This year, trade in your March Madness bracket pool for a fantasy draft!

Just about everyone does a March Madness bracket these days. You gotta do it. March Madness comes in like a lion and takes over the sports zeitgeist in those last few weeks before the NBA playoffs and baseball’s first pitch.

Look, brackets are great. You fill in 63 tiny lines with winners and root them on all the way to the Final Four, racking up points amidst an orgy of games. Great fun, really. But in the end, that one final line trumps everything else. If you don’t pick the right champion, you’re not winning your bracket pool. For all the talk of Cinderellas and sleepers, you get that last pick right or go home a loser.

Isn’t that a bit unfair? Aren’t you still a little upset you got no recognition despite nailing 7-seed South Carolina’s Final Four run AND throwing 11-seed Xavier into your Elite Eight? It felt so good getting those sleeper picks right, but it was all for naught when your champ Louisville lost opening weekend.

Enter the March Madness draft, where picks are rewarded not just for winning a lot of games but also for overachieving expectations. Picking a North Carolina vs. Gonzaga final last year was smart, but it was also boring. Anyone can pick 1-seeds to win a bunch of games. Shouldn’t you be rewarded for your sleeper picks? And wouldn’t it be more fun if you could claim South Carolina as a sleeper all to yourself?

Besides, who doesn’t love a good fantasy draft? Here’s how it works…