Underdog Pool Rules

 

Objective:

          Select winning underdogs and accumulate the most points from the spread.

 

Materials: 

 

Cost:

          There are 2 pools available.  Entrants may play in either or both:

  • $50 one time entrance fee for the year
  • $100 one time entrance fee for the year

 

Prizes:    

  • Top 10% of the entrants in each pool will win prizes at the end of the year.  The more participants in the pool, the bigger the prizes at the end of the year. 
  • There will be a weekly high point winner in each pool each week.  Again the prize amount is dependant on the number of people in the pool.
  • The total number of correct picks at the end of the year in each pool (regardless of the number of points they accumulated) also wins a prize.

 

NOTE: Since the prizes are dependant on the number of participants in each pool, the amount of the prizes will not published until about a month into the season.

 

In 2008 there were 132 entries in the $40 pool.  The weekly prizes were $40. 

The end of the year prizes were distributed as follows:

 

Rank

Number of points earned

Prize

1

119

1000

2

116.5

700

3

114.5

500

4

114.5

400

5

114.5

350

6

114

300

7

114

250

8

113

200

9

113

150

10

112.5

125

11

112

100

12

108.5

75

13

108.5

40

  

In 2008 there were only 29 entries in the $100 pool.  The weekly prizes were $50. 

The end of the year prizes were distributed as follows:

 

Rank

Number of points earned

Prize

1

132

1200

2

120

400

3

113.5

100

 

 

How to Play:

  • Each week a point spread will be posted on the website for the NFL games, listing the ‘Favorite’ Team, the Point Spread, ‘Underdog’ team and the day and time of each game that week.
  • You will choose 3 teams from the Underdog column that you believe will win the game outright.
  • You will also choose the “Monday Night Total Points Tie Breaker”. This is the number of points you believe will be scored in the Monday Night game.
  • If any of your underdogs win, you accumulate the points from the spread. (The final score of the game does not matter; the team just needs to win.)
  • The total points scored in the Monday night game will be subtracted from your estimate and the result will be tracked each week for tie breaking purposes ONLY.

 

How to Win:

  • Each week the player with the highest total points that week will win a “weekly high points” prize. 
    • If there is a tie, the Monday Night Total Points Tie Breaker will be used to break the tie. In the event, it does not break the tie, the “weekly high points” prize will be split between the tied players.
  • At the end of the year, the players with the highest total points will be paid based on the “payout” grid.
    • If there is a tie, the accumulated Monday Night Total Points Tie Breaker, will be used to break the tie. In the event it does not break the tie, the highest # of most correct picks will break the tie.  If that still doesn’t break the tie then the prizes will be shared.

 

Example: 

Favorite

Spread

Underdog

Date/Time

Indianapolis Colts

7.5

Detroit Lions

Sunday   1:00PM

NY Giants

3

NY Jets

Monday 8:00PM

 

Let’s say you selected Detroit as an Underdog Pick and your Monday Night Total Points Tie Breaker was 41.

 

Now let’s say Detroit won the game 21-17  and the Giants beat the Jets 20-10

 

You would have accumulated 7.5 points.  If 7.5 points was the highest # of  points accumulated that week, you would WIN the WEEEKLY HIGH POINT PRIZE.  BUT if someone else also had 7.5, the Monday Night Total Points Tie Breaker #  you chose would be considered.  You chose 41 and the total score was 30 – so you were off by 11 points. If the person tied with you, with 7.5 points, picked a score that resulted in a differential higher than 11 points YOU WIN for the week. If lower, YOU LOSE and if it’s the same, YOU SPLIT the winnings.