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3/17/2007 10:27:31 PM

tres.

3/17/2007 10:40:38 PM

Texas, ftbn

3/18/2007 5:38:43 PM

tejas, nevada

3/18/2007 5:41:08 PM

someone make a USC upsets Texas thread, quick. Thanks

3/18/2007 5:41:11 PM

Looks like I'll win these last 3 games here with USC, Memphis, and Kansas.

I'm bruised, but not busted. Got all my Final 4 and 7 of my Elite 8.

3/18/2007 5:41:48 PM

I don't care who wins as long as they beat carolina next round.

the memphis-nevada game isn't over by a long shit. memphis is overrated as shit.

[Edited on March 18, 2007 at 5:44 PM. Reason : ]

3/18/2007 5:42:05 PM

damn you tejas

3/18/2007 5:42:11 PM

texas is really good, lol

3/18/2007 5:42:44 PM

fuck, I had Texas beating UNC next round..I'm in first place right now, but I'm the only person at work who didnt pick UNC to make it to the Elite 8

3/18/2007 6:02:16 PM

I'm sure some of them probably have the holes going all the way so you should still be in good shape.

3/18/2007 6:03:23 PM

thank you USC for paving the way for unc

[Edited on March 18, 2007 at 6:06 PM. Reason : 1]

3/18/2007 6:06:12 PM

texas loss is going to rape me

[Edited on March 18, 2007 at 6:13 PM. Reason : and i knew my kentucky pick was sketchy, so ill need someone to beat kansas next round]

3/18/2007 6:13:02 PM

thanks a lot texas.

3/18/2007 6:13:52 PM

damn texas

3/18/2007 6:14:11 PM

goddamn you texas

3/18/2007 6:15:31 PM

I seriously want to mess with Texas right now.

and Wisconsin? wtf

3/18/2007 6:35:49 PM

Yeah Wisconsin and Texas hurt but all my final four teams are intact

3/18/2007 7:00:57 PM

I dropped from first to 10th in my pool. Half of my Sweet 16 lost today (I also had Texas going to Elite Eight by beating UNC)

3/18/2007 7:04:51 PM

Texas in my final four, Wash St in my elite eight, Wisconsin, Va Tech, UVA, and Duke in the sweet 16, plus a lot of very close losses in the first round, so yeah, I'm pretty done

[Edited on March 18, 2007 at 7:06 PM. Reason : ]

3/18/2007 7:05:32 PM

my west bracket is screwed, had VCU and VT in the elite 8, but the other 6 are intact. still won't win anything though i doubt

3/18/2007 7:11:43 PM

i had texas losing to carolina anyways

i've still got 7/8 elite 8 and 4/4 final four after a pretty bad first weekend, so i guess i can't complain

3/18/2007 7:13:22 PM

x 2

3/18/2007 7:19:00 PM

another bracket screwed bc of texas

3/18/2007 7:20:33 PM

all I have to say is, USC's players had better play the game of their lives next week against UNC

me (in 1st place) and the second place guy have the exact same bracket from here on out, except I had UNC losing to Texas and Georgetown making it to the final 4

3/18/2007 7:23:22 PM

ugh i cant for the life of me figure out why you guys all picked Texas. They sucked this season.

I had em going down to USC adn i wasnt even sure theyd win first round


7/8 still alive (wisconsin down) but im only 85% on espn

3/18/2007 7:24:39 PM

^Because everyone wanted Durant to go nuts on Branden Wright.

3/18/2007 7:28:27 PM

Definitely pulling for USC to beat UNC for the second year in a row.

3/18/2007 7:35:02 PM

Quote :

"Definitely pulling for USC anybody to beat UNC for the second year in a row."

Fixed

3/18/2007 7:47:23 PM

texas nuked me as well

3/18/2007 8:43:34 PM

i can now sign this thread.

(for my main one)


signed.

[Edited on March 18, 2007 at 8:45 PM. Reason : ]

3/18/2007 8:44:55 PM

I blame GT and Arkansas

Wisconsin could have beat GT

and Texas coulda beaten Arkansas

but noooooo, GT and Arkansas had to suck it up from the start of the tourney

3/18/2007 8:46:20 PM

Thanks Texas.

I am done.

3/18/2007 9:48:04 PM

Quote :

"ugh i cant for the life of me figure out why you guys all picked Texas. They sucked this season."

Yeah me either. A team that plays all freshmen and sophomores cannot go far. And they had nothing outside of Durant but Augustine.

3/19/2007 12:34:36 PM

Florida v Oregon
Kansas v UCLA
UNC v Georgetown
OSU v A&M

oh look my Elite 8 is still intact...how nice

3/19/2007 12:38:07 PM

Anyone else pick UNLV to beat Wisconsin?

3/19/2007 12:38:33 PM

^yes i did

my nevada over memphis pick didnt work out quite as well haha but as long as A&M beats Memphis

[Edited on March 19, 2007 at 12:39 PM. Reason : .]

3/19/2007 12:39:02 PM

no. i picked GT to beat Wisconssin.

3/19/2007 1:13:34 PM

3/19/2007 1:31:43 PM

Texas fucked mine up, but only for one more round. I had them beating UNC and then lossing to Georgetown. Other than that, I'm doing fairly well.

3/19/2007 2:27:46 PM

i had wisconsin in my final four. and mich. st. over unc (wishful thinking i know).

3/19/2007 2:29:00 PM

Does anyone know off-hand what the chances are someone would pick the entire bracket completely correct?

I know it has been calculated somewhere before.

3/19/2007 3:18:08 PM

I had wisconsin in the final 4

I've got all my other elite 8 and final 4 teams tho

3/19/2007 3:22:04 PM

^^well if it's completely random the odds are incredibly slim. 1/2^64 (if you count guessing the play-in game)

ie (5.42x10^-18)%.

[Edited on March 19, 2007 at 3:26 PM. Reason : .]

3/19/2007 3:22:26 PM

texas and wisonsin

3/19/2007 3:22:34 PM

^^that's assuming you pick each round only after the previous one is over isn't it?

3/19/2007 3:23:50 PM

no. that's making 64 random choices correctly.

[Edited on March 19, 2007 at 3:25 PM. Reason : i might be wrong. i dunno.]

3/19/2007 3:25:03 PM

yes, but the first round, you have a 50% chance to guess each game, in the second you have a 25% chance of guessing each one (1 of 4 teams), so wouldn't it be:

(.5^32) x (.25^16) x (.125^8) x (.0625^4) x (.03125^2)?

[Edited on March 19, 2007 at 3:45 PM. Reason : no play in game, assuming all teams are equal.]

3/19/2007 3:44:34 PM

http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/56223.html

Quote :

" Since there are 63 games to be played, and you have two choices at each stage in your bracket, there are 2^63 different ways to fill out the bracket. 2^63 = 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 That's more than nine quintillion possibilities. Perhaps now you can see why CNNSI is so willing to give away ten million dollars to the person that fills out a perfect bracket. It's just not likely to happen. Even if every person in America filled one out (300 million people), the probability of someone winning is: 300,000,000 ----------- = .00000000003253 2^63 "

3/19/2007 3:58:27 PM

^^no. you're still having to make 64 choices between two teams correctly. if you made the first round choices correctly, you'd only be choosing between two teams per game in the following round.

^that too.

[Edited on March 19, 2007 at 3:59 PM. Reason : .]

3/19/2007 3:58:58 PM