The American Gaming Association estimates that 70 million brackets are filled out in the United States each year ahead of the tournament. As we stated above, the odds of picking a perfect bracket are 1 in 9.2 quintillion, which is a billion billions.Īmazingly, even in the U.S., where college basketball and the March Madness tourney is extremely popular, nowhere near enough brackets are filled out each year to come close to all the possibilities.
There are 9.2 quintillion possible bracket combinations for March Madness. How Many Combinations of Brackets for the NCAA Basketball Tournament?
And the odds of filling out that perfect March Madness bracket are 9.2 quintillion. The writer of Hey Jude would need to multiply his wealth by a billion just to get to quintillion.Ī quintillion is a heckuva lot. Or to illustrate it another way: famous former Beatle Paul McCartney is estimated to be worth $1 billion. To put that in perspective, Bill Gates, who is worth an estimated $135 billion, would need to get 875 million more billions just to have a quintillion. It’s not a number that’s needed very often. Never heard of quintillion? You're not alone. What are the odds of someone filling out a perfect bracket, picking all 63 game winners of the 64-team bracket challenge? Mathematicians tell us it’s one in 9.2 quintillion. So tough that in 2014, one of the world’s richest men, Warren Buffet, offered $1 billion to anyone who successfully filled out a perfect bracket before the NCAA tournament began. How difficult is it to pick March Madness games with a high success rate? It’s hard. Go to DraftKings Odds Against Filling Out a Perfect March Madness Bracket
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