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Basketball has no weeks and no natural slate. Three settings — define your week, curate games, cap picks — turn the NBA into a great office pool.

Why NFL rules break in college, and the six rules that fix it: curate the slate, use the spread, cap picks, and settle bowl season in August.

Step by step: name, format, league, scoring rules, tiebreaker, deadlines and invites. Everything to decide before you create an NFL pick’em pool.

The seven-day loop of a weekly NFL pick’em pool — Thursday locks, byes, weekly prizes, and keeping people playing through Week 18.

A fifteen-minute weekly routine for making office football pool picks: lines, injury reports, inactives, and how your pool’s format changes the answer.

Pick’em, confidence, survivor, reverse survivor and single pick — how the five office football pool formats differ, and which one fits your group.

Quick answer: Winning an office football pool is less about picking more winners than about picking differently from everyone else in your pool — and how differently depends on how many people you are up against. In a small pool, play it straight and let accuracy win. In a big one, you need games where…

Quick answer: You can run an office football pool for free, and for a small group you can do it without ever paying. But “free” means four different things in this category — a spreadsheet you score yourself, an ad-supported site, a free tier with a player cap, or a trial that expires mid-season. Knowing…

Quick answer: There is a poolable league in season every single month of the year. Football carries September through January, basketball and hockey cover the winter, European soccer runs August to May, and baseball fills the summer. Run one pool at a time and hand your group off from season to season, and the pool…

Quick answer: An office pool is really two separate choices — the format (how players score) and the league (what they are picking). The formats are not football inventions. Pick’em, confidence and survivor all run just as well on basketball, hockey, baseball or soccer, which means the pool your office already knows how to play…