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RJ_Bell

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Posted: 03/16/2014 9:09 PM

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***Perfect Bracket Odds:

There are 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 possible brackets (9.2 quintillion)
That's the number nine followed by eighteen zeros!
That’s ONE MILLION times bigger than 9 TRILLION!

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 ONE BILLION to 1 against any person having a perfect bracket.

If one bracket per second was filled out, it would take 292 BILLION years to fill out all possible brackets (that's 20 times longer than the universe has existed).

If all the people on earth filled out one bracket per second, it would take over 42 years to fill out every possible bracket.

All possible brackets on normal paper would circle the globe over 21 MILLION TIMES.

All possible brackets (on standard paper) would weigh over 184 TRILLION TONS (that’s over 500 MILLION times more than the Empire State Building weighs)

68 vs. 64 teams:
The calculations above assume a 64 team bracket – if expanded to consider 68 teams, multiple the figures by 4.

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sleepyj

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Posted: 03/16/2014 9:50 PM

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thats crazy

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Posted: 03/16/2014 10:31 PM

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A professor at Duke said he believes the odds of a skilled handicapper (as opposed to random) filling out a perfect bracket are closer to 1 billion to 1.

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Posted: 03/17/2014 12:56 AM

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Sounds about right to me since I know a little about odds this high. I would have had to meet all the women that have ever lived on Earth to find one worse than my X. I mean really! I would make her -220 versus the rest of them. (All of them) As far as Future Odds, no book will post action due to the fact that they know the public wont bet the field no matter how much value is given..Women in prison all over the country have started a fan club called "that yotch worse than me." Its not Marsha Marsha Marsha, its Torture Torture Torture! Good luck this tournament season!

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Posted: 03/17/2014 4:04 AM

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What's the name of that professor?

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Posted: 03/17/2014 4:32 AM

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RJ- Please look into 13aces posts directed towards me (he does it to others too). He has been giving me a hard time for months. Basically he just comes into my threads and is mean to me. I asked nicely yesterday for him to stay out so now it looks like he is using other threads to harass me. On it's face his question may seem completely innocuous but trust me when I tell you his motives are not pure. I appreciate you looking into this RJ. I would not have brought it up unless I felt it had gotten to the point where it needed your attention. I know how busy you are.

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Posted: 03/17/2014 5:02 AM

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Just want to know the name of the Professor. If yout read that or heard that there should be a name. Pretty simple from a Legend like you to have no worries about documenting your sources. Should it?

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