Well, instead of requiring sites to get in and get involved, players could 'commit' to use the referral links of the winning tipster of the month.
Each tipster could just submit their referral link, and the winning one would be displayed on the top.
The top tipster would be determined, obviously, by amount of winnings.
Only question is, would the referral link bonus be significant enough.
Maybe somebody could create a spreadsheet detailing the 'tipster of the month' every month starting now or Monday 17 August, whatever.
That's the only way we can fairly judge all the tipsters from now. No point looking at their past records. They might have been crap when they started & much improved now. We'd be judging them from now so wouldn't make sense to go back looking at their records, months & maybe even years ago.
We should totally have a tipster of the month tag on this forum. I'm just informing everybody right now that I'm too lazy & am not willing to set up a spreadsheet following their form & work out success %. I'd be very interested in looking at the scores monthly though if somebody else could be bothered to do it.
So who wants to step up?
I think that part is really easy. Yes no point in seeing past records, that would not be a competition.
I think the best way is something like this:
- Tipsters would post in the monthly thread saying that they want to enroll in the competition for that month.
- The competition would have a specific day to start, after that day, tipsters would post on the competition thread their pick and the ammount they bet. They would have to provide the link confirming that it was a real bet and not an hipotetical one.
- A record of those bets would be stored and updated in the thread, so everyone could easily see how the competition was going.
- At the end of the month, depending the number of tipsters that enrolled, prizes would be paid for the top3 or something like that (like I said it would depend on the number of tipsters that enrolled).
- To be fair we should consider the % ROI and not the total amount wone, that way everyone could bet the way they feel more confortable.
I still think that the best way to get a prize pool is if the users donate something to it. A sponsor would be great, and if that happened then, all the bets in the competition would have to be made on that site of the sponsor.
