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Old 02-20-08, 02:05 PM
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Contest Ideas for the Summer - Cash.

We've always enjoyed doing contests on the forum and it especially picks up in the summer simply because the summer at times needs more excitement. After all, not everyone loves Beaver Ball (Wnba) like I do. Regardless, I'm thinking about putting together a fairly large cash pool along with money from Diamond sportsbook for the contests this summer. We'll leave this thread up between now and May 22nd - we'll call that the beginning of summer - just the way the accounts work. If you have some decent contests ideas (ryangene is full of them), then just drop it here. ATV (abovethevig), Taco, Stockpicker, Vytas will help decide on what contests they feel will get selected and the most fun. I'll work on the cash prizes and funding to whatever they choose. Let's Roll. Looking forward to your ideas and thoughts. Sports to keep in mind:

MLB
WNBA
Canadian Football.

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Old 02-20-08, 02:37 PM
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Re: Contest Ideas for the Summer - Cash.

I'd be very interested in a MLB contest as I do not follow WNBA or Canadian football a whole hell of a lot. I like the "every man for himself" type tourneys, but it was fun last year when each contestant had a week long one on one match up with another and the winner moved on, bracket system.
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Old 02-20-08, 04:15 PM
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Re: Contest Ideas for the Summer - Cash.

Would love to see a pick 10 in a row contest.

play of the day survivor pool throughout the summer. everyone picks 1 game from june 1st to june 30 then the top 50% move on to the next round. Everyone back to zero . repeat from july 1st to july 31st then top 10 move in to august. from there you could end it in august or move it into sept if you like. This is similar to the golf playoffs.
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Old 02-20-08, 04:53 PM
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Re: Contest Ideas for the Summer - Cash.

Here are a few ideas that I've had in the past let me know what people think....


1) A hit streak contest. Each day users will select an MLB player that they feel will get a hit. The 1st person to get 20 games in a row is declaired the winner. Even if everyone thew in $10 and we had 45 users.... We'd have $450 in a pot.....

Here could be another example of payouts..
1st Player to get hit streak 10 in a row wins $30
1st Player to get hit streak 13 in a row wins $60
1st Player to get hit streak 15 in a row wins $90
1st Player to get hit streak 17 in a row wins $120
1st Player to get hit streak 20 in a row wins $ 150


2) Just like Mongi's idea... The best capper contest. That we did in the past. Head to head games each week vs a different user Playing Monday/Friday... Off on Sat/Sun and then player with the most wins or units ahead moves on to the next round.

3) Just like idea #1... A home run streak. You pick a player each day that you think will get a home run. The longer the streak you get the more money you can win. 1st Person to get 8-10 days in a row when picking a player with a Home Run wins the pot.

4) The guess the score contest that we did last year, where you pick the score of an MLB game. Don't even need to do the $25 that you did last year but even if it was $10-$15 a day its still very nice.

More ideas to come....
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Old 02-25-08, 09:44 PM
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Re: Contest Ideas for the Summer - Cash.

Play of the Day/Best Bet contest(With up to 3 plays or votes or something) Underdog of the day contest(where only underdogs are allowed...To help find good/better value), Biggest blowout of the day/most lopsided final..ATS and Total(Who doesn't like a good blowout or an easy wire-wire winner), Best Pitcher/Hitter of the day(Pitcher is more important IMO and could help not only win a contest but win bettors money) I would like to see a poll(W/ Reason) for every game everyday if possible..if not then at least 1-2 games a day we can 'feature' and go balls out handicapping across the board...Just some suggestions of stuff I'd personally like to see and think could be BOTH Useful and Entertaining!

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Old 02-25-08, 09:51 PM
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Re: Contest Ideas for the Summer - Cash.

I also really liked the 10 in a row contest we had. I almost won that thing like 3 times and choked when I got close all 3 times.
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Old 03-17-08, 09:38 PM
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Re: Contest Ideas for the Summer - Cash.

I think a survivor MLB contest would be cool. Start on the first day of each month and you need to pick a winner each day. Big juice is fine because usually on the game with the -330 juice, the TB D-rays beat the Yankees and vegas makes a bunch of money.

Or else we have a MLB Underdog contest. No juice more than +125 or something like that.

Those are my ideas
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Re: Contest Ideas for the Summer - Cash.

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I also really liked the 10 in a row contest we had. I almost won that thing like 3 times and choked when I got close all 3 times.
I like the 10 on a row too. You and Taco start at -3 this year.
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Old 03-18-08, 01:03 AM
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Re: Contest Ideas for the Summer - Cash.

What about some sort of team challenge?

Randomly paired up, I think it would become pretty competitive the entire season and you would really get to know some people...
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