One of the things we wanted to achieve with CubeSpace was to provide people who work alone the opportunities that come from working with others...like sports pools. So, it was with some excitement that we decided to do a football pool.

Andy is, of course, the one of us with the most background in this sort of thing, so I eagerly asked him if it would be heated, where we would put it, and whether it was appropriate to do laps in a football pool. Apparently, I misunderstood.

A football pool (or at least the one we're doing) does not involve swimming, or water of any kind. Instead, it involves picking which team you believe will win each football game, and assigning a measure of how confident you are of that prediction. Each week there seem to be around 16 games, and you rank how sure you are in your prediction from 16 (most confident) down to 1 (haven't ever heard of either team before).

You can also do some cool things like create your own logo...mine is mountains with letters below it...WAGs*...tellling you a great deal about how I intend to "predict" the winners.

I do, however, have some methods I intend to employ:

1. The alphabet: if you just alphabetize the contestants in each game, clearly one, and only one, team belongs on top.
2. Uniform design: this has long been my methodology for selecting a team to root for in the super-bowl. Choose the team with a better uniform. It may not work, but at least you aren't cheering for a team that's badly dressed (or at a minimum, not as badly dressed as their opponents).
3. Which city would I prefer to visit?

I understand that these methods may not be considered the most "serious." Andy keeps talking about things like "who's injured" and "previous performance" and things like that. Which is all well and fine, for those who are inclined to study these things at that kind of level. But for me, who basically watches one football game a year (the superbowl) in the hopes of the seeing good entertainment (the commercials), I think simpler methods might be more appropriate.

*Wild-Assed Guesses.