Since we’re in the spirit for new ideas, who else has more?
Sports
We missed the Super Bowl and the Winter Olympics, but March Madness is just around the corner (Selection Sunday is the 16th!). It’s very popular and something I’ve enjoyed playing for years.
You would need to add a bracket to the predictions center. Pools and other sites (Yahoo!, ESPN, CBS Sports) use different rules for points. I like when you get rewarded for more points when you correctly pick an upset (ex: 12-16 seed to win in the first round). It’s something goldderby members would probably enjoy (picking upsets and getting rewarded for it instead of just picking the favorites everywhere).
So, you could have the following:
1st round points (32 games)
predicted a 1-4 seed to win — 1 point
predicted a 5-10 seed to win — 2 points
predicted a 11-16 seed to win — 4 points
2nd round points (16 games)
predicted a 1-4 seed to win — 2 point
predicted a 5-10 seed to win — 4 points
predicted a 11-16 seed to win — 8 points
Sweet Sixteen (8 games)
4 points for predicting one of the winners plus add the number of their seed to the point total (ex. # 1 seed would give you 5 points)
Elight Eight (4 games)
8 points for predicting one of the winners plus add the number of their seed to the point total (ex. # 1 seed would give you 9 points)
Final Four (2 games)
16 points for predicting one of the winners plus add the number of their seed to the point total (ex. # 1 seed would give you 17 points)
Finals (1 game)
predicted winner — 32 points
Here’s an example of a bracket: