April Madness!

One thing that has always bothered me with modern sports brackets is the idea that the team that loses the championship game is somehow the second place team.  The only thing you can really say about the team that loses the championship game is that they are better that their half of the bracket.  To do the second place properly (but not the most efficiently), I'm going to do another bracket with all 15 that didn't win my March Madness Bracket (found here).  Because PC CC:01 was the runner up from the first bracket, I'll give it the bye for the first round.  So, rolling out the definitive proof that the runner-up isn't the second best, here's my first April Madness bracket:

 Reservoir                                              
                                             |   Filibuster                        
  Filibuster                           |                        |                 
                                                                     |   1792             
  Tayne                                                          |                       |
                                             |    1792            |                       |
  1792 Single Barrel             |                                               |
                                                                                             | PC CC:01 
   Bunnahabhain 12                                                              |                  |
                                             | B'habhain 12                        |                   |
  Larceny                              |                        |                      |                  |
                                                                     |  PC CC:01     |                  |
  PC CC:01                                                  |                                          |
                                             |   PC CC:01   |                                          |
 Old Overholt                       |                                                                 |
                                                                                                               | PC CC:01
  Willett's 3 Yr Rye                                                                                 |
                                             | Willett's                                                   |
   Ardbeg 10                         |                      |                                           |
                                                                    | Balvenie 17                      |
   Taconic                                                    |                        |                   |
                                             | Balvenie 17  |                       |                    |
  Balvenie 17 Peated Cask   |                                              |                    |
                                                                                            | Lag 12 CS |
 Russell's Reserve 6 Yr Rye                                                |
                                             |  RR 6 Yr                               |
 Jim Beam Black                 |                      |                        |
                                                                    |  Lag 12 CS   |
                                                                    |
  Lagavulin 12 CS                                       |

Well, OK, the runner up from my March Madness bracket won.  But that result shouldn't be surprising because the Port Charlotte CC:01 is my favorite whisky of all time.

Let's do it again!  (I'll remind you this post aptly has the word "madness" in the title. But I will note that any previous result is carried over to the next bracket shortening the process.)  Surely this time the runner up Lagavulin 12 CS won't win.  After all, Lag 12 CS was knocked out in the 2nd round of my March Madness bracket. 

Jumping straight to the winner  ...  Lagavulin 12 CS (runner up from the previous bracket) and the runner up is Balvenie 17.

Again!  Winner: Bunnahabhain 12.  Runner Up: Balvenie 17.  Finally, the runner up from the previous round didn't win!

I carried this out until the end to determine the placement of these whiskies from 1-16 and the results are tablulated below.  The Tourney Rank is where it ranked in this particular tournament and the Colley Rank is the overall rating.  See my Whisky Rankings for more info on the Colley Rank, as well as the R-rating, win-loss, and Strength of Schedule Rank.  Not surprisingly, the Glenfarclas 105 jumped way up in my rankings with it's good showing in this tournament.  Russell's Reserve 6 Yr Rye and Jim Beam Black also punched above their weight in this tournament and moved up in the rankings.  The Filibuster and Reservoir really didn't do it for me this time and dropped.

Tourney Rank	Colley Rank	Whisk(e)y	Normalized R-rating	Win-Loss		SOS Rank	Change
1	37	Glenfarclas 105	79.5	21	7	55	42
2	1	Port Charlotte CC:01	100.0	26	1	5	0
3	4	Lagavulin 12 Yr CS	96.0	43	3	8	-1
4	12	Bunnahabhain 12	87.9	30	6	23	1
5	9	Balvenie 17 Peated Cask	89.9	24	4	18	-3
6	72	Willett's Rye 3 Yr	71.6	19	9	82	4
7	130	Russell's Reserve 6 Yr Rye	57.9	15	14	133	46
8	204	Jim Beam Black	44.8	14	24	200	24
9	128	Larceny	58.4	22	20	131	9
10	150	1792 Single Barrel	54.8	8	11	151	5
11	148	Filibuster Dual Cask Bourbon	55.3	10	12	147	-19
12	215	Taconic Dutchess Private Reserve	42.8	6	17	209	8
13	231	Old Overholt Rye	39.0	11	26	221	6
14	142	Ardbeg 10	56.2	43	36	144	-20
15	207	Glenmorangie Tayne	44.4	21	39	201	-5
16	195	Reservoir Hunter & Scott 18 Yr	47.4	9	18	192	-57