We only have to fill in 425 Brackets Each to Profit Buffet’s Billion. The Science of Basketball
Warren Buffett’s Bracket Challenge* has placed a lot more of a limelight than usual on March Madness, the NCAA basketball that is annual competition.
The Science of Basketball
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Warren Buffett’s Bracket Challenge* has put much more of a limelight than typical on March Madness, the yearly NCAA basketball competition. Buffett has provided a billion dollars to anybody who properly predicts the results of all of the 63 games when you look at the competition. You can find 2 feasible outcomes each and every game and as a consequence 2 63 — 9,223,372,036,854,775,808, or about 9 brackets that are quintillion—different could produce, offering us a 1 in 9 quintillion potential for winning. Not too hot.
But that estimate assumes that every bracket is similarly very likely to win, which will be clearly false.
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