statistics - 2006 NFL Playoff Brackets?

Question

Lets say you were in a playoff pool and had to pick the winner of each bracket, including the Super Bowl. And now say you wanted to enter the pool for each possible scenario, HOW MANY WOULD THAT BE?

You can view the bracket here:
http://cbs.sportsline.com/nfl/playoffrace/bracket

Answer 1

Dallas over Seattle in an overtime thriller
30-27

Philly over the Giants in a blowout
35- 17

Kansas City over Indy becuase LJ will crush Indy's weak run D
31-24

Jets over New England like earlier in the year
17-14 in a last minute field goal for th win


and just to get bold here's round 2 :

Dallas @ Bears
Bears win despite grossman throwing 3 int's but the bears still win the turnover margin by +2 and devin hester returns a punt for a td

score: 31-21

Philly @ Saints
Saints win in a close game but Garcia falls from his pedistall (he cant' stay hot forever.....he's jeff Garcia, come on...)

score : 24-17

KC @ Chargers (rematch from earlier in this year)
I'm feeling an upset here, the Chiefs are gonna be this years Steelers from last year....they keep LT out of the Endzone and Rivers has a horrible game because of the fact they must be one dimensional to catch up

LJ lights up the score board for 3 td's and 200+ yards while LT has only 150(ish) yards and about 40 recieving

score: 14-10

Jets @ Ravens
Ravens win....that D is Tough and Pennington leaves alot of recievers out to dry....i woudlnt' be surprised if he ends up getting someone killed...especially if Ray Lewis, Ed Reed and Chris McAllister are on the field...jeeze

Score: 28-10


AFC CHAMPIONSHIP
Saints @ Bears
The 2 inexperienced playoff teams face off in the chilly Chicago Weather. Because of the weather Thomas Jones and Cedric benson will have huge games while bush/mcallister get froze in there tracks. The only person that won't be affected by the weather will be Colston only cause he's a beast and he'll be the only one with a td for the saints

Score: 20-13

KC @ Ravens
KC will be beat but they won't go down without a fight. close game decided by an overtime TD from McNair to Mason

score: 26-20

SUPER BOWL

Bears vs Ravens

in this battle of high powered defense neither team will have an offensive TD. Both Teams will have one defensive td and the ravens will have 1 field goal, but Devin Hesters 99 SQUIB KICK RETURN FOR A TD will put th bears up by 3 as time expires


Key Stats: Grossman - 15/31 for 210 yards and 2 ints
McNair - 21/40 for 189 yards and 3 ints

Scoring Summary: Ed Reed 48 yd int return for TD

Brian Urlacher 27 yard fumble return caused by a sack from Mike Anderson the beast of a rookie with 12 sacks this year already

Matt Stover 37 yard field goal

Devin Hester 99 yard kick return (he's god :D)

score: 14-10

hope you were as entertained as i was by this, god i was bored lol GO BEARS!!! lets hope grossman can step up..or at least not blow the game :p

Answer 2

First, I don't know how sure I'd be about the Seahawks winning the Wild Card Round. The 12th man is a big deal in Seattle, but Shawn Alexander is running like he has sandbags strapped to his ankles this season. And, Todd Collins and the Redskins are on fire. This one could go to Washington. That aside, if you do go with the Seahawks, I don't see how they OR the Redskins could beat the Packers. From there, I think the Packers will beat the Cowboys who will probably advance the the Title Game. 1) Packers 2) Packers

Answer 3

356...?

Round 1 = 16 combinations
Round 2 = 256 combinations
Round 3 = 64 combinations
Round 4 = 16 combinations
Round 5 = 4 combinations

Answer 4

Just for this weekend, there are 16 possible outcomes (if we just label them home and away, then here they all are):

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HHAA
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HAAH
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AHAH
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AAAH
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AHAA
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Add in all the permutations for the rounds after that, and it's in the thousands.