Hello degenerates - after a one year hiatus, we are back! I had some tax concerns last year but damn... If Kalshi can exist, I don't see what the moral opposition to this existing is! Strange NFL year to say the least, with Mahomes, Lamar, & Burrow all sitting at home while the QB in the NFL older than me in Aaron Rodgers and the only QB in the NFL shorter than me in Bryce Young are both not only playing meaningful games this weekend - they are HOSTING those games! Unreal. Let's see if all you cowards pick both Houston and the Rams this week! Anyway, let's get to it!
Hey man! I've done this for years! Just give me the links and tell me what changed so I can get on with my day.
Ok Mr. Pushy, here's the leaderboard. The pick form will be at the bottom for each respective weekend.
As for rules, nothing changed, but it has been two years so you should probably read the whole thing.
The Basics
- Each weekend, you'll need the following picks:
- Two wild card picks (game day does not matter; pick two Saturday, one Sat/one Sun, two Sun, one Sat/one Mon, one... you get the idea)
- Two divisional playoff picks (again, game day doesn't matter, pick two Saturday, one Sat/one Sun, or two Sunday)
- One championship week pick (assuming you have one, you could be out of picks!)
- One Super Bowl pick
- This pick will be assumed - Everyone will have one or zero picks for the Super Bowl, so there will be no form to fill out
- If you're team(s) wins, congrats! You live to fight another day. If not, it's GAME OVER MAN!
- As with any survivor pool, you cannot pick the same team twice. If you do pick the same team twice and don't catch it yourself, you're out. If you do catch it in time, just resubmit via the same form you used initially (I check all submissions periodically and take the latest one for each entry so long as a game picked hasn't started).
- If you just don't like who you picked and want to change, it's the same as above - just resubmit via the same entry form with the same details. (This comes up A LOT, so I think I need to bold it and call it out.)
- Picks must be submitted via Google Forms that I will both post here and send to participants once available. The form will ask for your email address and will automatically send you a copy of your responses. I get hundreds of entries and update them as frequently as I can, so please do not bug me with questions about whether your pick went in or reminders of who you picked - you should have this information already. Please do let me know if you do not get an email back with your picks BEFORE kick-off of your intended game so I can make sure it's in there - I will not add your pick b/c you didn't look for that email receipt before kick-off.
- Due to how few possible combinations of selections there are, there is no tiebreaker in this game.
- I get this question occasionally, so I'll answer it here - does having a pick somehow supercede someone who has run out of teams and cannot pick? No, it does not. Points are based on picking winners, not picking. Someone with a "No Pick" in the Super Bowl has done just as well as someone who has a pick in the Super Bowl & their pick loses.
- The pool will be "winner take all," but I'm figuring there will be a few people there at the end, so everyone who makes it to the last day and picks the winner (whatever that is) will split the pot.
Entry
- Cost will be $20
- You may buy only a maximum of THREE entries - HOWEVER, if you lose an entry prior to the final deadline on Wild Card weekend (which is the 8:00 PM ET Sunday game), I'll allow you to continue purchasing entries, throwing good money at bad, to your heart's content, so long as you have no more than THREE active entries at any given time. (So yes, before you can even submit entry #4, you'll have to have lost #1, #2, or #3. An entry is "lost" once a single game is lost on an entry.)
- Easiest way to pay is, as usual, via PayPal or Venmo.
- Paypal: paypal.me/PhilipCrone
- Venmo: @Philip-Crone (PLEASE NOTE MY NAME HAS ONE L, I have informed the guy with two L's that he can keep $5 of your $20 entry fee)
- Zelle: steelcard30@gmail.com
- Cash/Checks via the mail - ThoroughCrowd LLC, PO Box 7022, Louisville, KY 40257
- If somehow none of these options are viable, I guess you can find me and hand the money. However, I work from home and really only go to the Kroger on Hubbards Lane in St. Matthews, so I guess you can wait there and hope I show up to pick up some arugula or something. If you want to track me down, which is insane but whatever it's your life, you have to do so by Sunday, January 11th.
That's it. As usual, feel free to forward this along to friends who may want to play. If you have any questions I somehow didn't address above, just let me know at tourneypools@gmail.com. I'll use the same website (tourneypools.blogspot.com) for all updates. Good luck all!
