This has been an exciting college basketball season for me. I graduated from BYU and it’s been fun watching Jimmer and the Fredettes take the team to the sweet 16. Although it was painful to watch them lose against Florida. I’ll probably have to wait another twenty plus year to see the team go this far again (the last time they went this far was back in 1983 with Danny Ainge). I picked BYU to go to the final four.
So how did you do with your picks. Probably not too well. Don’t feel too bad. Over 5.9 million people filled out their brackets on ESPN.com. How many picked the final four correctly? Two. Yep, that’s right only two people. NPR says:
If the 5.9 million entries in the ESPN.com challenge chose their Final Four teams entirely at random and then just filled in each team’s path to that point however they wanted, around 70 people would have picked this group of teams.
I find it interesting how much time we spend trying to predict what’s going to happen. Just think about how much time is spent in the media discussing how things are going to turn out. Nobody knows. Not even the experts. Yet there I am reading the articles. It’s fun, but a waste of time.
The question I have is why do we listen to all the so called “experts” make forecasts about the market, oil and gas prices, politics, etc. It’s all just talk.