Office Pool Manager - Create an NFL Confidence Pool

Creating a Pro Football Pick'em is EASY! This is a classic Pick'em game with various scoring options and rules. In all variations, you pick teams each week to win or cover the point spread. Some pools use weighted picks where you select a value specifying your confidence in each pick so that you can earn more points when you're more confident picks win. Choose from the rules below. You can experiment with different rules and change them from week to week. Once a week has started, the rules are set, so you'll have to wait until the next week to make a change.

Double check ALL settings before clicking "Create Pool"!

Pool Info

Pool Name

(< 50 characters)

Password

(6 To 20 characters, only alphanumeric characters are allowed)

The Pool Password is what your pool members will use to join your pool if you decide to make your pool 'Private'. Do NOT use a personal password as you'll need to give this out so users can join your private pool. You must choose a password even if you're creating a public pool so that you can convert this pool to private later if desired.

Pool Type:

Private Public

Pool Picks

Confidence Pool

Weight Options:

Make the maximum weight value 16 in all weeks (applies to pools that pick ALL games each week)

Drop the highest weight value when there are fewer games to pick from (only valid if the above option is not chosen)

Use Monday Night Football total score points to decide weekly ties:

Allow users to see the games (not the teams) that others have picked before the deadline passes (affects Weekly Results page):

Number of picks per week that players must make from among the available games:

Pool Scoring

Pool Point Spreads:

No point spreads used

Spreads provided by PoolHost.com

Custom point spreads entered by you, the pool's admin

Scoring:

Remember, you CAN have ties in NFL games EVEN if you DON'T use the point spread!

WIN = 2 points, TIE = 1 point, LOSS = 0 points

WIN = 1 point, TIE = 0 points, LOSS = 0 points

Pool Deadline

Custom Deadline instead of the PoolHost.com deadline:

PoolHost.com's default deadline is kick-off of the first game of each week at which time ALL picks are due. If you use a custom deadline, it will override the PoolHost deadline.
If you use a deadline day and time that is AFTER the kickoff time of the first game of the week, then any games before that can be picked up until the games' kicks-off times. After a game's kick-off, all picks for that game are revealed and it can't be picked or changed anymore. The remaining games can be picked or changed up until the custom deadline that you set at which time, all picks are locked and revealed. You can read more about this HERE. You can also choose to EXCLUDE the Thursday games from your pool by choosing the option below.

Custom Deadline Day:

Custom Deadline Time (ET):

EXCLUDE Wed., Thurs. & Fri. Games from your pool. (only play Sat., Sun., and Mon. games):

Other Pool Settings

Other

Pre-season settings:

Exclude the pre-season from your pool.

Include the pre-season only for practice. Scores go back to 0 for week 1 of the regular season.

Include the pre-season as part of the entire season scoring for your pool.

EXCLUDE Playoffs (Wildcard Weekend through Super Bowl):

Max Player Count

Maximum number of players allowed in the pool

Multiple Pick Sheets

Allow players to enter multiple pick sheets

Page Size

Number of records to be shown in any list on pool pages

NFL

NCAA Tournament

FIFA World Cup

College Bowl

Create an NFL Confidence Pool