As he's done for quite a few years now, my friend Jason set up an NCAA tournament picking group on ESPN.com. I know very little about college basketball, but it's just for fun, so I always give it a try. And this year -- well, I'm not sure if you'd be able to see the group scoreboard without signing in on ESPN.com, so I'll just paste in a screenshot here...



You may notice that I have 280 more points than the next highest person in the group. You may notice that I did better than 99.8% of the other people picking on ESPN.com.

So, what's my secret? Well, I live in Los Angeles, so I picked UCLA to be one of the two final teams. I'm from Florida, so I picked the University of Florida to be the other final team, and to win it all. (My final score prediction was Florida 71, UCLA 63 -- not too far off from the actual score, which was 73-58.)

If only I'd participated in an office pool (i.e., if only I had a job) -- I may well have ended up with some cash.