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Old 03-19-2009, 01:59 PM   #23
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Originally Posted by Alex View Post
It is. That number assumes that each game is a coin flip. They're not (or it would suggest that the seeders have no idea what they're going).

In the last two tournaments, there were 122 in which differently seeded teams played each other. The higher seeded team won 99 of them.

Of course, the odds are still really, really small.
The question was how many possible combinations, not probable so I think in this case the number is accurate.
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