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bracketologist
 n.— «The Internet and ESPN are full of bracketologists (some sportswriter somewhere is actually proud of coining this word), pundits and assorted know-it-alls.» —“Bracket can be filling” Morning Sentinel (Waterville, Maine) Mar. 13, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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