Details: NFL 2017 (free)

This is a confidence pick 'em pool. Each week, players pick the winner of each NFL game. In addition, you assign a confidence value for each game. The more sure (confident) you are of your pick for a game, the higher value you should give it. Each confidence value is used only once per week. If the team you picked wins its game, you earn the confidence points. If they lose, you get zero points for that game. If the game is a tie, each player earns half points, rounded up. The spread has no bearing on anything.

For weeks with the full 16 possible games, confidence values are 1-16. There are fewer games during weeks with byes; for those, the top value is 16, then on down. So, a week with 14 games will have confidences ranging from 16 down to 3.

You can enter picks for future games at any time, even for future weeks. This will be useful if you're going on vacation, for example. You could, in theory, enter your picks for the entire season at the start. You can change picks until they close (see next paragraph).

Picks for a game close at the top of the hour (i.e. for a 5:30 kickoff, picks close at 5). I will not intervene if you miss a pick. Note that there are several Thursday, Friday and Saturday games over the season. If your user settings allow it and you're missing a pick, you will be automatically reminded by e-mail the day before a deadline. I highly recommend keeping this setting on.

Once a game is closed for picking, anyone can see anyone else's picks for that game.

The tiebreaker - always denoted by this color - is used in case of ties in total points for a week. It is the total combined score for that game - usually the Monday Night game. If the tiebreaker also ends up in a tie, then ... it's a tie. This only really matters for the pay version, but the pool is set up to handle that situation.

There is no tiebreaker for the season. Just tell yourself "I shoulda picked Oakland in Week Four!".

Your worst two weeks of the season will be automatically dropped from the season point totals. This will show on the third week. It is possible (but not likely) to win money on one of your dropped weeks (pay version).

Disclaimers

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I'm always open to suggestions, especially on how to make the site easier to use or present data in a different way.

-- James
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