Each week you pick the winners of all NFL games against the point spreads published on this site.
Log onto this website and make your picks for the week.
You view or update your picks as often as you want.
Each Sunday, at 12 noon, all picks will be locked in and made public.
If there are early games in any week, (i.e. Thursday, Friday or Saturday games), you need to enter your pick for those games (and only those games) by noon on game day.
If you fail to make a pick for any particular game, you are automatically given the underdog.
If you fail to make any picks in a given week you are not eligible for that week's weekly prize. There are no other consequences.
With your picks every week you will be asked to submit your prediction of the total points that will be scored in the Monday night game of that week. Monday Night Total Points (MNTP) is used to break ties if two or more players tie for first place in any week.
For every game you beat the point spread you get one point. The person with the highest points for the week wins the weekly prize. In case of a tie between two or more people in any given week, the person who predicted the total points closest to the actual score in the Monday night game will win the weekly prize (under beats over). The weekly prize is $2 multiplied by the number of people in the pool.
Weekly points will be recorded. Prizes will be given to the three people with the highest number of points over the seventeen weeks and the person with the least total number of points over the season. The money available for these end-of-season prizes will be $ 2 multiplied by 17 weeks multiplied by the number of people in the pool.
Prize money will be allocated as follows:
1st place winner: 50% of the prize money
2nd place winner: 25% of the prize money
3rd place winner: 15% of the prize money
Last place winner : 10% of the prize money
Survivor Component
Independent of the above, there is also a Survivor Prize. It will be $5 x number of players.
Each week, the player(s) with the lowest score among remaining survivors is eliminated.
The last player eliminated wins the survivor prize.
At the end of week 17, if more than one player is still alive, they share the survivor money.