Billion Dollar NCAA Bracket Dream Over Quick...

MonacoMike

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After the first game if the NCAA tournament 83% of all brackets were out, shortly after that, the Harvard win put 95% out of the running.

"Only 16 people remained perfect after 10th-seeded Stanford topped New Mexico. Then Tennessee routed UMass, leaving only six people with a chance of beating the 9.2 quintillion-to-1 odds"

"Gonzaga’s victory over Oklahoma State cut that down to the final three."

"All three had ninth-seeded George Washington beating Memphis. The Tigers won 71-66."

http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2014/03/22/billion-dollar-dream-ends-on-2nd-day-of-ncaa-tournament/

So millions of people gave away their personal information to a Internet giant to establish a Yahoo account, then gave an online mortgage company their contact and other private info for a chance at the impossible. I read that you could run the contest 250 million times and never pay out a winner. Why do people just give their info away with no concern, yet truly professional companies are under onerous data regulations?

MM
 
I believe you have said before something like... If you don't know what the product is, then you are the product. Something like that. Anyway, great example.

If you don't pay for the product, you are the product.

These people are not even getting a useful or fun peice of software that tracks them.

By contrast if a mortgage rep emailed and said your friends had done a mortgage with them and your friends gave your email to them, most people I know would be steamed at their friends for giving the contact info away. But offer an impossible contest and the sheeple will come in droves...

MM
 
I have currently won only 29 of 40 games in my bracket. Maybe the worst I have ever had!
 

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