Super Bowl Tipping Comp or Sweepstake?

[tikay]

Been racking my tiny brain trying to think of something that might work. Super Bowl is 10 days away, & plenty of us will stay up & watch it.

Can't really think of anything that works well though, it does not easily lend itself to Tips or a Sweepstake.

Total TD Shirt Numbers?

Total TD minutes.

Total points?

Time of 1st & last score combined?

Only needs to be a tenner to enter, & I'll add a £25 for a "Marky Award" for whoever comes last. (I won the last tipping comp here, you hear that Vince?). 

Any ideas?

[Tal]

Go through the oddschecker "view all markets" option and pick as many as you like. Most of them will be either/or (first coach's challenge, which team kicks off etc). You can, if you want, add some that are less easy but guessable like number of sacks, total touchdowns, kick off temperature. Then tie breakers could be things like total Brady passing yards.

All down to whoever is running the spreadsheet on the night and whether they actually want to enjoy the game!

In for whatever is decided.

[TL900]

Ye in for whatever also

[KarmaDope]

There's always that squares thing I see often on 2p2, could be good for a fun sweat at £5 per square (would be a £500 pool as 100 squares)

[Marky147]

Not exactly sure how they work, but squares sounds good.

Flushy and Dubai always used to punt the high stakes version of that on 2p2.

[tikay]

I've not seen that "squares" thing, but would it be reasonably easy for someone to organise, manage, & run?

Bear in mind, if anyone needs level 7 Spreadsheet technical assistance, I'm always happy to assist, I know about Formulas & all sorts.

[arbboy]

One other option is possible which is easy to do and has no skill (should attract people who know nothing about the superbowl) and is winner takes all.  Based on a football coupon which is available in the betting shops it involved 4 or 5 or 6 'coinflip' events in the superbowl which can be yes and no.  Really simple outcomes which even the casual fan can follow.

ie will seattle kick off?  which team will score the first fg of the game?  which team will score the first td of the game?  who will score last in the game?  will there be more than 23.5 points in the first half?  As it is a coin flip game this makes this type of sweepstake very fair and very unskillful and just a bit of casual fun for all concerned.  You can easily combine the five or six outcomes to be spread over the whole game to make the sweat last til the final whistle.

If we have 32 runners then everyone is randomly assigned an individual combination of the outcomes (if we have 32 runners we will need 5 coinflip events to make up the 32 combinations of outcomes for example - 64 runners and we need 6 coinflip events). £5 or £10 a go and people can have as many £10 shots as they want as there is no real skill in any of the outcomes.

Just an idea.

[TightEnd]

i have just knocked up this

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16eAfJtIDnPuajYaSKvOvBi9oNsN8duSGaOJnuJk_QRk/edit#gid=0

fairly self explanatory

£500 pool

4 potential winners of a slice of it

£5 a square

people choose on here a square x axis number - y axis number

and every square gets a sweat to the end of the game


seem ok?

[Tal]

So, it's the last digit of each team's score?

20-14 would be 0-4 and so on, right? Never seen one of these things before, but, sure, whyever not?!

[KarmaDope]

i have just knocked up this

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16eAfJtIDnPuajYaSKvOvBi9oNsN8duSGaOJnuJk_QRk/edit#gid=0

fairly self explanatory

£500 pool

4 potential winners of a slice of it

£5 a square

people choose on here a square x axis number - y axis number

and every square gets a sweat to the end of the game


seem ok?

Yep...but numbers at top and sides should be random otherwise shrewdies will know not to pick less likely numbers, and not revealed until all squares are bought

[TightEnd]

i have just knocked up this

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16eAfJtIDnPuajYaSKvOvBi9oNsN8duSGaOJnuJk_QRk/edit#gid=0

fairly self explanatory

£500 pool

4 potential winners of a slice of it

£5 a square

people choose on here a square x axis number - y axis number

and every square gets a sweat to the end of the game


seem ok?

Yep...but numbers at top and sides should be random otherwise shrewdies will know not to pick less likely numbers, and not revealed until all squares are bought

yes i would set the spreadsheet private when everyone has got the idea

then people pick eg 1-1 through to 10-10 but they won't know the numbers associated with the square until all squares sold

[tikay]

i have just knocked up this

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16eAfJtIDnPuajYaSKvOvBi9oNsN8duSGaOJnuJk_QRk/edit#gid=0

fairly self explanatory

£500 pool

4 potential winners of a slice of it

£5 a square

people choose on here a square x axis number - y axis number

and every square gets a sweat to the end of the game


seem ok?

I doubt we'd get £500 worth of entries, but that apart, it looks good.

Lets see what other views come in, but we may have something to work on now.

[DMorgan]

Squares idea looks fun

[Marky147]

i have just knocked up this

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16eAfJtIDnPuajYaSKvOvBi9oNsN8duSGaOJnuJk_QRk/edit#gid=0

fairly self explanatory

£500 pool

4 potential winners of a slice of it

£5 a square

people choose on here a square x axis number - y axis number

and every square gets a sweat to the end of the game


seem ok?

I doubt we'd get £500 worth of entries, but that apart, it looks good.

Lets see what other views come in, but we may have something to work on now.

Could be right, punters are thin on the ground atm 

[TightEnd]

20 people at 4 or 5 squares each i was thinking, for £20-25 each, was doable

comparable with numbers who enter dogs etc, lower than numbers that enter cheltenham, ascot etc etc

anyway, an option if we want to go that route