OK. This is a bit crude, but ...

The unrealistic, but pure case is the number of possible permutations of 20 teams is factorial 20, which is 2.4x10^18 (actually is 2,432,902,008,176,640,000. I don't even know what a number that big is called)

Making it a *bit* more realistic, say there's 6 teams that can finish in the top six, and 14 others. Permutations = 6! * 14! = 6.2x10^13 = 62,768,369,664,000. Is that trillions? 62 trillion?

Making it a bit more realistic than that. Top two, next 4, middle 10, bottom 4. 4,180,377,600. 4 billion.

And it'll cost you ?8bn to back all of those possibilities.

Posted By: Arizona Bay, Jul 29, 12:42:35