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40 sats \ 6 replies \ @Undisciplined 4 Dec \ on: College Football Playoff Contest Stacker_Sports
As usual, I will offer up a bonkers idea. How about a parlay contest?
Each round, we pick as many of the games as we want to, but only get points if all of our picks hit. Bigger parlays get more points: i.e. five points for correctly picking five outcomes.
First round 4 games. Second round 2 games. Championship game.
Could be interesting. Seems like it might work better in the March Madness tourney though.
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Thanks for clarifying. Do you have any ideas for the contest?
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Before each round pick each game against the Vegas line and get points for each win. Pick a total for the final game as a tiebreaker if necessary.
If you wanted to make it more interesting you could win/lose points for how well your team did against the spread. For example if team a was a 10 point favorite and won by 17 you would gain 7 points. If they won by 3 you would lose 7 points.
You could also add in picking the totals and winning or losing points based on how much over or under the betting total is vs what the total score of the game ends up being.
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I like the spread plus or minus points idea but we are going to have a lot of players who aren't really familiar with the sport so I don't want to make it too complex for them. But I do like the idea that some picks could be worth more than others.
When I did the MLB playoff point challenge I just made each round worth increasingly more and added a bonus to each round (in that case was the number of games a series would go, but maybe in this case would be related to point differential).
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I didn't realize it was such a small number of games. Maybe this is a better Bowl Game contest.
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