You have $10 to purchase as many teams as you want… most points wins… you get 5 points plus their original seed value per win… so each Houston win is worth 6 and Arkansas’s wins will be worth 15 each, etc., etc. The cost per teams are…
$4 for Auburn, Houston, Duke, Florida
$3 for Michigan St, Alabama, Texas Tech, Tennessee
$2 for Michigan, Maryland, Arizona, Kentucky
$1 for Purdue, Arkansas, Ole Miss, BYU
No limit to number of teams… you can go quality and take Auburn (4), Houston (4) and Kentucky (2) or you can go for quantity and take all four $1 teams ($4) and Maryland, Arizona, and Kentucky ($2 each).
Lot of clustering here as in the Pick9 game… only Duke and Florida are active picks as no one took Houston or Auburn… AI taking a 1 and 2 2’s takes the first weekend. If Florida loses in the Final Four, the top 3 stays the same. If Florida goes to the Championship, AbstractActuary and OutdoorMan tie for the top spot with AI taking third…
There is no tiebreaker, unless you two want to create one… friendly side wagers are always encouraged.