NFL Office Pool Manager

Ramstone · #1 07-24-2007, 11:58 AM

It looks like I'll be running my office pool this year; ~ 60 runners ATS. The websites we've used in the past, Sportsline, Yahoo, someone's home brew, all had shortcomings IMO. Anyone have a favorite, hands down platform for this, preferably via website but I'll consider standalone. Thanks.

Ramstone · #2 08-01-2007, 11:54 AM

bump

splashpot · #3 08-01-2007, 01:18 PM

What kind of pool is it? What shortcomings did you have with the other sites? What features are you looking for?

Ramstone · #4 08-01-2007, 02:20 PM

Off the top of my head, the following areas have lacking some of the time:

--payments/payout tracker. Pools pay the win/place of the week, (picks ATS, the entire card) and season win/place/show (and possibly a 2nd half of the season winner)
--season standings (or week by week standings, e.g. a way to track your GB record week-to-week)
not beholden to a particular site's line. Bonus would be to import a line at a certain time/day from a source like covers.com etc, but that's quite optional
--I'd like to set a score=min[entrants] for those that miss the deadline
--Some sort of auto-deadline feature e.g. 90 minutes before 1st kickoff.
--MNF total points tie-breaker, or choice of tie-breaking methods.

I'll assume there's a 'commissioner' override for most aspects. The more features, especially for the users, the better.

I may be making this more complicated than it needs to be, but I'd rather that than to have some sort of controversy.