Games 2009?

The Game Room
1

In addition to the Death Pool what other games ought we to have for 2009?

I would propose:

Average price of gas (based on some US national web site) on 31 December. (Boring, as we all enter and then wait a year.)

A hypotethical 1,000US$ in the stock market (Tough to track, we would have to be on the honor system.)

Anything else?

2

Celebrity Rehab anyone?

SSG Schwartz

3

(Someone replied! Someone replied!)

4

We could do the average price of gas for the last day of each month… 12 guesses to start, and still a lot of waiting, but it could at least get resurrected once a month to post the leaderboard (and griping)

5

I do not think that would work. It seems the November prediction would be linked to October and so on, so a small mistake at the beginning would snowball.

I think a one-year prediction would be worth doing. How about the 31 December 2009 price in US$ of:
a Euro
a gallon of gas
an ounce of gold

All in one thread? I like that idea, although it still has the wait-all-year problem.

6

I’m in!

We could use the game thread as the official score card. All trades must be announced on the dope. There might even be a fantasy stock market program out there somewhere.

7

I am not sure I would even want to play, but it would be fun to watch. Darn fun.

What sort of rules would we need?