No, I’m not talking judges. Rather, seeking your indulgence for my occasional foray into sports, I’m talking NCAA basketball. Now there’s an area where President Obama appears to combine a deep knowledge with a genuine passion. Too bad we don’t see the same combination in, say, decisions about military intervention in Libya or about how to reform health care.
As it happens (and I readily acknowledge that luck—especially my picking U.Conn. to make the final—was the major component), I trounced Obama in the NCAA bracket picks. I finished with 81 points—96th percentile among the millions of submissions to the Yahoo pool. Obama, after a remarkably strong start, ended up with the equivalent* of 65—87th percentile in the ESPN pool.
Now, if President Obama would only let me pick his judges for him ….
* Committing score inflation, ESPN multiplies the traditional score by a factor of 10, so Obama’s score in its pool is 650, and mine would be 810.