![]() ![]() So, if you want to end up featured in this story next year, the path is very straightforward: Pick the correct Final Four and champion in your bracket. In fact, the best bracket this year that didn’t pick the Cavaliers to win the championship finished in 2,240th place. On average, the winning bracket only gets 37 of the first 48 games correct (77.1 percent), but 13 of the last 15 right (86.7 percent). There are only 192 available points in traditional bracket scoring, so seeing as those three games are worth 64 points, that makes them equal to the first 48 games of the tournament (also worth a total of 64 points). Since 2011, every bracket that has won BCG has gotten both Final Four games correct and picked the correct champion. That follows the trends we’ve seen over the past nine years of Bracket Challenge Game history. The “center road” bracket would finish with 92 points, in 240,668th place. On the other hand, “center road” went 6-for-15 to finish out the tournament, only getting one Final Four team correct, and neither team in the championship game. PERFECT BRACKET: Record-breaking perfect bracket busts at game 50 with Purdue's OT win over Tennesseeīut then “mjbrewer” correctly predicted all eight of the Sweet 16 games, all four of the Elite Eight games, both Final Four games, and the championship. The “mjbrewer” bracket would have been 10 games (and 14 points) behind “center road” at this point - a pretty large disparity. ![]() After that first weekend, all eyes were on Gregg Nigl’s “center road” bracket, which had miraculously stayed perfect through all 48 games in the first two rounds. It also goes to show how relatively unimportant the first 48 games are by themselves.
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