Everyone knows you don't win your NCAA pool in the first round, but it is possible to lose it in Round 1.
The odds of randomly picking a perfect bracket are big - 2 63rd power to be exact. But we don't pick randomly. Kentucky is 99.9% likely to advance to Round 2. According to fivethirtyeight.com, If you played the percentage odds in the first round, the odds of a perfect bracket after the 32 games of Round 1 is 9,879 to 1. That is still a big number but certainly achievable.
Personally, my best was probably 28. I have never seen anyone in a pool I participated in have a perfect round either. The best was 31, several years ago. It was one of those years there were hardly any upsets.
Has anyone ever had a perfect bracket after 32 games?
The odds of randomly picking a perfect bracket are big - 2 63rd power to be exact. But we don't pick randomly. Kentucky is 99.9% likely to advance to Round 2. According to fivethirtyeight.com, If you played the percentage odds in the first round, the odds of a perfect bracket after the 32 games of Round 1 is 9,879 to 1. That is still a big number but certainly achievable.
Personally, my best was probably 28. I have never seen anyone in a pool I participated in have a perfect round either. The best was 31, several years ago. It was one of those years there were hardly any upsets.
Has anyone ever had a perfect bracket after 32 games?
