I wanna be one of these

A BRACKETOLOGIST. If you know what this is, you're already aware of March Madness beginning next week. In the simplest explanation, Bracketology is the process of predicting who will play who in the NCAA men's basketball tournament. It's a complicated process that incorporates a secret, known-to-men only method, of predicting what teams will compete in the field of 65 qualifying teams, and, to place (bracket) them in the field by ranking all teams from first through sixty-fifth based upon this secret method/win/loss/difficulty of schedule. Oddly enough, our interest in these brackets meant a lot more to some of us in '90 & 91 when UNLV was a prominent team and bracketology wasn't even a word then. ESPN's Joe Lunardi is the inventor of the term "bracketology", starting first as the editor of the Blue Ribbon College Basketball Yearbook and ending up with a job as the resident bracketologist on ESPN. Below is an example. (It's certainly better than other "octologists" I can think of.) In reality, I'm gonna be a "watchologist" this March. Bigscreenology. You heard it here first. Are you "octologist?"