Some call it a gimmick, some a gamblers dream, but whatever name you give it, if you can call a perfect NCAA men’s basketball tournament bracket during the March Madness run…you might be the first Billion Dollar Bracket Challenge Winner by the luck of the draw!
If you haven’t heard already, Quicken Loans and Warren Buffett are offering up to 15 million people a very small chance to win a very, big prize to the tune of ….you guessed it— a billion dollars. With many entering and only one in 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 standing a chance at actually winning, according to some, the free entrance fee and a little Lady Luck may be just enough to pull it off and walk away with the big bucks.
None-the-less, according to Jeff Bergen, a mathematician at DePaul University in Chicago, ” It’s highly, highly, highly unlikely anyone will win, but you can still have fun with it.”
The Billion Dollar Bracket Challenge is backed by an insurance policy issued by a company in Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate. The contest is limited to 15 million individuals, each of whom can submit one bracket. In addition to the big prize, Quicken will award $100,000 for each of the contest’s 20 most accurate brackets. And though the official registration deadline has already passed, Chris Hamman of SCA Promotions in Dallas suggests the following when betting on a team…
Find a team whose numbers show they:
• Can win on the road, because all tournament games are played on a neutral court
• Are able to sustain a winning streak, because the team that wins the tournament has to win six or seven games in a row.
• Have momentum going into the tournament, because games at the Maui Invitational over Thanksgiving aren’t as relevant as what happened in the conference season and tournament.
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