The Three Kinds of People That Fill-Out a Bracket
NCAA Tournament madness is upon us. I thought I'd breakdown the different kinds of people who fill out a bracket. Which category do you fall into?

UPSET GUY
Upset Guy is the one who out-thinks himself. He invariable ends up with Utah State, Vermont, Louisiana-Lafayette and Minnesota all in the Final Four. When his entire Final Four is eliminated after the first weekend he feels compelled to blast people who "took the easy way out" by selecting top seeds to advance past the first weekend. Upset Guy doesn't mind having his bracket be a mess almost every year, because the one year he hits it right he'll never let you forget about it. I'm sure some of you know an Upset Guy who had Wisconsin, North Carolina and Florida in the Final Four back in 2000 and hasn't shut up about it since.

OBSESSED GUY
This amateur bracketologist shares a few of the same characteristics with Upset Guy. Like Upset Guy, Obsessed Guy thinks way too hard about who is going to win and inevitably talks himself into having a crazy final four, just like Upset Guy. Instead of his Final Four being laden with ten or higher seeds, he has a lot of #3 or #4 seeds because he analyzes the RPI and remembers every upset during the regular season. This is the guy who fills out four brackets in every pool he's in, because he can foresee so many different possibilities and he doesn't want to be left with out a bracket to pay attention to as the tournament progresses.

IGNORANT GUY/SECRETARY
This is the person who knows NOTHING about college basketball, but usually is the type of person who wins. Since the same teams always go far in the tournament, this is the person who takes the obvious powers (North Carolina, Duke, UCONN, Michigan St, Arizona, etc.) to go far in the tournament. This role is also filled by the secretary in the office who picks teams based on who has the best looking uniform. Fresh off of her sweep of the NFL pool, the secretary has won the NCAA office pool five of the last seven years.

...Some of you may be thinking "Bryan, which one of these people are you?". Well, I'd say I fall somewhere in between Upset Guy and Obsessed Guy. I haven't shut up about the 2003 NCAA Tournament when I had Marquette and Syracuse in the Final Four, but still I always play about three brackets in a pool.