Its that time of year again! March Madness is underway and once again everyone is trying to predict a perfect bracket and win millions. This single elimination tournament featuring 68 teams is one of the most popular tournaments in all of sports. It is very popular among fans because of the ability to make your own brackets and predict the winner for a chance at a billion dollars.
Making your own bracket is becoming more and more popular with not only college basketball fans but sports fans in general, everyone is giving it a shot. Creating your own bracket makes every game in the tournament a must watch because you predict every game and every result matters.
“Bracketology” also known as, the science of predicting the perfect bracket, has been a popular trend that has had a zero success rate. No one has ever predicted a perfect bracket since they began submitting brackets online or in the mail. This year they had over 70 million brackets entered and the odds of you submitting a perfect bracket is 1 in 2.4 trillion.
This year people have more confidence with predicting a perfect bracket because of the 31-0 Kentucky Wildcats. And this year you have slightly better odds of predicting a prefect bracket, it's a very very small difference but it is still slightly better than pervious years!
When it comes to March Madness season I always enjoy looking at you're likely hood of a perfect bracket and what is more probable to happen. Actually I have a list of things that are more probable to happen:
Dating a supermodel
Have your favorite team win the World Series seven years in a row
Being hit by an asteroid 35,000 times
Getting Struck by lightning
Being killed by a vending machine
Winning the lottery 4 times
So far this year after just two days of play less than 1% of brackets are correct. It looks as if this is another year with no perfect bracket and Warren Buffet won’t be giving anyone a billion dollars, a bet that he started a year ago. I guess the chance that there could potentially be a perfect bracket gives people enough hope that they will eventually get lucky, but it looks as if this year, even with all the “Bracketology” there will not be a perfect bracket once again.
John Mrozinski
Sports, Arts, and Entertainment Major
Student Advisory Board Member
Making your own bracket is becoming more and more popular with not only college basketball fans but sports fans in general, everyone is giving it a shot. Creating your own bracket makes every game in the tournament a must watch because you predict every game and every result matters.
“Bracketology” also known as, the science of predicting the perfect bracket, has been a popular trend that has had a zero success rate. No one has ever predicted a perfect bracket since they began submitting brackets online or in the mail. This year they had over 70 million brackets entered and the odds of you submitting a perfect bracket is 1 in 2.4 trillion.
This year people have more confidence with predicting a perfect bracket because of the 31-0 Kentucky Wildcats. And this year you have slightly better odds of predicting a prefect bracket, it's a very very small difference but it is still slightly better than pervious years!
When it comes to March Madness season I always enjoy looking at you're likely hood of a perfect bracket and what is more probable to happen. Actually I have a list of things that are more probable to happen:
Dating a supermodel
Have your favorite team win the World Series seven years in a row
Being hit by an asteroid 35,000 times
Getting Struck by lightning
Being killed by a vending machine
Winning the lottery 4 times
So far this year after just two days of play less than 1% of brackets are correct. It looks as if this is another year with no perfect bracket and Warren Buffet won’t be giving anyone a billion dollars, a bet that he started a year ago. I guess the chance that there could potentially be a perfect bracket gives people enough hope that they will eventually get lucky, but it looks as if this year, even with all the “Bracketology” there will not be a perfect bracket once again.
John Mrozinski
Sports, Arts, and Entertainment Major
Student Advisory Board Member