title_body: Does pool pledge amount impact odds of getting a block? Two scenarios:
  Stakepool owner #1 pledges 10k, stakes 10k and total stake from others is 100k = 110k staked total
  Stakepool owner #2 pledges 100k, stakes 10k and total stake from others is 100k = 110k staked total
  Do they both have the same odds to generate a block, as long as the pledge amount is maintained -or- does Stakepool owner #2 have better odds because more is pledged?
  ---and can a stakepool owner pledge far more than they can personally stake knowing the pledge will be maintained by others?
upvoted_answer: A high pledge does not increase the chance for the stakepool to get a block, but it does give a higher reward for the stakepool with a larger pledge than the other one. A estimation of assigned blocks per epoch for a pool can be calculated like this:
  [stakepool total stake]/[total stake] x 21600
  The pledge can only be linked to the wallet address belonging to the stakepool, meaning that you cannot take others stake in your stakepool and put it up as pledge, if you tried this the pledge would not meet, and the stakepool would not be able to mint the blocks it get assigned, losing potential rewards all together.
  PS - I do believe someone in the community has found out how to have multiple people pledging to a stakepool, but this is out of my scope.