BracketManager Announces Innovative Tournament Genie" for College Basketball Fans

Independent fantasy sports website BracketManager (www.bracketmanager.com) announces the launch of its Quark Tournament Genie, a free interactive tool for exploring the history of the NCAA basketball tournament. College basketball fans can get immediate answers to virtually any question about how teams have performed in the tournament from the Genie.

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) March 11, 2005 -- Independent fantasy sports website BracketManager (www.bracketmanager.com) announces the launch of its Quark Tournament Genie, a free interactive tool for exploring the history of the NCAA basketball tournament. College basketball fans can get immediate answers to virtually any question about how teams have performed in the tournament from the Genie. Literally billions of questions are possible! For example, the Genie can answer how teams from the Big Ten Conference have performed against number one seeds from the ACC since 1985. To date, Quark Tournament Genie is the only resource available to the general public that provides such a comprehensive historical database.

Developed by Harvard graduates Sumit Daftuar and Michael Hartl in 2004, BracketManager provides fast and efficient ways to track and score NCAA tournament pools. Along with the Genie, BracketManager calculates the percentage of win scenarios for each bracket in a pool and creates insightful summaries and reports relating to the performance of teams in the NCAA tournament at no cost to their users.

Our goal is to enhance the enjoyment of the games by providing extra resources that are easily accessible to fans, and we are absolutely thrilled with the enthusiastic response that weve received from thousands of college basketball fans. When we first started the site during last years NCAA tournament, we had no idea if people would even notice us, and we would have been happy with 1,000 users. Then an unprecedented 10,000 people logged on, and we knew we had tapped into a winning idea," said Daftuar.

Daftuar first ran a college basketball pool while he was at Caltech earning his Ph.D. in mathematics. He began writing scripts to calculate his own scores when he realized how much time he was spending doing everything by hand. Hartl added a web interface for players to enter their brackets, and the program became an immediate hit among their peers. Daftuar and Hartl eventually decided to expand their hobby into a business, and today they continue to look for ways to improve BracketManagers site.

An indispensable tool for college basketball fans, the Quark Tournament Genie is available at http://bracketmanager.com/genie. For diehard fans, an advanced version of the Genie can be found at http://bracketmanager.com/advanced_genie.

BracketManager is a subsidiary of Quark Sports LLC, a company that provides fantasy sports games for football, baseball, and basketball. All Quark Sports fantasy games are conducted weekly, so fantasy gamers can play at any time and not be at a disadvantage. With unique services like the Quark Team Engine and the Quark Perfect Lineup, Quark Sports is a pioneer in using technology to make fantasy sports more entertaining. For more information, please visit www.bracketmanager.com and www.quarksports.com.

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