Today is Selection Sunday. Tuesday the opening four games start. Thursday the whole sha-bang begins. We decided to get you ready for the tournament by creating four brackets deciding who the best players are in our standards, culminating in a final four. That is, swagger, skills, ESPN under hype and greatness. We selected the 16 best players from each of the four major sports and put them into a bracket and determined them by these four attributes. Each will be graded on a ten point scale.
Swagger:
The way in which the individual holds themselves, dresses, acts in public, celebrates and simply swags it up. 10 being the owner of the swagger supermarket, 1 being the bag boy.
Skills:
How damn good they are. 10 being god of skills and 1 means I don't understand why he's a professional athlete.
ESPN Underhype:
How much air time this individual DOESN'T get on ESPN even though they clearly deserve it. A 10, means you are still sorely underrated(I corrected it for hockey, cause we all know no one talks about hockey), even if you are considered a "superstar." 1 means you're probably somewhere between Brett Favre, Danica Patrick and Freddy Adu.
Greatness Factor:
The killer instinct. How this player translate their skills into greatness. 10 is MJ, 1 is Ryan Leaf.
Matchup Breakdown:
1. Lebron James vs. 16. Jose Velverde
Swagger: 8-7
Skills: 10-6
ESPN Underhype: 1-6
Greatness Factor: 7-6
2. Kevin Durant vs. 15. Cliff Lee
Swagger: 10-8
Skills: 10-7
ESPN Underhype: 5-5
Greatness Factor: 7-6
3. Dwyane Wade vs. 14. Troy Tulowitzki
Swagger: 10-9
Skills: 9-9
ESPN Underhype: 9-8
Greatness Factor: 9-8
4. Derrick Rose vs. 13. Justin Upton
Swagger: 9-10
Skills: 9-8
ESPN Underhype: 7-8
Greatness Factor: 7-4
5. Calvin Johnson vs. 12. Henrik Sedin
Swagger: 9-5
Skills: 10-8
ESPN Underhype: 9-4
Greatness Factor: 6-3
6. Adrian Peterson vs. 11. Pavel Datysuk
Swagger: 8-3
Skills: 8-9
ESPN Underyhpe: 2-3
Greatness Factor: 5-6
7. Troy Polamalu vs. 10. Jimmy Howard
Swagger: 6-6
Skills: 8-7
ESPN Underhype: 4-9
Greatness Factor: 10-5
8 Darelle Revis vs. 9.Claude Giroux
Swagger: 8-5
Skills: 8-9
ESPN Underhype: 3-5
Greatness Factor: 6-3
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