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To: dfwgator

And that’s the sound of 10 million brackets shattering.


3 posted on 03/16/2018 9:06:20 PM PDT by darkangel82
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To: darkangel82
And that’s the sound of 10 million brackets shattering.

"I felt a great disturbance at the Sports Book..."

45 posted on 03/17/2018 4:51:44 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: darkangel82

https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/bracketiq/2018-03-17/last-perfect-bracket-busts-after-umbc-pulls-biggest-upset

...there are no more perfect brackets.

Before the Retrievers’ win — through 28 games of the 2018 NCAA tournament — there were 25 perfect brackets left across all major bracket games.

We were tracking tens of millions of brackets at five major bracket games, including the Capital One March Madness Bracket Challenge Game, ESPN, Bleacher Report, Yahoo, and CBS.

Only 2.18 percent of all BCG brackets picked the Retrievers to pull off the upset. For reference, 13.73 percent of brackets picked Virginia to win the championship...

[numbers and graphs at link]


46 posted on 03/17/2018 4:59:52 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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