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Office Football Pool Rules for the 2025 Season
2025 SEASON STARTS 9/5/2025
Getting
Started:
1.
To start season, click “login” to get link to create your account
2.
You can view weekly results and the consensus sheets from past
weeks, look for the link on the left panel of the home page.
3.
A suggestion box has been added to allow players the opportunity
to make suggestions they feel could make the website more functional and
friendly.
4.
Players will need to enter their picks for the coming week by the
due date.
a.
CHANGED FOR 2025: ALL PICKS ARE DUE BY THURSDAY
NIGHT GAME KICKOFF!
b.
Make your selections online at http://www.officefbp.com/fbp2025. When
you login for the first time in the season, the website will direct you to your
user information to check and click update when you have verified everything is
correct.
5.
The website http://www.officefbp.com/fbp2025 will have
the current consensus, pick sheets, and results weekly. Additionally,
the website banner box (at the top of the home page) will be used as the league
“bulletin board” (league updates, weekly winners, changes to the NFL schedule,
etc.)
Game Rules
· Select
Winning Team: For each week, make your weekly selections by marking each game winner by selecting the home or away team.
· Apply
Confidence Number: For a sixteen-game week, confidence points 1 to 16 are used. You
can use a number only once with the highest number (16) going to the game you
feel the strongest about and the lowest number (1) to the game you are least
confident about its outcome. A fourteen-game week would use points 1 to 14 and
so forth.
· Scoring: If the
team you selected wins that game, the confidence points you assigned are
awarded and a total for the week is determined. If a game ends in a tie,
everyone wins that game and receives the confidence points they assigned for
that game.
o
Weekly Tie Breakers: There are
2 weekly tie breakers: total points scored for both teams of the Monday night
game and total offensive yards for the winning team. These tie breakers are
used to break ties in the event more than one player
has the same total points for that week.
o
Total Season Tie Breaker: There is
an additional tie breaker to enter during Week 18 which is used to break any
ties for the overall accumulated points for the year. Total score
for Monday night game is used first then total offensive yards second if a tie
still exists for that week. Remember to indicate the total score on your pick
sheet. If you have any questions, you can contact us at the email
address below.
· Forgotten
and Default Picks: If a player forgets to get their picks in by the weekly deadline
(usually before the first game on Thursday), they will receive the default
picks for the week. The default picks are all visiting teams and
confidence points assigned 1 to number of games top to bottom. The
default picks cannot win a week.
· Pick
Deadlines (NOTE THIS CHANGE): Picks for
the entire slate of weekly games must be made and submitted prior to the start
of the Thursday game (usually Thursday night but some exceptions do occur e.g.
Thanksgiving). All picks will be locked at that time.
This means too, that changes to
your picks cannot be made after the start of the Thursday game.
· Recent NFL schedule changes
(including mid-season dates & time changes) have forced us to create
this single deadline.
· If no picks
or incomplete picks are made you will automatically be assigned the default
numbers of the week.
· Be sure to
check your picks before submitting. We
encourage you to print or screen shot a copy of your
submitted picks.
Pool Fees and Payouts
Pool
Fees: Weekly players’ entry fees are $40.00. This includes your
entry fee of $36.00 ($2.00/week) plus $4.00 for league operating expenses and
to pay for the 5 places overall at the end of the year.
· Fees are
due BEFORE the second week (see below for payment options).
Please comply with this deadline for fees, or we will not be able to enter
your picks.
Payment
Options: The preferred payment option is Venmo. If Venmo is not an option
for you, you can send a check to the address listed below.
· Venmo: To pay via
Venmo, send the ($40.00) to @Patricia-Kremer. The website will then
be updated to reflect your payment.
· Check: Make
checks payable to George Kremer and send fees to: George Kremer at
10746 Lyndale Bluffs Trail, Bloomington, MN 55420
Payouts
Weekly
Payouts: Each week $1.00 of the weekly entry fee ($2.00) is paid out to the
players with the highest total for confidence points (65% to 1st place, 25% to
2nd and 10% to 3rd) and the other $1.00 goes toward the final pot to be paid
out at the end of the season to the top five players with highest total accumulated
confidence points. Payouts for ties will be determined by the tie
breakers, and if tie breakers are identical the tied players will split the
winnings.
· Example: If
there are 100 players, 1st place will win $65, 2nd place
will win $25, and 3rd place will win $10
Season
Payouts: Each week $1.00 of the weekly entry fee ($2.00) goes toward the
final pot to be paid out at the end of the season to the top five players with highest total accumulated points. The final pot will be
split accordingly: 50% to 1st place, 20% to 2nd, 15% to 3rd,
10% to 4th and 5% for 5th. At season end, ties for the top
spots split the winnings for the places they hold, a tie for 1st and 2nd would
split 70% of the total while a tie for 2nd and 3rd would split 35%.
For
all questions please contact us at OFPOfficeFootballPool2022@gmail.com
GOOD LUCK!!