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Fun Office Pools is completely FREE. There are no hidden charges. You may invite as many of your friends as you like to your pools without paying any fees. Please tell your friends about us and invite as many people as you like to your pools. Back to top.
You can opt in or out of receiving reminders or notices of new pools by updating your profile. You can change this by clicking the Your Profile link in the upper right hand corner of the main page. From there you can change your username, your password, your email, etc., and you can also change whether you opt in or out of reminder emails from Fun Office Pools
Fun Office Pools offers all types of Office Pools, including sports office pools, reality TV office pools, entertainment office pools, and specialty office pools. Current plans include:
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Creating a pool is easy and can be done directly on the Home Page of Fun Office Pools in the Create A Pool section. Select which type of pool you want to create and you'll be taken to the Office Pool Parameter page. On this page you can enter various parameters for the pool, and choose any options available for that pool. After choosing the options, create the pool and you'll be taken to a screen that allows you to join your own pool. Create a selection or use one of your existing selections (if available for this type of pool). That's it. After creating the pool, it's time to invite your friends and to make your weekly picks! Back to top.
A Selection is your entry into a pool. A Player may have multiple Selections in each pool - it's up to the Pool Commissioner to allow it or not - if you don't want it, you can kick out a second Selection from a player - see Manage Members under the Pools Management Menu (you get there from the Your Pools Page and select the Pool you want to manage). You create your Selection when you Join A Pool. After creating a Selection, you make the picks for the Selection by clicking on the status link on either the Home Page of Fun Office Pools or the Your Pools Page. Back to top.
The easiest way is to go to your Manage Pool page and select the Invite tab. Enter the email addresses of the people you want to invite and send them invitations directly from our site. After you have invited people, your Contacts list is automatically updated so that you can easily invite them to future pools. Back to top.
In some pools, you can allow people to join late (College and NFL Pick'em Pools and College Bowl Pools allow this). In other pools, you can't (the NFL Survivor Pool does not allow late entries for obvious reasons). For pools that allow late entries, if you want that to happen, set the Pool Deadline date to be later than the default date suggested when setting up your pool. Once the Deadline date passes, no one will be allowed to join this pool. Back to top.
A public pool does not require a password - but then anyone that knows the name of your pool can join. A private pool requires a password and only people you tell the password to can join this pool. Back to top.
We know that you're busy and sometimes forget to get your picks in. All of the Fun Office Pools have default picks in case you don't get your picks in time. It varies on how the Default picks are done, but in general they are not bad picks. In College and NFL Pick'em, the Default Picks are the favorites. In the NFL Survivor Pool, it's either the best remaining team or worst remaining team (depending if you are picking winners or losers) as determined by last year's draft order. Back to top.
You can change any of the parameters you set when you created the pool by going to the Your Pools Page and selecting the pool you want to modify. On the next page, select Change Pool Parameters and then modify any of the parameters listed. Note, though, that if the pool has already started, changing some of the parameters may void selections already made or not make sense (changing winners to losers in the Survivor/Suicide pool, for instance). Back to top.
If the game has already started, picks can no longer be edited directly - instead, go to the Standings page, turn on Commish Mode (a checkbox above the standings table), and use the ADJ link on that player's row to adjust their wins, losses, or points. If the game has not started yet, use the EDIT link on the same row instead to enter or change their picks. If your pool's deadline has already passed and you need to reopen it so EDIT is available, go to Commissioner > Change Pool Parameters and change the deadline to Game Start - remember to change it back afterward. Back to top.
Go to Manage Pool, then the Members tab, and click Remove on the entry you want to take out (last column). At least one Commissioner entry must remain in the pool, so promote another entry first if the one you're removing is the only commissioner. If someone keeps rejoining by mistake, close the pool to new joins from the Invite tab. To delete an entire account rather than just a pool entry, contact us with the account's email address. Back to top.
We send all invitations with proper DKIM/SPF authentication and are not blacklisted by any major provider, but a recipient's own spam filter is outside our control - have them mark the message Not Spam or whitelist admin@funofficepools.com. If you send to many people at once and see a message about sending too quickly, don't worry - a single invitation sent to 50 people counts as one send, and all of them go out within a few minutes. Back to top.
Go to Commissioner > Change Pool Parameters and enable Allow Multiple Entries Per Email. Once enabled, that player can join the pool again from the Join Pool page using a different Selection Name, and both entries will use the same email address. Back to top.
Spreads and picks lock when the pool opens for the week. College-only pools generally open Monday around noon to 3pm once the weekend's games are final; NFL-only and Combo (NFL+NCAA) pools open Tuesday morning after Monday Night Football and updated Vegas lines. Week 1 of each season locks on a fixed date announced on our home page. Within a week, a pool set to a fixed deadline (e.g., Saturday noon) locks entirely at that time; a pool set to Game Start locks each game individually at its own kickoff instead. Back to top.
Tiebreaker is a Restricted Parameter, meaning it can't be changed for a week once picks have already been made in that pool. To enable it for the current week, go to Commissioner > Change Pool Parameters and use the Delete Picks button shown near the restricted-parameter notice, then turn on the tiebreaker and choose the tiebreaker game in Game Picker. If you'd rather not delete picks, leave it off this week and it will be available starting next week. Back to top.
Go to Commissioner > Game Picker to select or remove games for the current week. If you want a team's games added automatically all season without picking them each week, use Commissioner > Season Pass instead. Note that Combo (NFL+NCAA) pools do not pre-populate NFL games automatically the way NFL-only pools do - those need to be added via Season Pass. Back to top.
A donation makes the donor's account ad-free and unlocks all Premium features for a year, for every pool that account plays in - it is tied to the account, not to any one pool. It does not automatically cover other members of your pool. We do offer a discounted group rate for pools where the whole membership wants to go Premium together - contact us with your pool size for a quote. Back to top.
Use the Forgot Password link under the Log In button on our home page to have a one-click reset link emailed to the address on your account. If you get an error saying your email isn't found, double check for typos or an old email address you may have used to sign up. We cannot see or reset a password ourselves without your permission, since passwords aren't stored in a form we can read. Back to top.
Click your name in the upper right corner of the site, choose Your Profile, and update your email there. A pool commissioner cannot change a member's email for them - it must be done from the player's own account. If you can't log in to reach Your Profile, contact us with both your old and new email addresses. Back to top.
Go to Tools > Change Selection Name to change the name shown in standings and picks for that entry. To change your default display name instead, click your name in the upper right corner and choose Your Profile. A commissioner cannot rename a member's selection for them. Back to top.
There is no separate renew option - instead, create a new pool from the Create A Pool section of our home page and use the Copy option, which lists pools you ran last year and loads that pool's settings into the new one. You will need to give the new pool a different name than last year's. Back to top.
Unsubscribed means the player opted out of all site emails; they can resubscribe themselves from Your Profile, or contact us if they can't log in. Invalid means our system received an unrecoverable delivery failure when emailing that address and stopped sending to it - if the address is actually good, contact us with the email address and we'll clear the flag. Back to top.
On the Prize page under Manage Pool, each prize has a Name and Amount (required), plus optional Description, Winner, and Frequency fields. For a recurring prize such as a weekly winner, use the Set Up A Series option rather than adding one line per week. The Winner column only appears on the public Prize page once at least one prize has a Winner entered. Back to top.
Yes - these are called Segments. Go to Commissioner > Change Pool Parameters to add one or more segments, each with its own start and stop week. A Segment Standings view then becomes available for that stretch of weeks, alongside your regular full-season standings. Back to top.