I wonder how many times you can enter? If I can have enough chances, I could win! I actually started to compute how many possibilities there were and it quickly gave me a headache. If you limited it to the top four seeds in four regions, I believe that there are 331,776 possibilities if my math is correct. (and with my head still hurting, we need to have Stacey check my math.)
Jerry From: Stephen Manuel <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: GatorTalk <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 at 4:50 PM To: GatorTalk <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: RE: [gatortalk] FW: [gatornews] A contest for you pick /em geniuses Predicting all the games in the NCAA tournament correctly has never been done in any contest I’ve heard of. I’m not a math whiz but it would be interesting to see how many combinations exist if you only included the top 2 or 3 seeds in each region and entered all of them. You would stand a real chance to win I don’t remember the last time someone outside of a top 3 seed won the entire tournament…but I’m sure that it’s not possible to have that many entries. I think UF was a #3 and #1 seed their 2 years….. Stephen Manuel From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Oliver Barry Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 3:59 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [gatortalk] FW: [gatornews] A contest for you pick /em geniuses What a rip!! I want the full $1billion in one installment or I’m not playing. Oliver Barry, CRS, GRI Bob Parks Realty, LLC REO Department 145 Maple Row Blvd Hendersonville TN 37075 Phone: 615-826-4040 Mobile: 615-972-4239 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> From:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Helen Huntley Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 1:35 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [gatornews] A contest for you pick /em geniuses Win $1 Billion Backed By Buffett By Guessing NCAA Basketball Winners JANUARY 21, 2014 • BLOOMBERG NEWS<http://www.fa-mag.com/author/23/bloomberg_news> Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is backing a $1 billion prize offered by Quicken Loans Inc. if a contestant predicts the winner of each game in the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s men’s basketball tournament. The prize will be paid in 40 annual installments of $25 million and split among multiple winners if there is more than one perfect entrant, the Detroit-based lender said today in a statement distributed by PR Newswire. The winner also has the option of a single payment of $500 million. Berkshire has specialized in unusual insurance risks for decades, protecting clients against big losses in return for premium payments. The Omaha, Nebraska-based company won a bet in 2010 on the World Cup after France was eliminated from the tournament in South Africa. Berkshire has previously guaranteed against the potential payout of $1 billion in a contest sponsored by PepsiCo Inc. “We’ve seen a lot of contests offering a million dollars for putting together a good bracket, which got us thinking, what is the perfect bracket worth?” Quicken Loans Chief Marketing Officer Jay Farner said in the statement. “We decided a billion dollars seems right for such an impressive feat.” The 68-team team tournament begins in March. 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