Has There Ever Been a Perfect Bracket?

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I doubt there has ever been a perfect bracket in the Earth's history. For starters, you would need a year in which an unusually large percentage of favorties win, with all 4 top seeds making the final 4. I think there was one year in which 3 #1 seeds make it, but even in that year you could probably look back and see some huge upsets in the earlier rounds that would be close to impossible getting them all correct.

Rather than making every game 50/50 and calcualting the odds from there, you could use a moneyline of -150 as an average moneyline and calacualte your chances from there. That gives you a 60% chance of guessing each winner. Even using that figure, the odds of picking 63 in a row correctly is probably in the billions, if not trillions.
 

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How many brackerts are filled out each year? Probably up to 50 million. So ver the last 20 years there could be 1 billion tries. Nonetheless the odds are probably somewhat greater than that. It is an incredible feat if anyone has in fact done it.

Maybe someone could parlay up all the odds of the winners ML (midway between fav/dog) in the tourney to see what that comes out to. That'd be a more accurate figure of the odds of perfection in that given year.
 

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Your way off on your odds. If the odds are 36 trillion to 1 how do you explain the fact that I heard of at least 3 people doing it in the last 5 years. Have you never seen the specials on sportscenter where they interview the people when they get them all right?

There are several people that are still perfect right now in this years tourney on both ESPN and Cbs.sportsline right now.



Yes I've also heard/read about it on the news and various places in the past and assumed everyone has heard the same...
 

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And someone won 1 million dollars 2 years ago in the ESPN bracket. They interviewed the guy on SportsCenter after the tourney.

Its a fact. Its been done. More than once. Why is this so hard to understand.

This is not an opinion, its plain fact.

Seems like this should be easy to find. Can you provide a link for proof?
 

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Since it turned to a 64 team bracket no one has ever picked a perfect bracket that was documented. Chop it never happened on Sportscenter, that's simply not true.

Those that are saying it happens every other year are full of shat...
 

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Think I heard that like 1,700 out of 8 million were perfect after yesterday
 

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There are no documented cases of anyone ever filling out a perfect bracket. And it might not happen for a long, long time.
 

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I've had a couple of perfect brackets. Not as easy as winning the lottery though, which I've done more times than I can count.

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I've had a couple of perfect brackets. Not as easy as winning the lottery though, which I've done more times than I can count.

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Mr. Newlywed

this is hilarious

Play me the powerball will ya brah puff_>>

-murph
 

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I don't remember ever hearing of one . If there is It would be documented right ?
 

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There are no documented cases of anyone ever filling out a perfect bracket. And it might not happen for a long, long time. According to DePaul math professor Jeff Bergen, the odds of someone without any basketball knowledge randomly picking teams and filling out a perfect bracket are 9.2 quintillion to one. If you have some basketball knowledge the odds are still not in your favor - 128 billion to one. In 2012, Fox Sports offered $1 million to anyone who filled out a perfect bracket.
 

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[h=1]Tournament Challenge: 1 perfect bracket[/h]March, 22, 2013
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Through 24 games, there is just one perfect bracket (out of 8.15 million) entered in ESPN.com's Tournament Challenge. The number of perfect brackets had been reduced to two with La Salle's upset win against Kansas State, and the Illinois-Colorado game broke that deadlock at the top.

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The one perfect entry is not listed on the leaderboard on ESPN.com or the Bracket Bound app because it is not eligible to win a prize on ESPN.com. That entry has a Final Four of Louisville, Georgetown, Ohio State, and Syracuse, with Louisville beating Georgetown for the title.

President Obama is currently 14-10/15-9 through the first 24 games, landing him in the 37.2th percentile. He lost an Elite Eight team in Wisconsin, but he did pick La Salle's upsetof Kansas State. There are 80 brackets to get 23 of 24 correct.

Notes from today's upsets:
-- Just 6.1 percent picked 13-seed La Salle over 14-seed Kansas State. It was the second-biggest upset so far (according to our user picks) in the tournament. About 5.6 percent of brackets correctly picked Harvard over New Mexico State on Thursday.

-- Only 20 percent of brackets had 12-seed Ole Miss beating 5-seed Wisconsin. The Badgers were a popular bracket pick, selected to reach the Sweet 16 in 54.7 percent of brackets and the Final Four in 9 percent of brackets. Plus, President Obama had Wisconsin reaching the Elite Eight. And 3.7 percent of brackets correctly picked the 12-seeds of Ole Miss, Oregon and Cal winning its Round of 64 games.

-- 30.4 percent of brackets picked 9-seed Temple to beat 8-seed NC State. The Owls were the least popular of the 9-seeds to advance.

-- 2.7 percent of brackets picked both Philadelphia schools (La Salle, Temple) to win in this round. And looking ahead to tonight, 1.5 percent of brackets picked the trio of La Salle, Temple and Villanova to win.
 

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And someone won 1 million dollars 2 years ago in the ESPN bracket. They interviewed the guy on SportsCenter after the tourney.

Its a fact. Its been done. More than once. Why is this so hard to understand.

This is not an opinion, its plain fact.

:think2:
 

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