56 perfect brackets out of over 4 mil on ESPN

[Dr. Jack]

Over 4 million entries and 56 perfect brackets remain. Hard to believe there is even that many

So do you think this happens because people play dozens of brackets each or do you think 56 people actually liked Georgetown and all the other games and just had a big day?

[be47320]

guarantee there are guys out there with 100+ brackets

[pwherr]

Read somewhere that the odds of a perfect bracket is the same as winning the lottery 2 times in a row.

[pwherr]

Originally Posted by be47320

guarantee there are guys out there with 100+ brackets

For sure

[ZoomVT]

Originally Posted by pwherr

Read somewhere that the odds of a perfect bracket is the same as winning the lottery 2 times in a row.

hard the odds were worse than hitting the lotto, get hit by lightning, and and a meteorite hitting your house all in the same day. LOL

[WildKat]

I am not one of them................

[Ricky Tan]

Your only allowed 3 entries per account

[JETMAN]

You can have 10 entrys at espn

[Ron Mexico]

Mine was perfect till Kentucky won.

Had them losing

[Ryangene]

10 Entries per account as ESPN, I did all 10!

[JETMAN]

Originally Posted by Ryangene

10 Entries per account as ESPN, I did all 10!

yessssssssssssssssss

[GFootsXtreme]

At first it seemed ridiculous then I ran the numbers, here you go:

There were 16 games yesterday (I think?)

Random selections on either side of every game means:

2 to the 16th power, or

2 (2) x2 (4) x2 (8) x2 (16) x2 (32) x2 (64) x2 (128) x2 (256) x2 (512) x2 (1024) x 2 (2000, rounded) x 2 (4000) x 2 (8000) x2 (16000) x 2 (32000) x 2 (64000)

or, the chances of picking all the games correctly is 1 in 64,000, approximately

2,000,000 entries divided by 64,000 = 31 should be perfect still (on average)
so the number is actually a little higher than a statistical average, which could be within standard deviation and certainly if accounting for "knowledge" is reasonable

but at first seems ridiculous...but these numbers alone through the first 17 games show you why nobody can pick a perfect bracket. Chances of making it through day one were only 1 in 64,000

[grzftbl]

There were 3 perfect ones left after the early games. The 3 left had UT State, now there are ZERO.