gabriel Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 I am interested in setting up a billikens basketball final score pool (similar to super bowl squares). A couple of guys in my fraternity set this up in years past and it was a lot of fun. Now that I've graduated and that pool has finished, I would like to keep it going. This pool would be for the 30 regular season bills games starting 11/5 with FGCU. You would get assigned a square for the entire regular season and if the final score ever aligns with that square, you win that game. The buy in can be debated, but I was thinking $50 which would make the payout $166.67 for each game. Obviously, we could select someone everyone on the blog respects to be the treasurer. Optimally there would be 100 entries in the pool so we could fill it up entirely, but if there are open squares we could use these as rollover squares so the $166 rolls over to the next game. I just wanted to put it out there in case it caught any of your interest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUBillsFan Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 I might potentially be interested, but either way I have some suggestions: If you want to fill up all 100 squares which IMO should be a goal, then you should drop the price per square. People can always buy more than one square if they want to have more $ on the line. There are actually 31 regular season games so making the math work is for a round number square price and a round number winnings is difficult. I'd suggest $20 a square which would result in $64 winnings for each game plus an extra $16 (see next note) Maybe toss the change that would go to each game's winner toward Steve to help fund this website? I'm assuming people are okay giving up less than 50 cents in winnings. I'd use Venmo to collect from participants and distribute winnings CBFan and dlarry like this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnbj14 Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 I'm very in on this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billikenfan05 Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 1 hour ago, RUBillsFan said: I might potentially be interested, but either way I have some suggestions: If you want to fill up all 100 squares which IMO should be a goal, then you should drop the price per square. People can always buy more than one square if they want to have more $ on the line. There are actually 31 regular season games so making the math work is for a round number square price and a round number winnings is difficult. I'd suggest $20 a square which would result in $64 winnings for each game plus an extra $16 (see next note) Maybe toss the change that would go to each game's winner toward Steve to help fund this website? I'm assuming people are okay giving up less than 50 cents in winnings. I'd use Venmo to collect from participants and distribute winnings What buy in would result in $69 going to the winner? NextYearBill, rgbilliken and TheChosenOne like this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
basebill123 Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 21 hours ago, billikenfan05 said: What buy in would result in $69 going to the winner? Nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
basebill123 Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 And I'm in for anything between $10-100 a square. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rgbilliken Posted November 1, 2019 Share Posted November 1, 2019 I'm in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gabriel Posted November 1, 2019 Author Share Posted November 1, 2019 On 10/30/2019 at 4:08 PM, RUBillsFan said: I might potentially be interested, but either way I have some suggestions: If you want to fill up all 100 squares which IMO should be a goal, then you should drop the price per square. People can always buy more than one square if they want to have more $ on the line. There are actually 31 regular season games so making the math work is for a round number square price and a round number winnings is difficult. I'd suggest $20 a square which would result in $64 winnings for each game plus an extra $16 (see next note) Maybe toss the change that would go to each game's winner toward Steve to help fund this website? I'm assuming people are okay giving up less than 50 cents in winnings. I'd use Venmo to collect from participants and distribute winnings Yeah that sounds like an awesome idea. What do you think would be the best way of getting a head count? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slufan13 Posted November 1, 2019 Share Posted November 1, 2019 I'm in Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnbj14 Posted November 1, 2019 Share Posted November 1, 2019 27 minutes ago, gabriel said: Yeah that sounds like an awesome idea. What do you think would be the best way of getting a head count? A Google form Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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