Warren Buffett fers a twist to his annual bracket problem.
Warren Buffett’s annual March Insanity bracket problem is again, and this yr he is solely in search of an ideal Candy 16. For instance, the successful bracket must embody 32 good alternatives for Spherical 1, in addition to the 16 picks for Spherical 2.
If profitable, Buffett can pay the winner $1 million a yr, for all times. The catch is, to be eligible you must be one the estimated 400,000 individuals who work for Berkshire Hathaway.
Buffett, who’s value an estimated $83.5 billion in response to Forbes, has beforehand fered a sum $1 billion to anybody who might decide the proper NCAA bracket. Value noting, the chances undertaking such a feat are 1 in 9.2 quintillion. Evidently, it has by no means been executed.
In accordance with Forbes, precisely zero the 17.three million brackets on ESPN have been good final yr, thanks largely to the primary ever 16-seed (UMBC) defeating a 1-seed (Virginia).
The primary play-in video games the 2019 NCAA Event will kick f tonight, beginning with 16-seeds Fairleigh Dickinson vs Prairie View A&M at 6:40pm ET, adopted by 11-seeds Temple vs Belmont at 9:10pm ET.