There are 63 games played with one winner and 2 teams each, so, 2^63 possibilities, which is a huge number. Buffett's money is pretty safe!
Sent from Gator Goddess' iPad > On Jan 21, 2014, at 2:47 PM, "Jerry D. Belloit" <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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]> > Reply-To: GatorTalk <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 at 4:50 PM > To: GatorTalk <[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]] On > Behalf Of Oliver Barry > Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 3:59 PM > To: [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] > > From:[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Helen Huntley > Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 1:35 PM > To: [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 > > 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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