Clyde's Busted Bracket Protection Plan

Welcome to Clyde’s “Busted Bracket Protection Plan” contest! We’re the only March Madness promotion that rewards the best and worst predictions for this year's Big Dance.

The submission with the most accurate Final Four and championship game prediction, will be awarded a $100 gift card to Fanatics.com. But that’s just the beginning of the fun. The ultimate busted bracket, chock-full of heartbreak, upsets, and broken dreams will be sending a lucky fan to the Final Four with two tickets.

How To Play

In the submission fields to your right, input your predictions for who will make the Final Four, who will be crowned Champion, and the Total Points Scored In The Championship Game.

Example:
Gonzaga, Arizona, Kansas, Duke
Kansas
167

How It’s Scored

We’ve created a “busted bracket” formula. When one of your Final Four selections loses, you’ll accrue points. Here is our Heartbreak Index™

[The Reverse Of Your Team’s Seed] x [The Seed Of Your Opponent] x [The Margin of Defeat With 10+ being the lowest multiple (1), and 1 being the highest multiple (10)]

Here’s an example from Virginia’s historic and heartbreaking loss to UMBC in 2018:

As a #1 seed UVA’s reverse-value was worth 16. They lost to UMBC, a #16 seed, which is worth 16. And because it was a loss of 10 or more points it is only a multiple of 1.

16 x 16 x 1 = 256 points

To see the margin of defeat at work, here’s one more example. The 15th-seeded Lehigh Mountain Hawks upset the 2nd-seeded Duke Blue Devils in 2012 by five points. Here’s what that would have been worth in our contest:

15 (Duke’s reverse-value) x 15 (Lehigh’s seed) x 6 (margin of victory) = 1350 points

The winner of our main prize will have the highest point total according to our “busted bracket” formula.

The winner of the Fanatics gift card will be determined by the following formula:

1 point per correct Final Four Team, 3 points for the correct champion, and in the result of a tie, the tiebreaker will be the total points scored in the championship game.

Disclaimer
Only one entry per person. Multiple entries will nullify a winning submission.

Beignets, basketball and Bourbon Street await our winner in “The Big Easy.” But as the old saying goes, “you gotta be in it, to win it.” So here’s how you enter