Websites for Managing Your Playoff Brackets and Tournaments

I recieved an email from Mission Control, a firm that specializes in mailings for political campaigns, about their March Madness tournament.  I participated in a friends bracket pool last year – he did the entire pool by hand and I think it was quite a bit of work to calculate the scores from each person in the pool.

March Madness seems particularlly hot this year – with even the President making bracket picks bracketology is now Baraketology.  You can check out President Obama‘s bracket on the White House Blog here.

I noticed that the Mission Control tournament was powered by tourneytopia.com.  Which got me thinking about the idea of March Madness as a community building opportunity – a great way to engage others in your website.  I did a quick look at what websites exist to make it possible to set up your own bracket pool – here is what I found – some are free and some charge a fee.

• CBS Sports Bracket Manager – FREE
• MyPlayoffs.com – FREE
• Tourneytopia.com – $
• Tournament Pools.com – $
• Google Docs – CNET has a post on using google docs to manage your tournament

I set up a quick pool for IheartPGH and announced the pool on twitter and facebook – the response has been great – over 25 people have submitted brackets.  

Are there websites out there for managing bracket pools?  Which one do you like best?

Related blog posts

• March Madness Hitting Full Steam on the Facebook Platform (insidefacebook.com)
• March Madness: 10 sites to feed your need (news.cnet.com)
• How to win your NCAA pool: Pick Duke, and act like a hedge-fund manager. (slate.com)
• March Madness comes to the iPhone (tuaw.com)
• CBS March Madness app (textually.org)
• Obama’s Final Four: L’ville, UNC, Memphis, Pitt (sportsillustrated.cnn.com)