3/18/12 - Walker March Madness 2012: Day 4
With two of my final four teams already out (thanks FSU, way to throw a game away), it doesn't look good for me again this year. I hope that just one year, some time in the future, I can at least place in my own pool. Amazingly, there are a few scenarios where I could still at least come in 3rd. The best I can hope for is Michigan St beating UNC in the title game. If that doesn't happen, I guess there is always next year.Labels: MM2012
0 Comments - Leave one yourself- LROMMC 2012: Day 4
I've already lost 2 of my Final Four teams, so it's not looking too great for me. Although amazingly, if my best case scenarios play out which include Michigan St. beating UNC in the title game, I could still pull out a win. Let's just say I'm not going to hold my breath though.| Name | Points | Tiebreak |
| John McDaniel | 46 | 0 |
| Flint Allen | 45 | 0 |
| Tracie Byrd | 44 | 200 |
| David Wagnon | 44 | 171 |
| Chris Johnson | 43 | 132 |
| Prashanth | 42 | 108 |
| Stephen Shirley | 41 | 125 |
| Rob Nossaman | 41 | 147 |
| Jon Albright | 41 | 140 |
| Patrick Bewley | 40 | 176 |
| Jeremy Kratz | 40 | 0 |
| Darren Tillery | 40 | 131 |
| Michael Hall | 40 | 170 |
| Angi Orsini | 40 | 73 |
| Tony "Pick em" Lewis | 40 | 149 |
| Lynn McLaughlin | 39 | 142 |
| Levell Kinchen | 39 | 160 |
| Eric Chilton | 39 | 163 |
| Tamra Upton | 39 | 183 |
| Jerald Caffey | 38 | 135 |
| Randy Spellins | 37 | 155 |
| Barry Settlemoir | 37 | 144 |
| Angel Cook | 37 | 164 |
| Matthew Carpenter | 37 | 141 |
| Jason Holland | 36 | 156 |
| Amy Chilton | 36 | 154 |
| Jonathan Hill | 36 | 140 |
| DJ Walker | 35 | 128 |
| Stacia Keough | 35 | 0 |
| Kent Bryant | 35 | 0 |
| Lydia Dixon | 34 | 0 |
| Donna Griffith | 33 | 132 |
| William Dunn | 33 | 173 |
| Carl Burks | 33 | 121 |
| Gaurav Berde | 31 | 140 |
| Suzanne Gulley | 30 | 172 |
| Sejal | 24 | 100 |
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0 Comments - Leave one yourself3/16/12 - LROMMC 2012: Day 2
If you are looking for the Walker March Madness Pool, please follow and bookmark this link.If you do not have a value in the tiebreak column, please let me know, I like to get that updated as soon as possible.
| Name | Points | Tiebreak |
| Tamra Upton | 25 | 183 |
| Prashanth | 24 | 108 |
| John McDaniel | 24 | 0 |
| Flint Allen | 23 | 0 |
| Eric Chilton | 23 | 163 |
| Lynn McLaughlin | 23 | 142 |
| Chris Johnson | 23 | 132 |
| Donna Griffith | 23 | 132 |
| Kent Bryant | 23 | 0 |
| Jeremy Kratz | 22 | 0 |
| Jerald Caffey | 22 | 135 |
| Michael Hall | 22 | 170 |
| David Wagnon | 22 | 171 |
| Darren Tillery | 22 | 131 |
| Tony "Pick em" Lewis | 22 | 149 |
| Tracie Byrd | 22 | 200 |
| Patrick Bewley | 22 | 176 |
| Carl Burks | 21 | 121 |
| Barry Settlemoir | 21 | 144 |
| Angel Cook | 21 | 164 |
| Matthew Carpenter | 21 | 141 |
| Jon Albright | 21 | 140 |
| Stephen Shirley | 21 | 125 |
| Levell Kinchen | 21 | 160 |
| Stacia Keough | 21 | 0 |
| Rob Nossaman | 21 | 147 |
| Angi Orsini | 20 | 73 |
| Jason Holland | 20 | 156 |
| Amy Chilton | 20 | 154 |
| Jonathan Hill | 20 | 140 |
| DJ Walker | 19 | 128 |
| William Dunn | 19 | 173 |
| Randy Spellins | 19 | 155 |
| Lydia Dixon | 18 | 0 |
| Gaurav Berde | 17 | 140 |
| Sejal | 16 | 100 |
| Suzanne Gulley | 16 | 172 |
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0 Comments - Leave one yourself- Walker March Madness 2012: Day 2
If you are looking for the rules for the Annual Little Rock Office March Madness Challenge held for office mates, please follow and bookmark this link.I believe we set a record this year, Chris picked the first 21 games of the tournament this year, which included a handful of upsets. I'm pretty sure that no one saw Duke and Missouri, and not too many saw Michigan losing first round either. No big buzzer beater games, but plenty of upsets, all in all a good year so far (except me bringing up the rear in the standings).
