Quicken Loans offering $1 billion for perfect March Madness bracket

[waggy]

Ain't America great?


http://www.freep.com/article/20140121/BUSINESS06/301210085/

[WCWIII]

I went ahead and signed-up. I also started a Fans of Xavier pool (http://y.ahoo.it/BSw34mGU).

What a great marketing ploy ... people have been having fun with throwing out extremely low odds for getting winning the thing. I've heard 9 quintillion to 1 (63 picks each 50:50). Better is to say you average a 2/3 chance to get them all ... this gives 124 billion to 1. I think the thing is limited to 15 M people signing up. In big pools like ESPN with 5M people, every so often there are maybe a couple people with a perfect Sweet 16 bracket ... let's say you get 10 such people in this Billion $ challenge. And now, if you average a 2/3 chance of picking correct scores for the remaining 15 games, it's 437 to 1 per person, so maybe 1 billion dollar winner every 44 years.

In the meantime, to register for the thing, you get some advertisement from Quicken Loans, Yahoo gets you signed up in their system. How about that? This thing IS about money ... just not about so much about the $1B.

[xu82]

I can't even pick a single Seton Hall game

[fellahmuskie]

I love this promotion. This year I'm hoping to enter every free online bracket challenge I can find, but I will especially focus my efforts on the billion dollars. If I win it, first thing I'm buying is a lifetime suite at Cintas and courtside seats (if those are even available).

[fellahmuskie]

Scratch that, Buffett sucks. You have to be in the U.S. to enter the challenge. It better be running next year.

[GoMuskies]

If I win, I will pay to have Cintas immediately demolished so that the new palace that is GoMuskies Arena can be built. MOR gets lifetime seats down low. Snipe gets a lifetime ban. It will be glorious.

[Mrs. Garrett]

Based on history, my shot at one billion dollars should end sometime early on day one.

[xubrew]

If you were perfect all the way to the championship game, just imagine what an experience it would be watching that championship game.

If you were perfect until the final game, and you were offered a guaranteed $5 million dollars to walk away, which is way more money than necessary to make yourself comfortable, would you take it, or would you let it all ride on that one last final game??

It's situations like that that could make Butler's missed halfcourt shot against Duke, or Kansas's three pointer at the buzzer to force overtime, a little more heartbreaking.

[GoMuskies]

If you were perfect until the final game, and you were offered a guaranteed $5 million dollars to walk away, which is way more money than necessary to make yourself comfortable, would you take it, or would you let it all ride on that one last final game??

I would go to Vegas, London, Bermuda, online and anywhere else taking bets and lay off as much of the action as I could. I am sure I could get a couple million of action all in. So if I won, I'd get a billion minus the couple million I bet and the juice I would owe on the short-term borrowed funds to make the wagers, and if I lost I'd get a couple million.

[XUFan09]

Which is exactly what that one Auburn fan didn't do. He went to Auburn, though. You can't expect him to be that smart.

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[GoMuskies]

Which is exactly what that one Auburn fan didn't do. He went to Auburn, though. You can't expect him to be that smart.


I read that he got some FSU action at halftime with Auburn in the lead.

[XUFan09]

I read that he got some FSU action at halftime with Auburn in the lead.

So now he thinks he jinxed them lol

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[waggy]

I hate Yahoo with a passion. Their site blows, but their email really really effin blows. This is the only time of year I have to deal with them thankfully. Looks like I have to give them my cell number to get in the pool. I HATE that.

[ArizonaXUGrad]

I am in. If you win you only get either 25M a year for a long time or $500M now.

[xu82]

I am in. If you win you only get either 25M a year for a long time or $500M now.

What's the over/under on when Mike Tyson would be broke again?