The Pick Sheet

Rules

Everything you need to know before making your picks.

How It Works

Each week, your commissioner publishes a pick sheet containing the games that count for your pool. Depending on the pool, the sheet may contain college games, NFL games, or a mix of both.

Pick one side in every game against the posted spread and submit a tiebreaker guess. Your goal is simple: finish with the best record against the spread.

1. Official Spreads

The spread displayed on the published Pick Sheet is the official line for the pool. The commissioner may build the slate in advance while lines are still moving. When the commissioner publishes the week, the spreads are frozen.

Once published, the frozen spread is the line used to grade every player's pick. Later movement in the betting market does not change the pool line.

A game listed as PK is a pick'em and has no point spread.

2. Making Picks

You must select one team for every game on the weekly Pick Sheet. The spread shown next to each team is included in your selection.

You may change your selections while the week remains open. Make sure the Picks page shows that all required picks and the tiebreaker have been submitted before the deadline.

3. Weekly Lock & Hidden Picks

The entire weekly Pick Sheet locks when the first game selected for that week kicks off. At that point, no picks or tiebreaker guesses can be added or changed.

Before the lock, other players can see whether you have completed your sheet, but they cannot see which teams you picked or your tiebreaker guess.

When the week locks, everyone's picks and tiebreaker guesses become visible to the pool.

4. Against-the-Spread Grading

Games are graded against the frozen spread, not simply by which team wins the game.

Win: your selected team covers the spread.
Loss: your selected team does not cover the spread.
Push: the adjusted score lands exactly on the spread. A push is recorded separately and is not a win or a loss.

Example: if Texas is -7.5 and wins 31–20, Texas covers. If Texas wins 27–24, the opponent +7.5 covers.

5. Tiebreaker

Each week, the commissioner designates one game on the Pick Sheet as the tiebreaker game. Every player predicts the combined final score of the two teams in that game.

If players finish the week with the same pick record, the player whose guess is closest to the actual combined score wins the tiebreaker.

6. Standings

The Standings page tracks both the current week and the season. Records are displayed as Wins-Losses-Pushes (W-L-P).

Weekly standings show how everyone is doing on that week's slate. Season standings combine all graded picks from the pool across the season.

7. Commissioner & Game Administration

The commissioner chooses which games appear on each Pick Sheet, selects the tiebreaker game, publishes the official spreads, and administers the pool. The number and type of games may vary from week to week.

If a scoring, data-feed, postponement, cancellation, or other unusual issue occurs, the commissioner may make the administrative correction necessary to keep the pool accurate and fair.

Quick Reminder

Pick every game. Enter your tiebreaker. Confirm your sheet is submitted. Do it before the first selected game kicks off.