Bracketology

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Bracketology is an example of adding the suffix 'ology' to a trivial task to make it sound scientific or difficult. Usage skyrockets during the month of March when any idiot with cable thinks they know everything about college basketball. At least until the boss' 13 year old daughter wins the office pool by picking the teams with the best looking jerseys. Anybody else is just kidding themselves. Also see words that add 'Engineering' and 'Science' to likewise trivial tasks. Urban Dictionary

Easy. Bracket. Something used normally in hanging something up or securing something. tology - the act of putting up a bracket or the science of actually making the bracket work properly after installed.... Wasn't that a crock.... Urban Dictionary

A college major, which is the art of studying, researching, and predicting which men's college basketball teams will advance in the upcoming men's ncaa final four tournament using an official tournament bracket which is released on selection sunday. Urban Dictionary

The Art and Science of figuring out and filling out NCAA basketball tournament bracket during March Madness. Urban Dictionary

Most directly put, the study of how to put a bracket together. Popularized by the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, bracketology is the system by which sports analysts and the NCAA committee decide, by a series of statistics such as RPI, win-loss ratio, final AP Ranking, and auto-bids decided by the outcome of a teams regional end-of-season tournament, what 65 teams (including the play-in game for the two least-qualified team) will play for the chance to win the NCAA Div. 1 Men's Basketball title. Teams are separated into four regions with 16 teams placed in each region. Each region contains teams with seeds #1-#16 and tournament play commences in early-mid March, hence the dubbed tournament name, March Madness. Bracketology is not limited to the NCAA Men's Basketball tournament, but that is the most common usage of the term when referred to in sports. Urban Dictionary

The fine art of destroying half of the populations NCAA bracket pool by a No. 1 seed being beaten by a No. 16 seed team. Urban Dictionary

To put bracketology into action (see bracketology); to strategically develop a bracket. (The term "bracket" as used in this definition refers to a bracket for the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. This tournament, "March Maddness", happens each year starting in mid-March and determines which team wins the NCAA Div. 1 Men's Basketball title.) Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to bracketology:
bracketology.

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