Has There Ever Been a Perfect Bracket?

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RJ Bell has write up today in Gaming News. 9,223,372,036,854,775,808(9.2 quintillion) possible brackets. If everyone on planet filled out a bracket, the odds would be over one billion to one against a person filling out a perfect bracket
 

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I don't understand how people can argue this. There has NOT been a perfect bracket.... will there ever be? I'd rather play the lotto than bet on that. ESPN's last perfect bracket is dead after the Hoyas lost
 

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RJ Bell has write up today in Gaming News. 9,223,372,036,854,775,808(9.2 quintillion) possible brackets. If everyone on planet filled out a bracket, the odds would be over one billion to one against a person filling out a perfect bracket

Wow...
 

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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.

Oh really...plain fact huh?

People just make shit up around here, huh?

Yup...dude got schooled in this thread.

Fucking sick.

Why would someone make shit up.

Have your own opinion about shit, fine. But to bold face lie when we are all just searching for the answer is unforgivable!
 

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The odds are 1 in 5.7 billion if each pick has a 50/50 chance. But we all know that not every pick is 50/50. Do you think Duke/Southern is 50/50? Do you think UCLA/Belmont is 50/50? Once you look at it like that the odds come way down.

Math not your strong suit I see...

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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Are you kidding me? Perfect bracket? Absolutely zero chance that will ever happen, hence the billion dollar offer by Warren Buffet.
 

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Are you kidding me? Perfect bracket? Absolutely zero chance that will ever happen, hence the billion dollar offer by Warren Buffet.

Happens every other year dude... guy was on ESPN and sportscenter......just ask chop
 

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WOW..old thread and CHop looks just as clueless now as he was then.
 

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Choptalk, I'll bet you any amount of money you want that nobody has ever filled out a perfect bracket. It hasn't happened and never will.

I'm 95% sure nobody has had a perfect bracket after the 1st two rounds.
 

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The fact that you can win a billion dollars this yr for filling out a perfect bracket should be evidence enough that it's never happened and never will.
 

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Chop was talking out of his ass. He'll come on and tell us the guy was on SportsCenter 8 years ago while providing no other tangible evidence (article? video?) to support his claim. The fact is, if it had been done, we would all know the guys name because he'd be as well known as Chris Moneymaker.

Nobody has EVER predicted a 64-man bracket. Randomingly guessing gives you 9 Quintillion to 1. Yahoo estimated a knowledgable fan could knock that down to around 1.2 billion to 1 and if everybody in the country (300+ million people) were all knowledgable fans, and all filled out a bracket, there's a 400-1 shot that someone is perfect.

If there's a year where no 12+ seeds pull off a first round upset, and atleast 3 #1 seeds make it to the Final Four, I imagine that's your best chance of it ever happening, even then, very difficult.
 

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buffett going to give u a call, after u hit the first 60 correct, and offer a buyout
 

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