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March Madness - The easiest way to run your Bracket Pool for the NCAA Tournament!

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Written by Alexine Little
Updated over 2 years ago

Simplify your life this year by letting RunYourPool.com manage your March Madness Bracket Pool for you. We take care of accumulating your members' picks for the field of 64 teams, updating the games, calculating the results, and generating easy-to-understand reports for your members.

Make 2022 the year you take your NCAA Bracket Pool to the next level!

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BRACKET POOL RULES

This is the pool format most people are familiar with:

  • Members pick all 63 games of the NCAA tournament (15 games if you run a Sweet 16 pool).

  • Points are awarded for each winning pick.

  • Points values increase as the tournament progresses (points per round are configurable by the Pool Commissioner).

  • The winning team is the team with the most points at the end of the NCAA Tournament.

4 SIMPLE STEPS

Let us show you how easy we make running your 2021 March Madness pool:

Step 1 - Setup your pool

In less than 5 minutes, you provide us with all the information we need to run your pool for you. Supply us with your contact information, a pool password, and your customized pool settings.

Step 2 - Invite your pool members

After setting up your pool, you will receive a confirmation e-mail from runyourpool.com. This email contains a pre-formatted section that you can simply forward to the people that you'd like to join your pool. It contains a link and all the information they need to join.

Step 3 - Fill out brackets

Your pool members are provided with a bulletproof bracket submission form. No more incomplete or illegible brackets, and absolutely NO work for you, as the Pool commissioner, to do.

Step 4 - Enjoy the Tournament!

We take over from there. Your pool standings and all other reports are updated in near real-time as games conclude.

NCAA BRACKET POOL SAMPLES

The following samples are just a few of the reports you'll see for your March Madness bracket pool. Click on the samples below.


Pick Sheet


Prediction Overview


Leaderboard


Addition reports include:

MEMBER GROUPS

Frequently, pool commissioners want the ability to put members into different groupings or divisions. In an office pool, for example, it might be fun to have a contest between departments. Simply assign members to the correct departement (or whatever grouping works for your pool) and we'll track the statistics and standings of each individual group so you can compare them.

Do you have a different number of members in each group? No problem! We'll give you the group's average points so you can track it throughout the Tournament.

Member Group Results Sample

BRAND YOUR POOL

NCAA tournament pools are great promotional opportunities for your business. Whether targeting prospective clients, retaining existing clients, or just running an office pool, we now offer a way for you to enforce your company brand. It's ABSOLUTELY FREE to add your company or organization logo to customize the look of your Survivor pool. For more information, see our Brand Your Pool page.

PRIVATE MESSAGE BOARDS

Every NCAA Bracket pool hosted at RunYourPool.com includes a free, private message board. Your pool's message board, accessible only to your pool members, is a great way to communicate with members.

MARCH MADNESS POOL PRICING

Run your pool with no payment or obligation through the first week of the tournament. After the first week, there is a one-time fee to continue using the service based on the number of members in your pool. Our price is your one-time fee for the entire NCAA Tournament!

Included in the cost is the added benefit that we retain your pool information and members from year-to-year. Simply reset your pool next year and have your members log back in to pick again.

NOTE: An "entry" is considered a member's submission of one complete March Madness sheet, containing all 64 teams in the field.

  • 64-Team Bracket

  • Sweet 16 Bracket

We've recently upgraded our pricing structure to introduce a free tier! You can view the new tier structure on our Pricing page.



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