Only 88 brackets on ESPN still active

No, some guy got the first 49 right and then his bracket turned to shite. It will never happen.

Odds of a perfect bracket

1 in 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 (if you just guess or flip a coin)
1 in 120.2 billion (if you know a little something about basketball)

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With NIL, it might be possible

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It will happen because someone will run some lame program to pick every single combination out of a trillion with a super computer but organically it will probably not happen.

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How Long Would It Take a Computer?


Scenario 1: A Standard Supercomputer
• Let’s assume a supercomputer can generate 1 trillion (10¹²) brackets per second.
• Time required:
\frac{9.2 \times 10^{18} \text{ brackets}}{10^{12} \text{ brackets/sec}} = 9.2 \times 10^6 \text{ seconds}
• That’s about 106 days (a little over 3.5 months).

Scenario 2: A Consumer PC
• A high-end consumer PC might generate 1 billion (10?) brackets per second.
• Time required:
\frac{9.2 \times 10^{18}}{10^9} = 9.2 \times 10^9 \text{ seconds}
• That’s about 292 years!

Scenario 3: Theoretical Quantum Computer
• A powerful quantum computer could theoretically analyze all outcomes simultaneously using quantum superposition. However, practical quantum computing is not yet at the level where it could instantly solve this problem in a meaningful way.

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Key Takeaways
• Even with today’s fastest supercomputers, it would take over 3 months to generate every possible bracket.
• A high-end consumer PC would take centuries.
• Even with extreme computing power, brute-forcing every possibility isn’t feasible before the tournament ends.

Hard to believe any are still intact.

I believe you can print every possible combination on a regular sheet of paper, stack them on top of each other, and they will go pass the moon

According to Chat GPT:

To give you a sense of scale:
• If every person on Earth (8 billion people) filled out one bracket per second, it would take over 36 years to go through all the possibilities.
• That’s why picking a perfect bracket is virtually impossible

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Only 88 brackets on ESPN still active

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What brackets are inactive?

You wouldn't program a super computer to pick every possible combination, just the most likely ones. For example, there's a zero percent chance that all 16 seeds make the Final Four but there's probably a notable, though low, chance that all 1 seeds advance to the Final Four.

But it's all a moot point anyway because all of the contests and submission sites that would verify a perfect bracket have a hard limit on the number of brackets you could submit.