Powerball - Soccerball by Mike Bozart - HTML preview

Rules of play

1. After all of the participants’ teams have their twenty numbers (19 WB and one PB), the next Powerball drawing, whether Wednesday or Saturday night, kicks off the inaugural season. Home teams get to use their HB numbers in addition to their constants (but not their AB numbers). Away teams get to use their constants plus their AB numbers (but not their HB numbers).

 These are the numbers in play.

• Example:

Powerball drawing, WB numbers: (9)(34)(44)(53)(66) | PB number: [16]

Home Team numbers:

(6)(10)(14)(19)(20)(24)(26)(28)(29)(34)(35)(37)(45)(48)(51)(55)(57)(61)(68) [16]

Away Team numbers:

(6)(9)(12)(17)(21)(25)(27)(33)(41)(42)(44)(46)(48) (49)(50)(53)(58)(67)(69) [11]

2. Scoring. Each non-prime WB match = 1 goal. Each prime WB match = 2 goals. A PB match = 2 goals. [See chart below Example.]

• Example (from above):

Home Team matches the in-play WB number of 34, which is not prime, and the PB number of 16; the result: 3 goals scored (1 for WB 34 and 2 for PB 16).

Away Team matches the in-play WB numbers of 44 and 53, one of which is prime, but do not match the PB number; the result: 3 goals scored (1 for WB 44 and 2 for prime WB 53).

Final score: Home Team 3 – 3 Away Team (draw).

3. Recording. An updatable table is set up with these seven columns: Wins | Draws | Losses | Goals Scored | Goals Allowed | Goal Differential | Points (Change-in-Position and Form columns are optional.)

 [See Table below.]

 Note: a win = 3 points, a draw = 1 point, a loss = 0 points.

4. Deciding the Champion.

• Option 1 (British style). After all of the games have been played, the team with the most points are the champions, plain and simple. If two or more teams are tied on points, the first tie-breaker is goal differential. The second tie-breaker is head-to-head record and, if needed, aggregate score. The third tie-breaker is a one-match playoff (if two teams; if there are 3 or more teams still knotted at the top, a round-robin tournament will commence (draws won’t go to a shootout).
• Option 2 (American style). A single-elimination playoff tournament commences with the top four to eight teams (appropriately seeded). The regular season winner gets an additional two non-prime HB WB numbers; the runner-up gets one. Postseason games ending in a draw immediately go to an online random-number-generator (set at 1 to 69) shootout, in which the team with the first matching unique WB number (a WB number not shared by both teams) wins via golden goal.

5. The 2nd season and beyond. Instead of automatically getting five HB WB numbers and three AB WB numbers to start the new season, each team will be awarded additional WB numbers based on this formula: Every home win from the previous season = +1 HB WB number for the upcoming season; every away win from the previous season = +1 AB WB number for the upcoming season; three draws (either home or away) = an additional WB number (4 or 5 draws = +1 WB number; 6 draws = +2 WB numbers; 7 or 8 draws = +2 WB numbers; 9 draws = +3 WB numbers, and so on).

6. Betting suggestion. Make the pool a stack of scratch-off tickets, all the same kind, just like in The Psecret Psociety VAFL. Each participant must ante up. The unknown jackpot will add to the intrigue and increase the excitement down the stretch. Winner shall be allowed to scratch off the tickets in private, and may chose not to disclose his/her total winnings. But, if he or she drives up in a new Porsche three days later … Sure hope that wasn’t my scratch-off ticket!

7. Miscellany – Other stuff.

a) Sample game table for a drawing: WB nos. in (x); PB no. in red.

b) Postseason stats examples: