19th Annual J. Community Pool

Men's College Basketball Championship

TOURNAMENT NEWS

WELCOME TO THE HOME OF THE 19TH ANNUAL MARCH MADNESS POOL IN SUPPORT OF THE CAMPAIGN FOR JEWISH NEEDS!

This is the one March Madness pool where you can support educational, humanitarian and social services that enrich and save lives, promote a vibrant worldwide community, and provide for a promising Jewish future, while at the same time have fun and win cash.

FINAL UPDATE:
Congratulations to this year's winners:

First Place--Daniel Sax
Second Place--Bobby Unger
Third Place--Paul Toldis
Fourth Place--Atara Balanson

The winners hail from Pittsburgh, Boston, Cleveland and Memphis. Kudos to Daniel Sax who won for the second year in a row. What's amazing about his back-to-back wins is that the two years could not have been more different. Last year all the favorites made it into the Final Four, while this year was upset city. In order for him to repeat, Danny had to use a completely different style from the year before when filling out his brackets.

Thanks again to everyone for making the 2010 Jewish Community March Madness charitable pool a huge success! There are still a few of you who have yet to forward your entry fees to me. So we can send out the prizes and make good on our financial commitments to the organizations and causes we support, please send in your $$$ immediately.

The following is a list of winners from previous years:
2010: 1st-Daniel Sax, 2nd-Bobby Unger, 3rd-Paul Toldis, 4th-Atara Balanson
2009: 1st-Daniel Sax, 2nd-Chuck Miller, 3rd-Ari Milgrom, 4th-Brett Clothier
2008: 1st-Larry Blaha, 2nd-Adam Rubin, 3rd-Matt Wieder, 4th-Martz Muchugos
2007: 1st-Jason Sherman, 2nd-Carly Meyerson, 3rd-Erick Neu, 4th-Don Goldberg
2006: 1st-Gooberman, 2nd-Jared Rothkopf, 3rd-Craig Breslow, 4th-Robert Hartstone
2005: 1st-Natan Schwartz, 2nd-Danny Friedman, 3rd-Dov Jacobs, 4th-Debbie Klein
2004: 1st-Shawn Carlisle, 2nd-Mark Warn, 3rd-Jacob Weiss, 4th-Jonas Pickholz
2003: 1st-Tom Cummings, 2nd-Dan Borison, 3rd-Chazal, 4th-Les Levine
2002: 1st-Jeff Tietel, 2nd-Paul Burke, 3rd-Elya Beer, 4th-Danny Friedman
2001: Dave Meyerson, Danny Friedman, Steve Levine, Gary Cowan
2000: Jim Wolford, Avi Kessler, Nancy Hall, Bob Costas
1999: 1st/tie-Eric Edelsberg & Allison Levine, 2nd/tie-Kim Cowan, Steve Levine & Mike Madden
1998: Michael Hoenig, Scott Stuart, Alan Walter, Ziva Davidovich
1997: Josh Doehring, t-Charles Cummings & Keith Lemmonvich, Hershel Smilovich
1996: Allan Feldman, Hal Hirschfield, t-Daniel Blain & Steve Levine

COLLEGE BASKETBALL SCOREBOARD:

TOP PLAYERS IN CURRENT STANDINGS

Place	Name Last,First	Points
1	Sax, Daniel (2)	132
2	Unger, Bobby	130
3	Todis, Paul	126
4	Balanson, Atara Thomas	122
5	Jacobs, Dov	120
6	Safford, Robert (4)	119
7	Sudow, Noah	118
8	Weisman, Mark	118
9	Rumizen, Scott (1)	118
10	Kessler, Avi	116

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TOURNAMENT RULES

Entry Fee: $5.00. Multiple entries are not only allowed, they're encouraged!

Deadlines: Picks are due by no later than noon on Thursday, March 18th and the entry fee is due by Saturday, March 20th.

Scoring: For each game in the NCAA Basketball championship tournament you predict correctly, you will earn points in the pool. To encourage risk-taking and reward you for predicting upsets, you will earn double bonus points whenever a higher seeded team defeats a lower seeded team during rounds 1-4 only (see below for a more in-depth explanation). Each correct pick earns points as follows: Round 1=1 point plus 1 point for an upset; Round 2=2 points plus 2 points for an upset; Round 3=4 points plus 4 points for an upset; Round 4=8 points plus 8 points for an upset; Semi-finals=16 points; Championship game=20 points. Most total points at the end of the tournament wins. In the event of a tie, the contestant with the highest winning percentage wins. If a second tie-breaker is required, the participant closest to the total score of the championship game wins.

Underdog Scoring: To get points for Underdog Scoring a player must correctly pick a team to win a certain game as an underdog AND that team must win the game as an underdog (regardless of who they play). Points are then awarded based on Round Bonus Points.
Example: Jerry picks Alabama (#15 seed) over Kentucky (#7 seed) in a 2nd Round game.
With Underdog Scoring, if Alabama beats a higher seeded team (lower seed number) then Jerry would be awarded 2 points for picking the winning team and 2 bonus points for picking the underdog.
Another example:
Round 1: #5 Wisconsin vs #12 SW Missouri St. -- John Doe picks SW Missouri
SW Missouri wins, John Doe would get points for underdog bonus.
Round 1: #4 Tennessee vs #13 Delaware -- John Doe picks Delaware,
Tennessee wins, John Doe gets no points
Round 2: Matchup is #12 SW Missouri St. vs #4 Tennessee
Joe Schlabotnick picked #12 SW Missouri St over #13 Delaware.
MR. SCHLABOTNICK IS TAKING NO UNDERDOG RISK IN THIS GAME. HE IS PICKING A HIGHER SEEDED TEAM ON HIS SHEET therefore even if SW Missouri St. beats Tennessee, Joe Schlabotnick will get no underdog bonus points.

Tie Breakers: In the event of a tie, the contestant with the highest winning percentage wins. If a second tie-breaker is required, the participant closest to the total score of the championship game wins.

TOURNAMENT PRIZES

After we donate a minimum of 25% of the monies collected for the pool, the winners will take home from the pot the following percentages:

1st Place: 50%
2nd Place: 25%
3rd Place: 15%
4th Place: 10%

Last year we had 430 participants at $5 each = $2,150

We donated $420 to the Cheryl Kessler Memorial Fund at Fuchs Mizrachi School and another $300 to the annual Campaign for Jewish Needs.

Which left us $1,430 for the winners. The amount of prize money allocated was:

1st: $715
2nd: $357.50
3rd: $214.50
4th: $143

Last Updated On: 4/12/2010 at 6:53 PM