Naked Paul Toast’s Insights

We have a football pool at work. Costs $20, 11 people are in it. At the end of the season first place gets 70%($154), second place gets 20%($44), third place gets 10%($22).

It’s done really well. All online. You enter your picks via a web page, When the games are over, login to see how many you got right and where you are in the standings. The guy running it doesn’t take any vig., all the money goes back out in prizes. He just loves doing it.

Being so close to the beginning of the season everyone is still clumped together. I’m in third place with a record of 31 correct picks and 16 incorrect picks. Picking is straight up, no spreads, no confidence points. Just pick the winner.

My picks for this week are:
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I went golfing today with my brother-in-law, and father-in-law. Whenever we play, we play skins for a buck a hole.

Whoever wins a hole gets the skin (a buck), a tied hole gets carried over to the next hole, that hole is then worth two skins. If a tie occurs on the final hole, low game score determines the last skin, and outstanding carry overs.

We are pretty evenly matched, and have basically passed the same loony back and forth all season. We were all off today, had any one of us been on, he could have probably walked away with 7 or 8 skins, for a net gain of $12 - $24.

Father-in-law ended up with the money, winning 5 skins for a net gain of $6. I broke even with 3 skins for a net gain of $0. Brother-in-law took a loss, with 1 skin, for a net loss of $6.
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