Super Bowl LVI Contest
Next Tuesday, February 1, the Wanderers will be at the DCA building, in the vestibule at some card tables, selling entries to the 2022 DMA Super Bowl Contest. David Mace, Greg Glashan, Taylor Strubinger and Joe Spain will be there on duty from ten o’clock to noon on Tuesday. If all the entries are not sold that day, they will be there again at the same time on Friday morning, February 4 to sell the balance. The Super Bowl Game itself will be on Sunday February 13.
We have had this traditional DMA event during the Wanderers’ off-season for more than ten years now. It is a pool lottery; and, prizes will be awarded based upon the actual final score of the Super Bowl game for the Grand Prize winner, and, for the runner up winners, based upon the actual score of the game at half-time, as well as at the end of the first and third quarters.
Members can enter by picking their boxes on this year’s ten-by-ten chart of one hundred boxes, and paying two dollars for each box chosen, with a limit of two boxes per member. The boxes are set up on a large sheet of poster board (see photo of this year’s chart by clicking on the link below); and, as each box is sold, the member writes his name in the box(es) he has chosen.
When all boxes are sold and entrants’ names entered on the chart, the numbers zero through nine will be randomly assigned to the ten horizontal rows in the grid. These row numbers are set to be matched against the second digit of the NFC team’s game score. Another set of the ten numbers will be randomly assigned to the grid’s ten vertical columns, and those column numbers are set to be matched against the second digit of the AFC team’s game score. These two sets of random numbers will be picked out of a hat and will define the two numerals assigned to each of the one hundred boxes on the contest grid.
The AFC numbers along the tops of the columns of boxes and the NFC numbers along the left of the rows of boxes give every box a pair of single digit numbers that are designed to correspond to the points that will be scored during the Super Bowl game by the AFC Team and the NFC Team. Prizes in the contest will be awarded to the box in which its two numbers match the second or final digit of the points scored by each of the two teams at four designated times during the game: end of 1st quarter, half-time, end of 3rd quarter and end of game. At each of those four breaks in the Game, the second or final digit of each team’s score will be noted, and the box having those two numbers will be the winning box for that prize.
For example: if, at the end of the first half, the AFC team is ahead by the score of 28 to 14, then one of the boxes that is in the column that has the number 8 at its top will be the winner of the half-time prize. Also, one of the boxes that is in the row that has the number 4 at its left end will be the winner of that half-time prize. This is because it is the second or final digit of each team’s score that is used to determine which column and which row contain the winning box for that score. The NFC team’s score final digit determines which row has that winning box, and the AFC team’s score final digit determines which column contains that winning box. Each box, as a result of the random choice of that box’s row and column numbers, thus is assigned a fixed pair of numbers. And it is the scoring during of the Game, and the final digits of the teams’ points at the four key measuring times during play that will determine which specific box is the winner at each of those times.
The apparent winning box changes as the score changes. And we simply need to look at the score at those four stopping points in the game to determine each winning box, using the attached ten-by-ten chart. So, staying with the example, if the NFC team were to come back in the second half and win by a score of 35 to 31, the Grand Prize winning box would be at the intersection of the “5” row (finding the NFC score final digit 5 among the numbers along the left side of the chart) with the “1” column (finding the AFC score final digit 1 among the numbers along the top of the chart).
So, each contestant will have his name in one of the boxes of the chart, and can go to the top of his column to get his AFC team’s score number; and then look at the left end of his row for his NFC team’s score number. We will circulate a copy of this year’s completed chart, so all can see what the numbers are for each column and each row and, therefore, for each box. Contestants can make a note of both numbers for their reference while watching the Game on Sunday, February 13. If you are a winner, we shall announce that and the prizes during the DMA Wednesday meeting on February 16.
As indicated, there will be four places in the Game when one of the boxes is designated as a winner based upon the Game score at that time. The box that wins on the basis of the score at the end of the Game is the Grand Prize winner, and his prize is $100 dollars. For the half-time winning box, the winner receives $50 dollars. And for the boxes that win based upon the Game score at end of the first and the third quarters, each winner receives $25 dollars.
If anyone has questions, please contact Greg Glashan or Joe Spain by phone or email, and we shall be happy to assist.
Good Luck to all in the 2022 DMA Super Bowl LVI Contest!
Winners!
The winners were Matteo Harding ( represented by his grandfather Dick H. ) who won the first quarter prize. Tom Taylor, who won the half-time prize. Carol Hooper ( represented by her husband Bryan ) who won the third quarter prize. And Tom Taylor, who came through again to win the Grand Prize based upon the final score of the game.
