degenerate gambling football league-season 2

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.