. >> reporter: in preparing for that beek leonardi and few hoop head started a trend. people fill out a bracket before the tournament starts. and they can get help from leonardi hoist an ace at predicting who is in and out. >> in an average year, i miss a team. if you go back 20 years i think i have missed, 23 teams in 20 years. >> reporter: how is joey brackets so good? he has shown me inside erin faux. >> actual committee members, this is what they use. >> this is what north carolina has done, 50 to a hundred, et cetera. and this is what villanova has done, one seed, two seed, three seed, four seed, and in every result, comes in from every game that involved those teams, up's updating their record, their rpi, their schedule strength, their top 50, et cetera. >> reporter: leonardi may be an ace of picking a field of 68, but choosing a winner is tough to do. he routinely lose toes people and animals alike. >> oh, my gosh i lose to, well , pets, children, you know , the girl down the hall who likes so and so uniform, color or mascot. because that is what makes it great.