NFL Office Pool contest..... (1 Viewer)

[GonzoHolmes]

I run an office pool at work during the season with about 30 participants...well the season is over and now everyone is hassling me about doing some sorta playoff edition. I told them I've never heard of a playoff edition of an office pool. Only 4 games so there would be a bunch of ties so it would all have to be based on pts or yards.The only one that I've come up with is having people pick the 4 games with total pts scored in ALL FOUR games as the tie-breaker. Has anyone else done something similar to this?I'm looking for ideas because these guys really really like to lose money to me!

 

[Chumpson]

You could do a grid system. 0-9 across and down. Then you have squares 0,0 and 1,0 and so on. You have the last digit of each team's score represented in a box somewhere on the grid. Have each square cost a certain amount of money then at the half time of each game and the end of each game the the squares with the winning combinations win the money.(maybe even by quarter if you wish) Much more luck than picking the games, but they still get into it. We did this for the MLB Playoff games. Just one Idea.

 

[dudaman]

Use over/unders in addition to spreads. Assign points for getting each one right or wrong - the later the round of playoffs, the more each pick is worth....so there are actually 8 bets each weekend. Add/remove a half point so there are no even spreads.

 

[Keith R]

Have them rank their picks this week 1, 2, 3, 4. If they get game "4" right, they get 4 points, and so on. Can get up to 10 points this week (4+3+2+1). Same format next week. Championship week, value games either 4 or 2. SB is worth 5. Ties are still possible but very unlikely.

 

[Sol D]

Use over/unders in addition to spreads.  Assign points for getting each one right or wrong - the later the round of playoffs, the more each pick is worth....so there are actually 8 bets each weekend.  Add/remove a half point so there are no even spreads.

You could also break the games into halves. So this week you would have 4 point spreads * 2 halves = 8 point spread selections + 4 over/under * 2 halves = 8 over/under selections. It is easy to get the Vegas 1st half lines.16 selections the same as any NFL non-bye week.

Example:

NE vs Jax

Halftime:

NE -3.5

O/U 19.5

End of Game:

NE -7.5

O/U 37.5

 

[Mike]

Does it have to have a weekly winner? Fill in a playoff tree an option?