Picking perfect bracket a tough numbers game
EDDIE PELLSEDDIE PELLS, AP National Writer?
?Colorado's Nate Tomlinson, center, reacts with teammates to their draw to play UNLV in the NCAA college basketball tournament during a selection show party, Sunday, March 11, 2012, at head coach Tad Boyle's home in Longmont, Colo. (AP Photo/The Denver Post, AAron Ontiveroz) MAGS OUT; TV OUT
Colorado's Nate Tomlinson, center, reacts with teammates to their draw to play UNLV in the NCAA college basketball tournament during a selection show party, Sunday, March 11, 2012, at head coach Tad Boyle's home in Longmont, Colo. (AP Photo/The Denver Post, AAron Ontiveroz) MAGS OUT; TV OUT
Harvard's Kyle Casey, left, and Andrew Van Nest react to their draw to play Vanderbilt in the NCAA college basketball tournament during a selection show party, Sunday, March 11, 2012, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/The Boston Herald, Chitose Suzuki) BOSTON GLOBE OUT; METRO BOSTON OUT; MAGS OUT
In a photo provided by the University of Alabama, Alabama players celebrate while watching the NCAA men's college basketball tournament selection show Sunday, March 11, 2012, in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Alabama will play Creighton. (AP Photo/University of Alabama, Kent Gidley)
Indiana guard Verdell Jones III, center, celebrates with teammates after hearing their draw to play New Mexico State in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 11, 2012, during a selection show party in Bloomington, Ind. (AP Photo/The Herald-Times, Chris Howell)
Bracket for the 2012 NCAA Men???s Division I Basketball Championship
Want to be sure of filling out the perfect March Madness bracket this year? Not possible.
If you were to stack the amount of paper it would take to fill in every bracket with every possibility among the 68 teams who will play 67 games over the next three weeks, it would not fit inside the universe.
So says Michael Weimerskirch, a math professor at Augsburg College, who gets paid to think about numbers and the way they affect the Kentuckys, Butlers and VCUs of the world.
But there's this glimmer of hope. Weimerskirch says you could start flipping coins. The odds of finding perfection that way ? by flipping a coin to pick the winner of every game: 1-in-100,000,000,000,000,000,000. For those keeping score at home, that's 1-in-100 million trillion.
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