Revis & Butthead Rules

2016-2017 Pools PAY-INS & PAY-OUTS: It's very simple, everything that is paid in will be paid out and everyone pays in, including the POOL MANAGER. No expenses to run the pool and website are deducted from the entry fees collected!!! REMINDER: The POOL MANAGER can accept small gifts for all of his time and efforts and are always appreciated!!! IMPORTANT: The POOL MANAGER has the right to change or amend any rules if needed for the integrity of the pool when deemed necessary. Any rule changes will be posted on the pool website and will only be implemented at the start of a new pool week!!! Pool Sign-Up Page If using a computer you will find the Pool Sign-up link in two places on the pool homepage. Upper left hand side and on the bottom. If using a mobile device you will be directed to a different looking homepage. Sign-up here is on bottom of homepage and also when you click Pool Pages on right side - Signup is on the left in the first row. You must create and enter a pool player name, password, enter a valid e-mail address and select which pool(s) you will be joining and then click Submit Signup. You will receive an e-mail with all of this information. Please save it for future reference. Pick Entry Form On the Pick Entry Form for each week you must select your name in the drop-down list, put in your password and e-mail address, make your selections then click Submit Picks. After successfully submitting your picks please print them out. You will not receive an e-mail with your picks!!! The Pick Entry Form will have favorite teams on the left, underdog teams on the right, with the point spread in the middle and home teams in BOLD (Home teams are in CAPS on paper Pick Entry Forms). Below where the Mon. Total Points are is where you will put your Margin Pick and High 5 Picks if you are participating. There is also a Margin Only Pick Entry Form for players who only participate in the No Margin For Error Pool. You can also use this if you want to change your Margin pick after submitting picks through the Pick Entry Form. If you forgot what picks you selected or want to make any changes before deadline then click on the Pick Entry Form, select your name in the drop-down list, put in your password and e-mail address then click on "What Are My Current Picks On File" to view your last submitted picks. Picks Submit Deadline Once again for this season on the Pick Entry Form there is a Picks Submit Deadline (Day, Date & Time picks must be submitted by). If you try to submit your picks after the deadline has passed for that week it won't allow you!!! WEEK 1: PICKS SUBMIT DEADLINE is Thursday evening, Sept. 8th @ 6:00 PM!!! WEEKS 2-11: PICKS SUBMIT DEADLINE is Saturday evening @ 9:00 PM!!! WEEK 12 (THANKSGIVNG WEEK): PICKS SUBMIT DEADLINE is Thursday morning, Nov. 24th @ 11:00 AM!!! WEEKS 13-14: PICKS SUBMIT DEADLINE is Saturday evening @ 9:00 PM!!! WEEKS 15-16: PICKS SUBMIT DEADLINE is Friday evening @ 9:00 PM!!! WEEK 17: PICKS SUBMIT DEADLINE is Sunday morning @ 11:00 AM!!! MULTIPLE REMINDER E-MAILS WILL BE SENT OUT DURING THE WEEK TO LET YOU KNOW YOUR PICKS HAVE NOT BEEN RECEIVED YET!!! IT IS EACH PLAYER'S RESPONSIBILITY TO GET PICKS IN ON TIME BEFORE THE DEADLINE FOR EACH WEEK!!! NO EXCEPTIONS THIS SEASON!!! Games Not Included In Pool All Thursday night games WILL NOT BE INCLUDED each week in the Weekly, No Margin For Error & High 5 pools EXCEPT for Week #1 (Carolina @ Denver) and Week #12 (Thanksgiving Games - Minnesota @ Detroit, Washington @ Dallas & Pittsburgh @ Indianapolis). The Weekly Pool $5.00 to play each week ($85.00 total for 17 weeks) in "The Weekly Pool”. The prize amount for each week will depend on how many players are playing in that week. A point spread will be used when selecting each game. The teams that you pick to win will be either getting or giving points. All point spreads (from FootballLOCKS.com) that already include a half point (6.5, 3.5 etc.) will be used accordingly. If a point spread does not have a half point then the spread will go down a half point. EXAMPLES: (If a team is favored by 6 points then the point spread will be 5.5) or (If a team is favored by 13 points then the point spread will be 12.5). NO LINE AVAILABLE: Sometimes for a week there will be no point spread available for a game when creating the Pick Entry Form. When this happens I will provide