BSB’s 2012 NFL Playoff Challenge

If you know anything about BSB, you know that we like to play make things interesting with our little parlor games.  Well, here is one that has gone really well since it debuted in 2010.  It’s an NFL Playoff Challenge, and anyone is welcome to join, if they so please.

Here’s the deal:

• You assign each playoff team a “weight” (1 – 12, with 12 being the “most confident”) of how confident you have of them going far in the playoffs. 
• For each playoff win, you will receive the amount of points that you have that team weighted.
• For instance, if I feel most confident in the Patriots, I would give them the 12, and I would get 12 points for every playoff game they win.
• There’s a bit of a catch here in that a bye gives you nothing, so there may be some advantage to giving a high weight to one of the 8 teams playing this week because they will play an extra game.  But, then again, they will then be on the road next week, if they win.
• Points for the Championship Games will be doubled, and points for the Super Bowl will be tripled.  This makes it so the Championship Game round is just as important as the other rounds, even though there are fewer games, and the Super Bowl pick is the most important single pick.

Feel free to join us in the Challenge, if you want.  You can post your picks on the comment here or email me or Doogan.  We will update the standings after each round and have even partnered with the greatest pool administation site on the web, www.grza.com, so we will be able to follow the pool there, as well.  There will likely be some “side action” on the pool, as well, so we’ve got that goin’ for us, too…which is nice.