March Madness brackets, a mathematician's formula for the best outcome

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Putting together a March Madness bracket might seem like a guessing game, but can the power of math help perfect your choices?

There could have been a perfect March Madness bracket, but that's still unclear. Three years ago, during a tournament in 2019, a man in Ohio created a bracket that had all games headed into the sweet 16 correct, the NCAA said.

He created March Mathness, a project where research created behind it in 2009 went on to form a bracket that beat 97% of more than 4 million brackets on ESPN, Chartier said. Chartier says you can also look at the 1 in 9 quintillion chance of coming in with a perfect bracket in another way. "So my advice is, go ahead and make a bracket, go ahead and enter a pool. But, do it for fun. But, if you're doing it so that you can win a perfect bracket, that may not happen," Chartier says.

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