NFL Football Pick'em Office Pools on FunOfficePools

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How to Play NFL Football Pick'em 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 each week - this will be between 13 and 16 each week. 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 each week (13-16). 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 Optional: Tie-breaker You can add a tie-breaker - which is to predict the final score of the final game of the week (last Monday night 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 game, or 1:00 ET on Sunday, whichever is earlier. 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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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
• NFL Football Pick'em Pool Pages:
  • NFL Pickem
    • Summary of your score, Leaderboard, Commissioner's message, and FOP Admin message
  • Your Picks
    • Make your point assignments here
  • Results
    • See how you did and how others in your pool did - you can see both summary results and detailed results
  • 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 NFL football teams (regular season)
  • Team Standings
    • See the standings by conference for the NFL football teams
  • Manage Pool (Pool Commissioners Only)
    • Brings you to the Manage Pool section (see below)
    Pool Info
    • See who is in the pool and if they have their picks made yet
• Manage Pools (Pool Commissioners Only):
  • Pool Messages
    • Change the pool commissioners message
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    • 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
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