For me it's impossible to do any sort of fun pick 'em until brackets. Too much randomness for anything but luck of the draw picks.
Think some sort of Survivor style pool where each participant chooses a team from each of the 4 pots and the best overall average results wins. Or something continental/federation maybe? Best NA/SA/Europe/Asia/Africa/Oceania
That's a good idea. I was going to give each kid a "budget" and then assign values to each of the teams based on Opta or FIFA rankings...maybe 3 points for a win, extra 3 for a group win, and then escalating point totals for each knockout round? I dunno.


