Choose one of four formats, answer a handful of questions, and you are done deciding. Members pick on their phone, lines freeze when you publish, and results grade as scores land. A dollar per person for the whole season, and we never touch your pot.
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The format decides the game, and everything downstream follows from it — how a week is scored, what a card looks like, even which settings you are shown. The shape above each one is the card it produces.
Take five games against the spread and get every one right. Lands about once in thirty-two cards, which is why anyone remembers who won week nine.
Same picking, but one loss doesn't end your week. More people still watching when the late games kick off.
No spreads at all. Pick a winner in every game, most correct takes the week. The one you can explain to anybody.
Pick one team to win and never use them again. Runs all season and thins out fast, which is the entire appeal.
No monthly fee, no per-week charge, and nothing taken out of your pool. You buy entries up front and they last the whole season.
One dollar lets one person into one pool for the entire season — all eighteen weeks and the postseason. Not per week, not per month.
Your first purchase, sized to what you expect: 100 entries or 1,000. After that you add more whenever you like, in $25 steps.
One balance covers everything you run. Run three pools and they draw from the same entries.
The moment somebody joins a pool, one credit goes. Somebody holding two cards uses two.
If you remove or suspend a member later, their credit has already been spent. Worth knowing before you invite the whole floor.
An empty balance only stops new people joining. Everyone already in keeps picking, and results keep grading.
Add $25 at a time by hand, or let it charge the card on file automatically — with a monthly ceiling you set.
Entry fees, side bets and payouts stay entirely between you and your members. We only charge for the software.
A pool that only crowns a weekly winner gets thin by November. Both are tracked, and every level has a tiebreaker agreed before week one.
Depending on the format, that is a perfect card, the best record, or simply surviving. Weeks stand alone — nothing carries into the next one.
Ranked on win percentage, total wins, perfect cards or points — your choice. Missed weeks count however you decided, and you can drop everyone's worst few.
The top finishers keep picking through the real NFL bracket. Standings start from zero and the most wins across all four rounds takes the season.
Nobody minds running a pool. What they mind is the parts that have nothing to do with football.
Name it, choose the format, say how many picks a week. Everything else takes a default you can change later — you are not answering eighty questions to start.
Members tap it, enter an email, and they are picking. No passwords to set, none to reset, and nobody emailing you because they cannot get in.
The slate goes up with the spreads frozen. Lines move all week; the numbers on the cards do not. Locks fire on the schedule you set.
Scores land, cards settle, standings update. Weekly winners and the season table both, with tiebreakers that were agreed before week one.
The favourite sits on the left with the number beside it, so the spread always belongs to the team you are looking at. Tap a side. That is the whole interaction.
Most of what makes a pool painful is the edge cases nobody agreed on before the season. Each of these is a setting with a sensible default.
Kansas City moves from −3.5 to −4.5 on Saturday. Cards still grade against the number that was on them.
Per game, per window, the whole slate at first kickoff, or a fixed weekly deadline. Thursday night gets its own rule.
Force every spread to a half point and a tie becomes impossible. Or leave whole numbers and set the push rule yourself.
Combined score of the last game settles a level week. The Super Bowl settles a level season. Both chosen before week one.
Free passes, or a missed week counts as zero of five. Whichever you choose, everyone knows it in advance.
Every publish, override and grade is recorded with the line, the time and who did it. None of it can be edited.
Add an admin to publish and grade. Inviting and removing people stays with the owner, so membership has one name against it.
Run more than one pool and your members carry across. Nobody signs up twice, and you see who is in which.
Champions roll forward on their own, and you can type in the years you ran on a spreadsheet before this existed.
About a minute to set up. You choose an opening amount of entries at the end, and the pool waits until you send the link.
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