Take down your office pool and take home the cash this March with our statistical guide to building the ultimate bracket — even if you have no idea what you’re doing.

Take down your office pool and take home the cash this March with our statistical guide to building the ultimate bracket — even if you have no idea what you’re doing.

147,000,000,000,000,000,000

Number of possible ways for you to destroy your bracket.

55

Percent of games won by No. 1 seeds over No. 2 or No. 3 seeds in the Elite Eight and beyond.

8

Lowest seed to ever win the tournament. Although when playing against No. 9 seeds in the first round, they lose 51 percent of the time.

38

Percent chance a No. 1 seed will make it to the championship game.

3

Number of times a 10 – ­16 seed has reached the Final Four in the last 30 years (Louisiana State [1986], George Mason [2006], VCU [2011]).

1.7

Percent of the time all No. 1 seeds make the Final Four.

18

Championships won by a No. 1 seed out of the last 29 tournaments (62 percent win.)

37

Win percentage of 12 seeds in their first game over No. 5 seeds in the first round. Forty ­six percent of those teams move on to the Sweet Sixteen.