Let’s get this season rolling. First, great idea from USSDestroyer. Let’s put it in play:
Futures 3-Team Parlay:
Place a bet (will be deducted from you initial regular season $1000 starting cash) and pick the winner of the
1) Western Conference regular season title,
2) the Eastern Conference regular season title, and
3) the UL championship game winner.
Get 1 correct and win 6x your original bet, two correct and win 12x your bet, get all three correct and win 36x your bet.
This money will be added in at the end of the contest to determine our winner.
By the way, a belated congrats goes out to FredEx who walked away with the money title last season.
If you want to participate in this special Futures bet, you must post your bet & picks before we rollover to Day 0 and the regular season betting begins. I will document the bets on the OP.
Now, if you want to practice the new betting options (while I try to get a handle on the lines in these meaningless games), I will publish lines for the preseason games. Again, your options are any one of the three bets:
- 3-Team Parlay: Place a bet on a 3-team parlay against the spread, payout is 6x your bet (same as last two years)
- 3-Team Parlay + Insurance: Place a bet on a 4-team parlay against the spread, payout is 3x your bet if you get 3 games correct, payout is 12x if you get all 4 correct.
- Pick 6: Place a bet and pick the winner of all 6 games (no spreads), win 3x your bet if you get 5 correct, win 12x your bet if you get all 6 correct
Everyone has $1000 to start off with, this will get reset (minus any Futures bet) once we get to the regular season.
So, here we go. Pure guesses at this point:
Preseason Week 1:
STALINGRAD (-28.5) vs Copperheads - STALINGRAD 48 Copperheads 17 STALINGRAD
War Dawgs vs Hurricanes (-77.5) - Hurricanes 79 War Dawgs 0 Hurricanes
4th Street vs Odyssey (-63.5) - Odyssey 72 4th Street 0 Odyssey
Ho Chi Mean vs Gofers (-84.5) - Gofers 213 Ho Chi 0 Gofers
Chaos (-6.5) vs Insanity - Insanity 22 Chaos 12 Insanity
Comets vs Palookas (-6.5) - Comets 17 Palookas 14 Comets
Participants:
reddogrw $1000 - pick 6 - $200 Stalingrad, Hurricanes, Odyssey, Gofers, Chaos (L), Pookies (L) - LOSS $800
Kenshinzen $1000 - 3+1 - $100 to Stalingrad, 4th Street (L), Hurricanes, Comets - WON $1300
Gambler072 $1000 - pick 6 - $200 copperheads (L), war dogs (L), Odyssey, Gofers, Chaos (L), comets - LOSS $800
jmarter $1000 - 3+1 - $200 Odyssey, Gofers, Chaos (L), Comets - WON $1600