Funny NCAA BB bracket fact!

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#1 LTismyname
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According to ESPN, the odds of someone filling out the NCAA tournament bracket correctly  is
9,000,000,000,000,000,000-1.
That's a one in nine quintillion shot. LOL
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#2 romocop33
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then i'm going to fill out 9,000,000,000,000,000,000 brackets.
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#3 XxMa5icarxX
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then i'm going to fill out 9,000,000,000,000,000,000 brackets.romocop33
lol last year someone in yahoo got the whole bracket correct.
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#4 M-e-t-h-o-d-206
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[QUOTE="romocop33"]then i'm going to fill out 9,000,000,000,000,000,000 brackets.XxMa5icarxX
lol last year someone in yahoo got the whole bracket correct.

i think thats a lie
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#5 XxMa5icarxX
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[QUOTE="XxMa5icarxX"][QUOTE="romocop33"]then i'm going to fill out 9,000,000,000,000,000,000 brackets.M-e-t-h-o-d-206
lol last year someone in yahoo got the whole bracket correct.

i think thats a lie

why would i lie about someone getting the bracket correct
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Eagles fans lie to themselves and others all the time. Year after year they claim they have a chance of winning it all :)
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Forget the bracket, I'm playing the lottery. Better odds.
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#8 tmac200913
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Forget the bracket, I'm playing the lottery. Better odds.murlow12

yea you'd have a better chance..

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this is a matter of simple statistics.  If you fill out multiple brackets and pick different teams on each one until you pick every possible scenerio you would get it.  I don't have a calculator by to figure it out, and don't get me wrong there are probably thousands of different possobilities, but not 9 quintillion or whatever that number was that i never heard of.  But in terms of having just one bracket to choose, yeah i can buy that it would be some crazy odds like that.  I wonder how espn, or those other sites who offer grand prizes for picking all the right teams, monitor this stuff.  Cause it's just like code breaking.  If you get enough opportunities and fill out all possible scenerios, eventually one will hit.
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this is a matter of simple statistics.  If you fill out multiple brackets and pick different teams on each one until you pick every possible scenerio you would get it.  I don't have a calculator by to figure it out, and don't get me wrong there are probably thousands of different possobilities, but not 9 quintillion or whatever that number was that i never heard of.  But in terms of having just one bracket to choose, yeah i can buy that it would be some crazy odds like that.  I wonder how espn, or those other sites who offer grand prizes for picking all the right teams, monitor this stuff.  Cause it's just like code breaking.  If you get enough opportunities and fill out all possible scenerios, eventually one will hit. sixringz1
Thank you, Mr. Math.
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[QUOTE="sixringz1"]this is a matter of simple statistics.  If you fill out multiple brackets and pick different teams on each one until you pick every possible scenerio you would get it.  I don't have a calculator by to figure it out, and don't get me wrong there are probably thousands of different possobilities, but not 9 quintillion or whatever that number was that i never heard of.  But in terms of having just one bracket to choose, yeah i can buy that it would be some crazy odds like that.  I wonder how espn, or those other sites who offer grand prizes for picking all the right teams, monitor this stuff.  Cause it's just like code breaking.  If you get enough opportunities and fill out all possible scenerios, eventually one will hit. Dictator57
Thank you, Mr. Math.

anytime. glad the college education was worth something. j/k 
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Wow, now that I think about it, there are gajillions of bracket possibilities. :?
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I heard that there was only a few people who got the Final 4 correct last year
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I heard that there was only a few people who got the Final 4 correct last yearbadaboom187
Whoever picked George Mason to beat UNC and UConn is beyond me.
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[QUOTE="badaboom187"]I heard that there was only a few people who got the Final 4 correct last yearThe_Zoid
Whoever picked George Mason to beat UNC and UConn is beyond me.

There was this guy who picked George Mason thinking they were Georgetown.
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[QUOTE="The_Zoid"][QUOTE="badaboom187"]I heard that there was only a few people who got the Final 4 correct last yearHurricaneHugo
Whoever picked George Mason to beat UNC and UConn is beyond me.

There was this guy who picked George Mason thinking they were Georgetown.

Wow, I bet he was happy.
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well hopefully I could be that person, I would probably be shocked if I could accurately predict the whole tournament,
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not if you can see the future like me.