Rules

Your 3rd pick is your Best Bet. Picks 1 and 2 are worth 1 point if correct, the Best Bet is worth 3 — a perfect weekend is 1 + 1 + 3 = 5. A miss is worth 0.

Land exactly on the number and you get half of what the pick would have won: 0.5 on picks 1 and 2, 1.5 on a Best Bet, 2.5 on a Plunge. Nothing else scores in halves.

It adds a fourth game to that week's card, worth +5 if it covers and −5 if it doesn't — the only pick on the board that can cost you points. A perfect Plunge week is 10. One per season, and you choose the week.

Lines are pulled at 7:00pm CT every Monday and written down. If weather, injury or NIL money fail to materialize, our spread does not change.

You submit one card, not separate picks, and you get one submission a week — once it's in, it can't be changed. You'll be shown your picks and asked to confirm them before anything is filed. An incomplete card can't be submitted at all.

It has to be in before the first game on your card kicks off — take a Friday game and the whole card is due Friday. Otherwise the last deadline is noon ET Saturday.

No card filed scores 0 for that week. It also marks you as having skipped it, which rules you out of any prize for finishing last — nobody wins the booby prize by not showing up. Weeks that closed before you joined don't count against you.

The whole field stays sealed until noon ET Saturday, then opens at once. Before that you can see who has filed a card and nothing more, so picking late never means picking with more information than picking early.

Every week also counts toward a prize for its month, so September has a winner of its own and so does October. Season totals are untouched by it — a bad September doesn't end your year, and a great one is worth something on its own.

Finals are pulled all weekend and cards grade themselves. Nobody has to wait on the commissioner.