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The Billion Dollar Bracket Challenge

March 17th, 2014 at 05:05 pm

I'm guessing that most of you have heard about this Warren Buffet/Quicken Loans Billion Dollar Bracket Challenge.

When the contest was first promoted a month or so ago, I figured I would probably enter. Why not? It's free. The top 20 most accurate brackets win 100K. And there's an extremely small chance that I could win the billion.

I probably follow NCAA basketball at an above average level. I'm a big big Michigan State fan. I follow the Big Ten closely, and I follow the many of the other NCAA teams somewhat regularly.

So I visited the official Billion Dollar Challenge site a few minutes ago. They wanted an awful lot of personal information, which I can kind of understand. But, what it really looked like was an excuse to invite Quicken Loans into my life to try to sell me stuff, I would guess ad nauseam.

So, I opted out of the Quicken Loans Billion Dollar Bracket Challenge, and filled out my bracket at another site.

For the record, my Final Four consists of Arizona, Florida, Michigan State and Louisville. Arizona and Florida in the title game, and Arizona to win.

We'll see how I do. For fun only!

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2 Responses to “The Billion Dollar Bracket Challenge”

  1. PauletteGoddard Says:
    March 17th, 2014 at 06:14 pm 1395080057
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    Quicken Loans won't find me interesting as a refinance sales prospect owing to the balances on my house and the interest rates. I opted out of receiving communications. We haven't been an interesting refinance sales prospect to anyone since 2011, and not to any new-to-us mortgage servicer since 2005.

    I haven't finished the Final Four predictions in my Billion Dollar Bracket, but I will say that your FF bracket and my FF bracket have at least three in common.

    I don't know much about NCAA basketball, but I am participating in another sports league pool. If anything, this opportunity has awakened me to the pleasures of sports mathematical models.

  2. Banker Gurl Says:
    March 17th, 2014 at 07:07 pm 1395083248
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    There is a very interesting video on youtube done by a college mathematics professor about the actual chances of someone fillig out a perfect bracket. You should check it out, I thought it was funny and entertaining. However it did dash my thoughts of ever completing the perfect bracket. Wink Not exactly sure what it was under, I think I just searched perfect bracket on youtube. Good Luck!

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