🏈 $1Billion for a perfect March Madness bracket

[planomateo]

Damn.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-...-prize-for-quicken-loans-in-ncaa-contest.html

The prize will be paid in 40 annual installments of $25 million and split among multiple winners if there is more than one perfect entrant, the Detroit-based lender said today in a statement. The winner also has the option of a single payment of $500 million.

 

[sean]

wow! i don't know shit about basketball but that's something worth looking into.

 

[TerryP]

The odds that a bracket will be perfect, that is, every game guessed correctly, are long — to the tune of 9.2 quintillion to one.- NY Times article.

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In case you're wondering, a quintillion has 18 zeros.

 

[planomateo]

More info on the bracket, I'll give it a shot when they open it up for business.

https://www.facebook.com/QuickenLoans

 

[bamaraider]

The odds that a bracket will be perfect, that is, every game guessed correctly, are long — to the tune of 9.2 quintillion to one.- NY Times article.

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In case you're wondering, a quintillion has 18 zeros.

Was just about to post that. I can't remember, but I do remember hearing a statistic in BStats that if you just fill out one bracket, your odds are better than doing multiple ones.

 

[PhillyGirl]

The odds are insanely low, but the odds are absolute zero if you don't enter!

 

[riz]

It's been nice chatting with y'all. I'll be spending most of my time with the illuminati come April.

 

[TerryP]

I enjoy playing the bracket in several pools each year. I mentioned on the basketball forum how crazy this season has been so far...I can't imagine what March is going to be like.

Was just about to post that. I can't remember, but I do remember hearing a statistic in BStats that if you just fill out one bracket, your odds are better than doing multiple ones.

If you've got time and happened to be able to find that I'd love to read it.

The odds are insanely low, but the odds are absolute zero if you don't enter!

One time in your life where you can say "you've got a better chance of winning the lottery" and it's actually true.

 

[BamaCore]

I remember when I was in high school a classmate of mine had a perfect bracket. Won the ESPN bracket challenge thing to the tune of $10,000. It was when UConn won it. 2002 or 2003 I believe?

This was, of course, before the increased the field of teams though.

 

[bamaraider]

I enjoy playing the bracket in several pools each year. I mentioned on the basketball forum how crazy this season has been so far...I can't imagine what March is going to be like.



If you've got time and happened to be able to find that I'd love to read it.
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I'll have the find it, it was basically the same rules apply for when you do the lottery. Got it from my BStats teacher.