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Prospector
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Initially Posted - 01/30/2008 :  10:05:23  Show Profile  Visit Prospector's Homepage
Since my office has pools for everything (soccer, hockey, babies, etc.) and multiple lottery pools and a few poker nights a year, I figured the compulsive gamblers here might go for a Volvo Ocean race pool, besides, then the boss would be happy to have me looking up the race website daily.

Trouble is, I have never actually organized a pool. Has anyone put together a pool for an event similar to the VOR? Does anyone have a template I can use? I Googled and came up empty.
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Champipple
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Response Posted - 01/30/2008 :  12:52:12  Show Profile  Visit Champipple's Homepage
put together some kind of point schema and run it like fantasy sports games....

points for miles per day
Bonus for most miles in a day
Points for days in the lead
Points for finish place in the leg
Everyone gets 2 or 3 boats.

tally it up and find out who won't pay when they lose
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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 01/30/2008 :  13:19:05  Show Profile  Visit Frank Hopper's Homepage
Didn't you mean points for legs in place... as in eye candy?
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Champipple
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Response Posted - 01/30/2008 :  13:24:41  Show Profile  Visit Champipple's Homepage
There are about 4 racing sailors of age that would qualify Frank and I don't think any of them do the VOR
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Gambit
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Response Posted - 01/30/2008 :  14:17:00  Show Profile
There are 10 legs plus in port races and the finish. So you could do squares in a 7 (teams) by 12 grid, 84 squares. Sell them for some amount and have awards for each leg plus a better prize for the final.

When the board is full with names, randomly pick the race number and put that on the columns, left to right. Then randomly assign the rows to the teams. Whomever owns the square where the team and race intersect will win that prize. The random picks are done among many witnesses of course.

With seven teams at $3 per, you could award $15 for 11 races and $87 for the final. You could weight the awards any way you want, just have the payouts equal the pot.

This type of game would get the non-fan involved since it does not take any knowledge about the teams. The only hitch is knowing how many teams there will be. I don't know if teams add/subtract within a few days of the event but I guess that remains to be seen.

Let me know what you think
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Response Posted - 01/30/2008 :  15:27:54  Show Profile  Visit Prospector's Homepage
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Gambit</i>
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This type of game would get the non-fan involved since it does not take any knowledge about the teams. The only hitch is knowing how many teams there will be. I don't know if teams add/subtract within a few days of the event but I guess that remains to be seen.

Let me know what you think
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I like this a lot. Its a lot simpler than some of the other models I had come up with based on Horse racing. This may work...
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