How Pick'em Challenges Work
1. Find A Group
Create A Group
Join A Group
You can create your own group to compete against your friends, coworkers, scout troop, drinking budies, whoever. You can set the number of people allowed in your group, and password protect it or make open to the public.
If you know someone who has already made a group, or just want to drop in and school random people you can browse all groups. If your friend already made a group you can search for it by name, or get them to link you to it.
2. Submit Your Picks
After you've joined some groups you'll be able to submit your ballot for the week.
The goal of a pick'em challenge is to make as many correct picks as possible over the course of the football season.
Each week you'll pick the winner of each matchup. Correct vs incorrect picks are tallied against your group, and a global loeaderboard.
We offer pick'em challenges for pro football and college football.
3. Sit Back And Watch
Once your picks are in there isn't much else to do.
Just sit back and relax, enjoy watching some football!
Come back after all games conclude for the week to see how you did.
Join the discussion on the Big Board down below.
4. Pick Again
Correct Picks
Incorrect Picks
Increase Your Percentage: More correct picks = higher accuracy percentage.
Our groups are scored based on who has the highest percentage of correct picks over the course of the season.
With each members accuracy being expressed as a percentage from 0 to 100%.
NOW THAT YOU'VE GOT THE BASICS.
The Big Board!
The Big Board is a running chat for discussion about football... And anything else.*
*Except a few things. No religion, politics, keep it civil.
Recent Posts:
MikeTruman on Aug 14th 2024 - 10:33pm America/New_York
2024 Football Season is nearly upon us folks!
MikeTruman on Oct 01st 2022 - 11:48am America/New_York
Thank you for the feedback Rushmore. We've received some feedback from others about this.
To give people optimal time to get picks in at the start of the season we were only allowing college and pro teams playing on Saturday and Sunday to be eligible for picking.
This made picks for pro football overly difficult we're realizing.
So today we've rolled out some changes:
- All teams not on a bye for pro football will now be eligible for picking. Regardless of the day they play.
- Teams playing soon (roughly 2-3 hours or less before kickoff) or that have already played will be marked ineligible for the rest of the week.
- People who have picked a team that is now marked ineligible won't be able to modify their pick for any reason. This is to prevent people from gaming the system and modifying a pick after their team has lost or won but they realize a better path going forward for picks.
Hopefully this gives everyone more flexibility to play and get their picks in but stops anyone from cheating or abusing the system.
Thanks for playing and putting up with us as we work to make this service as good as possible.
Anonymous Fan. on Sep 21st 2022 - 8:33pm America/New_York
The nfl version is only giving me 24 teams to choose from. All the heavy faves are not an option to pick.
MikeTruman on Aug 15th 2022 - 9:34pm America/New_York
Hey everyone the AP Top 25 for the 2022 Pre-Season has been revealed!
As a result the new pool creation for the 2022 season has been opened.
As a format change, this year we are going to be testing only allowing college football teams playing on Saturday to be picked in a pool.
Additionally only teams playing on Sunday for pro football will be allowed to picked for Pro Football Pools.
This will give everyone more time to submit their picks any given week since the turnarounds are getting increasingly short between games as TV networks spread them across more days each week.
MikeTruman on Aug 11th 2022 - 9:44pm America/New_York
Football season 2022 starts in just a few weeks. We'll be opening pool creation tomorrow afternoon.
MikeTruman on Sep 09th 2021 - 6:32pm America/New_York
We're going to skip the first weeks NFL games as picks since we had site difficulties today due to Russian spammers. Go figure.
MikeTruman on Aug 16th 2021 - 9:58pm America/New_York
We've got the AP Top 25 Pre Season out today.
For anyone who hasn't seen it I'll post it below.
I'll include some interesting facts too and mark any teams that are appearing in the top 25 for the first time since this site was created with a ^.
- Alabama
- Oklahoma
- Clemson
- THE Ohio State
- Georgia
- Texas A&M
- Iowa State
- Cincinnati
- Notre Dame
- UNC ^
- Oregon
- Wisconsin
- Florida
- Miami
- USC
- LSU
- Indiana ^
- Iowa
- Penn State
- Washington
- Texas
- Coastal Carolina ^
- Louisiana ^
- Utah
- Arizona State
MikeTruman on Aug 15th 2021 - 10:19pm America/New_York
Football is right around the corner and pool creation for both college and pro football are now open.