“Going chalk” with your predictions isn’t always the worst play. After all, favorites are favored for a reason, and picking them to win can yield solid results. Particularly with single-elimination brackets like March Madness, “going chalk” is a reasonable strategy. It’s not like these seeds just come out of thin air.
If you’re a big proponent of going chalk, let me introduce you to the 2026 Australian Open Men’s Bracket, perhaps the most chalk event since the international chalk hopscotch-drawing championships. The fourth round did not include a single unseeded player, and the quarterfinals (the last 8) included the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 8th seeded players. Felix
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