The bracket may be the perfect shape. It's tidy, ordered, simple. It's form immediately and intuitively communicates its function: a series of eliminations culminating in a single last team (man, woman, object, whatever) standing.

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No bracket is more perfect than that of the NCAA Basketball Tournament. Its' 64 starting spots (yes, 68 teams qualify but the powers that be have maintained the two-to-the-sixth-power perfection of the bracket) represent 3 weeks of irrational hope and fevered madness.

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This site is dedicated to making sense of this nonsensical perfection. I'm one of many bracketologists seeking to predict who will occupy those 64 starting spots, and I have this crazy idea that, once the madness begins, predicting a perfect bracket--correctly identifying the winner of all 63 tournament games--is possible. My obsessive study of tournaments past seeks to help someone, it doesn't have to be me, accomplish this most elusive of predictive feats.

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