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		thejosh on March 22, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Out of 15M brackets, none remains to win Warren Bu... So I have absolutely no idea how this works, but I've seen it around a lot. So I assume that you can enter once, how many unique entries would there need to be to actually get a combination that would win?

maxerickson on March 22, 2014 [–]

If you assume knowledge about basketball is useful, billions:

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/we-have-a-1-in-6001225228...

It goes way up from there if you treat it like coin flips.

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