I was flipping around reddit while watching the middle of the Washington v. Miss State first half and stumbled across an article entitled, “Five Things You Didn’t Know: March Madness.” It’s like someone’s reading my mind, I’m watching March Madness. What are the odds?

Speaking of odds, the very first fact pointed this out:

the odds of you picking a perfect March Madness bracket are not just horrible, they’re almost impossibly bad. You have a substantially better shot at winning the Powerball than you do at picking a perfect bracket.

There are a total of 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 possible bracket outcomes, making the odds of a perfect bracket over 9.2-quintillion-to-1. In fact, the odds are so bad that, according to RJ Bell at Pregame.com, if every individual alive in theworld completed a bracket, the odds are a billion-to-one against any of them being perfect.

So, you’re saying there’s a chance.

Stuff like this makes me wish I was Lazlo from the 80s classic Real Genius. You remember this movie. Val Kilmerand a group of ragtag nerds work on top-secret laser technology for the government unwittingly, while thinking that it’s just a college project. They have a guy that lives in their dorm closet that used the be the smartest kid in the school like, ten years ago. He’s shut-in kind, with the long hair and long fingernails and trench coat.

Well, anyway, one of the side-plots of the movie is this closet-dweller Lazlo calculating how many entries it would take to win 35% of the prizes in some contest and ends up sending in millions of different entries to do so.

Which makes me wish that I had the patience to make, like, 20 billion different brackets every March, so that I’d have a damn good chance to winning the prize money that places like ESPN.com, Yahoo Sports.com, etc have.

…maybe some of this “madness” going around is getting to me. I should get back to the game.