Start a free NFL pick'em pool — the easiest format to learn
Pick the winner of every NFL game, straight up — no spreads to read, no point values to rank, nobody eliminated. Sportpoolz grades every pick automatically and keeps the standings current as games finish. Creating a pool takes about two minutes, and inviting your whole group is one link.
Free forever — no credit card, no money changing hands.
How an NFL pick'em pool works
Every week, each player picks a winner in every NFL game on the schedule. A correct pick is worth one point whether the favorite cruised or the underdog stunned everyone — the margin never matters, and there is no line to beat. Standings count total wins across the season, nobody gets knocked out, and a bad Sunday only costs you that week. That simplicity is why pick'em is the usual choice for groups mixing die-hards with people choosing by mascot.
Straight up or against the spread?
In a pick'em pool you pick who wins, full stop. Sportpoolz also runs Beat the Spread — the same one-pick-per-game board, but with a point spread beside each team, so a pick is judged on the number rather than the win alone. Rule of thumb: straight-up pick'em for groups with casual fans; Beat the Spread for groups who already argue about the lines. Both score a point per correct pick, run all season, and eliminate nobody.
Built for office pools and family groups
An office pool lives or dies on friction, and Sportpoolz keeps it near zero. Nobody installs anything — the whole pool runs in the browser on a phone or desktop. Nobody handles money — Sportpoolz is free, and pools play for bragging rights. Coworkers who do not follow football can still play, and plenty of office-pool champions never watch a full game.
If someone forgets a week, the owner can turn on autopick so missed games are filled automatically instead of sinking a season. And one account can join any number of pools — office, family, group chat — each with its own picks and standings.
How to run a pick'em pool on Sportpoolz
Creating the pool takes about two minutes: the create page is a single form — name, sport, week range, format — and pressing Create Pool makes it live immediately. Share one invite link by text, email, or chat; it works even for friends who have not signed up yet, and signing up takes about a minute.
From there the pool runs itself. Schedules and final scores arrive automatically for every NFL week, picks are graded within a few minutes of each game finishing, and the leaderboard and weekly standings recalculate on their own — nobody ever enters a score by hand. Capacity, weekly winners, and tiebreakers are settings you adjust any time after creation.
Weekly winners, season champions, and tied weeks
A pick'em pool runs two races at once. Each week stands on its own — the owner decides how many players are recognised weekly — so a rough September never takes you out of a great October. Season standings accumulate every win toward the championship. When a week ends level, new pools settle it with a tiebreaker: members predict the total points in a designated game, and the closest guess takes it. Owners can swap that for splitting the week, rolling it over, or no award at all.
Which games can you pick?
NFL, today. It is the league you can choose when you create a pool, and every week your pool covers arrives with its schedule and results filled in automatically. Other leagues appear on the create page as coming-soon cards while they are finished — and the order they arrive in is shaped by what people ask support for.
Common questions
Do you have to pick every game?
A full week means a pick in every scheduled game, and leaving one blank simply scores nothing for that game. If a member misses a week entirely, an owner who has turned on autopick has those games filled automatically.
Is a pick'em pool the same as a bracket?
No. A bracket asks you to predict a whole tournament in advance, so one early upset can wreck the sheet. A pick'em pool starts fresh every week: this week's picks stand alone, and a bad week costs you only that week.
What if two players finish the season tied?
The owner decides how the pool settles a tie — a designated tiebreaker game, splitting the honours, or rolling the award forward. The setting is in the pool's winners configuration and can be changed before the season ends.
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Creating a pool takes about two minutes, and inviting your group is one link.