a point spread to the best of my knowledge and post it as well on the pool homepage to let everyone know. When there is a Pick'em (0 point spread) a half point (.5) will be given to the visiting team. The Monday Night Game is the last game for the pool week. New for this season there will be 2 Weekly Pool winners for each week - 1ST PLACE & CELLAR DWELLER. The player with the most correct picks for the week after the Monday Night Game will be the "1ST PLACE WINNER". The player with the least correct picks for the week after the Monday Night Game will be the "CELLAR DWELLER WINNER". The "CELLAR DWELLER WINNER" will be awarded one free square in the "$10 SUPER BOWL SQUARES POOL"!!! If there are any ties for the "CELLAR DWELLER WINNER" then the free square will be split by all tied players. The $10.00 for the "CELLAR DWELLER WINNER" will be deducted from the Weekly Pool prize amount for each week. Paper and Pick Entry Forms will be available on Tuesday (Tentative - sometimes Paper & Pick Entry Forms will be available sooner). A memo informing you of any of these tentative circumstances will be distributed, e-mailed and posted on pool website. All player's picks will be posted on the pool website and will be final after the picks submit deadline for that week. You must pick a winner for every game and enter the total amount of points scored by both teams in the Monday Night Game (Please check your picksheet before submitting). For Week #1 there are two games being played on Monday night (Pittsburgh Steelers @ Washington Redskins & Los Angeles Rams @ San Francisco 49ers). The second game (Los Angeles Rams @ San Francisco 49ers) will be used as the tiebreaker game. If in the case of any ties in this pool then these tiebreakers will be used in this order: FIRST TIEBREAKER (if needed) - the player closest to the total points scored by both teams WITHOUT GOING OVER in the Monday Night Game will be the winner. SECOND TIEBREAKER (if needed) - player wins with the average lowest Monday Night Game total points difference. If there are still any ties then a coin flip will be used. Please check all of your picks before submitting them!!! The Season Pool $20.00 one-time fee to play in “The Season Pool”. Prizes will be awarded to the top 3 finishers. 1st Place (50%) - $570.00 2nd Place (30%) - $340.00 3rd Place (20%) - $230.00 THE PLAYER'S THAT HAVE THE MOST TOTAL WINS AT THE END OF THE SEASON FROM EACH WEEK WILL BE THE WINNERS. If in the case of any ties in this pool then these tiebreakers will be used in this order: FIRST TIEBREAKER (if needed) - player wins with the average lowest Monday Night Game total points difference. SECOND TIEBREAKER (if needed) - the player closest to the total points scored by both teams without going over in the final game of the regular season. If there are still any ties then a coin flip will be used. No Margin For Error Pool $20.00 one-time fee to play in the “No Margin For Error Pool”. To make this selection it is located under the Tiebreaker Game Total Points on the Pick Entry Form. If this is the only pool you are participating in then use the Pick Entry Form Margin Only Players and not the Pick Entry Form. Prizes will be awarded to the top 3 finishers. 1st Place (50%) - $330.00 2nd Place (30%) - $200.00 3rd Place (20%) - $130.00 Each player picks one team each week (straight up – no point spread is used) for the entire season. Once a player picks a team they cannot pick that same team again for the rest of the season. THE THURSDAY NIGHT GAME'S THAT ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THAT WEEK'S POOL CANNOT BE USED AS A MARGIN PICK (ONLY WEEK #1 AND WEEK #12 - THANKSGIVING WEEK TEAMS CAN BE USED). If your team wins, the winning margin, or margin of victory is added to your point total. If your team loses, then the winning margin is subtracted from your point total. Missed week loses largest margin of missed week. Duplicate pick loses largest margin of duplicate week. THE PLAYER'S THAT HAVE THE MOST POINTS AT THE END OF THE SEASON WILL BE THE WINNERS. If in the case of any ties in this pool then these tiebreakers will be used in this order: FIRST TIEBREAKER (if needed) - most total wins in Margin Pool. SECOND TIEBREAKER (if needed) - the player closest to the total points scored by both teams without going over in the final game of the regular season. If there are still any ties then a coin flip will be used. The High 5 Pool $20.00 one-time fee to play in “The High 5 Pool”. To make these selections it is located under the Margin Pick on the Pick Entry Form. Prizes will be awarded to the top 3 finishers. 