What is an Underdog Bonus?
If you enable this choice for a given round, if a player picks a team with a lower seed than it’s opponent to win a game, the player will also get the difference between the picked underdog’s seed value and the favorite’s seed value. For example, if a player picks a 14 seed to beat a 3 seed, then if the 14 seed wins the game, the player will get 14 – 3 = 11 addtional points. The bigger the upset, the more points the player gets for the pick. THE POINT DIFFERENCE IS CALCULATED USING THE ACTUAL TEAM MATCH-UP, NOT THE PICKED MATCH-UP! If you pick a 13 seed to meet a 5 seed in the second round and have the 13 seed winning but the actual match-up was the 13 vs. the 12 seed, you’d only get 1 Underdog Bonus point instead of 8. Also, if, in a game, you picked a team that would be an Underdog but the actual match-up makes the team you picked to win the favorite, you will NOT get the Underdog points.
