a BILLION dollars is on the line!!

[Jaker]

Are you going to put Uconn as the national champs???

 

[Fishy]

Are you going to put Uconn as the national champs???

Yes, yes I am.

I cannot be bought.

In a more civilized day, I would have challenged you to a duel with pistols to settle this brazen challenge of my honor and decency.

 

[Jaker]

that a boy!!

 

[Jaker]

If I win, I am going to buy this board, put in a kick ass bar and some stripper poles.

 

[BearJWS]

Yes, yes I am.

I cannot be bought.

In a more civilized day, I would have challenged you to a duel with pistols to settle this brazen challenge of my honor and decency.

On the women's board, Diggerfoot will defend your honor!

 

[patrick]

Of course!
When they win and I didn't pick them I could never live with myself!

 

[husky99]

Link

 

[Greathusky]

Are you going to put Uconn as the national champs???

I used a random number generator except for the 1 seed games. I set it to be either 1 or 2 corresponding to the upper or lower physical position of the team.

Mercer will be the next national champion.

 

[Robertelamin]

If I win, I am going to buy this board, put in a kick ass bar and some stripper poles.

If you win can I finally redeem my 590 points I've earned on this board?

 

[Huskyforlife]

Are they going to send you an email if you already registered to fill out a bracket? Or do you just sign in and fill it out?

 

[UCweCONN]

To put this Billion Dollar Challenge in perspective, ESPN Radio this morning said the odds of having a perfect bracket are 12,000,000,000,000,000 to 1. They said if every American man, woman, and child filled out a bracket there would be a winner once in 300 years......

 

[rariggidy]

What could be better than UConn winning, and winning a billion dollars for them doing so?

 

[UCweCONN]

What could be better than UConn winning, and winning a billion dollars for them doing so?

UCONN beating Duke or Kentucky to win it all and winning a billion dollars???

 

[Bryan Lord]

If you win can I finally redeem my 590 points I've earned on this board?

Yea I'm seriously afraid my points are
Going to expire any day now.

 

[prankster]

Well....The odds on winning the billion aren't all that good. But simply by entering, I increase my odds, infinately.

 

[jleves]

To put this Billion Dollar Challenge in perspective, ESPN Radio this morning said the odds of having a perfect bracket are 12,000,000,000,000,000 to 1. They said if every American man, woman, and child filled out a bracket there would be a winner once in 300 years.

Those odds are based on every game being a 50/50 matchup. Basic statistics. But if you decide to pick all 1s and 2s to win the first game they play, they get cut considerably. That being said, ESPN has been doing brackets for close to two decades with millions of fans filling them out and nobody has ever done it. So the odds are really long but not quite as bad as the mathematical statistical probability. It would be interesting to see what the odds are if you use the usual 5/12, 8/9, etc. statistics. Probably still over 1 billion to 1. But what the heck - somebody is going to do it sometime. Maybe in our lifetime.

How would the taxes work on that? Would you end up with 500,000,000? You could live on 500 million.

 

[Jimdish255]

What the heck I just filled one out. Should be out of my misery by Thursday night but at least our guys will be in it to win it!

 

[Huskyforlife]

It wouldn't let me fill one out even though I had already registered. Anyone know why? Was looking forward to at least trying.

 

[rw005]

Are you going to put Uconn as the national champs???

Duh, WINNING!

 

[VAHuskyFan]

Warren Buffet suggested that he would try offer $100M to buy out anyone with a perfect bracket heading into the Final Four.

Anyone who is not completely insane (or also already a billionaire) would take that offer in a heartbeat.

 

[storrsroars]

Yes, I picked UConn to be the NC. But I'll qualify that by noting I graduated from UConn's business school before it was actually any good.

 

[zymurg]

bucks sucks, my weapon of choice is a 14 foot troll cudgel made of iron wood embedded with sharpened flint arrowheads. It must be wielded
with one hand. I did mention that I have been working out and eating right. My recipe for beserker bean casserole is available on request.

 

[amory]

I like how whenever someone brings up this promotion there are 10 people ready to let us know how low the odds are of winning.

Keeps our expectations in check. We all thought the odds of winning were 1 in 64!

 

[Final4 42]

Some of the fine print:
"The contest is open until 15 million entrants complete the Official Rules registration process. 1 entry/person. $1 Billion prize payable in 40 annual equal installments or one-time payment of $500 million, mathematical odds: 1:9,223,372,036,854,775,808"

That is 1 in 9 quintillion and they limit the entry amounts to the first 15 million, not that they were going to lose anyway but just to make it even less likely.

Another perspective is to have every combination filled out, you could give every person in the world (7 billion+) 1.3 billion different brackets each and still just be short of every combination.

 

[uconndoit]

If I win I will give one million dollars to everyone who likes this post.