1st Place (50%) - $290.00 2nd Place (30%) - $170.00 3rd Place (20%) - $120.00 Each week you pick a team from any 5 games that are being played. A point spread will be used. The more games you win the greater the points you earn. 1 win = 1 pt, 2 wins = 3 pts, 3 wins = 6 pts, 4 wins = 10 pts, 5 wins = 20 pts. THE PLAYER'S THAT HAVE THE MOST POINTS AT THE END OF THE SEASON WILL BE THE WINNERS. TIEBREAKER (if needed) - the player closest to the total points scored by both teams without going over in the final game of the regular season. If there are still any ties then a coin flip will be used. The Bracket Pools $20.00 one-time fee to play in “The Bracket Pools”. You must be in the Weekly Pool and participate every week in the Weekly Pool. There will only be 24 players participating in “The Bracket Pools”. The first 8 players drawn will receive a bye in the first week for each of the 3 brackets. All 24 players will receive a first week bye in one of the Bracket Pools. Whoever has the better record for each week will move on in the bracket to the next week against another player and so on until there is one player left who will be the winner. There will be 3 different brackets during the season. Bracket Pool #1 ($160.00 to the winner) will start with Week 3 and end with Week 7. Bracket Pool #2 ($160.00 to the winner) will start with Week 8 and end with Week 12. Bracket Pool #3 ($160.00 to the winner) will start with Week 13 and end with Week 17. The Weekly Pool tiebreakers will be used for any ties. Coin Flip For Tiebreakers If a coin flip is needed for any tiebreakers it will be done by the pool administrator as follows: The player whose pool name is listed first alphabetically will be heads and the other player will be tails. EXAMPLE: daCookieMoffster & Fred Mertz are tied. daCookieMoffster (d) would be heads and Fred Mertz (F) would be tails. Any player whose name begins with a number or symbol will be tails. If in the case 2 players whose name begin with a number and symbol are in a coin flip then the player with the number will be heads and the player with the symbol will be tails. One coin flip (heads or tails) will determine the winner. The Super Bowl Squares Pools There are 4 squares pools this year - $5, $10, $20 & $50. All squares pools squares will be numbered 00-99. $5 SQUARES POOL WILL ONLY HAVE 1 WINNER FOR THE FINAL SCORE - $500!!! There will be 2 winners (Score and Add 2 Points To Scores) for the 1st Quarter, Halftime, 3rd Quarter and Final Score in the $10, $20 & $50 Squares Pools. These numbers represent the last number in the score of each team. The Reverse Score Winner has been eliminated and is being replaced this year with Add 2 Points To Scores. Example 1: If the score is AFC 17 - NFC 14, then the winning square for Score is the one with the AFC number 7 and the NFC number 4. The winning square for Add 2 Points To Scores is the one with the AFC number 9 and the NFC number 6. Example 2: If the score is AFC 29 - NFC 18, then the winning square for Score is the one with the AFC number 9 and the NFC number 8. The winning square for Add 2 Points To Scores is the one with the AFC number 1 and the NFC number 0. NFC TEAM will be on the left side of bracket (first set of numbers used from bottom to top) & AFC TEAM will be on top of the bracket (second set of numbers used from top left to top right). E-mail will be sent out to all players with all the details when needed!!! Once all the squares have been selected and paid for the numbers will be generated by a non playing person using Random Integer Set Generator by RANDOM.ORG. 8 sets of 0-9 numbers generated will be for the $5, $10, $20 & $50 Squares Pools respectively. All fees are due by Saturday, January 23rd. By Thursday, January 28th if not paid up your square(s) will be released and available for selection. NO EXCEPTIONS!!! Good luck and enjoy the game!!! NFL Playoff Pool $20.00 one-time fee to play in “The NFL Playoff Pool”. Prizes will be awarded to the top 3 finishers. 