ESPN radio tonite: 2 perfect brackets out of 16 million entrants

[rurallib]

I am amazed anyone would pick a play in team to go to the final four.
I hope someone asks them what their method of picking was.

[fishwax]

1. I was wondering that too -- my wife figured it must be someone who picked randomly

or by favorite colors or something like that. :D

[Broken_Hero]

2. I agree,

this year, is the first time ever, I didn't have at least one of my teams/picks in the final four. I've only been doing the brackets since 2002 or so, and this is the first year I haven't had any of my final four picks, make it.

[fishwax]

3. well, in your defense, it must have been more difficult to pick

without OU to automatically pick against :)

I read on another thread that the odds of getting every game right by flipping a coin were around 1 in 625000--I'm pulling the number from memory, so it may not be precise, but the gist of it was that if 6 million people picked by flipping a coin then probability would say about 9 would get it right. So I guess the coin would do better in this case. :rofl:

[Patiod]

4. A woman in my office won our pool one year with UNLV

because her nephew had just been accepted there. Seriously.

[NoGOPZone]

5. Perfect bracket, or only two with the correct final four?

http://www.myrecordjournal.com/latestnews/article_f1c18edc-5a22-11e0-be64-001cc4c002e0.html

There's a big difference. Can't imagine anyone getting every pick right.

[HERVEPA]

6. Thanks for clarifying.

[HughBeaumont]

7. The odds of picking a completely perfect bracket are more exponential than a Mega Millions win.

Literally -

http://www.bookofodds.com/Daily-Life-Activities/Sports/Articles/A0151-March-Madness-The-Perfect-Bracket

[gratuitous]

8. That is the way I heard it, as well

I got one out of the Final Four (U Conn), although I also picked Kentucky to upset Ohio State, so I finished third. Our teeny tiny office pool has no entries out of 15 that correctly picked any of the championship game participants. It was a topsy-turvy year. Nobody ranked 1 or 2 made the Final Four. I don't know if that's ever happened before.