2009 Rules
To enter, you may choose to either contact me in person or use the sign-up form for more info.
Entry rules:
- Each participant can enter up to 5 times. Each entry by a participant will be considered a seperate player. You may not enter under another person's name.
- Each entry is $10. All monies go toward the prize pool.
- For entry into the game, I must receive the entry ticket amount for each entry by a participant by 10:00am ET on Sunday, September 13, 2009.
- Any player submitting their entry fee after 5:00pm ET on Thursday, September 10, may not pick a team playing in the Thursday night season opener for week 1.
- The commissioner reserves free entries for operating the pool. The commish does this on his own time and does not profit from this pool.
Pick submission rules:
- Participants with multiple entries should be specific on matching their picks and entries. If you do not, the commissioner will take the liberty of assigning them for you.
- If a pick is not received from a player by the deadline, the commissioner will assign a favored team available to that player at the commissioner's discretion. Teams that have already played in an earlier game that week will not be available.
Pick submission deadlines:
- Week 1:
- Thursday night game: Thursday afternoon at 5:00pm ET
- All remaining games: Sunday morning at 10:00am ET
- Weeks 2-4:
- All games: Sunday morning at 10:00am ET
- Week 5:
- All games: Saturday evening at 9:00pm ET
- Weeks 6-9:
- All games: Sunday morning at 10:00am ET
- Weeks 10-11:
- Thursday night game: Thursday afternoon at 5:00pm ET
- All remaining games: Sunday morning at 10:00am ET
- Week 12 (Thanksgiving weekend):
- All games: Thursday morning at 10:00am ET
- Weeks 13-14:
- Thursday night game: Thursday afternoon at 5:00pm ET
- All remaining games: Sunday morning at 10:00am ET
- Week 15:
- Thursday night game: Thursday afternoon at 5:00pm ET
- Saturday night game: Saturday afternoon at 5:00pm ET
- All remaining games: Sunday morning at 10:00am ET
- Week 16 (Christmas weekend):
- Friday night game: Friday afternoon at 5:00pm ET
- All remaining games: Sunday morning at 10:00am ET
- Week 17:
- All games: Sunday morning at 10:00am ET
Game rules:
- Out of the NFL's 32 teams this season, each player must pick one team to win their game for that week.
- Games that end in a tie are not considered wins.
- Once a team has been used by a player, it may not be picked again in a subsequent week.
- If a game is postponed, the player must make another pick prior to the deadline. If the postponement is announced after the deadline, the player will be given the opportunity to pick another game, as long as the pick is received at least 15 minutes prior to that game's kickoff.
- If the player's pick loses that week, they are out for the rest of the pool season. If all players lose in the same week, the results will be ignored (all players will be active next week as if they didn't lose); however the team picked will still not be available to that player.
- Any attempt to alter the game unfairly will result in immediate disqualification with no refund.
- If a player loses during the first five weeks of play, that player has the option of buying back into the game for $15. You will need to get that fee to me by 10:00am Sunday morning in order to make your pick for that week. You may only buy back into the game once per entry. Buy back is discontinued starting with week 6.
End of game:
- The game will end when there is one remaining player at the end of a given week.
- Should there be more than one remaining player at the end of Week 17, the remaining players will split the pool.
- Tips are greatly appreciated. It's a lot of work to run this pool.
Commissioner's decisions are at his discretion and are final. Please let me know if the rules are vague or incomplete in any way.