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simplified (playoff picks)
you try to correctly predict all 12 NFL postseason teams, while also providing insight into which teams you think will win their divisions, advance to the conference championships, and ultimately, which team you think (you "know") will win it all in the end.
to help you along your journey I installed points to help make it easier to break ties in a pool where maybe some people got the same number of "guesses" right, but there wasn't a discernable way on how to figure out who predicted "better"; now there is. With a series of point elevators for each stage of the playoff picture the deeper you predict, and correctly, the more handsomely you are rewarded for your insight.
Understanding the points at this initial stage doesn't matter as much, but they are there and set for reference, and once the playoffs begins, that's when they'll start accumulating, and thus, making more sense. At this stage (or when I transfer my whole entire post above into the NFL Thread) is when you only need to provide your 6 AFC + 6 NFC playoff teams, and then I'll help you progress from there.
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simplified (confidence points)
I didn't know how these worked either, but I quickly caught on. You assign weighted points to each game based on how well you are "confident" that one team will win over the other. Say you have the utmost confidence that the Eagles will win, no matter what, this Sunday against the Lions. If this is your "stone-cold lock" of the week (as Tony Bruno would you) then you would assign this pick'em a 16 (the highest available choice.)
On the other hand, if you are so unsure aabout the Monday Night contest between NO @ SF, and you have no (___) idea as to which team will win or lose, based on a number factors you don't understand, and would rather you lose the least amount of your "wager" percentage, then you would vote this as your pick "most likely to get wrong"; and therefore, you would assign it a value of "1", or a basic vote that you have little to no "confidence" that you picked this matchup correctly.
It's not a perfect system, and I much prefer the percentages, but I can't change it now (I'm pretty sure) and I think it adds a level of thinking just a notch above a quarter toss for or against. I'm not sure if you play the spreads, but I will be adding this element to the game next season (assuming this little trial run was even a mild success). As always, I'm the helpful enabler, so please, if you have any further questions, it shall be a hestitant wait not for either of us to exchange formalities, I hope.
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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi
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