Betting / game

Photo By Paul O'Keefe on Flickr Pool Betting In almost every workplace and for many fundraiser groups that I have been a part of, this simple little game with built in odds has seen a lot of use. I thought that I would mention it here because by incorporating this one simple game, Scorum could open up betting on a wide range of sporting events that would incorporate every level of sports from the most amateur to the top pro games! The odds on the following game are 100 - 1 or I better understand it as 1 chance in 100. Please excuse the lighting on the photo of betting card on the left, I'm working on a rainy day in my basement and I get shadows no matter what I do. For this game, the first team would be listed on the left where you see "Team One" and the opponent would be listed at the bottom in the "Team Two" rectangle. The numbered squares for each line are for the last digit of the final score of team one, and the numbers for the columns are the last digit for the score of team two. The empty squares are for the betters to chose, after all squares have been chosen the final score of the game will determine which one is the winning entry. The winner will be the square where the line representing the last digit of the final score of team one intersects with the last digit of the final score of team two. A score of zero-zero, ten-ten or 20-20 etc. would be the bottom left corner square the last digits being "0 - 0" This type of game is best used for scores that typically end in double or triple digits like basketball and American football. But since there is a slightly greater chance of the final score ending on certain numbers in lower scoring games we need to hide which numbers are assigned to each row and each column until all of the bets have been placed and the grid is complete. After all of the squares have been taken by betters then a random number generator can fill in the numbers properly thus giving each entry even odds before those numbers have been revealed. If you are looking at a grid then so that you can enter a bet you would see the names of the teams playing on the left side and bottom, the date, time and location of the game at the top as well as the database from which the official final score will be taken. I would also add a place for verification so that it would take a number between 0-99 of the game's better to verify the score before the payout. In a pool that cost 1 SCR per square you might not need any verification, but on a pool that cost 100 SCR per square you might want 5 verifications and 10,000 SCR per square would probably want 99 verifications lol. Now looking at the chart above lets make a bet together, This is a 1K pool and you are the first better so you would pick a square and be charged 10 SCR and you become better #1 or (B-1). Others choose squares and then I end up taking the last square as Better 100 (B-100). Each better has paid 10 SCR so now the pool has 1,000 (1K) SCR which will be paid to the lucky winner that holds the correct square. In this grid you can see that two squares have been taken. And below you will see the result after all of the squares have been taken. The random number generator has now assigned the numbers 0-9 in random order and we are ready for the game to be played to see how it turns out. Looking at the chart above you will see that you (B-1) are in row "0" that will correspond to the last digit in team one's final score and you are in column "8" which will correspond to the last digit in team two's final score. You will also see my bet as (B-100) in row 4 and column 6. The game results are in so let's see how it turned out. In the first scenario you win, so we'll see what that looks like. I have entered a final Score for Team One of 30 points and Team Two had 18 points (30-18). Taking the last digit of team one's score "0" we move across the corresponding row until we reach the column for the last digit of the score for team two "8," and as you can see better number 1 (B-1) has the winning square and will receive the 1,000 SCR prize! Now lets let me win! You can see that if the game had ended in a score of 24-46 then I would be the person celebrating from winning 1K SCR. You will also note that a better would be able to take multiple squares to increase his odds of winning, it would be first come first serve until every square was taken. Adding this one game to the platform would add multiple possibilities that the users would generate themselves. What we would need is a way to select "Pool Bet" games where we would be able to enter by taking a square in an existing game, or select "Create Game" to build a game of our own. When you choose create game you would be taken to a form to fill out. The questions on the form would include.Name of Team One?Name of Team Two?Stake Amount? (Would automatically multiply by 100 to give payout value)Date of Game?Scheduled Time of Game? (if known)Location of Game?Number of Verification's (Only needed until Scorum has the official scores) Scorum could set this game up such that it could be used for fundraisers and charities also. All that would be required is to add this question. [And do a lot more coding :)]% of total payout to go to account _________________ For _______________________ This way a Scorum group could create and use a game as a fundraiser for the group. Or if a member were in need, or if they had a special charity that they wanted to donate to, then all they would have to do is start a Pool Bet game specifying that a percentage of the payout would go towards the fundraiser or charity specified. It was typical for the fundraisers that I was involved with to take 10% of the payout. But what about sports games that are low scoring, can we do something with them in mind? For games where the score usually ends in less than double digits we could simply have a one line ten digit grid with the odds of winning being 1 in 10. Here we would simply add the final score of the two teams together to give us the winner. The grid would look something like this only not so blurred lol. In this game if it were two soccer teams and the score ened 3-2, then you would add the scores together and the winner would have square #5. If the score ended 9-8 then the winner would be the person with square #7. I hope all of this is easy to understand. This is just one of my crazy ideas and I have no idea how much time or man hours of work that it would take the dev team to build something like this. So you see I'm just throwing the idea out there to see what everyone thinks about it, but just because I bring the idea forward does not mean that it is feasible for the team to make it happen, so don't get your hopes up too high. Thank's for taking the time to read about one of my wild schemes! (All photo's mine, I'm sure that no one else would claim them anyway.)