Some really crazy NCAA bracket numbers that I had heard on the radio the other day and I thought those numbers were just exaggerations until I looked them up (my son is taking algebra, so I had him look up the Locker Room Final Four predictions and then had him draw up some equations for practice and for fun!)
Here are some of the crazy numbers that I found: There are 9.2 quintillion possible bracket combinations, that's a 9 followed by 18 zeroes! If you were to take every possible bracket and connested them, they would stretch to the moon more than a million times. If you were to fill out every possible bracket, but only taking only 1 second, it would take you 29 billion years (I heard this one on the radio) to fill out the 9.2 quintillion brackets.
For those in the Locker Room bracket challenge, here are some numbers that my son threw together to help work on Algebra:
There are 31 participants in the Locker Room bracket challenge. The national average for picking Kentucky to win it all is about 59.8%, while Locker Roomers picked Kentucky at a 67.7% rate (21 selections) to win it all, with 30/31 posters picking UK to go to the Final Four (one poster has picked Notre Dame to beat UK in the Elite 8). 23/31 posters have Kentucky playing in the finals, with two people predicting a Kentucky loss in the final game)
After UK, here are the other teams being selected to win it all by the LR's: Wisconsin (3). Arizona, (3), Virginia (2) and Duke (2).
So, for guys like me who had Iowa State in the Final Four, I still have a chance for a top 3 finish if Arizona wins it all.
#1 seed Villanova has only been picked 8 times to reach the Final Four (7/8 posters predict that they advance to the finals but lose) and no one has given the Villanova Wildcats any shot of repeating the success that they had in 1985.
Here are the # of times picked to reach the Final Four: Kentucky (30), Wisconsin (19), Duke (18), Virginia (14), Arizona (11), Villanova (8), Gonzaga (8), Iowa State (5), [/B]Michigan State (4), Louisville and Oklahoma with 2 each, Northern Iowa, Baylor and Notre Dame with 1 each.
Here are some of the crazy numbers that I found: There are 9.2 quintillion possible bracket combinations, that's a 9 followed by 18 zeroes! If you were to take every possible bracket and connested them, they would stretch to the moon more than a million times. If you were to fill out every possible bracket, but only taking only 1 second, it would take you 29 billion years (I heard this one on the radio) to fill out the 9.2 quintillion brackets.
For those in the Locker Room bracket challenge, here are some numbers that my son threw together to help work on Algebra:
There are 31 participants in the Locker Room bracket challenge. The national average for picking Kentucky to win it all is about 59.8%, while Locker Roomers picked Kentucky at a 67.7% rate (21 selections) to win it all, with 30/31 posters picking UK to go to the Final Four (one poster has picked Notre Dame to beat UK in the Elite 8). 23/31 posters have Kentucky playing in the finals, with two people predicting a Kentucky loss in the final game)
After UK, here are the other teams being selected to win it all by the LR's: Wisconsin (3). Arizona, (3), Virginia (2) and Duke (2).
So, for guys like me who had Iowa State in the Final Four, I still have a chance for a top 3 finish if Arizona wins it all.
#1 seed Villanova has only been picked 8 times to reach the Final Four (7/8 posters predict that they advance to the finals but lose) and no one has given the Villanova Wildcats any shot of repeating the success that they had in 1985.
Here are the # of times picked to reach the Final Four: Kentucky (30), Wisconsin (19), Duke (18), Virginia (14), Arizona (11), Villanova (8), Gonzaga (8), Iowa State (5), [/B]Michigan State (4), Louisville and Oklahoma with 2 each, Northern Iowa, Baylor and Notre Dame with 1 each.
