One Billion Dollars For The Perfect NCAA Tournament Bracket

Knicky Barnes · Post #1 » by **Knicky Barnes** » Mon Mar 17, 2014 7:47 pm

Apparently, Warren Buffett is giving away 1 Billion bucks for whoever completes a perfect NCAA Tourney bracket.

Anybody take part? I did...

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Trav_NYK · Post #2 » by **Trav_NYK** » Mon Mar 17, 2014 7:49 pm

Knicky Barnes wrote:Apparently, Warren Buffett is giving away 1 Billion bucks for whoever completes a perfect NCAA Tourney bracket.

Anybody take part? I did...

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lol i did and i dont even watch colloege basketball, thatd be crazy for someone to get a perfect bracket tho lol

Knicks_Fan2 · Post #3 » by **Knicks_Fan2** » Mon Mar 17, 2014 7:49 pm

You also aren't going to win.

ibraheim718 · Post #4 » by **ibraheim718** » Mon Mar 17, 2014 7:50 pm

Already filled one out and am going to have my lady fill one out also.

three2theD · Post #5 » by **three2theD** » Mon Mar 17, 2014 7:50 pm

I signed up for it, but the website won't let me fill in the bracket.

mrcalzone · Post #6 » by **mrcalzone** » Mon Mar 17, 2014 8:08 pm

SPOILER alert: Nobody will win.

Post #7 » by **NoLayupRule** » Mon Mar 17, 2014 8:12 pm

thats gotta be better odds than the lottery

three2theD · Post #8 » by **three2theD** » Mon Mar 17, 2014 8:20 pm

NoLayupRule wrote:thats gotta be better odds than the lottery

Both are statistically impossible, but hey, you never know

mrcalzone · Post #9 » by **mrcalzone** » Mon Mar 17, 2014 8:25 pm

good luck figuring out a bipolar team like Baylor. They could lose 1st round or they could make a run to the sweet 16/elite 8, they are that random.

It's like betting on an Atlanta Hawks game.

BKAY · Post #10 » by **BKAY** » Mon Mar 17, 2014 8:41 pm

Top 25 split a substantial pot I believe though.

poeman · Post #11 » by **poeman** » Mon Mar 17, 2014 8:45 pm

Just signed up to do one

BKAY · Post #12 » by **BKAY** » Mon Mar 17, 2014 8:45 pm

NoLayupRule wrote:thats gotta be better odds than the lottery

I read somewhere you have better odds winning the lotto twice than filling a perfect bracket

MrProb · Post #13 » by **MrProb** » Mon Mar 17, 2014 8:46 pm

Where do you sign up for this ?

Little Italia · Post #14 » by **Little Italia** » Mon Mar 17, 2014 8:52 pm

Go to yahoo and fill out the bracket.

I filled out mine already. $1,000,000,000.......come to daddy!

Hemispheres · Post #15 » by **Hemispheres** » Mon Mar 17, 2014 8:54 pm

BKAY wrote:
NoLayupRule wrote:thats gotta be better odds than the lottery

I read somewhere you have better odds winning the lotto twice than filling a perfect bracket

That's probably true if you randomly select every game. But using a little common sense/bball knowledge like picking all the 1s will drastically improve your odds.

Still very close to impossible. I read somewhere that in the millions of brackets submitted to ESPN in the last several years there wasn't even a perfect first round.

mrcalzone · Post #16 » by **mrcalzone** » Mon Mar 17, 2014 8:58 pm

three2theD wrote:I signed up for it, but the website won't let me fill in the bracket.

You gotta verify the account, go to the Tourney Pickem page on Yahoo, then it should say something like a Verify Email button. Then you gotta click a link in your email to be verified.

Post #17 » by **moocow007** » Mon Mar 17, 2014 8:59 pm

NoLayupRule wrote:thats gotta be better odds than the lottery

The odds of winning the lottery is better than guessing the exact winners of 32 games, then 16 games, then 8 games, then 4 games and then 2 games.

BBALLER4FR · Post #18 » by **BBALLER4FR** » Mon Mar 17, 2014 9:05 pm

Warren Buffet is an a$$hat. So he has a bunch of dreamers playing for something that they can't get. Just a rich prick flaunting his money to the world. What is the purpose of this? Reminds me of the 2 rich dudes from Trading Places.

Post #19 » by **moocow007** » Mon Mar 17, 2014 9:07 pm

BBALLER4FR wrote:Warren Buffet is an a$$hat. So he has a bunch of dreamers playing for something that they can't get. Just a rich prick flaunting his money to the world. What is the purpose of this? Reminds me of the 2 rich dudes from Trading Places.

Trying to drive traffic...and revenue...it's why he's got so much money. That and putting all his money into self directed IRA's that he then uses to invest in real estate tax free (why they said his secretary was in a higher tax bracket than he was).

BBALLER4FR · Post #20 » by **BBALLER4FR** » Mon Mar 17, 2014 9:16 pm

moocow007 wrote:
BBALLER4FR wrote:Warren Buffet is an a$$hat. So he has a bunch of dreamers playing for something that they can't get. Just a rich prick flaunting his money to the world. What is the purpose of this? Reminds me of the 2 rich dudes from Trading Places.

Trying to drive traffic...and revenue...it's why he's got so much money. That and putting all his money into self directed IRA's that he then uses to invest in real estate tax free (why they said his secretary was in a higher tax bracket than he was).

Yeah, I get that everything he does is about getting his money. My issue is if you are going to part with a Billion dollars:

1) Make it something worthwhile like giving one thousand families of children who excel academically $1,000,000 (people forget a billion dollars is a million dollars x1000)

and

2) Make it achievable. An impossible where the participants are sure to get nothing and you are guaranteed to grow your stack is despicable.