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What is a football office
pool? A football office pool is a contest to see
who is the best at picking football winners. There
are different types of office pools but the most
common is the one that has people picking winners
against the spread. I’ll look at the different
types of football office pools and give you some
tips to help you become more successful if you enter
any of them.
The most common type of football office pool is
the point spread pool. Each week of the NFL season
everyone is given all the games with the pointspreads
listed. They then choose who they think will win
each game against the spread. One point is awarded
for each correct selection and the totals are kept
throughout the NFL regular season. Prizes can be
awarded for the best score every week and a grand
prize is awarded for the person who selected the
most winners for the entire season. Another type
of football office pool that is closely related
to the pointspread pool is called the confidence
pool. It is the same as the pointspread pool except
now everyone ranks their selections starting at
#1 all the way down the list. The top selection
gets the most points, the second the next most,
and on down the list. This pool allows everyone
to rank their selections and give greater weight
to the games they really like. For example, you
would rank your top selection as #1 and your worst
selection at #15. The totals are tabulated based
on how well your top selections did against the
spread and points are given out accordingly for
the week and for the season.
The newest, and quickly becoming the most popular
type of football office pool, is the survivor pool.
This pool can be done by picking the winner straight
up or by picking the winner against the spread.
It is much simpler to understand and to track. Each
week everyone picks the one team that they like
the best. Anyone that loses his or her pick is out
of the pool. The pool continues until there is only
one person left. If there were more than one person
left at the end of the season they would split the
pot. A rule that is sometimes put into this type
of pool limits the times you can select a team.
For example, let’s say you like New England
and want to select them every week. The rule could
say that you can only select a team up to three
times. That prevents someone from riding a hot team
all year long. This survivor office pool is quickly
becoming the most popular because it is very easy
to understand and anyone can win.
How can we enhance our chances to win one of these
office pools? I’ll take the survivor football
office pool for the main example. The most popular
type of survivor pool is to have just the straight
up winner with no pointspread. In this type of pool
you want to keep yourself alive and not take many
chances early in the year. Heavy favorites are a
good place to start because we don’t care
if they cover the spread; we just need them to win
straight up. We want to especially look at the heavily
favored home teams. If major upsets are going to
happen they usually happen when the power team is
on the road. Later in the season, if we are still
alive, we can do a little more thinking and handicapping,
but early in the season we just want to take the
power teams, especially at home. We have to remember
that the goal is to survive and move on. If we are
alive late in the season then we can do some things.
Some people will avoid using the same team three
times in a row thinking that they will then have
only poor teams to choose from later in the season.
Again, remember the goal is to survive. We worry
about one week at a time and if the best power team
is available, we take them.
Another type of football office pool is also very
simple to understand and has been around a long
time. It is the pool that is based strictly on number
squares and gives out prizes based on the quarter,
halftime, and final scores. It is very straightforward,
as all you are concerned about is the score at the
end of the 1st quarter, the halftime score, the
end of the third quarter score, and the final score.
You usually get one number for each team and put
it together to see if you are a winner. For example,
if New England was leading 17-13 over Carolina at
the half you would want your Patriots number to
be 7 and your Panthers number to be three. That
would make you a winner. These types of number square
pools are quite common in Championship games like
the Super Bowl, NCAA Final Four, NBA Championship,
etc.
Whatever type of office pool you get involved in
I hope that you are able to make it a success. Hopefully
you can keep in mind some of these tips and make
your next football office pool a winning one.
TRENTON, N.J. - An Assembly committee
will hold hearings next week on a bill to legalize
sports betting, but lawmakers need to overcome several
hurdles before wagers can be placed on games.
Federal law bans sports wagering in most states.
However, lawmakers here are pushing sports betting
as a way to stave off a budget deficit and to help
Atlantic City casinos fight competition.
Assembly Speaker Albio Sires, D-Hudson, now says
he backs sports betting as a way to help ease what
may be a $4 billion gap in the next state budget."Sports
betting is a very intriguing idea that could help
solidify the financial standing of Atlantic City's
casinos while producing a new revenue stream for
state programs that help seniors and residents with
disabilities," said Sires in a statement issued
Wednesday.
Acting Gov. Richard J. Codey is reviewing the sports
betting bill and has not yet taken a position on
it, a spokeswoman told The Star-Ledger of Newark
for its Thursday editions.Codey also has not directed
the attorney general to challenge a federal law
that would ban the state from legalizing sports
betting, the newspaper reported.
The bill backed by Sires would raise $92.5 million
for various programs by taxing an estimated $1 billion
in bets. Bets would be made in person at a casino
and no wagers would be allowed on college or other
amateur sports events.Voters would be asked to approve
sports gambling in a referendum, under the measure.The
federal Professional and Amateur Sports Protection
Act bars all but four states from running legal
bookmaking operations.Federal law allows sports
betting in Nevada, Oregon, Delaware and Montana,
but only the first two states offer it. Nevada has
full-service sports books, while Oregon has a state-run
pro football pool during the season.
The federal government gave New Jersey the opportunity
to legalize sports betting in 1994, but proponents
could not gather enough support and the issue never
made it to the ballot for voter approval.
Supporters say the state could overturn the federal
law and they are urging the attorney general to
contest the issue.
Opponents say sports betting would increase problems
with gambling. In May, the Assembly Tourism and
Gaming Committee held a hearing on the issue that
drew opposition from the NFL whose representatives
argued that increased sports betting would cause
some to fear games would be fixed.Last year nearly
$2 billion was bet on sports in Nevada.
Now some lawmakers believe the increased revenue
from sports betting would boost state coffers and
make Atlantic City more attractive as a tourist
destination. Casinos worry that increased competition
from nearby states, including those that offer slot
machines at racetracks, will cut revenues.
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