It’s official. The updated ratings came out yesterday and I am the absolute bottom in the office basketball brackets pool. Number 40 out of 40. Even a dead dog came out ahead of me. (Our pool allows pets of employees to enter and the pets are not verified, apparently even to see if they are alive.)

Only the top three get any prizes and the first also gets bragging rights for the year. It occurred to me that the only two that will be remembered are the first and the last. I will have anti-bragging rights for a year. And if I am to be remembered for being the worst, I’d rather have it be in an office pool than something important such as performance evaluations at work or ranking at school, or something embarrassing such as being the worst at gym in high school. I was so bad that I was not just the last one to be chosen for a team, I was the one they lent to the other team if they were short on players.

I really have no incentive to improve my score by starting to follow college basketball. I was a team player by entering and I am sure that Number 39 is very glad I entered.

Besides, learning more about basketball would take time away from investigating if I can fit a visit to Valapaiso, Indiana into one of my regular trips to the Hoosier State, hopefully during the popcorn festival.