degenerate gambling football league-season 2

The Waiting Trophy Man wrote:

And Horos went 3-3

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about half of us still have a shot at this thing. pretty crazy

ed243421 wrote:

this could be added to my idea?????


20 games picked against the spread

the 11 pro games

and

we pick 9 of the big ncaa bowl games against the spread

i'd prefer to keep with the nfl if that is alright..

I'd be down with doing 2 more pools. I like Horos' idea and I also like Ed's idea (minus the ncaa part). I would also suggest picking the final score in both pools to avoid ties - this could be done on the morning before each game.

20 bucks each pool.

The Waiting Trophy Man wrote:

ed243421 wrote:

but we need a tiebreaker

i'm thinking something like..

the first game each weekend ( the saturday early game) is the game we use

any more suggestions?

I suggest the tiebreaker should be the Superbowl game.

if we are making the picks before the playoffs start, how can we use point spreads?

aren't these kinds of pools just about picking the winners?

Horos' pool idea is tricky due to bye weeks.

I've done a playoff pool before where you rank each playoff team with a value from 1-12. You get that number of points each time that team wins...

example: lets use these as the teams:
AFC............................ NFC
1. New England................1. GB
2. BAltimore...................2. SF
3. Houston.....................3. NO
4. Denver......................4. NYG
5. Pitt..........................5. ATL
6. Cincy .......................6. DET

So you fill out something like this:
12: GB
11: NE
10: NO
9: BAL
8: PIT
7: SF
6: NYG
5: HOU
4: DEN
3: ATL
2: CIN
1: DET

In week 1 if the wildcard round winners are ATL, PIT, NO and HOU, you get 3, 8, 10 and 5 points for a total of 26
In the divisional round lets say all 4 home teams win, GB, NE, BAL, SF, you get 12, 11, 9 and 7 points for a total of 39 for the week, 65 total
In the title games NE and SF win, you get 11 and 7 for 18 for the week and 83 total
And NE wins the Super Bowl (woohoo), you get 11 for the week and 94 total.

We use total points in the SB as tiebreaker.
You basically want to put 12 points on the team you think will win the SB, you want to make the first week losers values 1, 2, 3 and 4 (but if one of those teams goes on a run you get hurt).


As for a point spread pool, we'd just pick weekly (I would also pick weakly), but we certainly need a tiebreaker with only 11 games there's bound to be a tie, so again I'd assume total SB points would make sense or we could predict how may complaint threads will show up on the porch during the next PJ ticket presale and the closest to that would win the tiebreaker.

Plus an NCAA type pool really can't work since you don't know which team goes where for the divisional round until after wildcard weekend cause they reseed.

not sure if it's a good thing or a bad thing that i sent my picks in so early...gonna have a huge hangover tomorrow so figured i'd get 'em in early.

good luck gents. and happy new year.