Someone ever picks a perfect bracket in any of our lifetimes? This year if someone did, they should be committed!
What are the real odds ....
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Trying to make the perfect March Madness bracket? Good luck, odds are 1 in 9.2 quintillion
Trying to craft the perfect March Madness bracket? It might be tougher than you think.The odds of accomplishing that are 1 in 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 — 9.2 quintillion. Those odds are a bit better — 1 in 120.2 billion — if you actually know something about basketball, according to the NCAA.
Of course, the more you know about the tournament and the more you know about basketball, the better your odds get.
But then again, it's March.
Here's how the math works:
Raise the number of outcomes for a game (2) to the power of the number of games in the tournament (63). Sixty-four teams means 63 games to find a winner — disregarding the First Four teams that play before round one.
2^63 = 9,223,372,036,854,775,808
9,223,372,036,854,775,808 is 9.2 quintillion. One quintillion is a billion billions.
