NFL Football Pool

[FASherman]

Here's what I want is a simple football pool add-on.

For a user to participate, they have be a member of a secondary group, "Pool Players" which can either be free or a paid subscription, depending on the site.

On the admin side, I have to be able to specify a 17-week, 16-game schedule for each season, keeping history from prior seasons. The entire season should be exportable/importable, complete with point spreads and scores.

Obviously, we need a way to input point spreads before a game and scores afterwards. If the programmer can find a way to extract this information from web sources automatically, thats a bonus, but it would be acceptable to do this manually.

I'd like two email options, one to invite all forum users to register for the football pool before the season ends. Another would be a weekly email to all pool members when the week's point spreads are all in so they can register their picks.

Users should be able to submit/change their picks up until midnight of the day following the first game. Closing the weekly pool should be automatic.

I'd like for each player to select ONE game as their "sure thing". This will be the first tie breaker.

For Monday Night Football, each player specifies an over/under representing the predicted combined score. This is the second tie breaker.

The third tie breaker is a coin-flip. In the event of a multi-player tie that goes to a coint flip, players will be seeded based on their season standing. If two or more players have the same standing for season, then alphabetically by username.

Once the seeding is determined, the two losest seeds engage in the coil flip and so on until the final rankings are determined.

To avoid this, there should also be a configuration option to allow ties.

I would like to be able to specify a forum where weekly announcements are inserted. Each week, a post will be made when the picksheet page is read (ie. all of the point spreads are in) and another when all the scores are in annoucing the weekly winner as well as the current season leader.

Ideally, the format of these posts whould be editable via the ACP.

We also will need a way to enter in playoff information and continue the season up to the Superbowl.

For those that want to actually make money off of their football pool, here are a few more ideas.

1. Pool Players group can be a weekly subscription.

2. Specify a split, for example 20/55/25; meaning 20% goes to the forums for hosting the pool; 55% is paid out to the weekly winner and 25% is added to the pot for the overall winner for the season.

3. Specify positions and percentages to pay out:
1st - 50%
2nd - 25 %
3rd - 15%
4th - 10 %

4. Allow uses to specify paypal info and payout automatically.

I leave the rest to your creativity.

The creative programmer will figure out not only can he make money selling the program, but also on yearly subscription for not just updates but for the data sources: schedules, scores, point spreads, playoff schedules.

Let me add that I'm willing to pay to have this done. PM me if interested.