Tuesday, January 28, 2014

RE: [gatortalk] FW: [gatornews] A contest for you pick /em geniuses

Let’s say you just picked one team to win and then determined every possible combination of that team winning.

 

For example if you thought UF would win the tournament, how many possible combinations are there for that to happen.

 

Regardless of the number you probably couldn’t submit that many entries..

 

Stephen Manuel

 

From: gatortalk@googlegroups.com [mailto:gatortalk@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jerry D. Belloit
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 10:54 AM
To: gatortalk@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: [gatortalk] FW: [gatornews] A contest for you pick /em geniuses

 

The problem is that you have a team like the Coastal team from Florida last year that just busts everything up.  While you are absolutely correct in predicting the winner, the lower seeds do upset the brackets.

 

Jerry

 

From: gatortalk@googlegroups.com [mailto:gatortalk@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Vega
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2014 4:11 PM
To: gatortalk@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [gatortalk] FW: [gatornews] A contest for you pick /em geniuses

 

One could trim that number down a bit by omitting any seeds lower than 11 from the Final Four and any seed lower than 8 from winning it all. That would still include every result in the history of the tournament.

 

From a wagering standpoint, eliminating any teams seeded 5th or below from the Final Four would seem to pick up about 90% of the actual Final Fours and help trim the number down further.

 

-Zeb

 

 

On Jan 27, 2014, at 12:39 AM, Stacey Hartley-McBride wrote:

 

There are 63 games played with one winner and 2 teams each, so, 2^63 possibilities, which is a huge number.  Buffett's money is pretty safe!

Sent from Gator Goddess' iPad

 

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