updating standings.
FantasyLineup.com’s March Madness Tournament Pick'em Contest is a free and entry fee game that runs throughout the entire college basketball tournament, which runs through Monday, April 7.
Joining a Private/Custom League
Private Leagues allow you to personally invite only those friends or colleagues you want to join. To join someone else's Private League, you must get the Group ID # and Password from the group creator.
Private Leagues are custom for your entertainment. You set your own entry fee. You can set your league from free to unlimited amount of dollars. Group creator can have set payout system as well. The more brackets the more you can win. Private/Custom Leagues have private message boards and chat rooms to communicate with your league.Joining a Public League
FantasyLineup.com’s March Madness Tournament Pick'em Contest public leagues will consist of four (4) options to win cash and prizes.
You can have multiple brackets in each one of these leagues to increase your chance of winning!
Each league will be ranked separately. The top scores in each league will win cash and prizes. The more brackets, the more the prize pool will be.
Game Play
Regardless of what League you are in, the object of FantasyLineup.com’s March Madness Tournament Pick'em Contest is to accumulate as many points as possible.
You do this by correctly picking the winning team in each of the games played during this year's national championship college basketball tournament. Each correct pick earns points based on the tournament round, and the player finishing with the highest total wins each league.
This is a traditional, single-elimination tournament where losing teams are eliminated while winning teams advance to the next round. Sixty-five teams begin the competition, one is eliminated before the first round, and then half are eliminated during each round. FantasyLineup.com’s March Madness Tournament Pick'em does not include the play-in game but only the games involving the sixty-four teams that begin play on Thursday, March 20.
Deadline
Your final picks for every round must be submitted by tip-off of the first game on Thursday, March 20.
Scoring
Points in FantasyLineup.com’s March Madness Tournament Pick'em are awarded according to following schedule:
| Fantasy Points by Round |
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| First Round |
1 point (32 total points possible) |
| Second Round |
2 points (32 total points possible) |
| Sweet Sixteen |
4 points (32 total points possible) |
| Elite Eight |
8 points (32 total points possible) |
| Final Four |
16 points (32 total points possible) |
| National Championship |
32 points (32 total points possible) |
| Maximum Possible Points: |
192 points |
Tiebreak System
All Ties will be considered a Tie. The place you rank will determine your pay-out (if any). Monies will be divided equally.
Schedule Updates
All real-life game scores will be updated in real time.
All group standings and leaderboards will be made available no later then the morning after a game is played.Questions or Comments
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