1st Place (50%) - $310.00 2nd Place (30%) - $185.00 3rd Place (20%) - $125.00 The point spread will not be used. The pool runs through the entire playoffs starting with the Wildcard games and ending with the Super Bowl game. Week 18 Pick Entry Form Confidence points selections along with the Super Bowl total points scored by both teams will only have to be submitted once and will be used for the entire playoffs and Super Bowl game. The idea is to rank each team that appears in the playoffs with Confidence points from 1 to 12 (1 being the least confident team you think will go all the way and win the Super Bowl to 12 being the most confident team you think will go all the way and win the Super Bowl). You can only use each confidence point once in your selections. There are 12 teams in the playoffs (6 from each conference). 4 teams (2 from each conference) get first round byes. Of course all the Wildcard teams could potentially play one more game than the teams that have first round byes. Each round will have a point multiplier for each winning team's Confidence points assigned as follows: Wild Card Games - each winning team's Confidence points x 2 = total points for this round Divisional Games - each winning team's Confidence points x 3 = total points for this round Championship Games - each winning team's Confidence points x 5 = total points for this round Super Bowl Game - winning team's Confidence points x 8 = total points for this round The player(s) with the most total points will determine the winner(s). No points are awarded to losing teams. If in the case of any ties then the player closest to the total points scored by both teams in the Super Bowl game without going over will be the winner. If in the case any players have the same total points for the Super Bowl game then the most points scored in each round Super Bowl - Championship Games - Divisional Games - Wildcard Games will be determined in this sequence starting with the Super Bowl game then going back to the Wildcard Games. If there are still any ties then a coin flip will be used. Example 1: Suppose you assigned 11 Confidence points to Seattle. They had a 1st Round bye. So if they won their Divisional Game and lost the Championship Game you would receive 33 points (11 x 3) for this selection. Example 2: Suppose you assigned 3 Confidence points to Dallas. So if they won the Wildcard Game and lost the Divisional game you would receive 6 points (3 x 2) for this selection. Example 3: Suppose you assigned 7 Confidence points to Indianapolis and they went all the way and won the Super Bowl. So you would receive 14 points (7 x 2) for the Wild Card game, 21 points (7 x 3) for the Divisional game, 35 points (7 x 5) for the Championship game and 56 points (7 x 8) for the Super Bowl game which would equal 14 + 21 + 35 + 56 for a total of 126 points for this selection. Good luck to all players!!! Revis & Butthead Madness Pool $20.00 one-time fee to play in the “Revis & Butthead Madness Pool”. Prizes will be awarded to the top 3 finishers. 1st Place (50%) - $???.00 2nd Place (30%) - $???.00 3rd Place (20%) - $???.00 Point values for a correct pick: Round of 64 = 2 Round of 32 = 3 Sweet 16 Round = 5 Elite 8 Round = 8 Final 4 Round = 13 Championship Game = 21 The seed ranking of each winning team will also be added to the total points for each round. EXAMPLE: If you pick a winning team in the Round of 64 that was a #6 seed then you would get 2 points + 6 points = 8 points for that selection. The four 1st Round games (Play-in games) on Tuesday, March 15th and Wednesday, March 16th in Dayton DO NOT COUNT IN POOL!!! You must pick a winner for every game in all the rounds and enter the total points scored by both teams in the Championship Game. The players with the most points after the Championship Game will be the winners. The total points scored by both teams in the Championship Game will be used for any tiebreakers. The player closest (over or under) will win the tiebreaker. If in the case the same amount of total points have been selected then the player who had the most points in each round in this sequence starting from the Championship Game > Final 4 Round > Elite 8 Round > Sweet 16 Round > Round of 32 > Round of 64. All selections must be submitted back by Thursday morning, March 17th (before the first game begins)!!! All monies must be paid in full by Friday, March 25th (no later)!!! Good luck to all players and enjoy the madness!!! Good Luck & Enjoy The 2016-2017 Pool Season!