They use a 1-5 rating system for a few different Categories:

Hot streak
Experience
Size
Offense
Defense
3 point

They also give you a range for the seed.

Funny enough I ended up picking OSU to beat MSU in the Championship game. Just click upper left hand corner "Do Another Bracket" for your own.

http://projects.wsj.com/blindfold-brackets-2012/print.html?r=53,67,41,26,48,45,37,39,29,43,17,10,18,9,31,16,33,14,2,44,13,46,28,40,3,12,35,19,11,6,32,38,30,15,4,42,48,39,43,10,18,31,14,44,13,28,12,19,11,38,15,42,48,10,18,44,13,19,11,42,48,18,19,42,18,19,19,-1

Not bad. I ended up with Kansas over Kentucky in the finals, Kentucky, MSU, Vanderbilt, Kansas in the Final 4. Pretty chalk bracket except the East where I had Vandy-Gonzaga (??) in the Elite 8.

gorocks99;1113818 wrote:Not bad. I ended up with Kansas over Kentucky in the finals, Kentucky, MSU, Vanderbilt, Kansas in the Final 4. Pretty chalk bracket except the East where I had Vandy-Gonzaga (??) in the Elite 8.

Same FF for me.

I think the only major flaw in this was that it kinda just went up and down the bracket, so I kinda knew who were most of the teams were going into the Sweet Sixteen, so that bias may have crept into my picks. Also, I picked 3 14 seeds and 3 11 seeds without a 5/12 upset.

NilesPacMan;1113839 wrote:Same FF for me.

I think the only major flaw in this was that it kinda just went up and down the bracket, so I kinda knew who were most of the teams were going into the Sweet Sixteen, so that bias may have crept into my picks. Also, I picked 3 14 seeds and 3 11 seeds without a 5/12 upset.

Ya, I haven't looked at the bracket so I didn't know anything like that. The other major flaw that I thought was it seemed to have a few "both way" stats such as Experience, Hot streak, and Height.

But it had 2 offensive stats (Offense and 3 point shooting) as opposed to 1 defensive stat. I ended up putting a lot less emphasis on 3 point shooting as it can come and go and didn't give that stat as much weight. Which I guess is part of the reason I ended up with MSU and OSU in the finals.

I covered up the seeds and did it. Wound up with Witchita St in the Final 4.