"The Pool"
"The Pool" is a season-long college football pick 'em contest. You pick 5 new teams to win straight up each week, earning extra points for upsets
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- Rules Summary
- The buy-in is $100 / person
- Venmo @james-bourque-2 (last four digits 1054)
- Your entry is not considered valid until your payment has been received
- Each week you will pick 5 college football teams to win (straight up win, NOT against the spread)
- You may select games throughout the weekend (e.g., Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday etc.) as long as the team is eligible to be picked and the game has not started yet
- There is no deadline to submit your picks. Games will auto-lock at kick-off (i.e., you will not be able to pick a game once it has started)
- Once you pick a team during the season, you cannot pick them again
- You are given schools from the following conferences (and independent schools): The American, ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Mountain West, Pac-12, SEC, Notre Dame, UMass, and UConn
- The contest will begin Week 1 (Labor Day weekend) and run through Week 14 (weekend of Thanksgiving)
- Payouts will be as follows of the total contest pot:
- First place: 35%
- Second place: 15%
- Third place: 10%
- Fourth place: 7%
- Fifth place: 3%
- Percentage allocated in total to weekly winners: 30%
- With 14 Weeks, each week’s winner will receive ~2% of the total pot
- If multiple people tie for first in a given week, then the prize will be split equally
- For scoring purposes, each week, the teams will be grouped into tiers based on their ranking
- God Tier: the team that is ranked #1
- Tier 1: the teams that are ranked #2 - 5
- Tier 2: the teams that are ranked #6 - 10
- Tier 3: the teams that are ranked #11 - 15
- Tier 4: the teams that are ranked #16 - 20
- Tier 5: the teams that are ranked #21 - 25
- Tier 6: the teams that are unranked
- The point scoring is as follows:
- 1 point for a higher ranked team beating a team in the same or lower tier
- 2 points if the winner if one tier level below their opponent
- 3 points if the winner is two tiers below their opponent
- 4 points if the winner is three tiers below their opponent
- 5 points if the winner is four tiers below their opponent
- 6 points if the winner is five tiers below their opponent
- 10 points if your winner is unranked and upsets the #1 ranked team
- If all five of your schools win on a given weekend, you will be awarded one bonus point
- We will use the Associated Press’ Rankings from the start of the season until the first College Football Rankings are released
- If there is a tie for first, second, third, fourth or fifth place at the conclusion of Week 14, a tiebreaker scenario will be implemented where the competitors will select sides based on predetermined point spreads of the below conference championship games
- Additionally, the competitors will assign confidence points with “5” being the most confident and “1” being the least confident to their point spread selections.
- SEC (Saturday, December 7th)
- Big Ten (Saturday, December 7th)
- ACC (Saturday, December 7th)
- Big 12 (Saturday, December 7th)
