Why do they even bother offering a prize for a perfect bracket?

[Saulty]

They can offer 1 billion dollars for a prize and no one on this planet can have a perfect bracket. Two #2, one #4 and one #5 out in first round and the night is still young.

 

[Mudcat]

A splashy Perfect Bracket Prize is just a big shiny object to attract stupid people - of which there are more than a few.

 

[gummo]

Mudcat nailed it.

 

[plommer]

gummaaaaaaay!

 

[roguejuror]

gummy!

 

[senco78]

MFer, give us the odds on a perfect bracket

I'd say a bettter chance of getting hit by lightening and a train at the same time

 

[MonkeyF0cker]

There are 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 (2^63) different combinations. (It overflowed the Excel data type.)

You probably have a better chance of shitting gold bullion the rest of your life.

 

[senco78]

so what your saying is I could start a local bracket contest where a perfect bracket wins 1M$
charge a $20 entry fee and walk off with the $60 from the only3 suckers that were naive enough to buy in...


on another note has anyone ever won any of the yahoo's perfect bracket payout?

 

[MonkeyF0cker]

Nope. Nobody has ever filled out a perfect bracket (or at least proven it).

That's the number of combinations. The odds of actually filling out a perfect bracket would be considerably better since many favorites typically win outright (such as one seeds versus 16 seeds). However, it's still highly implausible.

 

[stevek174]

An ex girlfriend told me her father had a perfect bracket back in '97 when Miles Simon lead Zona to the Promise Land.

I didn't believe her and I still don't.