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History of Waldarry Sports Pools:
The official Waldarry Sports
Pools were inaugurated in late 2006 with a Major League Baseball Playoff pool.
A website,
www.waldarry.com/pools.htm
was established, and all trophy results and
pool summaries were recorded to the website.
Trophy winners were installed as members of the
Waldarry Hall of Champions.
In 2009 the All-Time Leaderboard was added to
the website, which tracked cumulative results for all the players since
inception.
The genesis of these pools goes
all the way back to at least 1997, and probably even a few years earlier.
Pools were run sporadically, and none were run
from 1999 to 2003.
They began again in 2004, but it was in 2006
that they began to be run on a regular basis, with eight pools covering
football, baseball and basketball.
Due to popular request, a college football bowl
pool and an NHL Stanley Cup Hockey pool were added in 2008 and 2009
respectively.
Two more additions came along in 2014 – the
National Hockey League regular season pool, and for a unique new addition, the
first International Olympics pool.
As of the end of 2009, 113 players had participated in Waldarry Sports Pools,
further growing to its 265th player in 2020. There were 53
players making it into the Waldarry Hall of Champions at the end of 2009, and
that number grew to 123 by 2020. Of
further interest, there have been over 4,200 pool entries, and over $62,000 has
been paid out in prizes.