![]() Only Michigan State (a seventh seed) did not have the top seed in its region.įilling out a bracket is easy. It was the first time since 2009 that multiple 1 seeds made it to the Final Four. ![]() Wisconsin, which had made it to the tournament in each of the past 14 seasons Kentucky, unbeaten entering the tournament Duke, a 12-time Final Four participant and Michigan State, in the semifinals for the seventh time in 18 seasons, advanced to Indianapolis. A whopping 1.6 percent of people correctly predicted all Final Four teams that year. The “easiest” bracket of the last seven years was 2015. Michigan was returning for the first time since 1993. Syracuse hadn’t made it that far since they won the National Championship in 2003. Wichita State reached the Final Four that year for only the second time in program history. While top-seed Louisville was probably the easiest selection of the four. Louisville, Wichita State, Syracuse and Michigan made their way to Atlanta. In 2013, no one got all the semifinal teams correctly. That's a big reason the average score was so low that year. 3 seed), Kentucky (4), title-game loser Butler (8) and VCU (11) played in Indianapolis. No one picked all four in 2011, when eventual champion Connecticut (a No. Once you reach the Final Four, one game is worth the equivalent of 16 first-round games, yet less than half of one percent of all brackets in the past eight years have managed four correct Final Four picks.įewer than 0.1 percent of players last year - just 54 out of millions - picked all Final Four teams (Loyola-Chicago, Michigan, Villanova, and Kansas). But a lot of those correct picks come in earlier rounds, when the differences between teams are more stark and correct picks are worth less.īRACKET STATS: The absurd odds of a perfect NCAA tournament bracket put into perspective In fact, we've found that on a whole, BCG players only get two-thirds of all picks correct. So the total possible points for a bracket in a given year - if a player got all 63 games correct - is 192 points. ![]() ![]() The points double in each round to reflect the number of teams left, like this: Players get points for each winner they pick correctly. Here's where those eight years look like: YearĪs a refresher, this is how our bracket's traditional scoring works. A huge drop from 2017, and the second-lowest average we've seen in the eight years we've run the game. ![]() According to data pulled from the millions of brackets in the Bracket Challenge, the average score for 2018 was approximately 57 points. ![]()
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