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Billion Dollar Bracket

They mentioned in the article that they tried several different ways to calculate odds and that it was a swag at best. But they also said that calling a perfect bracket was, for all intensive porpoises, "impossible".
 
Apparently there is a 15 million entry limit on this thing. I don't even know if 15 million people will sign up, but might as well go and reserve your spot if you want to play right now before the rush happens between tomorrow and the games.
 
https://www.slate.com/articles/spor...o_enter_warren_buffett.html?wpisrc=burger_bar

Jeff Bergen, a math professor at DePaul University, derived a more realistic calculation that takes basketball knowledge into account. If you know the sport pretty well, he concludes, your chances of picking perfectly are more like 1 in 128 billion.

Still not so hot. As Bergen explained, that would mean you’d need to fill out about 90 billion brackets before you even had a 50-50 chance to win.
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LogGrad98 said:
https://www.slate.com/articles/spor...o_enter_warren_buffett.html?wpisrc=burger_bar
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Even if that portion is nearly impossible, the 100 k for the top 20 is still sweet. And the odds come down to about 1 in 750,000 for that. If you win ESPN's bracket( and there is only 1 grand prize) for example, you only get a $10,000 gift card to Best Buy.

Most of us would still be filling out brackets if there were no prizes so I'm cool with whatever they want to throw in the pot.
 
Oh I still want to enter, I just found the article interesting and relevant.
 
If you read on in the article, apparently part of the entry process is answering questions regarding whether or not you own a home, have a mortgage and what your current interest rate is. Now I know why Quicken Loans is sponsoring.
 
candrew said:
If you read on in the article, apparently part of the entry process is answering questions regarding whether or not you own a home, have a mortgage and what your current interest rate is. Now I know why Quicken Loans is sponsoring.
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It's just one question about the timeline that you might be looking at buying a home in the near future. They'll certainly pick up a few leads, but it's not really something that warrants Slate telling people not to play.
 
Duck Rodgers said:
It's just one question about the timeline that you might be looking at buying a home in the near future. They'll certainly pick up a few leads, but it's not really something that warrants Slate telling people not to play.
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I agree - Slate has some good writers; but a few of them are just ultra liberal haters.

I joined up. Although the article doesn't mention you have to enter a phone number as well. Guess I'll get some phone calls.
 
LogGrad98 said:
They mentioned in the article that they tried several different ways to calculate odds and that it was a swag at best. But they also said that calling a perfect bracket was, for all intensive porpoises, "impossible".
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Entered mine tonight. My wife chose to enter hers based on uniforms, and how "cute" the players were, so she spent like 2 hours looking up websites of the various teams to compile her bracket. I think it would make for the best sports interview ever if she won.
 
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