56 perfect brackets at ESPN bracket challenge

[seaborneq]

At the end of today? WTF?????

[daneblazer]

Georgetown knocked out everyone with common sense

[mtneer1212]

Seems impossible

[UntilTheNDofTimE]

sea some people make like 185 accounts

[UntilTheNDofTimE]

dont u get like 200k for a perfect bracket?

[hoopster42]

theyll all be gone by sunday evening when 48 gms have been completed

trust me

[whatsgood5]

Absolutely amazing

[seaborneq]

sea some people make like 185 accounts

That does not matter. Going 16-16 is good I don't care how many brackets you filled out.

[hoopster42]

dont u get like 200k for a perfect bracket?

as long as brackets have been filled out (since like 96 or 97 on espn)

there has NEVER been a perfect bracket. never. no perfect bracket in the history of cyberspace

[whatsgood5]

dont u get like 200k for a perfect bracket?

I think u get a million.

[fsugolf]

sick

[UntilTheNDofTimE]

as long as brackets have been filled out (since like 96 or 97 on espn) there has NEVER been a perfect bracket. never. no perfect bracket in the history of cyberspace

with about 48 hours of making account i assure you i cud make a perfect bracket. But espn is smart enough to check IP's

[hoopster42]

I think u get a million.

some sites offer 10 million bucs, you know why?

CAUSE IT AINT FUKKIN HAPPENIN LOL

63-0 to get a perfect bracket

forget about it

[seaborneq]

You have a better chance of hitting Powerball in consecutive weeks than making a perfect bracket.

[UntilTheNDofTimE]

You have a better chance of hitting Powerball in consecutive weeks than making a perfect bracket.

its basically a 63 game parlay.

2^63= 9223372036854775808

Whereas the lotto's top number is 58, 6 numbers and a bonus number or,
58585858585858

combination.

Very true fact , had to check myself

[daneblazer]

You have a better chance of winning the Powerball Jackpot, getting attacked by a shark, and being hit by an asteroid all in the same day. It's the mathematical equivalent of winning 63 coin flips in a row. Aint gonna happen.

[UntilTheNDofTimE]

You have a better chance of winning the Powerball Jackpot, getting attacked by a shark, and being hit by an asteroid all in the same day. It's the mathematical equivalent of winning 63 coin flips in a row. Aint gonna happen.

very wrong

[daneblazer]

http://www.baynews9.com/content/40/2010/3/18/595846.html

BAY NEWS 9 -- It's time once again for the NCAA basketball tournament to take over our lives for a few weeks.
March madness has begun.

The college tournament has become the ultimate sports and non-sports junkie competition at work, and it can get for anyone making their picks.
But if you hope to win your March Madness office pool, don't expect to be perfect.

It's almost impossible. In fact, the odds are one in 9 million trillion.
You're more likely to win the lottery twice...in a row. We consulted with experts on odds making to see if that holds true.

In a Skype interview, we asked sports statistics professors with the American Statistical Association about the chances of predicting every game right.


"Pick your favorite big number and it's one in that. It's really not a very likely thing," said professor Shane Reese at BYU's Statistics Department.
The odds are so unlikely plenty of web sites are willing to bet millions.
Yahoo for instance wants you to "Go a little mad" and is offering a million dollars for a perfect bracket.
Sportsbook.com is putting up $13 million for March Madness perfection.
On Book of Odds.com, where they calculate statistics of every day life, they posted on their web site that a perfect bracket has odds that are "almost 18 times worse than your odds of being killed by a waterspout in a year."

ESPN.com's been running their Tournament Challenge for more than 10 years. Last year's winner only missed five games.
We asked the professors at BYU, who happen to be playing one of Tampa Bay favorites, the Florida Gators, how crazy can it get when filling out your bracket?
"I agree that it's the best time of the year for a statistician, because it's the time of year where you can meld what you do professionally with what you do for fun," said Reese. "Trying to take all these numbers and wind them up into a bracket that always loses in our local office pool is a fun thing."
"It's just a great time of year, it couldn't be any better," said Gilbert Fellingham, Director of Section on Statistics in Sports for the ASA.
Does this imply a boost in employee morale in any office?
Global consulting firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas says yes.
According to their report, the good spirits around the office will outweigh employees paying more attention to who wins which game on their bracket instead of work.

[daneblazer]

very wrong

How so? Of course you can put more weight into the higher seeds, but thats not what I'm talking about. Take talent out of the equation and you have 63 coin flips.

[UntilTheNDofTimE]

Yes i did the math above youd only win the lotto about 2.4 times per winning the march madness the bracket and the other stuff wud hold true.

The odds of hitting it wud be

2^63= 9223372036854775808

[Grind House]

That's just too much thinking going into that shit to hit upsets and all.

[hoopster42]

That's just too much thinking going into that shit to hit upsets and all.

you can think all you want and pick the "right sides" but lucky bounces and unlucky bounces will fukk up ALL brackets before they get to 63-0

today, wake forest was dead to rights winning, then dead to rights losing, then won the fukking gm, all the studying in the world would not have helped you guess what would happen

[BernardMadoff]

Believable, considering Im sure millions entered.

[suckerforparlays]

dont u get like 200k for a perfect bracket?

I thought it was $13million on sportsbook.com hahaha

[jsmithj88]

they shud offer 10 million

[hoopster42]

guys, they can offer 1 billion dollars if they want, they'll NEVER have to pay
cause no one will ever go 63-0

think about it, we're only 16 gms into the tourney and only 56 of 4,800,000
brackets on espn are perfect right now

by sunday night and 48 total gms played, there will be ZERO PERFECT BRACKETS

GUARANTEED

[iceminers26]

The real ? is, how many of these 56 are women

[hoopster42]

The real ? is, how many of these 56 are women

probably 35 or so.........not too many men would pick a 14 seed, a 13 seed, an 11 seed, an a 10 seed to all win on the same day of 16 gms

[pico]

The real ? is, how many of these 56 are women

56

[BernardMadoff]

guys, they can offer 1 billion dollars if they want, they'll NEVER have to pay
cause no one will ever go 63-0

think about it, we're only 16 gms into the tourney and only 56 of 4,800,000
brackets on espn are perfect right now

by sunday night and 48 total gms played, there will be ZERO PERFECT BRACKETS

GUARANTEED

Ill go one better and say by today there will be no perfect brackets.

[Art Vandeleigh]

I know what state Murray St. is in now. Will probably forget by next week.

[ryanspeer2001]

I'm still shocked that 56 of 4,800,000 still have perfects, Even though that is less than 1 per 100,000 brackets the reality is that 56 people legitimately selected 4 major upsets with really no foresight...unreal.

[Donkwin47]

its basically a 63 game parlay.

2^63= 9223372036854775808

Whereas the lotto's top number is 58, 6 numbers and a bonus number or,
58585858585858

combination.

Very true fact , had to check myself

Sure the odds are a complete longshot, but games like Kansas-Lehigh aren't 50/50 games.. Gotta factor that in.

[WillC]

you have to have very big balls, 1000 bracket entrees or just picked randomly to get all 16 today. All the perfect brackets will get knocked out by the end of round 1. Damn

[jagaf22]

I'm curious what a ML parlay payout would of been yesterday going 16-16.