Greetings! I'm a long-time customer of OfficePool. Love the software. Keep up the good work!
My pools run a seed x weight scoring system. Up until now I've ignored the play-in games, but may want to include them this year. My question for you: in OfficePool, how are the First Four teams handled, in terms of seeding?
If the teams are seeded as "16s" even if I assign a 1 to the round weight, there's still 64 points in play for four games, which is a LOT and could potentially unbalance my scoring system. My follow-up question is: can I assign fractional weights to that particular round, i.e. a weight of .5 or even .25, if I choose to use the First Four games?
Thanks again for all the hard work in developing OfficePool. My best to all of you.
Thanks for the kind words and encouragement
From what I understand, the official First Four games will have matching seeds (i.e. two 16's or two 11's or 12's, etc). You can also change these seed values from Preferences -> Teams tab.
And yes, you can use decimal values.
Another option is to use a combination of Seed x Weights and Basic. Then you can award a fixed amount of points (e.g. 10) for a correct First Four pick. (use values of 0 for all other rounds, for example)
Lastly, you may want to check out this link on First Four Options: http://officepool.pachysoft.com/firstFourOptions.html