![]() ![]() If you are betting on March Madness or filling out brackets, it is vital to watch the schedule. A sportsbook in Las Vegas paid out $52,500 to someone who bet $2,100 on Fairleigh Dickinson, per ESPN, while the New York Post reports another person who put down $33,000 on the school won $495,000. The remaining March Madness schedule will be updated through. Plenty of people with stakes in tournament outcomes are reaping benefits of these massive upsets, however. “If you take NCAA men’s basketball knowledge into the formula, the odds of picking a perfect a bracket can be as low as 1 in 28 billion, according to the late DePaul professor Jeff Bergen. Bergen estimated if every person on the planet, 7.5 billion, began filling out a bracket per minute, it would take over 2,000 years to fill out 9.2 quintillion.” “The odds of a perfect 63-game NCAA bracket can be as high as 1 in 9.2 quintillion - though those are the perfect bracket odds if every game was a 50-50 coin flip,” wrote the NCAA. You both could probably be struck by lightning in a year and then be killed by a shark in your lifetime before you made it all the way to a tournament final with a perfect bracket and then correctly guessed the winner. Neither you nor Rick from accounting had much of a shot at a perfect March Madness bracket in the first place. “In the Men’s Bracket Challenge Game, 1.89 percent of complete brackets picked BOTH the Paladins and Tigers to advance to the second round,” the NCAA said. Then, number-13 seeded Furman beat number-four Virginia. Just 4.13% of bracketologists picked the Ivy League school, which upset number-two seeded Arizona. That’s primarily because Princeton was the least-picked 15 seed across all brackets, the NCAA said. According to Forbes, less than 0.1% of brackets remained perfect after just a single day of the men’s tournament. ![]() You were just like more than 99.9% of the rest of the schmucks who filled one out. If your bracket was busted even by the end of day one, don’t feel bad. That person’s bracket was then busted some time in the Sweet 16. The longest verifiable streak of correctly chosen picks to start an NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament was achieved four years ago. 28, no one remained perfect after the 25th game of the tournament.” Only 13. “One year after all brackets busted on Game No. That left just 5.4 of brackets perfect after the opening two games. “What started with 20+ million brackets in the major online games is down to zero on the second day,” wrote the NCAA. ![]()
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