Has anyone ever tried giving someone odds before and if so what form did it take?
I'm going to answer by avoiding your question and making a few suggestions.
When helping someone else learn, I have given them the task of keeping track of the phases.
I look everything up (IFT and otherwise). Actually, I almost never look stuff up as most of it
is seared into my brain.
I will only suggest something after I ask the padawan what he thinks would be good to do,
and only if it's obviously (to me) a bad move. I've also let the padawan be the phasing player
on each turn. I find that they often will find their own mistakes that way.
When they wish to defend, I ask them to set up, and then sit in my seat so they can see their
defence from (literally) a different angle.
Good luck!
indy