I'm looking to use a proxy to enter this year. Anyone have any recommendations or experiences?

I have not personally used them, but the market share leader and company with the best reviews (and reasonable prices, not sure if they are truly best) seems to be http://www.footballcontest.com/

Thanks

I signed up with them last week. They responded quick and and meeting them was easy.

how does this work?

I've used them before, Matt and Toni are awesome to work with. I wouldn't hesitate to use them again or recommend them to anyone that needs a proxy.

Anyone know the cut% they take ?

No cut. There's a flat fee for doing it. $200-$300, I think. So it's a cut of your buy-in, but not a cut of your winnings.

So they take $200-$300 to go to Westgate and put in your pick 17 times over the year. So $11.75-$17.60 per week to get an email from you, put in your pick, and then send you a confirmation back?

How many customers do they have? At 100 ppl, that is maybe $1500 a week for something that can be organized quite well to be efficient.

What a smart business idea!

Further research shows that it is $300 for 2017 but if you get more than one entry, they offer a discount. They had over 750 customers last year so at $300 a pop, they brought in over $225K in gross profit. It's just a 2 man operation and their overhead seems to be pretty minimal. Their biggest expense is just time because they need to manage 750 accounts each week.

The receiving picks and confirming picks seems to be pretty quick, but I'm wondering how submitting picks works and how much time that takes. They also need to double check tickets before leaving the sports book window because they would be responsible for Westgate employees making mistakes.

Obviously they have awesome reviews posted on their site but I'm wondering how many mistakes (wrong picks) they made over the years. It's bound to happen with them making 5 picks for 750 customers 17 times in a year. Just a 1% margin error means they made over 600 wrong picks. So 60 wrong picks would only be 1/10th of a percent which seems extremely likely with so many transactions happening. I guess that is unavoidable though and just bad luck.

There are multiple companies involved in this. The biggest thing to do is to find one that doesn't enter the contest for itself. If you're in the hunt near the end, you really don't want your competitor having access to your picks.

I'd be most worried about the potential of a proxy selling my picks to one of the bigger players toward the end of it. With the dollar amounts involved in winning, knowing what the 2nd place team picked would be quite valuable if you were the first place team. Especially in those cases where there is a margin between the top players and the rest of the field.

I'm sure there are laws/rules against that, but it seems like it would be almost impossible to police.

LOL at "time" being all that they have to put into it. Its clear you have no clue what the Supercontest is all about. If you're from out of town, using a proxy is your *only* option.

Matt/Toni were on time to meet me and very easy to deal with. Initial signup took 15-20 minutes or so. They take one of your cards so that they can make your picks every week. Every week they send you the lines and then a confirmation email confirming your picks. They also update all of their contest websites in a timely manner every week.

I've had personal experience using them and again, wouldnt hesitate to use them again or recommend them. I'll let all of their online reviews speak for themselves. If you just want to nitpick/trash on their business model though, I'm not going to help.

In a sea of people with bad reading comprehension, you stand out pretty solidly.

If I'm in 1st place the last 2 weeks of the contest I'll just fly out to Vegas and make the picks myself.

writing everything in bold takes away from whatever you are trying to emphasize in your comment

Sharky has a good reputation as a proxy

I suspect that is why his spam of his proxy services seems to be tolerated around the boards.

... not sure why this thread hasn't been locked by now...

Thanks Magking wish everyone a great football contest year, the Supercontest will have their 1st Million winner this year into a prize pool over $3 Millions, over 2000 entries now, incredible numbers

2300 entrants as of yesterday.

Can you add a proxy after you've signed up? Just found out I'll be out of town for a weekend but already signed up solo.