1) Has anyone ever filled out the perfect bracket in any year? And if so, please provide a link about it.2) What are the odds of me filling out a perfect bracket this year? 10,000:1, 100,000:1, more/less? I know there are a LARGE amount of combination (most of 'em are BS), but here is the scenario; I've got 10 (ten) brackets to fill out and have a good knowledge of the game plus I'll do a lot of research and stuff to make wise picks. I'm also unbiased in my picks and won't pick the same teams every time.I give every answer a 'thumbs-up' rating so be sure to help me out here, thanx.
Straight odd 1 in 18 Quintillion 18 Quintillion 2^64 There are 64 games with 2 possible outcomes hence the 2^64 18 Quintillion . The number above is just a straight odd estimate if each team has exactly a 50% chance of winning. You do have to take in consideration that no 16 seed has ever beaten a 1 seed and many other stats. But you never know, so the 1 in 18 Quintillion odd is a good place to start.
there is a 1 to 1 billlion chance of getting a perfect bracket
Mine grew to become into terrible. I expected Rangers over Washington, Montreal over Bruins, Buffalo over Philly, Anaheim over Nashville, la over San Jose, and that Tampa Bay and Pittsburgh might play a in no way-ending seventh interest beyond common time. Vancouver over Hawks, Detroit over Coyotes, have been the only I have been given top.
I heard it was like 1 in a quintillion or something like that
Far smaller than 100,000 to 1. From a strict standpoint of picking 64 out of 64 games (63 games in the tournament plus the one play-in game), the odds of picking all 64 games would be about 1.84x 10^19 to 1 however, that only assumes a 50/50 chance of picking each individual game it does not take into account that some early round game are more likely to be won by the higher seed (no #16 has ever knocked off a #1, for example) and those straight odds also do not account for any possibility of upsets later on. Think about how many people around the country have been playing the brackets every year for the past X years millions upon millions of people, playing every single year yet, no one's ever picked all 63 or 64 games perfectly. Even when the tournament was 32 or 48 teams, no one was perfect. Things were a bit easier to pick back thennot because there were fewer teams, but because players played at least 3 years in college, so you knew how good most of the teams would be going into the tournament. I would say that even if someone claimed to pick every game of a tournament perfectly, the reality is that none of us have nearly enough lifetimes to actually accomplish such a feat. The actual odds can only be calculated once individual odds are establish for each possible matchup. All you can do is get as much info as you can about each team, check out statistical trends, and make your best guess. It's all guesswork anyway as they say, that's why they play the game. As you can tell from watching sports on TV, even the experts can't come close to picking 100% even though it's their full time job, as opposed to just being a hobby for the rest of us.
