As long as a trusted escrow is receiving/holding the money it I'm in for a traditional bracket and squares. I think a confidence pick em is good, but it would need to be for every day and that's a lot to keep up with for everyone involved. Same with a survivor, it takes a ton of planning and everyone needs to check in pretty much every day which is going to be tough for some people.
I have experience running both brackets and March Madness squares so I can assist with the set up and can let you know what kind of payout structures work for ones I've held before. Again, assuming we can get an escrow to take/hold/payout the funds.
As far as the planning goes, idk if you've seen officefootballpool.com, but it takes care of everything for you. I've run several pools through it.
Regarding escrow, I think it would be pretty simple to find someone trusted to do so for us for a small fee.
The confidence pick isn't needed every day...you pick your 16 teams ahead of time and they are your teams all the way through.
I'll see if this generates more interest and if we have at least 10 people interested I'd be willing to give it a shot.
Right, I was talking more about the squares payouts. We do half time and full times for all 63 games and have a pretty solid breakdown with escalating %s (so the championship game is worth the most).
With the confidence picks, I'm used to doing them every day, not once.
Either way, we've got a week I'm sure the closer it gets the more interest we'll have.
I really like the idea of the square pool with half time and finals...lots of chances to win. Only problem with that is you need to fill 100 boxes. Any other type can technically run with any amount of people.