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Marlin1894 Special user 559 Posts |
For the math guys. If you figured a good handicapper could predict the winner of first round games at say 70%, the winner of the second round games at 60%, third round games at 55%, and the rest of the games at 50%. What would be that guys odds of filling out a perfect bracket?
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Dannydoyle Eternal Order 21245 Posts |
Yes it is not simply a 50/50 proposition. The odds can be changed considerably by simply knowing a bit about the sport. It can not even come close to the true odds of the billion dollar challenge though.
Danny Doyle
<BR>Semper Occultus <BR>In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act....George Orwell |
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16543 Posts |
I recall losing a lot of dough on a match thinking it was 50/50 and forgetting about a draw.
Evander Holyfield v Lennox Lewis - The odds were such that I could back both to win and make a profit whichever one won and I thoght I coudn't lose. I don't know what I was thinking but a draw never occured to me at the time.
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
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Marlin1894 Special user 559 Posts |
No draws in the NCAA tourney.
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balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts |
It's already all over ... no one won Buffet's challenge outright.
http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/spo......y_s.html Speaking as a Berkshire-Hathaway shareholder ... yippee!
Make America Great Again! - Trump in 2020 ... "We're a capitalistic society. I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. They're not going to bail me out. I've been on welfare and food stamps. Did anyone help me? No." - Craig T. Nelson, actor.
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