We Randomly Generated 10 Million March Madness Brackets — And We Still Got Beat

Apr 10, 2019, 10:31 AM


I should probably be happier that my alma mater, the University of Virginia, won the men's basketball NCAA tournament. But I'm disappointed that none of the 10 million March Madness brackets I generated would have won ESPN's Tournament Challenge, where the winning bracket racked up 185 of 192 possible points. (ESPN multiplies those scores by 10, but otherwise it uses the same standard scoring system every major site uses.

I should probably be happier that my alma mater, the University of Virginia, won the men's basketball NCAA tournament. But I'm disappointed that none of the 10 million March Madness brackets I generated would have won ESPN's Tournament Challenge, where the winning bracket racked up 185 of 192 possible points. (ESPN multiplies those scores by 10, but otherwise it uses the same standard scoring system every major site uses.