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0 Comments - Leave one yourself3/15/12 - LROMMC 2012: Day 1
If you are looking for the Walker March Madness Pool, please follow and bookmark this link.If you do not have a value in the tiebreak column, please let me know, I like to get that updated as soon as possible.
| Name | Points | Tiebreak |
| John McDaniel | 14 | 0 |
| Tony "Pick em" Lewis | 14 | 149 |
| Chris Johnson | 14 | 132 |
| David Wagnon | 14 | 171 |
| Eric Chilton | 14 | 163 |
| Flint Allen | 14 | 0 |
| Prashanth | 14 | 108 |
| Jerald Caffey | 14 | 135 |
| Angel Cook | 13 | 164 |
| Darren Tillery | 13 | 131 |
| Donna Griffith | 13 | 132 |
| Jeremy Kratz | 13 | 0 |
| Jonathan Hill | 13 | 140 |
| Kent Bryant | 13 | 0 |
| Levell Kinchen | 13 | 160 |
| Lynn McLaughlin | 13 | 142 |
| Tamra Upton | 13 | 183 |
| Michael Hall | 13 | 170 |
| Jon Albright | 13 | 140 |
| Randy Spellins | 12 | 155 |
| Amy Chilton | 12 | 154 |
| Patrick Bewley | 12 | 176 |
| Jason Holland | 12 | 156 |
| Stephen Shirley | 12 | 125 |
| Stacia Keough | 12 | 0 |
| Angi Orsini | 11 | 73 |
| Barry Settlemoir | 11 | 144 |
| Carl Burks | 11 | 121 |
| Rob Nossaman | 11 | 147 |
| Matthew Carpenter | 11 | 141 |
| William Dunn | 11 | 173 |
| DJ Walker | 10 | 128 |
| Suzanne Gulley | 10 | 172 |
| Lydia Dixon | 10 | 0 |
| Gaurav Berde | 10 | 140 |
| Sejal | 9 | 100 |
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0 Comments - Leave one yourself- Walker March Madness 2012: Day 1
If you are looking for the rules for the Annual Little Rock Office March Madness Challenge held for office mates, please follow and bookmark this link.We have one perfect bracket, and it belongs to none other than our 3 time champion (I think it's three, I've lost count). I am still bringing up the rear...and I really thought I had a good chance this year.
If you do not have a value in the tiebreak column, please let me know, I like to get that updated as soon as possible.
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0 Comments - Leave one yourself3/12/12 - March Madness 2012, the pool continues
If you are looking for the rules for the Annual Little Rock Office March Madness Challenge held for office mates, please follow and bookmark this link.March Madness is here. As in years past, my time is stretched pretty thin. I'll do my best to collect all the brackets and money before the first tip-off (not including the play-in game), but some might be collected Thursday evening. We will have to run on the honor system, and those that I anticipate receiving that evening, are very honorable people. If you have any issues with this, leave your concerns in the comments section. I will accept brackets via snail mail (postmarked by Wednesday) or received in person. I do not plan on making runs all over town to pick up money and brackets. If you want to be part of this, you will need to either mail the bracket AND money to me, or you can drop them off at my house.
I'll put my address, phone number and email address at the end of this section. All you will need to do is print out the bracket from this link (ESPN is my preferred bracket simply for consistency), fill it out, put the bracket and either cash or check for your entry fee (still only $5 a bracket) in an envelope and send it to me.
Daily updates (daily as in game day) will be made on this website with the most up to date scores. I will no longer be doing daily emails, you'll just have to check back here to see who's winning (or how bad your are doing).
Contact Information
DJ Walker
148 Feldspar Drive
Sherwood, AR 72120
GravyTrain6@gmail.com
501-412-7634
- A completed bracket should contain the following information:
- A prediction for all 63 games of the tournament
- The play-in games do not count for points. If you have a play-in game winner, both teams will be treated as one. For example, if you have California or South Florida beating Temple, you would get a point for picking a Temple loss, regardless of your choice of California/Temple.
