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Re:Warren Buffett offers $1 billion for perfect March Madnes... by JAFTEM on Wednesday January 22, 2014 @02:12AM (#7101276)
My brain had a hard time processing "billion" with a "B" in the title.

Anyway, it says your odds are a 1 in 4.2 billion for correctly picking the winning 63 games. What that basically means is that we're going to find out if time traveling exists sometime in March.

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Re:Warren Buffett offers $1 billion for perfect March Madnes... by gibybo on Wednesday January 22, 2014 @02:23AM (#7101295)
Or uncaught match fixing :)

The article is very wrong about 1 in 4.3 billion being the odds though. That's just 1 in 2^32 which isn't even close to the correct math for figuring the odds.

Accounting for skilled handicapping, the consensus seems to be 1:1 billion odds. Maximum 10 million entries, so there's roughly a 1 in 1000 chance we'll have a legit winner (well, that would be assuming everyone played with near optimal strategies).

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