Beyond simply picking who the next pope will be, players and gamblers also can guess how many tries it will take the cardinals to choose the leader, which day of the week he’ll be elected, what new name he will decide on, or where his priorities will land on the progressive-conservative scale.

Cardinal Justin Francis Rigali, the former archbishop of Philadelphia, is outside the age cutoff for the conclave to select Pope Francis' successor.

The conclave to elect the next leader of the Roman Catholic Church will begin Wednesday, gathering 133 eligible cardinals under the age of 80. As reported by Digi24, this closed-door election follows the death of Pope Francis and is expected to yield one of the most consequential papal choices in modern history.