WSOP ME fantasy team?

[wray]

I was thinking of doing a fantasy deal for the ME. Maybe we all throw 25 in and pay say 10% of the people that do it. I realize noone in here knows me but I'm willing to give a moderator several things to verify I am who I am. Or Maybe someone like Sklansky would be willing to hold the money.

Something like we put up 25$ a piece and choose 10 players. Then say 5000 people play in the ME. Maybe the top 250 get points.

1st = 1000
2nd = 975
3rd = 950
etc


Please don't flame with all the flaws as I'm sure there are many. Instead of that help me out. I just thought it would be something to help sweat the ME.

[slickpoppa]

In order for this to work you need:
a) A middleman who everyone trusts (Granny?) who can collect the money and do the payout
b) Have everyone in the competition have an account at the same site (Stars?) to expedite transferring the funds to the middleman and for the payout

[wray]

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In order for this to work you need:
a) A middleman who everyone trusts (Granny?) who can collect the money and do the payout
b) Have everyone in the competition have an account at the same site (Stars?) to expedite transferring the funds to the middleman and for the payout

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I'm vanilla with about anything. It could be netteller, PayPal, or any # of sites. I don't know Granny, nor do I know Sklansky..but if the masses trust em then I'm all for it.

[samjjones]

This is a good/fun idea. Would there be a "draft", or could everybody own the same players (i.e., everybody could have Dan Harrington on their team, etc.)?

[wray]

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This is a good/fun idea. Would there be a "draft", or could everybody own the same players (i.e., everybody could have Dan Harrington on their team, etc.)?

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Like I said I'm flexible. But my initial thought was you can pick who you want. The only one I've been a part of was on fullcontact poker where you rate your own players.

Like from 1 - 10. It's obvious I need help here. But if we could figure out a way to each get any ten players. Rank them and based on how they do and how we had them ranked would determine the # of points.

[samjjones]

An easy way to do this might be to use actual $$$ won in the ME as the "point keeping" system. For example, if Dan Harrington wins $200,000, and you have Harrington on your team, you get 200,000 points. Serpentine draft, each team picks 10 guys. Of course, whoever picks the actual ME winner would very likely win the pool, but this system might work pretty well.

[wray]

I basically "borrowed" this system from FCP who "borrowed" it from The Commerce's point system.

1st 250
2nd 249
3rd 248
4th 247
5th 246
6th 245
7th 244
8th 243
9th 242
10th 241

so on....


Rank multiple

1 20
2 19
3 18
4 17
5 16
6 15
7 14
8 13
9 12
10 11


So if you had P Ivey ranked 2nd and he won the tourney it would be 250 x 19 = 4750. Then if you had Miami John 10th on your ranking and he came in 5th you would get 11 x 246 = 2706. So your total would be

2706 + 4750 = 7456

[Action Scott]

chances are...noone would pick the winner as it is likely to be someone none of us have ever heard of before (i.e. moneymaker, raymer, varkyoni). But sounds like a good idea.

[danvh]

Could it kind of be done backwards.
You get a point for the finish place of your player.

For example:
1st Place= 1 Point
4356 PLace= 4356 Points

Player with the fewest points wins.

It would keep the math pretty simple allthough it might punish someone who goes out real early too much.

Just a thought. Though I would be willing to participate in this if it comes togather.

[TheMainEvent]

Not a bad idea, but I think all players who finish out of the money should get the same amount of points. The scoring system should reflect the payout structure of the tournament.