I saw that. I will fill one out. Of course I usually suck at those brackets!

If I win I just might share with you all.

I am going to buy a Island if I win...Everyone here gets something...

biggunsbob said:

I am going to buy a Island if I win...Everyone here gets something...

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you can gift up to $13,000 per person, per year, without creating any additional tax obligations for the recipients. set up a trust and have the gifts paid out of that!

and you can take the prize as 40 payments of $25 million or a $500 million lump sum. $500, minus an additional $175 million for Federal income taxes... and minus whatever additional state and/or local income taxes you're subject to... so probably around $300 million is what you get when all is said and done.

michchamp said:

you can gift up to $13,000 per person, per year, without creating any additional tax obligations for the recipients. set up a trust and have the gifts paid out of that!

and you can take the prize as 40 payments of $25 million or a $500 million lump sum. $500, minus an additional $175 million for Federal income taxes... and minus whatever additional state and/or local income taxes you're subject to... so probably around $300 million is what you get when all is said and done.

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Good enough.... That will buy a lot of stuff..

There are 114 million US households. So $8.70 per household (before taxes and distribution costs). If we all collaborate so no 2 households submit identical brackets...our odds of one of us hitting it are... 0.0000000012% Not good.

But that's randomly guessing. Let's say we assume no #16s upset any #1. As long as that holds and nobody fills out a bracket with a #16 upset our odds improve to... 0.00000002%. Well, that's not going to get it done either. I wonder how much you could improve the odds by only selecting the 114 million most likely scenarios (according to seeding).

ok lets all work together