Hi Everyone,
I will be running a Double Elimination NFL pool for the 2015-2016 season. If you're unfamiliar with the pool, please see the rules and details of the pool below.
The Gist
- Pick a team every week that you think will not lose.
- You cannot pick the same team two weeks in a row.
- When you lose twice, you're out.
The pool is pretty simple! Don't lose twice, hence the "double elimination" moniker. (Please see below for a complete list of rules, which will govern how the pool runs.)
Pool Fee Information
- The fee to enter the pool will be .06 btc.
- Of this fee, .05 will be used to build the pot and .01 will go towards my fee for running the pool and to pay for escrow services.
- Entry fee is due by September 10.
- Tomatocage will be providing escrow. I expect he will be posting here soon to provide details on a payment address for him to hold the funds for the pool while it runs.
- I will not receive my fee for running the pool until the pool has been completed and the winner(s) have been paid by Tomatocage.
(I don't know what type of demand there will be for this type of pool, but I probably will not run it with less than 10 participants.)
Full Rules
- Picks will be submitted through Google Forms. A link for each week will be provided for you to submit your picks. This will be the only acceptable method of pick selection, posts here will not be valid. (In the event Google Forms goes down for an extended period of time, you can submit your pick by posting here or with a private message to me if you want to retain the privacy of your pick for strategic reasons, but only if Google Forms is not functional.)
- During the regular season, you cannot pick the same team two weeks in a row. (However, you could pick the same team every other week if you wanted.)
- Your are eliminated from the pool with your second loss. All picks that are not wins are losses. This means ties are a loss. If you pick a game that is postponed and not made up, or a game that is canceled, it is a loss. If it is made up later during the year, your pick will be pending for that week until the game is completed and the outcome is known.
- The last person standing in the pool wins the pot as the sole winner, or else all persons who finish the Super Bowl with less than two losses are winners, and all winner share the pot equally, regardless if they have 0 or 1 loss.
- If all remaining players are eliminated in any given week, that week will become a bye week and those players will continue to play until there is a sole winner or until the Super Bowl is complete.
- During the playoffs, any team can be picked as many times as you want.
- Pick submission deadline is Noon Sunday (CST) each week, or the kickoff of the game you pick, whichever is first.
- For the purpose of determining when your pick was submitted, the timestamp in Google Forms will hold as the official submitted time. (To be safe, don't wait until the last minute.)
- Late picks count as a loss. No picks count as a loss. If you miss the submission deadline, you may not pick a late Sunday or Monday game.
- These rules will govern the pool, but for any situation that arises that is not covered by these rules, I will make a determination as to what is most fair depending on the circumstances of the situation.
Other Miscellaneous stuff
The first game of the season is Thursday September 10, with the rest of the games coming Sunday the 13th. As I stated, I won't probably won't run the pool with less than 10 participants. All money that builds the pot will be won by someone in the pool. There is no way for me to make any more money off this pool than the fee I charge up front.
Once I determine there are enough people who are interested, I will provide the links for submitting your picks each week in this message. If you play the pool, all communication from me about the pool will be posted in this thread. Weekly results will be posted in this thread, hopefully no later than Tuesday or Wednesday.
Also, each week I will endeavor to post a summary of which teams were picked as close to the close of the deadline as possible so you know what teams to root against. (I cannot guarantee this will happen, but I will try my hardest.)
I run a rather large version of this pool for people I know irl (about 80 participants), so I figured I would give this a shot here as well.
If you have any questions about the pool, please ask.
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To register for the pool, please complete this form: https://goo.gl/3EdDof
Pay your entry fee here: [Reserved for an address Tomatocage will provide]
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[Space reserved for the links to submit picks every week.]