Odds on picking a perfect NCAA bracket....

Dr.Pepper

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taken from the web :

For all you NCAA Tournament bracketheads out there who may have dreamed of filling out the perfect bracket, computer programmer Brannon Shadrick has determined that there are 63 games to be played and you have two choices at each stage in your bracket.
Doing the math, Shadrick says there are more than 9 quintillion possibilities. To be exact, it would be 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 possibilities according to THE TENNESSEAN.

Shadrick claims the odds are greater that you will win the lottery, be struck by lightning and bitten by a shark all on the same day.

Great factoid

 

3peet

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exactly...nor has there been any whiff of anyone claming to have it right so far.

 

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We did this already, there was an earlier thread, with same basic content.

 

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DougJ said:

We did this already, there was an earlier thread, with same basic content.

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i did a quick scan. my apologies! but this one is from a man in tenn! haha.

 

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I m the number one fan of the man from Tennessee....

 

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Of course this isn't tuly the "odds" of icking a perfect bracket because every game is not a coin flip. To figure back the true odds we'd have to parlay all the ML's of all the winners. It would be much less than the odds in that article, but of course would still be astronomical.

 

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Im sure a scam shop will give you some action on the perfect bracket @ 5000-1
Hell, even throw in a consolation prize for 1 wrong and return the wager:hump:
I can hear the promos now.

 

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Doesn't seem as hard as it is, but very tough.

 

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3peet said:

exactly...nor has there been any whiff of anyone claming to have it right so far.

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exactly

 

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are you trying to say i might not be retiring early, based on my bracket expertise