{"id":21052,"date":"2016-03-25T11:47:15","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T18:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.questionpro.com\/blog\/?p=21052"},"modified":"2022-12-26T06:57:40","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T06:57:40","slug":"march-madness-bracket-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.questionpro.com\/blog\/march-madness-bracket-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"In Search of the Perfect March Madness Bracket &#8211; Survey Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Modern-Day Sisyphus &#8211; The Perfect March Madness Bracket<\/h2>\n<p>Trying to get the perfect March Madness Bracket is the modern day equivalent of the Myth of Sisyphus. Each year we start the process of rolling the boulder up the hill, only to see it careen back to the bottom a few days later. Now that we\u2019re headfirst into week two of March Madness, everyone\u2019s bracket is bruised and busted. This tournament so far has been especially excruciating if you have picked one of the powerhouses to go all the way such as Michigan State, West Virginia, Texas, or Duke.<\/p>\n<p>Yet filling out a bracket year after year, getting all of my picks correct still feels attainable. It doesn\u2019t feel like it\u2019s dumb luck such as winning the lottery. There\u2019s research behind this, tips you can search for, injury information that is up to the minute. But in spite of this information, there has never been a perfect bracket since the field expanded to 64 teams. In fact it has never been close. This year, it only took&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncaa.com\/news\/basketball-men\/bracket-beat\/2016-03-18\/march-madness-last-perfect-bracket-busts-after-26-games\">26 games (out of 63)<\/a>&nbsp;for the 50 million people participating to have at least one wrong pick. To put that into perspective, the 26th game occurred last Friday at about 2pm, which is the second day of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.questionpro.com\">QuestionPro<\/a> had conducted a survey March 13-15 on March Madness. This was to get a better understanding of the level of participation in March Madness. We will reveal more answers next week, but there was one question where the results were eye opening. We asked an audience of 300, \u201cDo you think you\u2019ll have the perfect bracket this year?\u201d Almost 42% percent of the survey answered yes to the question. I\u2019d assume people who say \u201cyes\u201d to the question, \u201cDo you think you\u2019ll win the upcoming lottery?\u201d will be far less than 42%. But the chance of winning the lottery is far more likely. In fact, you still have a significantly better chance if you were to parlay your bets to having the winning tickets in two lotteries. So what is the chance of having a perfect bracket? If you have a 50\/50 chance on each game, you will have a 1 in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.questionpro.com\/blog\/ive-got-9-2-quintillion-reasons-why-you-wont-get-the-perfect-march-madness-bracket\/\">9.2 quintillion chance<\/a> of achieving the perfect bracket.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2014\/03\/22\/march-madness-odds\/#JkBVYjaFmaqf\">Here are some more things that have better odds.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The numbers stacked against are so hard to begin to comprehend, and yet filling out a bracket is so easy and accessible. This likely contributes to the&nbsp;popularity of the tournament. This year, about 50 million people will fill out a March Madness bracket. If this number holds up, then you can expect to see a perfect bracket in one-hundred and eighty-four billion years. Or if you like 13x the age of our universe. And year after year we start to roll the boulder up the hill again, expecting a different outcome.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at our Week 1: Ball Don&#8217;t Lie Infographic. This is based on our survey Results March 13-15.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.questionpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/final-MM-infographic.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-21053\" src=\"https:\/\/www.questionpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/final-MM-infographic.png\" alt=\"march madness survey infographic\" width=\"751\" height=\"2787\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modern-Day Sisyphus &#8211; The Perfect March Madness Bracket Trying to get the perfect March Madness Bracket is the modern day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":767856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[341,210],"tags":[666,663,292,667,668],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>In Search of the Perfect March Madness Bracket - Survey Results | QuestionPro<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Modern-Day Sisyphus - The Perfect March Madness Bracket Trying to get the perfect March Madness Bracket is the modern day equivalent of the Myth of\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.questionpro.com\/blog\/march-madness-bracket-survey\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"In Search of the Perfect March Madness Bracket - Survey Results | QuestionPro\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Modern-Day Sisyphus - The Perfect March Madness Bracket Trying to get the perfect March Madness Bracket is the modern day equivalent of the Myth of\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.questionpro.com\/blog\/march-madness-bracket-survey\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"QuestionPro\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/questionpro\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-03-25T18:47:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-12-26T06:57:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.questionpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/031816-CBK-Michigan-State-Spartans-sad-bench-PI.vadapt.664.high_.791-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"664\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"373\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"James Solada\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@questionpro\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@questionpro\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"James Solada\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.questionpro.com\/blog\/march-madness-bracket-survey\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.questionpro.com\/blog\/march-madness-bracket-survey\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"James Solada\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.questionpro.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/87e304083b275f86a08505c845c4061c\"},\"headline\":\"In Search of the Perfect March Madness Bracket &#8211; 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