March Madness 2024 - Brain of J wins

[WaitingForBluey]

No automatic advance for DTE. Let the group of death commence.

[stip]

We begin on march 4th

Rounds will be randomized. This is too hard to put together brackets for

[LetMeSleep]

[Anders]

I’m ready.

[Bammer]

The poll is missing “stick with original track number idea” as an option.

[Anders]

I think both the current format and that one were good idea. Happy we're doing Dark Matter as part of this either way.

[ABNorman]

Lost my local copy of the ranker site, so have been working on a new version, and as part of that have rejigged my March Madness data.

So here are the top 20 March Madness songs of all time (via the very scientific formula of 100xWinner + 64xFinal + 32xSemi-Final + 16xQuarter-final + 8*Top 16 + 4*Top 32 + 2*Top 64 - so a winner would get ALL of those points in the year it won):

1. Corduroy (1136 points)
2. Immortality (1056 points)
3. Black (786 points)
4. Hail, Hail (760 points)
5. Last Exit (722 points)
6. In My Tree (688 points)
7. Release (682 points)
8. Do the Evolution (606 points)
9. Go (596 points)
10. Rearviewmirror (502 points)
11. Tremor Christ (476 points)
12. I Got Id (416 points)
13. Insignificance (398 points)
14. Brain of J. (388 points)
15. Porch (294 points)
16. Alive (234 points)
17. Given to Fly (224 points)
18. Faithful (222 points)
19. State of Love and Trust (134 points)
20. Long Road (124 points)

185 songs have 0 points on this metric.

I'd love to improve the formula and do a lot more fun, stupid data manipulation, but I'm staring down the barrel of having a second child, so quick and flawed it is.

[Anders]

Very cool. Thank you.

[stip]

can you share the full list of songs with points? i love these stats

[elliseamos]

Thanks, ABNorman.

And congrats!

[ABNorman]

can you share the full list of songs with points? i love these stats

Apologies for the cut 'n paste formatting. Everything not on this list has never made the top 64*. 143 songs here, 185 others on the current dataset (which is mostly songs that have appeared in a March Madness at some point, maybe a few extras).

* There's a year or two (particularly ones where we did survivor rounds) where it's slightly trickier to figure out what correlates to the "top 64" without doing more manual work I don't have time for right now.

Spoiler: show

Corduroy 1136
Immortality 1056
Black 786
Hail, Hail 760
Last Exit 722
In My Tree 688
Release 682
Do the Evolution 606
Go 596
Rearviewmirror 502
Tremor Christ 476
I Got Id 416
Insignificance 398
Brain of J. 388
Porch 294
Alive 234
Given to Fly 224
Faithful 222
State of Love and Trust 134
Long Road 124
Not For You 122
Even Flow 112
Animal 110
In Hiding 110
Hard to Imagine 92
Present Tense 90
Sleight of Hand 88
Sad 88
Smile 82
Nothingman 78
Yellow Ledbetter 74
Off He Goes 72
Daughter 70
Indifference 68
Red Mosquito 62
All or None 56
All Those Yesterdays 52
Grievance 50
Breath 50
Sometimes 42
Severed Hand 42
Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town 40
No Way 40
Nothing as it Seems 38
Why Go 36
Parachutes 36
Down 36
Of the Girl 34
Man of the Hour 32
Oceans 30
Cropduster 30
Life Wasted 30
Rival 28
Parting Ways 28
Deep 26
Light Years 26
I Am Mine 26
Unemployable 26
Fatal 26
Rats 24
Who You Are 24
Dance of the Clairvoyants 24
Better Man 22
Love Boat Captain 22
Got Some 22
Wash 22
Jeremy 20
Low Light 20
You Are 20
Marker in the Sand 20
Pendulum 20
Strangest Tribe 20
Spin the Black Circle 18
Can't Keep 18
Save You 18
W.M.A. 16
World Wide Suicide 16
Johnny Guitar 16
Around the Bend 14
Alone 14
Undone 14
Footsteps 14
Garden 12
MFC 12
Once 10
Pilate 10
Evacuation 10
Help Help 10
Army Reserve 10
Unthought Known 10
Force of Nature 10
Getaway 10
Mind Your Manners 10
Dissident 8
Blood 8
Satan's Bed 8
Breakerfall 8
Thin Air 8
Just Breathe 8
Whipping 6
Wishlist 6
Inside Job 6
Gonna See My Friend 6
Take the Long Way 6
In the Moonlight 6
Habit 4
Ghost 4
Get Right 4
Green Disease 4
1/2 Full 4
Comatose 4
Come Back 4
Swallowed Whole 4
Quick Escape 4
All Night 4
Black, Red, Yellow 4
Crazy Mary 4
Love, Reign O'er Me 4
Of the Earth 4
Glorified G 2
Leash 2
Lukin 2
Push Me, Pull Me 2
Gods' Dice 2
Big Wave 2
Gone 2
Amongst the Waves 2
The End 2
My Father's Son 2
Lightning Bolt 2
Infallible 2
Comes Then Goes 2
Education 2
Dead Man 2
Let Me Sleep 2
Happy When I'm Crying 2
Leatherman 2
Last Soldier 2
Cold Confession 2
Untitled (MFC Intro) 2
Society 2
Rise 2
Hunger Strike 2

[stip]

thanks!

[oneway23]

Thank you ABNorman...Congrats on the little one!

[Kalevi]

I am mine needs more love. Vote for it this year.

[Val]

I am mine needs more love. Vote for it this year.

The chord progression on it is almost metal

[Strat]

Tremor Christ and Go.

Got it.

Lets just skip to the final round and save everyone the time

[epilogue]

Angel
Sunburn
10 Billion Years
In The Moonlight

That should be the final four. And I'll keep repping those until it finally happens.

[CopperTom]

Will this be finished before Memorial Day?

[liebzz]

Will this be finished before Memorial Day?

Hope not. It’s my favorite season, followed by Autumn, Summer, Spring, and Winter.

[Buby]

Comes Then Goes that low on the ranks?
Holy shit! Did it go vs Corduroy every time?