Saturday, August 04, 2007

Football pool(s)

With the football Hall of Fame weekend upon us, it's time to open up the yearly football pool. Actually, it's a little earlier than usual this year but I was afraid that there just might be some busyness later this month so I wanted to get it done early. We'll be using Yahoo again, this link will take you there. Once there click on the 'Create or Join Group' button. Then 'Join an Existing Group'. Next 'Join a Private Group'. The Group ID # is '14052' and the password is 'Poltergeist'. You will need a Yahoo account to sign up but they're free and easy to create. There is no money involved and there's plenty of room so the more the merrier!
How does the pool work? Each week you'll pick the winners of each game. Picks are due five minutes before the start of the first game (most weeks that will be around noon on Sunday but watch out for Thursday games). We'll be using confidence points, too. That means you'll rank games in certainty. If there are 16 games, you'll rank them from 1-16 with 16 points being the most confident. (Leave questions in the comments if this isn't clear.)
I'm actually creating two pools this year. The first one is just like the one we've done before. The second one is a little more in depth. Instead of picking the winner of each game, you'll be trying to correctly pick the winner taking the betting line into account. If a team is favored by 3 points, they will have to win by at least 4 to get credit for the win. The sign up is very similar, the Group ID # is 14054 and the password is 'Ghost'.
Good luck!

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