Hello, stranger! You have reached Project Confidence, a dark place of the World Wide Web, where sports freaks from all over the world converge to test their crystal ball. Project Confidence is a web site that allows you to organize and manage your confidence pools.
What's a confidence pool?
A confidence pool is a pick ‘em with a twist. Instead of picking the winners of each game or series, you rank all participating teams at the beginning from strongest to weakest. As the tournament plays out, you receive points for team wins, based upon your initial rankings.
Here’s an example: a four-team tournament. You think the Winnipeg Jets are the best team going in, and will dominate the bottom-feeding Atlanta Flames. So you rank the teams this way:
4. Winnipeg Jets
3. Quebec Nordiques
2. Vancouver Millionaires
1. Atlanta Flames
For every game that the Jets win, you get four points; for every game that the Nordiques win, you get three points; and so on. That’s all there is to it. At the end of the tournament, the participant with most points wins (bragging rights, mostly).
One thing to remember is that you’re not necessarily picking the winner of the tournament: you’re picking overall tournament dominance. If the Atlanta Flames squeak into the tourney final and win against the otherwise-dominant Winnipeg Jets, your picks could still generate the most points.
How does this site work?
If you’re creating a new pool, you’ll be asked for some basic information about the pool: which teams are playing, what dates the pool will run, what kind of point system you want. Once that’s set up, a pool site will be created for you which you can share with your participants so they can enter their picks.
If you’re entering picks for an existing pool, all you have to enter is your name, your rankings, and an email address. The email address lets us send you the address of your picks page so you can come back and change them if you need to (before the pool starts, of course!).