Tourney Teams Tab

If you are a registered user, here is where you can modify the regional names, tournament teams, abbreviations and records. Remember, you import the tournament teams from the Get Tournament Teams... menu item (under the File menu).

When a Region is selected, teams for that region will be displayed to the right. To change Team names, abbreviations or records, you can either double-click on the team or you can select the Edit Team button.

Use Play-In Game: In 2002, the NCAA added one more team to the 64 team bracket. In doing so, this created another game called a Play-in game. This game matches up the 64th and 65th seeded teams with the winner of this game facing the No. 1 seeded team.

Basically it's a meaningless game and we recommend not counting it as it causes more confusion than is really necessary. This game is also played on the Tuesday following Selection Sunday so it also takes away two days to collect more brackets for your pool.

NOTE: Once you have added entries to your pool, this option can not be changed selected. You may unselect it, however you will not be able to go back.

Opponent: Visible only when Use Play-In Game is selected. This allows you to select the opponent of for the 65th team. It can be one of the #16 seeded teams.

Again, once entries are added to the pool, this option should not be changed.

Here is where you change the scoring for your pool. Each round can be modified to suit your needs and there are plenty of options to choose from:

Correct Pick Scoring Options: There are two options to choose from where a bracket gets points for a correct pick (both options can be selected if desired):

Basic: Select this checkbox to award a certain amount of points on a per round basis.

Seed X Weights: Select this checkbox to score points for a correct picks based on team seed multiplied by the weight factor.

For example, with weighting factors of 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12:

A correct pick for a #14 seed in Rd 2 (Sweet 16) would net 56 points (4 x 14) whereas a correct #2 seed in the same round would net only 8 points (4 x 2).

Upset Pick Scoring Options: There are two options to choose from where a bracket gets points for an upset pick (again, both options can be selected if desired):

Every Upset: Points are awarded for each correctly picked upset (which is based on seeding). A value of zero means 0 points will be awarded.

For example, with values of 0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 15:

If a #16 seed beats a #1 seed in round one, an additional 1 point will be awarded to the total score. 1 point will also be awarded for a #9 seed beating an #8 seed.

Seed Difference X Weights: Points awarded based on difference between seeds multiplied by weighting factors for each correctly picked upset. A weight of zero means 0 points will be awarded.

For example, with values of 0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 15:

If a #16 seed beats a #1 seed in the first round, an additional 15 points will be awarded (15 x 1) to the total score. 1 point would be awarded for a #9 seed beating an #8 seed in the same round.

Tie Breaker: Acceptable selections are as follows:

None: No tiebreaker will be used. This field will not show up on brackets or reports.

Manual: Ties will be broken manually. Can be a string or number. (Standings report will show them as tied, however)

Number (Closest to number breaks tie): In case of scoring ties, standings will show correct ranking based on whoever is closest to the Tiebreaker value on The Results bracket. If the First-place Only checkbox is selected, only ties for first place will be broken.

Main window background and bracket colors can be changed from this tab. Two button states can be changed by selecting the drop down menu to the right. Play around with this option to get the ideal "Look and Feel" you desire for your pool.

Display Help Tags: When checked this shows a pop-up tag on certain Officepool objects (like team brackets). Probably the first thing you are going to want to do is turn this off.

Verify Brackets are Complete: If this is checked and when filling out a bracket, this will prompt a warning message if you try to go to another bracket without this bracket being complete.

Don't like the naming convention OfficePool has set up? This is where you change that as well as which fields you would like to capture. Field has multiple lines checkbox allows your fields to contain line breaks such as an Address field.

This just lets you remember what your pool pay-outs will be. The payout's you select here will be needed by the Possible Outcomes report.

Email Account Settings... This is where you enter the settings to enable you to send emails from within OfficePool. These settings should be the same as those you enter in you email application such as Outlook, Entourage or Mail. If you are not sure what these settings are, please contact your Internet Service Provider.

Connection Settings... This is where you would enter in proxy information, if your Internet Service Provider requires this. If not, simply select the Direct Connection to the internet option.

Pool Title: This is used on many of the reports generated by OfficePool.

Additional Report Prefs : This is where you set which reports you want to create when using the Build Entire Web Site option.

This will also determines which reports and in what order they are put in the Popup Menu item which is created on each web page. (From this dialog, you can re-order the reports by clicking and dragging on the row you want to move.)

Web Output options:

• Display Team Records: This will display the team records on the brackets generated.
  
• Show Correct/Incorrect on Brackets: When checked, will show, based on THE RESULTS bracket, whether the picks were correct or not.
  
• Use Javascript for Creating Brackets: Applicable when using the Build Web Site or ReBuild Entire Web Site options. Instead of creating a a page for each bracket, it creates one bracket template and uses Javascript (supported by most if not all web browsers) to fill out the bracket. This means you do not have to upload every bracket on your web server which can save you a ton of time.
  
• Show files after creating HTML reports: After creating HTML reports OfficePool will automatically open the folder where these files are located if this option is selected.
  
• Entries Per Page: This is the maximum number of rows you wish for the Standings, Possibilities and Entries web pages which are built from the Build Web Site menu item. The default is 25.
  
• No. Entries to Show (For What If Scenarios) is the number of rows you wish to show for the What If report web output. The default is 25.
  
• Default Sort on Picks Summary Report A drop down menu allows you to select how you want your Summary Report sorted.