bracketology
n.— «This week bracketologists will find themselves mired in bracket mania as they hope to avoid picking a bracket buster.…Challenger, Gray and Christmas Inc. calculates annually the dollar amount businesses lose to bracketology. Including time used to pick winners, watch games on TVs and computers, and brag and moan around the water cooler, this year’s estimate is $889.6 million.» —“‘Bracketology’ means net loss of work at office” by Stu Durando St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Mo.) Mar. 16, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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