Paydirt Game
Paydirt is a two-player board game simulating American football.
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Gameplay[edit]
Paydirt Game Charts
Each player chooses a team that represents an actual NFL team from a specific season. For each team and each season, a Team Chart designed to reflect that team's strengths and weaknesses during that season is used to direct gameplay. Each 'play' of the game consists of the players secretly choosing a type of play (run, short pass, long pass, etc.), rolling dice, and consulting the Team Charts to determine the result of the play.
History[edit]
The game was originally published by Time Warner under the name 'Sports Illustrated Pro Football'. Avalon Hill later bought the game and renamed it Paydirt, marketing it with a college football version of the game called Bowl Bound. Avalon Hill hired Dr. Thomas R. Nicely, a statistician, to redevelop the mathematics of the gameplay.
Avalon Hill published Paydirt until 1995, but some enthusiasts have published Team Charts for subsequent seasons.
Sources[edit]
- http://www.datadrivenfootball.com/ - Team Charts for current NFL teams and freeware PC versions of Paydirt and BowlBound
- Paydirt and Bowl Bound at britishempire.co.uk
- Paydirt and Bowl Bound at BoardGameGeek
- http://www.nascarmodelkits.com/boardgames.html - Learn more about the history of these great football games.
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Description
Paydirt uses Team Charts patterned after every NFL team. These charts are statistically designed to reflect the strengths and weaknesses that characterized that team. Though the teams from the era it was published come in the box there is the ability to purchase teams from any era, and even more recent teams. With Avalon Hill's demise this is not the case for the most recent years.*
Originally called Sports Illustrated Pro Football published by Time, Inc. Then became Paydirt by Avalon Hill. Chart designer Dr. Thomas R. Nicely, a mathematician with published articles on the subject of random and statistical probabilities.
Rights to create charts reverted to Dr. Nicely when Avalon Hill folded and was absorbed by Hasbro. He then granted the privilege and rights of producing charts to one Matt Floray, who released updated (and previous) charts for a few years before his death in 2011. New and updated charts are now made by several different fans.
In addition to its boardgame version,s video.