Will your bracket win you a billion dollars?!

[CuseTroop]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/business...ontest_1_billion_for_the_perfect_bracket.html

Good luck!

 

[CaptainJ]

My shortest reply ever: No

 

[CuseCrew08]

All of us on the board should join together and figure out a way that everyone submits a different bracket, raise our odds a little bit!

 

[edowd26]

Prolly.

 

[CuseTroop]

All of us on the board should join together and figure out a way that everyone submits a different bracket, raise our odds a little bit!

if we all went in, and won, I suggest we go out and buy a new edowd. I hate our current one

 

[edowd26]

if we all went in, and won, I suggest we go out and buy a new edowd. I hate our current one

Ignore me bittch. Your words are hurtful.

 

[Jeremy L.]

If I win this, I am totally making a t-shirt for it.

 

[orangefan13]

All of us on the board should join together and figure out a way that everyone submits a different bracket, raise our odds a little bit!

This is actually a really really good idea, I am in if you guys are.

 

[statsgrad]

Dear Board,

I don't post much, but your odds are better of winning the mega millions jackpot twice consecutively than that of completing a perfect bracket.

Sincerely,
statsgrad

 

[skurey]

Would be hilarious if there were absolutely no upsets this year.

 

[OrlandoCuse]

Number of possible combinations is 9,220,000,000,000,000,000.

I'm sure there is a computer geek working on the algorithm right now to auto populate the bracket.

 

[capeorange]

If I win a billion dollars, I'll buy everyone a 1 year subscription to the 'pay side'...

 

[Orange2389]

If I won, I would use the money to bribe recruits to the Dome ha ha.. nah. I would donate a healthy portion to Syracuse University and request of statue of myself outside the Dome dubbed "The greatest fan of all time" My only real desire in life is to be a loyal fan to Syracuse and have a family or something along the way.

 

[Eric15]

All of us on the board should join together and figure out a way that everyone submits a different bracket, raise our odds a little bit!

Hypothetically if there were a thousand posters on this board, doing that could upgrade us from "1 in a quintillion" to "1 in a quadrillion" chance of winning.

 

[cto]

Hey, I won Nuzzi's Super Bowl pool two years in a row, and the chances of that happening are one in 10,000 (one in a hundred times one is a hundred). Odd things ARE possible.

 

[jekelish]

Dear Board,

I don't post much, but your odds are better of winning the mega millions jackpot twice consecutively than that of completing a perfect bracket.

Sincerely,
statsgrad

Spoil sport.

 

[jekelish]

This is actually a really really good idea, I am in if you guys are.

I agree, we should do this. If we somehow got a couple hundred people all with different variations so that no two brackets were alike?

Well, we'd still almost certainly lose. But hey, worth a shot, right?

 

[Eric15]

Hey, I won Nuzzi's Super Bowl pool two years in a row, and the chances of that happening are one in 10,000 (one in a hundred times one is a hundred). Odd things ARE possible.

You'd have a better chance of winning Nuzzi's Super Bowl pool 1 trillion consecutive years than picking an NCAA tourney bracket correctly.

 

[OrlandoCuse]

Hey, I won Nuzzi's Super Bowl pool two years in a row, and the chances of that happening are one in 10,000 (one in a hundred times one is a hundred). Odd things ARE possible.

The fix was in...

 

[Timonen]

Number of possible combinations is 9,220,000,000,000,000,000.

I'm sure there is a computer geek working on the algorithm right now to auto populate the bracket.

i thought of this...and then see that they're limiting the number of entrants to 10,000,000 so they're really covering themselves.

 

[RandygoCuse]

I'm guessing the number is based on each of the teams having an equal chance to win it. But I still think Warren's money is safe.

 

[sabach]

Let's imagine a scenario where you picked a team other than SU to win it all, and it comes to the NCAA final and you are one win away from the billion, the catch is that SU has to lose the NC game for you to win. Who are you rooting for in the final?

 

[RandygoCuse]

Let's imagine a scenario where you picked a team other than SU to win it all, and it comes to the NCAA final and you are one win away from the billion, the catch is that SU has to lose the NC game for you to win. Who are you rooting for in the final?

For a billion dollars? I'm sure there are a lot of people on this board who would not like my answer...Would it help if I donated a good amount of it to the school?

 

[sabach]

For a billion dollars? I'm sure there are a lot of people on this board who would not like my answer...Would it help if I donated a good amount of it to the school?

I guess my position would be that I will never get a chance to win a billion ever again and SU can win the NC any year, especially after my donation to the school helps bring in even more recruits.

 

[br801]

All of us on the board should join together and figure out a way that everyone submits a different bracket, raise our odds a little bit!

I don't think you have to worry about doing that. It's highly unlikely that any two people on this board would come up with identical brackets.