Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Fantasy Election Pool - Expressions of Interest Sought From Readers
I've often thought about running a fantasy election pool similar to fantasy sports leagues.
Here's how it would work:
- Create your own constituency and give it a name. Decide what party you are going to run for.
- Your constituency has 150 polling districts, of which half are urban and half are rural. Draw a map as you see fit.
- Pick 150 ACTUAL polling districts from assorted real constituencies, just like assembling your roster for fantasy football. The catch is that you cannot choose more than one polling district from any one real constituency (so you can't totally load up on, say, Alberta districts if you are running Tory.)
- Track your party's candidate in each real constituency during the election. Feel free to call up a candidate if, for example, you don't think he's spending enough time in the rural polls ;-)
On election night, tabulate the results. The winner of the biggest plurality wins the cash jackpot.
I'm just taking preliminary expressions of interest at this point so I can start thinking about further logistics if needed. This offer will be repeated as the election nears.
Regards,
Mentok
posted by Mentok @ 2:39 p.m.,
