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Sportsfan.com has the complete online solution for your 2008 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament contest or pool. Our web-hosting options include private pools run for your friends, family & co-workers and corporate contests as a way to attract customers to your website and built customer loyalty.

Why run your pool at sportsfan.com?
Our pool websites give you total control over your pool with many customization options. The best part is that you don't have to worry about downloading or installing any software, and you don't have to worry about updating the pool after games are played since the website does it all automatically for you. Do you like reports and statistics? The website automatically calculates a tremendous amount of statistical data. Imagine watching and enjoying the tournament instead of having to deal with updating software or doing calculations by hand.

Your pool website will not have advertisements and we never add you or your pool players to a mailing list of any kind.

•  Features
•  Each pool gets its own private web address used for your pool only.
•  Ability to have the pool website appear seamlessly through your own domain how this works.
•  Great for small pools or large pools (up to 5000 players)
•  Pages throughout the website can be customized with text and photos
•  Website style/colors/pictures can be customized
•  Many types of scoring methods available (e.g. points per round, upset, seed, round)
•  Unique "Bonus" points options such as "bonus teams" and more
•  Multiple tie-breaker options
•  Easy to use point-and-click online entry form (no Java or Flash required)
•  Can permit multiple entries from a single participant
•  Statistics galore! Numerous reports will amaze your participants
•  "Sweet 16 Pool" available once the tournament is down to 16 teams
•  Private forum for your website only
•  Track participant referrals
•  Track finances where allowed
•  Divide the pool into groups for a "pool within a pool"
•  Ability to add custom reports and uploads
•  Commissioner can send emails through website
•  Tournament scoreboard with periodically updated in-game scores
•  Website automatically calculates and updates scores within minutes
•  No software to download. Runs entirely online.
•  Website stays online until February 2009.
•  We've run out of room to describe the features. Please visit the demo or look at some screenshots.

•  New Features for 2008
•  Commissioner has much more control over the signup form.
•  Many more style elements and options
•  What If? calculator now available after 2nd round
•  New "Conference Standings" and "College Basketball News" reports
•  New reporting functions and controls
•  Finances now managed by individual rather than by entry
•  Scoring systems can be set for "All Rounds" at once
•  Online entry bracket can appear in the traditional bracket format
•  Additional tie-breaker added
•  Playin game can be scored immediately or after the deadline
•  Optional ticker (scrolling message) added to top of website
•  Single-use signup and entry token codes can be used to pre-approve new members and/or brackets
•  Removal of sportsfan.com logo from top of website
•  Many more enhancements based on your feedback!
•  Visit the demo and view the "Admin" menu to see all of the new features.

•  Features Removed
•  Reluctantly, support for the Women's tournament is no longer available. Women's pools made up less than 1% of our pools and we can no longer provide the resources to run both a Men's and Women's service.