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01-21-2014, 03:09 PM | |
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Berkshire Hathaway and Quicken to payout $1 billion for perfect NCAA bracket
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway and Dan Gilbert's Quicken Loans are partnering to award anyone who fills out a perfect 2014 Men's NCAA Tournament bracket with $1 billion.
The prize will be paid out in 40 annual installments of $25 million. If there's more than one winner they'll have to share. The winner or winners can also take or split up an immediate $500 million lump sum payment. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/warre...#ixzz2r4Mfpu1k |
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01-21-2014, 03:14 PM | #2 |
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Is there a limit on the number of entries? I may have to rent a supercomputer, but I can win this.
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01-21-2014, 03:16 PM | #3 |
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Great marketing idea.
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01-21-2014, 03:16 PM | #4 |
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I wanna be a billionaire soooo freakin bad
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01-21-2014, 03:20 PM | #5 | ||
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01-21-2014, 03:27 PM | #6 |
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In 1993 I almost accomplished this. I had EVERY single game correct until the two semis and I managed to get BOTH of those wrong. Our bracket scoring was so heavily weighted to the semis and final game that I ended up coming in 2nd in points.
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01-21-2014, 03:30 PM | #7 | |
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****ing Refs!!! /mizzou guys
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01-21-2014, 03:33 PM | #8 |
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You had 12-George wash and 7- western Kentucky in the sweet 16? You picked the 2-15 upset Santa Clara over Arizona? GTFO
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01-21-2014, 03:37 PM | #9 |
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01-21-2014, 03:38 PM | #10 |
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01-21-2014, 04:19 PM | #11 |
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I'll enter. There is zero chance of someone hitting the billion but why not shoot for the 100k?
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01-21-2014, 05:32 PM | #12 |
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Heh raw odds....
4 play in games....2 bits 32 first round.......32 bits 16 second round..16 bits 8 sweet 16..........8 bits 4 elite 8..............4 bits 2 final four..........2 bits 1 championship....1 bit or raw odds of randomly guessing 1 in 3.68934881 x 10^19(2^65) while I'm sure you can narrow down the odds some....still not going to happen...
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01-21-2014, 07:11 PM | #13 |
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This should be easy. What teams are playing ?
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01-21-2014, 07:19 PM | #14 | ||
Debunking your bullshit
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And take out the possibility of a 15 beating a 2? I know a 15 has beaten a two (Mizzou ), but its really rare. That should shave off a couple million combos, and then, easy money.
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01-21-2014, 07:56 PM | #15 | |
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