FBG Community Center: Week 1 (1 Viewer)

[valhallan]

50% love football

20% stay in touch with friends

20% analysis

10% winning

 

[B. Nugget]

When I was a kid, my dad’s office always did a pick’em contest each week. (It was very unique and I haven’t seen anything like it since. You assigned points to each game based on how confident you were in each team. The most confident would get 14 and a toss up could go all the way down to 1 point. 7 teams could miss one game and have 7 different scores.) It was divided into 2 halves and I think every week cost $5, but you had to pay $40 at the start of the season and then another $40 in the middle of the season. Each week you could win a share of about $100 with 3 places getting money and then they kept a cumulative total for all season and the overall winner got a big payout. I loved to do that, I was 10 year old kid winning money every year. The corporate office cracked down on it and for two years we weren’t able to do it. I was a die-hard Chiefs fan in the good old days of DT58 and Neil Smith and even when I would watch the Chiefs play those couple of years without the football pool, I felt that something was missing. A few years later when we started it up again, I was in heaven.

Then after another few years of the football pool, it got nixed again. I got more into college football and spent a few years disinterested in the NFL. In 1998, a co-worker asked me if I wanted to get into a fantasy league with his brothers and some friends. I’ve been hooked very since.

I’d say it breaks down like this…

60% - I love football (note: I watch the games, not just follow the live scoring)

30% - Gambling aspect

10% - Bragging rights aspect

B. Nugget

 

[stevegamer]

When I was a kid, my dad’s office always did a pick’em contest each week. (It was very unique and I haven’t seen anything like it since. You assigned points to each game based on how confident you were in each team. The most confident would get 14 and a toss up could go all the way down to 1 point. 7 teams could miss one game and have 7 different scores.)

MFL has a confidence pool on the site for leagues there. Hopefully you play in a league there, and get some extra joy from it.