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To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (26114)	1/3/2010 10:29:21 PM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 88728

I found Scott's old rules. Hope they don't appear too complicated... [Per Scott] In a nutshell, the points you assign in the wild card round will be awarded each time the team wins all the way through the super bowl. The points assigned in the additional rounds can only be earned once and do not accumulate. So the better you are at picking the wild card round teams that will advance, the better off you will be overall, but you will not necessarily be hampered by bad wild card round picks as you get to assign new points in each additional round. • For the Wild Card Round, using the numbers 1-12, assign each number to a team with 1 being the least confident team you think will make it to the Super Bowl and 12 being the team that you think will win the Super Bowl. You will be assigning points to four teams that are not playing. You will not earn those points in the wild card round, but they will become important later on in the pool. • For each team that wins in the wild card round you receive the amount of points you assigned to that team. Example: Panthers play Giants and Bengals play Steelers. You have assigned 12 to Panthers, 5 to Giants, 8 to Bengals, and 10 to Steelers. Panthers and Steelers both win so you have accumulated 22 points. Giants and Bengals have both been eliminated. Therefore your 5 and 8 have also been eliminated and can no longer earn you points. This is just like a confidence pool that is run every week except when a team is eliminated, you no longer can earn the points that were assigned to that team. • For the Divisional Playoffs, using the numbers 12-5, you will again assign each number to a team that is playing in the Divisional Playoff round of the playoffs using the same theory as above. • For each team that wins in the Divisional Playoff round you receive the amount of points you assigned to that team in the Divisional Playoff round, as well as the points you assigned in the Wild Card round. • Example: If in the Wild Card round, you assign a 11 to Seahawks and they do not play in the Wild Card round, you will receive no points in the Wild Card round for Seattle as they did not win a game. However, if you then assign them an 8 in the Divisional Playoff round, and they win, you will receive 19 points for that win. • For the Conference Championship round you will assign the teams yet again confidence points from 12 to 9. • For each team that wins the Conference Championship round you receive the amount of points you assigned to that team in the Conference Championship round, as well as the points you assigned in the Wild Card Round. • Example: If in the Conference Championship round you assign a 9 to the Seahawks and they win the Conference Championship you will earn 9 points PLUS the 11 you assigned to them in the Wild Card round for a total of 20 points. • For the Super Bowl you will assign a 12 and 11 to the teams. Again wild card round points will accrue. ----------------------------------------------------------- • The person that accumulates the most cumulative points for all rounds throughout the playoffs (including the Super Bowl) will be determined the winner and will receive 75% of the pot, 2nd place will receive 25%. • Tie breakers will be as follows: Using the concept of most available points, the person with the most available points on the winner of the Super Bowl would win the tiebreaker. If still tied at that point, it would be the person with the most available points on the loser of the Super Bowl. If still tied, it would drop back to the Conference Championship round and the person with the most available points on the Super Bowl winner in the Conference Championship round, would win the pool. If still tied, it would look at the most available points on the Super Bowl loser in the Conference Championship Round. This would continue back through the Divisional Playoff round to the Wild Card round. If still tied at that point, then they will split the pot. Example: Person 1 has 11 on Seattle in the Wild Card Round and 12 on them in the Super Bowl. They have an accumulated total of 23 on Seattle to win the Super Bowl. Person 2 has an accumulated total of 20 on Seattle to win the Super Bowl. Seattle does indeed win the Super Bowl, beating Pittsburgh. They Tie in terms of total points. Person 1 would win the pot. If instead, they both had 23 on Seattle to win the Super Bowl and Seattle wins the Super Bowl, then the tiebreaker would be who had the most points on Pittsburgh in the Super Bowl. If they both had the same accumulated points on Pittsburgh for the Super Bowl round, the rule would drop back to the Conference Championship round. If person 1 had 22 points on Seattle in the Conference Championship round, and person 2 had 21 points on them, then person 1 would win the pot. If the both had the same amount on Seattle in the conference championship round, we would look to the total accumulated points on the loser of the Super Bowl, Pittsburgh. If neither person would win this round, it would drop back to the second round, and then the wild card round, looking first at the winner of the Super Bowl and then the loser. If the both still tie, then they will split the take of the first and second place pots, giving each 50.00% of the total pot.