Every Wednesday is World Cup Wednesday, where I focus my attention on different office pool ideas for the 2010 World Cup. So far I have concentrated my efforts on basic draft ideas such as team brackets, confidence scores and group winners. All these ideas can be played by people with a wide range of World Cup knowledge.
In this post I want to focus on an Office Pool that requires a little more skill and World Cup knowledge.
Here is how I would put together a: WORLD CUP FANTASY PLAYER pool
Group Size: Any number up to about 10-12
Objective: To draft the best scoring players in the 2010 World Cup
1) Determine a draft order for the participants. (Use a snake draft…1-10 then reverse 10-1 and so on)
2) Each participant will draft 5-10 offensive players and 1 Goalie depending on the number of participants you have.
- Players can draft any player at any position but you will get points for goals scored only
- For the goalie you may just use a “team goalie” (eg..USA goalie or France’s goalie etc.)
3) Scoring:
- Goal = 1 point
- Hat trick = 5 points
- Goals against goalie = minus 1 point
- Optional : Yellow card = minus 1 point, Red card = minus 2 points
4) The participant whose team scores the most points at the end of the World Cup wins
5) Optional Rules
- Have an “Auction Draft“
- Re-draft after the group round.
- Allow teams to pick up free players after the group round.
- Give an extra point if the player’s team wins.
PROs:
- Easy to put together
- More rooting interest in the game as now you can root for individual players
- Takes more knowledge than most pools
- Many optional scoring and draft ideas
CONs:
- Must have some knowledge of World Cup teams
- More difficult to track as you must track individual players
- Limited number of participants
Here is a list of the TOP 50 WORLD CUP PLAYERS
