NCAA Bracket Challenge

[jasonpeoria911]

Congrats Scouter, how many picks did you miss all together for that score?

Jason

[Scouter]

Congrats Scouter, how many picks did you miss all together for that score?

Jason

Here was the round-by-round score:
1st round: 22 for 32
2nd round: 14 for 16
Sweet 16: 5 for 8
Then I was perfect in the Elite 8, Final Four and championship (which obviously helped).

Here's my full bracket.

http://games.espn.go.com/tcmen/entry?entryID=4207597

[jasonpeoria911]

Wow good job bro, it's amazing how some of these people on the big sites can only miss 2 or 3 picks and some get perfect brackets. It's like winning the lottery only tougher.

Jason

[thefish7]

I thought no one has ever been known to have gotten a perfect bracket?

[jeffsu]

There are 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 possible brackets. That??™s the number nine follow by eighteen zeros. That??™s over 9.2 quintillion. Some examples of just how big this number is:

If everyone on the planet each randomly filled out a bracket, the odds would be over 1.5 BILLION to 1 against anyone having a perfect bracket.

If all possible brackets were stacked on top of each other (on standard paper), the pile would reach from the moon and back over 1.1 million times.

All possible brackets (on standard paper) would weigh 100,000 times more than every man, women, and child on earth combined.

Assume on the day the universe was formed (approximately 20 billion years ago) that 6.6 billion people (the world??™s current population) would have each started filling out one bracket per second; as of today they would completed less than 10% of all possible brackets.

Even if a person had a 90% chance of winning each game he picked, his odds would still be 763 to 1 against picking a perfect bracket.
--RJ Bell of Pregame.com (rjbell@pregame.com)

So... there ya go!

[Bravesfan]

Wow! Ninth out of 44 for myself. Not bad! But even that can't hold a candle to first place.

Congrats Scouter on a job well done!

[SFP]

Wow! Ninth out of 44 for myself. Not bad! But even that can't hold a candle to first place.

Congrats Scouter on a job well done!

I'm suprised I squeezed into 10th. The rest of you guys must be real bad.

Great job Scouter!