Ten Tips To Help You Win Your NCAA Tournament Pool

The NCAA Tournament bracket has been unveiled, so it’s time to sharpen your pencils, get to work and make some money.

Here are 10 things to know before filling out the sheet for your office pool.

1. Know your scoring system. If you’re in a standard-format pool that rewards one point for a Round of 64 win, two points for the Round of 32, and so on, don’t pick a lot of upsets. It doesn’t pay. As long as you get two or three Final Four teams and the champ, you’ll be in the hunt.

Other pools reward risk-takers, giving twice the points when you correctly pick a lower seed to win. Some use a “multiplier” in which a No. 1 seed earns one point for a victory, while a No. 11 seed earns 11 points. In those pools, it pays to take chances