He was close, too bad he didn't even enter the challenge.
This year's March Madness brought in many more brackets than last year's. Eleven million actually, compared to an eight million from last year. Everyone was looking to win that piece of Warren Buffett's wealth...one billion dollars.
According to ESPN, not one bracket has ever been perfectly predicted of the 30 million over 13 years. That makes sense since the probability of actually doing it is approximately 1 in 9.2 quintillion, according to Business Insider. I wondered what a number like that would look like and this is it: 9,223,372,036,854,775,808. Wow.
A man named Brad Binder, from Buffalo Groves Ill., survived until the end of the second round, predicting every winner correctly. Binder's bracket inevitably fell apart when Dayton beat Syracuse on Saturday, but he caused a lot of buzz on Twitter and also increased his follower count from this experience. I actually first saw one of his tweets on my timeline and found out about his bracket afterwords.
Binder admits that he is no "bracketologist."
He even predicted Mercer's victory over Duke...the game that destroyed millions of brackets.
As usual there were people hating him on social media, but he shook it off.
For the article: http://www.ibtimes.com/billion-dollar-bracket-challenge-latest-anyone-left-perfect-march-madness-bracket-1563098
I like this post, it was lighter than a lot of the other posts and just kind of fun to read, its awesome how he was able to keep a perfect bracket for so long. My bracket died long ago like it does every year but I continue to do brackets every year because why not I guess.
ReplyDeleteMarch Madness is always huge in social media. It always can start heated debates and interesting conversations. Die hard fans go nuts over this stuff... Was he the last person to have a perfect bracket?
ReplyDeleteGreat Post, You really wonder who has a near perfect bracket out there. We would of thought that this March Madness would be more realistic as in teams used to winning moving on and not losing to mid-major schools. Its definitely good media for some of these smaller schools because it creates a positive vibe for these schools.
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