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Hi all,

I'm building a different way of betting on football games and would like input on this.

Basically its 2 jackpot pools, daily and weekly, with guaranteed minimum amount. Obviously the jackpot grows the more people bet.

Predict the result of 3 games daily to win the JP, as for the weekly it would be the outcome of 13 games.

Feel free to give feedback of your thoughts, here is the link to the site:
https://drshackie.com/

Cheers,
Shackie

nice idea but what are chances to hit the JP?

good luck

My question exactly  :-X

If you actually bothered to check the website (I'd call you sig spammers, but you're not wearing paid sigs), you'd see that you have to predict the score of 3 soccer games. If you get it all right, you win, otherwise it goes into the pot for next week.

Fees are way too high - there's a 25% fee from each bet taken (according to the FAQ), and a 10% withdraw fee for multiple withdraws in a month which is outright stupid.

not everyone will read each website just to get a question answered. thx for doing it but you didnt answer the chances to hit the JP. maybe the OP will chime in and tell us

fees are very high then but the idea is still nice IMO.

It is impossible to calculate the chance of hitting the jackpot, as it is based the final score of soccer games. I suppose you could look at the odds for specific scores on sportsbettimg websites, and convert it to a percentage, but that doesn't account for the juice a sportsbook takes. It depends on your specific picks.

fair enough but lets not forget it is 3 matches you need to have em right. what if he would give each participant to chose 3 matches from a given league? would this be better and change chance to hit JP? a JP could rise very high till someone will hit it

hi DrShackie..
I think you need to build a better reputation so many who can be interested to go there, because it does not close the possibility for your site can have a high reputation so that we can be incorporated there, because it is quite difficult to build a good reputation as a new site, , I hope you are lucky

why would he need to build a reputation before offering this game?

well there is no need to reputation cause the I don't see the owner scamming , it's possible but as darkstar stated the fee is already so damn high so I doubt he will scam the bets
the idea is kinda nice but with such fees I'm not willing to participate , taking parlays in other sportsbetting sites will generate more profit IMO unless the jackpot went insanely big

Heh. I think OP needs to change the terminology so there's no confusion. It's just a pool or a pot, increases as long as no one wins it, and goes to the winner, common enough with football. There's no random number generation to determine the winners, self-explanatory OP means the pot is award to player(s) who correctly predict all match outcomes.

Here's one very similar game on this forum (I play in it), with actually no commissions taken by the manager: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1931295.0

I guess the only concern here is the trust of the pool manager. In the case of the pool I play in, the pool manager's a global mod, doesn't get much more reputable than that

Faq section is empty and under rules found that you will charge 10% in fee on withdrawals which is basically robbing players. If guy wins multiple days throughout a month how he can only withdraw once a month for free. You should allow players to withdraw as many times as they want for free as you are also taking insane fee of 25% on bets.

Aside the deficiencies that @darkstar pointed out earlier, this is nothing other than impossible betting that is being propagated offline over here where people are forced to make minimum bets of 5 games then bet on it and the higher number of games you bet on the higher the returns but the moment one game turn out wrong, it renders the whole game useless until next time. This is see as scam.

Since you have made your 3 games which I see as still possible to predict correctly in some days, my question is what if a lot of people then predict correctly what do you do to the jackpot? Do you then share among all of them? Or you keep the Jackpot filled from your personal pocket?

Well this is like a parlay to be honest. Nothing really new to what OP wants to do. Hence, it would just turn out to be something just a lot more complicated then what we currently have. Based from the description of OP and the feedback of the people here, I got to that conclusion. So I think OP is not on to something here and we can see that from the people commenting.

I'm assuming it gets divided among the winners.
I mean, they both won, it would be wrong to only award one.

Hello DrShackie, I don't have a lot of different things to say about this site, than what has been said already, but since you asked for input, that probably means that you might look at this thread as a market analysis, so I will provide some feedback as well.

I think it's a great idea, and it's much better than just doing parlays on a bookie. The problem is that your fees are incredibly high in my opinion, specially the fees for withdraws, I have no idea why you would charge so much, as no gambling site do that. It would probably be impossible to get profit from this site in the long run, because of the fees.

Finally predicting correct scores normally have big odds, so I'm not sure if a playing wouldn't simply get more profit from placing a normal play on those three correct scores, instead of trying to win the jackpot, that can be divided among other winners.

yes it is a great idea IMO. what if the users could play without paying for participating to win the JP?

how about easier conditions and trying to find sponsors for the Jackpot?