How to calculate probability of winning bowl pool?

I currently have a spreadsheet that keeps track of players and their respective picks as to who they think will win each college bowl game. At the beginning, before any game is played, each player has equal probability of winning the whole thing. What I'm looking for is an expression that will give me their updated probability after each bowl game is played.

In the example below, what is the probably (in percentage) of Braden winning the whole thing, given his score (5 of 8), everyone else's scores, and games played vs total number of games?

• If you think each player has $100\%$ chance of winning at the start you need to think again. Maybe you meant each one had an equal chance, so each had $\frac 1{11}$ chance to win. Are you assuming each team has an equal chance to win each game? If not, how do you estimate the chance of each team winning? It looks to me like the low score so far is $3$, not $0$ like the spreadsheet says. There is no simple calculation. You could run a model that just does coin flips. – Ross Millikan Dec 20 '18 at 22:55
• I just mean that they all have the same probability. As the wins and losses come in, each player's probability changes. Those with higher scores will have a higher probability of winning it all. – sixty7ss Dec 20 '18 at 23:00
• They don't have an equal chance to win, even initially, unless you assume that each game is a coin toss. Otherwise, picking more favorites makes it more likely for you to win a priori. – Brian Tung Dec 20 '18 at 23:53
• Good point. Maybe give more weight to the favorites? – sixty7ss Dec 21 '18 at 0:14

I wouldn't try to do this analytically, since such an analysis would probably have to make assumptions about the games that don't hold water (e.g., that the result of each game is $$50$$-$$50$$).
For instance, if the odds are given as money lines: Say the bet on Team A is $$+170$$ and the bet on Team B is $$-200$$. That means that a bet of $$\100$$ on Team A wins $$\170$$ if they win, while a bet of $$\200$$ on Team B wins $$\100$$ if they win.
Converted into odds, those bets are $$17$$ to $$10$$ and $$10$$ to $$20$$ against, respectively. Converted, in turn, into probabilities, that's $$10/27$$ and $$2/3$$. Obviously, those add up to more than $$1$$, and the excess of $$1/27$$ reflects the vigorish. These can be corrected in different ways, but the easiest is to scale them down to $$10/28$$ and $$18/28$$.
Once you've done that for each of the $$33$$ remaining games, run a Monte Carlo on them, and tally each person's score for every run. A million or so runs should be enough to figure out winning probabilities to three significant digits.