- The entrants name, phone number, email and tiebreak point prediction. The contact information is only used for payouts. Don't worry about spam, I hate it as much as you do.
- To be eligible for the pool money, an entry fee of $5.00 is required.
- This fee must be received before tip off of the first game on Thursday (exceptions do apply as explained at the beginning of this post) or in an envelope postmarked by Wednesday before the first game.
- Other brackets are readily accepted, however if the fee is received after the tipoff, no prize money will be rewarded to the entry.
- All brackets received will be listed among the leaders and prize money eligibility will be denoted. I have found it interesting to see how individuals do, regardless of their interest in college basketball or pools.
- Multiple brackets can be entered per person.
- Each individual can have no more than 4 brackets eligible for prize money.
- For every bracket entered, the entry fee is required in order to be eligible. If only a portion of entered brackets should be eligible, I have to be informed before the first game, otherwise, I will denote the eligible brackets based on the order I enter them in the system.
- Prize disbursement will be determined as follows:
- 1st Place receives 60% of the final pool rounded up to the nearest whole dollar.
- 2nd Place receives 30% of the final pool rounded up to the nearest whole dollar.
- 3rd Place receives 10% of the final pool rounded off to complete the total prize pool.
- Points will be awarded for winning picks as follows:
- By picking the winner of a 1st round game, 1 point is awarded.
- By picking the winner of a 2nd round game (correctly placing a team in the Sweet 16), 2 points are awarded.
- By picking the winner of a Sweet 16 game (correctly placing a team in the Elite 8), 3 points are awarded.
- By picking the winner of an Elite 8 game (correctly placing a team in the Final Four), 4 points are awarded.
- By picking the winner of a Final Four game (correctly placing a team in the Championship game), 5 points are awarded.
- By picking the winner of the Championship game (correctly predicting the NCAA National Champion), 6 points are awarded.
- Tie Breaker
- In the case of a tie at the end of the tournament, a tiebreak will be determined by the entry correclty guessing the TOTAL number of points scored by both teams in the Championship game.
- If a tiebreaker is not provided at the time of bracket submission, a default tie breaker of 0 will be used.
- The winning entry with the closest prediction to the actual total (whether going over or not) will be given the win. If both entries are equally close, the individual who chose lower than the actual total will be awarded the win.
- In the case that none of the "Winners" submit a tiebreak prediction (or if the predictions are the same), the entrant with the most correct picks in the first round will be given the win.
- If still tied, the 2nd round will be used, followed by the third round, etc.
- If still no winner has been determined by the championship game, the entrants will share the title or position.
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0 Comments - Leave one yourself- 4th Annual Little Rock March Madness Office Challenge
If you are looking for the Walker March Madness Pool, please follow and bookmark this link.Welcome to the 3rd Annual Little Rock Office March Madness Challenge (LROMMC) 2012. The rules are simple and are included below. Since everyone is here in the office, it should be pretty easy to collect the brackets. I'll take a walk around the office on Monday to pass out brackets, another pass on Wednesday afternoon to collect brackets and a final walk on Thursday morning just before the first game to pick up the stragglers.
Daily updates (daily as in game day) will be made on this website with the most up to date scores. I will no longer be doing daily emails, you'll just have to check back here to see who's winning (or how bad your are doing).
- A completed bracket should contain the following information:
- A prediction for all 63 games of the tournament
- The play-in games do not count for points. If you have a play-in game winner, both teams will be treated as one. For example, if you have California or South Florida beating Temple, you would get a point for picking a Temple loss, regardless of your choice of California/Temple.
- The entrants name, work extension, and tiebreak point prediction (see below).
- Points will be awarded for winning picks as follows:
- By picking the winner of a 1st round game, 1 point is awarded.
- By picking the winner of a 2nd round game (correctly placing a team in the Sweet 16), 2 points are awarded.
- By picking the winner of a Sweet 16 game (correctly placing a team in the Elite 8), 3 points are awarded.
- By picking the winner of an Elite 8 game (correctly placing a team in the Final Four), 4 points are awarded.
- By picking the winner of a Final Four game (correctly placing a team in the Championship game), 5 points are awarded.
- By picking the winner of the Championship game (correctly predicting the NCAA National Champion), 6 points are awarded.
- Tie Breaker
- In the case of a tie at the end of the tournament, a tiebreak will be determined by the entry correctly guessing the TOTAL number of points scored by both teams in the Championship game.
