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Nobody Is Perfect

I could win 01According to one some super smart guys out there on the internet, the odds of correctly picking a perfect NCAA bracket are about 9.2 Quintillion to one.

But that is based solely on the fact of treating every game, every team with an equal 50/50 chance of winning.

Of course we all know that is not exactly correct.

 

 

There has never been a 16 seed beating a number 1 seed.

That translates to an impressive 0% win rate for 16th seeded teams.

Six, no wait, Seven 15th seeds have beat a number 2. Thank you Georgetown 😉 That is roughly a 4% win rate.

I could win 02

Eleven and Twelve seeds have done much better. Each has roughly a 33% historical win rate against 6th and 5th ranked teams respectively.

Still, factor all this highly technical mathematical statistics and probability mumbo-jumbo into it and you come up with something like 35 billion to 1.

Not that I would recommend either as a get rich strategy, but you would be better off playing the lottery.

Where Fans Of March Madness Live

Where the fans live

 

By mapping out where over 1 million Facebook fans currently live, you and all your friends can see how regions and states will be dividing their loyalty and filling out their brackets for March Madness.  According to the data, the ACC dominates the country.

Do you agree?

Check out all the maps for the teams and conferences playing in the tournament here