College Bowl Office Pools on FunOfficePools
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How to Play College Football Bowl Pools
- Four Different Pools Can Be Created
- Most Popular: Weighted, Straight Up Pick'em
- Pick games straight up (not versus the spread - just pick who wins)
- Assign confidence points to each game, 1-N, where N is the number of games in your pool (34 if you pick all bowl games). Each game must have a unique confidence number.
- Win the number of points assigned to a game if you correctly pick the winner
- Easiest: Non-weighted, Straight Up Pick'em
- Pick games straight up (not versus the spread - just pick who wins)
- Win 1 point per game if you correctly pick the winner
- Most complicated: Weighted, Spread Pick'em
- Pick games vs. the spread
- If the spread is team A -3.5 points over team B, and you pick team B, you win as long as either team B wins or team A wins by less than 3.5 points.
- If you had picked team A in the above situation, you only win if team A wins by more than 3.5 points.
- Assign confidence points to each game, 1-N, where N is the number of games in your pool (34 if you pick all bowl games). Each game must have a unique confidence number.
- Win the number of points assigned to a game if you correctly pick the winner vs. the spread
- Non-weighted, Spread Pick'em
- Pick games vs. the spread
- If the spread is team A -3.5 points over team B, and you pick team B, you win as long as either team B wins or team A wins by less than 3.5 points.
- If you had picked team A in the above situation, you only win if team A wins by more than 3.5 points.
- Win 1 point per game if you correctly pick the winner
- Control Which Games Are In Your Pool
- Choose all 34 bowl games (default) or only those you are interested in.
- Optional: Tie-breaker
- You can add a tie-breaker - which is to predict the final score of the latest game in your pool (typically the National Championship Game)
- Tie-breaker determines the winner if two or more people tie after all games have been played
- Tie-breaker is determined as follows:
- Whoever picks the winner of the game correctly (had more points on the actual winner than on the loser of the game). If still tied, continue:
- Whoever was closest to the winning team's score of the game. If still tied, continue:
- Whoever was closest to the losing team's score of the game. If still tied, continue:
- Whoever was closest to the combined score of both the winning and losing teams. If still tied, then the players tie
- Most points wins!
- Picks are due before kickoff of each bowl game, or December 26th, whichever is earlier.
- No pools can be created or joined after December 26th. Once this deadline has passed, all picks are revealed and you can see what everyone has picked.
- Don't have a pool to play in, join one of our partner pools - they're open to everyone and some offer great prizes.
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Why Run A Pool On FunOfficePools
- We do all the work for you
- Just set up a pool and invite your friends
- Automatic scoring after each selection show or game
- See results and standings
- Easy to use invitation system
- Automatic address book keeps track of emails across multiple pools
- Invite your friends with a few clicks of the mouse
- Send messages and reminders to everyone in your pool
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Why Play A Pool On FunOfficePools
- Easily input your picks on the internet
- Play multiple games
- Trash talk with your fellow players
- Automatic reminders sent when picks are due
- Play our partners' pools - many give out prizes
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Play Our Partners Pools
- Pools are open to everyone
- Play against other fans of College Football from some of the top football blogs
- Some of the pools offer great prizes!
- Click on a logo to join a partner pool:
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FunOfficePool Features
- Main Page Sections:
- Your Office Pools
- See a summary of your current and past pools, where you rank in the standings, and links to go directly to the pool, the standings page, or the weekly picks page.
- FunOfficePools News
- News about current and upcoming office pools
- Summary of the latest shows
- Create or Join An Office Pool
- Shows the current office pools that you can start or join
- Join Our Partner Pools
- List of current partner pools you can join
- College Bowl Pool Pages:
- College Pickem
- Summary of your score, Leaderboard, Commissioner's message, and FOP Admin message
- Your Picks
- Make your bowl point assignments here
- Results
- See how you did and how others in your pool did - you can see both summary results and detailed results
- Who Picked Who
- A direct link to the detailed results page, showing everyone's picks for every game (note - only games already played are shown until the final deadline (Dec 26th) is passed). You can also see how many total points have been lost and how many remaining points are available (more interesting in the weighted pools).
- Standings
- Table with the standings for your pool
- Pool Discussion
- Private trash talking section - chat it up with other pool participants
- Team Schedules
- See all the schedules for all college football teams (regular season)
- Team Standings
- See the standings by conference for the college football teams
- Manage Matchups (Pool Commissioners Only)
- Select which games to include in your pool
- Suggest Matchups (Everyone but the Pool Commissioner)
- Make suggestions on which games to include in the pool
- Pool Info
- See who is in the pool and if they have their picks made yet
- Manage Pool (Pool Commissioners Only)
- Brings you to the Manage Pool section (see below)
- Manage Pools (Pool Commissioners Only):
- Pool Messages
- Change the pool commissioners message
- Send messages or reminders to any or all pool members
- Manage Members
- Kick people out of your pool
- Keep track of who has paid you or not
- Change Pool Parameters
- Change the number of bonus questions, the pool password, or other pool data
- Invite People
- Send email invitations to your friends
- Manage Address Book
- Add or edit email addresses used in the invitations
- Delete This Pool
- Your Pools:
- Access all of the pools you are running or participating in
- Rename your pool or rename any of your picks
- Delete your pick selections
- Stats:
- See stats from all our pools - if you believe in the "wisdom of crowds", check out this section
- Who has the most votes for the upcoming week
- Who is the favorite choice for overall winner
- Discuss:
- Post messages everyone can see, or people just in your pool
- Read your pool and global messages
- Resources:
- Links to great sites
- Get the widget code to put on your website
- Rules/Help:
- Instructions for all pools
- FAQS about FOP
- Your Profile:
- Change your UserID
- Change your Password
- Update your personal information
