The Upset

"I don’t know anyone who doesn’t absolutely love this pool." – Bill Simmons

Play The Upset’s knockout pool during March Madness. Pick winners throughout the tournament and advance. The last person standing wins. (FULL RULES BELOW).

CREATE

Stop running your March Madness knockout pool in a spreadsheet. Use The Upset to create your pool in minutes and invite your friends to compete. You can make your pool public or private.

JOIN

Join a private pool started by a friend, alum, co-worker or enemy and be the last one standing when the nets are cut down. -OR-

Join an existing public pool (like ours!) and compete against the biggest college basketball fans in the world.

FULL RULES

The goal is to pick winning teams throughout March Madness. You just need teams to win outright, not against the spread.

First, you can only pick a team once. Period.

You must get your picks in before the first game of the day starts, even if you’re not making a pick in the first game.

On the first Thursday of the tournament you must pick 2 winners. If both your teams win, you advance to Friday. If one or both your picks lose, you must pick 4 winners on Friday to advance to Saturday.

If you picked 2 winners on Thursday then you only need to pick 2 winners on Friday to advance to Saturday.

If your picks win on Friday, whether it’s 2 picks or 4 picks, you advance to Saturday and you only need to pick 1 winner.

If any of your picks lose on Friday you must pick 5 winners in the Saturday games to advance.

If your Saturday picks win, you only need to pick 1 winner on Sunday. If any of your Saturday picks lose, you have one final chance. You must make 6 picks on Sunday to advance to the second week. 

Again, you can only pick a team once.

If your Sunday picks win, you only have to pick 1 winner per day for the rest of the tournament.

If you lose, you’re eliminated.

The person that makes it the furthest in the tournament wins the pool.