(NFL) Chico and the Kid contest - rules for 2025

[ChuckyTheGoat]

Hey, guys. Reception was good for the 2024 contest. The three winners were paid out to their satisfaction.

Planning to do it again in 2025. Here are the tweaks I'm considering for the upcoming season:

1) 40 contestants. All by invite. Thought about 30, but 40 for now.
2) Payout pool = $600. MJ still has $100 on deposit with me. I'll cover the remainder.
3) Top three paid out. $300/200/100.
4) Here's the tweak. Last year it was six teams to MISS the Playoffs.
5) For 2025 my thought is to give each contestant ten units. You get ten 1-unit bets. You can allocate to ten teams, either to MAKE the playoffs or to MISS the playoffs.
6) Decimal lines will be posted after the last Exhibition game.
7) Fixed lines. 48-hour window for each contestant to submit picks. No edits.

Feel free to post any dis-agreements in this thread. Thanks!

[Optional]

Very generous. And format sounds great to me.

[ChuckyTheGoat]

Very generous. And format sounds great to me.

Thx for the feedback, Opti. Appreciate it.

[mjsuax13]

Awesome Chuck. I’ll kick in another $400 and we can make it $1k total purse. 5/3/2 or whatever you choose. Thanks for setting up.

[ChuckyTheGoat]

Awesome Chuck. I’ll kick in another $400 and we can make it $1k total purse. 5/3/2 or whatever you choose. Thanks for setting up.

Very generous, mj. Don't feel obligated. But if you want to, I'll handle the payouts again.

[mjsuax13]

Very generous, mj. Don't feel obligated. But if you want to, I'll handle the payouts again.

Yes sir. Let’s do it.

[Ian]

Awesome contest! Thanks, guys!

As an aside, does SBR allow posters to do buy-in contests? The "6 teams to miss the NFL playoffs" contest seems to work better with a buy-in format, so I don't think I'll run it this year now that betpoints are gone. If there's interest I might run it with a small amount of btc., but I don't want to run afoul of SBR's rules.

[JAKEPEAVY21]

Sounds fun and thank you Chucky and suax!

[str]

Really generous everyone !
Thanks very much for a very cool contest .
Great job Chucky

[ChuckyTheGoat]

Really generous everyone !
Thanks very much for a very cool contest .
Great job Chucky

OK. Thx, str. Look for the invite list later this summer.

[brock]

If there is room, I'm always up for a SBR contest. NFL right around the corner.
Thanks Chucky and Mjsuax 13.

[frankzig]

sounds fun............ in....................thx

[ChuckyTheGoat]

Bump. Will work on the invitee list this weekend. Will talk to MJ to get the complete list.

[mjsuax13]

Bump. Will work on the invitee list this weekend. Will talk to MJ to get the complete list.

Chuck- I defer to you. I trust you to make a great list.

[unde0087]

Chuck, my disagreement is I have not received an invitation since 2008

[packerd_00]

Can we bet on SB futures Chuck

[ChuckyTheGoat]

Can we bet on SB futures Chuck

Hi, Pack. This contest is really based on teams to Make or Miss the playoffs. Not SB futures.

[packerd_00]

Hi, Pack. This contest is really based on teams to Make or Miss the playoffs. Not SB futures.

Ok I got you. No worries than.

[Madison]

I'm in. Thx Chuck!!