Des Moines – For the third year in a row, Gretchen, an associate director in the accounting department, won the company March Madness pool by sticking with her foolproof strategy of picking winners based on team mascots. “It’s so fun to think about all the animals and stuff,” chirped Gretchen, who is not a fan of college basketball or sports of any kind but participates in the March Madness pool “because everyone seems to do it.” At press time, several members of the finance department who had devoted hours to building mathematical models to predict the tournament outcomes reported that they never liked Gretchen to begin with.