March Madness - 2014

[SixPac]

Anybody here think they can beat the odds in this contest?

http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/warren-...ry?id=21615743

[DaiUyTed]

Re: March Madness - 2014

Thanks! I'm already spending it...

[RustyFrye]

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Or if you want to aim for $120 million....

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/01/23/cecil-chao-hong-kong-billionaire-gigi_n_4651872.html?1390492801&just_reloaded=1&ici d=maing-grid7|main5|dl2|sec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D433682

[cewhite3]

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Or if you want to aim for $120 million....

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/01/23/cecil-chao-hong-kong-billionaire-gigi_n_4651872.html?1390492801&just_reloaded=1&ici d=maing-grid7|main5|dl2|sec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D433682

The guy is 76 and claims to have slept with 10,000 women! That means he had to slept with a different woman about every other night for his whole adult like or maybe he does 20 at a time.....

Ed

[Guest]

Re: March Madness - 2014

Wilt Chamberlain made a similar claim at a much younger age.

If I were 'fortunate' enough to have that kind of 'record' I think I'd just keep quite about it and consider myself lucky. You gotta wonder why someone feels the need to brag about this kind of stuff. Secure people don't feel the need to broadcast to the world their accomplishments.

[Guest]

Re: March Madness - 2014

Back to the original topic of Charlie's thread, the odds of picking a 'perfect bracket,' doesn't seem that much harder than winning the super lotto, but I guess mathematically it is.

With that kind of money at stake, someone or some group might be tempted to 'fix' some games. If you offered every player on every team $ 1 million to lose when and where needed, it would only cost say $ 400-500 million. Assuming everyone would 'play along' (and for a million bucks many probably would), the 'fixer' could still walk away with a cool half billion.

[cewhite3]

Re: March Madness - 2014

Back to the original topic of Charlie's thread, the odds of picking a 'perfect bracket,' doesn't seem that much harder than winning the super lotto, but I guess mathematically it is.

With that kind of money at stake, someone or some group might be tempted to 'fix' some games. If you offered every player on every team $ 1 million to lose when and where needed, it would only cost say $ 400-500 million. Assuming everyone would 'play along' (and for a million bucks many probably would), the 'fixer' could still walk away with a cool half billion.

A Duke Professor claimed a talented handicapper would have about 1 chance in 1 billion to get the bracket right. If you just pick at random the odds are way over 1 in a trillion (I think 9,223,372,036,854,775,808:1).

Ed

[FUN X 3]

Re: March Madness - 2014

Well, they say anything's possible, but picking a perfect NCAA bracket is about as close to impossible as it gets.

[jayred1]

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A few things I've heard about this ...
- The odds of winning are comparable to making three holes-in-one on the same course on the same day.
- The contest is limited to one per household and a max of 1 million households (guess you can't try to cover lots of possible options).
- If anyone is perfect up to the final four, Buffett will likely offer 40 million dollars to the person (thus cutting his, or the insurance company's, potential losses). Would you turn down $40M for a 25% chance at $1B??

[FUN X 3]

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I'd take the $40M.

I've been playing golf for 36 years, hundreds of rounds, thousands of holes, and nary a hole in one. Close many times. I did have an eagle on a par 5 one time from 165 out, that was pretty exciting.