Texas Bracket

Today, the Texas bracket is presented. The winner of this bracket will play the winner of the Kansas City bracket in the final four. So one of the 32 teams you see listed will play in the March Madness World Series.

To view the bracket, click here.

The Texas bracket is easily the most competitive and repetitive bracket in the tournament. It features 5 World Series Champions in its field of 16, the most of any bracket. It also features 2 World Series runner-ups. Of these 7 World Series participants in this bracket, 6 are from the American League, marking half of all AL WS participants crammed into one super bracket.

As far as the repetitive aspect goes, 4 of the 16 teams are from Pawtucket (none of which won an NL Pennant). Kansas City has 3 teams in the bracket. Colorado Springs & Jacksonville each have two teams in the bracket. 11 of 16 seeds from 4 teams. You can bet the boys on the New Orleans, Charlotte, Texas, Iowa City, and Louisville squads in this bracket will do their best to make sure none of those 4 powerhouses gets the Texas Bracket Championship.

As mentioned yesterday, Colorado Springs season 10 team, which lost the World Series, is the brackets #1 seed. They'll face off against New Orleans season 12 team, the first NO team to reach the NLCS.

In the 8/9 matchup, Charlotte's season 9 squad, which won 104 regular season games and 0 playoff games, goes up against the 9th seeded Shuffle of season 3 - the 2nd of Kansas City's 5 career World Series title teams.

Another world series champion, the Jacksonville Juggernauts of season 7, earn the #12 seed, and will go up against the season 11 Pawtucket Polythene, the 5th seed, which were the 9th Polythene team in a 10 season stretch to reach the NLCS.

The winner will play either the 4th seeded Colorado Springs AltiDUDES of season 9, who won NL homefield advantage and then lost to Max Hernandez's great Rochester squad in the NLDS, or the 13th seeded Kansas City Shuffle of season 1, the 3rd World Series Champion so far in this bracket, and the first in Sharkey's World history.

In the lower half of the bracket, we start off with the only matchup in the first round of this bracket to not feature a League Pennant winner. In the #6 seed are the season 8 Texas Tittyballs, who lost to eventual World Series Champion Pawtucket in the NLCS, the 5th playoff meeting between the two teams in a 7 season stretch. Going up against Texas, fittingly, are the 11th seeded season 9 Pawtucket Polythene, who ran into the same Rochester team the spoiled the #4 seed AltiDUDES.

In the #3 seed, the season 6 Pawtucket Polythene, the winningest team in Polythene history, look to set up a Pawtucket-Pawtucket round of 32 matchup. But they must first get by #14 seeded Kansas City of season 11, the lowest seeded World Series Champion in the tournament.

In the #7 seed are the Iowa City Kaysons of season 2, the only AL team to beat Kansas City in the playoffs in the first 6 seasons of SW history. They'll face off with the Polythene of season 7, who got swept in the NLDS by an inferior Rochester team.

And closing out the bracket in the #2 seed are the World Series Champion Juggernauts of season 9, the only WS Champion to lose 3 games or fewer in their run to the title. This powerhouse will have to get by an upstart Louisville team from season 4 in their first round matchup.

Whichever team survives this super bracket to advance to the Final Four will surely be battle tested, and probably will be the favorite to win the entire tournament.

Tomorrow, the 3rd of 4 brackets is unveiled, the Jacksonville bracket. The AL Champion Kansas City Shuffle of season 4 are the #1 seed in this bracket.