Bracketology
After the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament, here are the standings:
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Note your humble scribe in 7th place. Moses has led right from the starting gate, and still has a decent chance of ultimate victory, but his chances fell a lot when the Longhorns couldn't quite pull out the win the other day.
You can look at your best possible finish here. Retain hope -- even Andrew Ivey, at #137, still has a statistical chance of victory, as do many others. A large majority of the top 75 current brackets still have a statistical chance of victory.
Update: If you wonder why so many folks have a chance, from this point forward there are 32,768 different possible bracket outcomes. After this weekend, there will only be 8.
My X Mas #2 bracket shows that I have to hope for Purdue and Kansas to win next round, and for Kansas to win it all. I'm hoping.
Both of my mortally wounded brackets have still managed to stay in the top 10, but with UCLA bowing out in round 2, winning it all is a very small chance.
Thanks for doing this again coyote. Just like on the national scene, hope fades to despair. But, thanks to pickhoops, I've got a great statistical analysis of my despair.
50% chance of winning (assuming all outcomes are equally likely). Go Spartans...
... on the other hand...
Would I rather win this competition (which requires a Spartan victory), or deal with a bunch of obnoxious Spartan fans at work. What's the prize for winning again?