📜 Pool Rules
YOU MUST BE 21 OR OLDER TO PLAY!
🏈 Eligibility
- All participants must be 21 years or older.
- Each participant must register with a valid email address.
📝 Making Picks
- Players must make a pick for every game listed for that week.
- The weekly tiebreaker must also be entered before picks can be submitted.
- Games lock at kickoff. Once a game has started, that pick cannot be changed.
- Players are responsible for making sure their picks are saved before the games lock.
🏆 Scoring
- Correct picks earn 1 point.
- Incorrect picks earn 0 points.
- Point spreads are adjusted with a half-point hook when needed (e.g. -3 becomes -3.5) to eliminate pushes. As a result, every game will have a winner and loser against the spread.
- Weekly results are updated after game scores are entered.
🏆 Weekly Winner
- The weekly winner is the player with the most correct picks for that week.
- If two or more players have the same number of correct picks, the tiebreaker is used.
- If players are still tied after the tiebreaker, all tied players will be listed as Week Winners.
🎯 Tiebreaker
- The tiebreaker is the total points scored in the Monday night game.
- If there is no Monday night game, the tiebreaker will use the last game scheduled for that week.
- Players enter one number only: the total combined points scored by both teams.
- The player closest to the actual total points wins the tiebreaker.
- Your tiebreaker must be entered before your weekly picks can be submitted.
Tiebreaker Example:
Kansas City Chiefs 24
Denver Broncos 20
Actual total points: 44
Player A guessed 43 — difference of 1
Player B guessed 47 — difference of 3
Player A wins the tiebreaker because 43 is closer to 44.
If two players are tied in correct picks and are equally close on the tiebreaker,
both players will be shown as weekly winners.
📧 Pick Reminders
- Reminder emails may be sent to players who have not completed their weekly picks.
- Reminder emails are only sent to players who are missing picks or missing the tiebreaker.
- Please add phil@mypickem.net to your safe sender list.
- If you are expecting a reminder email and do not receive it, please check your Spam or Junk folder.
🏈 Just for Fun
- MyPickem is 100% free to play.
- No purchase or entry fee is required.
- No money is collected, paid out, wagered, or exchanged through this pool.
- This pool is intended for entertainment and friendly competition only.
- Weekly winners and season standings are tracked throughout the season for bragging rights.
