Football Spread Pool: Rules, Scoring, and Strategy
A football spread pool is a weekly pool where every pick is scored against a point spread instead of the raw final score. The favorite has to win by more than the number to earn the point. The underdog can lose the game and still count as a correct pick. That one change turns a…
NFL Survivor Pool Strategy: How to Last All Season
The best NFL survivor pool strategy is to stop treating each week as a separate question. You are not trying to pick this week’s winner. You are managing 32 teams across a season you hope lasts 18 weeks, and every pick spends one of those teams permanently. Survivor is an inventory problem wearing a picking…
NFL Knockout Pool Rules: How Knockout and Eliminator Pools Work
An NFL knockout pool is a season-long contest where you pick one team to win each week. If your team wins, you advance. If it loses, you are out. You cannot pick the same team twice all season. Knockout pool, eliminator pool, suicide pool, last man standing and survivor pool are all the same game….
How to Run an NBA Pick’em Pool
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.
College Football Pool Rules That Survive the Season
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.
How to Create an NFL Pick’em Pool: A Setup Walkthrough
Step by step: name, format, league, scoring rules, tiebreaker, deadlines and invites. Everything to decide before you create an NFL pick’em pool.
How to Run a Weekly NFL Pick’em Pool All Season
The seven-day loop of a weekly NFL pick’em pool — Thursday locks, byes, weekly prizes, and keeping people playing through Week 18.
Office Football Pool Picks: A Weekly Routine That Works
A fifteen-minute weekly routine for making office football pool picks: lines, injury reports, inactives, and how your pool’s format changes the answer.
The 5 Types of Office Football Pools (and How to Choose One)
Pick’em, confidence, survivor, reverse survivor and single pick — how the five office football pool formats differ, and which one fits your group.
How to Win Your Office Football Pool
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…