- If a tiebreaker is not provided at the time of bracket submission, a default tie breaker of 0 will be used.
- The winning entry with the closest prediction to the actual total (whether going over or not) will be given the win. If both entries are equally close, the individual who chose lower than the actual total will be awarded the win.
- In the case that none of the "Winners" submit a tiebreak prediction (or if the predictions are the same), the entrant with the most correct picks in the first round will be given the win.
- If still tied, the 2nd round will be used, followed by the third round, etc.
- If still no winner has been determined, by the championship game, the entrants will share the title or position.
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0 Comments - Leave one yourself4/15/11 - Tornado sirens in the wee hours
I knew we were supposed to have pretty heavy storms last night, but when I got in bed, the wind was blowing, but that was about it. At 2am, however, I was awoken by the tornado sirens. I've always been the type, that when the sirens go off, that's your signal to step outside and just have a look for yourself. I still have that same thought process, with one added piece, make sure your girls are safe (all three of them).Last night was no exception. I immediately got out of bed and stepped outside, just to have a quick look. What I saw did not make me happy. It was COMPLETELY calm, which is always the signal that it's about to get real. But on top of that, it just felt "wrong". It might have been the fact that I was stirred from my slumber at 2am, but it just put me on edge.
With it still calm, i came back in, but before I could get back in bed, it started raining. Not just a little bit of rain, but a serious rainstorm. What came with it was from what I could tell very high winds (internet showed only 15mph winds, but I'm not buying that). It was also swirling rain, as I could hear the rain hitting each side of our house in succession. That was enough for me. I decided to get my girls and hang out in the bathroom for a few minutes, simply preparing for the worst.
Makenna slept in my arms the whole time, Kinsley sat in Cristi's arms, but was quite good with the whole ordeal. I've learned that trying to get Raider in the bathroom is virtually impossible, and with it raining outside, he was terrified already and would have peed on the carpet had I got near him...he had to fend for himself.
No more than 5 minutes in the bathroom, we went back to bed and after tucking them all in I turned on the TV to check the local channels for any updates. It took a minute for a satellite (thanks Dish) to pick up any stations, but once it came on, all they were saying is that there was virtually no more threat of a tornado and the rain was clear past our house based on their weather maps.
Once I heard that, I was much more at ease and headed back to bed. Not something I'd like to do again anytime soon, but it made me feel pretty good as the sirens actually woke me up before Cristi. Being a dad is rough, knowing you are responsible for the protection of several other lifeforms is pretty nerve racking.
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1 Comments - Leave one yourself4/11/11 - Charitable giving
People know that I'm tight with my money. That's how I was raised, and although I'm not quite as much of a miser as I used to be, I still save and don't like to let it go easily. Charitable giving is something that I still have problems with. I donate money to causes that I feel are worthwhile or that I fully understand. My biggest problem is that I don't trust must other people to use the money I give in a proper way. (same issue with paying taxes, although i still do it).But, this is a post about something completely different. I was at one my lawn care customer's homes and I saw a young boy in Boy Scout uniform and has dad walking door to door. I immediately assumed that they were doing some sort of fund raising for Boy Scouts, quite common, no big deal. (As I retell the story, the numbers might be off as it has been a while since this has happened, but the basic idea still remains).
When the reached the house I was mowing, they walked to the door and I was at a point in my job that I was able to hear the conversation. The homeowner answered and the boy began his speech. When he was done, she politely said that she didn't need any of what he was selling but asked if she could write a check. He said that would be fine. She then asked if $10 would help him, and he responded with, "No ma'am, it has to be at least $25". His father reiterated this fact.
Are you friggin' kidding me? The Boy Scouts are more than willing to accept a check, but only if it is at least $25. I have yet to figure out why this is? When you buy $25 worth of popcorn (that you can buy at your local grocery store for $5), the scouts probably only get half of that, if that much. And that doesn't include the overhead included in gathering paper work, filing papers, checking figures, passing out purchases, etc. I would think that a $10 check (which you just have to cash at the bank) would be much more profitable. Heck, a $5 should be completely acceptable.
That's like a beggar refusing to accept a wad of $1 bills because he only accepts $10 bills. If you are going to go around and ask for money, and someone is WILLING TO GIVE YOU MONEY...can someone please tell me why they wouldn't accept it.
This story ends with the homeowner telling him that is too much and sending him away. I don't guess the Boy Scouts are hurting all that bad.
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