The Worm's Pool Rules GENERAL POOL RULES The Worm's Pool web site is designed and created mainly for the challenge of picking winning football teams and testing your football knowledge against many other fans like yourself. Like many things, the addition of having the chance to win money, places an additional excitement on this challenge. Together with friends, family and co-workers competing against each other brings bragging rights into play. Bottom line, having fun is the determining factor of the Worm's Pool. Due to the fact money is involved, fairness and honesty must be achieved. The Worm’s Pool is extremely dedicated to running and fair and honest pool. Therefore all the rules and conditions are listed here for your review. In the rare case an issue is not directly covered by any rule, my decision will be final. My decisions will ALWAYS be based on what is fair based on present rules, implied rules and common sense. Due to the time and expense to host, develop and maintain this pool site, I take one free entry fee to the Worm's Pool to help offset my personal costs. This is the only payment I receive; therefore my judgments as to pool issues can remain non-bias. All pools payout 100% of the collected fees for each game!   THE WORM'S POOL The Worm’s Pool is our main pool; it actually consists of two pools in one, a weekly and season pool. Both portions are based on a weekly U-Pick-Um with confidence points style pool. Each week the player selects a team from each game they feel will win. They assign a point value to each team they select. The point value is 1 to the total number of games played that week (generally 14 or 16). Each game they picked the correct winner, they receive the point value they assigned to it. Ties count as a loss. Their points are tallied, the player with the most confidence points wins that week. Missing Picks: Any game where a winner is not selected, it is counted as a loss and the player will lose the point value. If no point value was assigned but all other games are picked and points were assigned to those games, the remaining point is what will be forfeited. In the case of a missed early game (i.e. Thursday) which is not a part of the complete submitted picks, the game is considered a loss and the lowest point value for that week is assigned to that game. This is only where a partial pick is submitted and all other games are picked. The season pool is based on the total number of games picked correctly NOT the confidence points. The player who has the most correct picks at the end of the season wins. In case of two or more players being tied at the end of the week or season, a special tie breaker rule applies - see Ties Breakers Ties Breakers: See the standings page for all tie breaker rules... if any tie results after all tie breakers have been applied, the affected players split the prize for that tied level.. Weekly payout's are: 1st place receives 70% of the total collected pool fund 2nd place receives 30% of the total collected pool fund Season payout's are: 1st place receives 50% of the total collected pool fund 2nd place receives 30% of the total collected pool fund 3rd place receives 20% of the total collected pool fund   THE SURVIVOR POOL The Survivor Pool is very simple yet very challenging. A player picks one team they feel will win that week, if the team wins; they survive and remain in the pool for another week. If their pick team loses, the player is out. What makes this more difficult is that the player cannot select the same team twice in the same pool season. Last player remaining (The Survivor) wins the pool! Survivor payout is: 1st place receives 100% of the total collected pool fund   KING OF THE HILL POOL The King of the Hill pool is a little like the survivor pool except that it runs based on your weekly Worm’s Pool picks. Each week the Worm’s Pool ranks it’s players by their weekly score. Each week the bottom player is eliminated from the King of the Hill pool. Incase of a tie, both players are eliminated unless that leaves no players, then both survive until the next week. If no more weeks remain, then the tied players split pool Basically, the winner of this pool will never be the lowest ranked weekly player, making them the King of the Hill. The number of players removed from the pool each week will be determined by the number of participating players and the number of weeks in the season. This will be announced before the season starts. This pool pays out the last player eliminated as 1st place – the King and the second to last player eliminated as 2nd place – the Queen! King receives 70% of the total collected pool fund Queen receives 30% of the total collected pool fund   THE DIGIT POOL The Digit pool is purely luck, the proof of that is, I won it last year! Anyway, the Digit Pool is limited to only 32 players; each player selects one NFL team. Each team has the digits 0-9 at the start of the season. As each week is played, the final score of your selected team is removed from your Digits. Example: I selected the Bears again this year… Let’s say their final score for week one is 17, I would remove the number 7 from my digits. The player who removes all their digits first, wins! In case of a tie or the season ends without anyone removing all their digits, here are the tie breakers: The player with the least number of digits left wins. If more than one player has the same amount left, then we tally each player’s remaining digits and the player with the lowest total value is the winner. Any ties after that the players involved spit the prize fund. Remember, the player with the least amount of digits remaining wins the first tie breaker, then total value! The payout for this pool is: The Digit pool winner receives 100% of the total collected pool fund.   FANTASY LEAGUE POOL The fantasy league's rules will be posted within the fantasy league owner's area   HIGH 5 POOL Players pick 5 games each week using the points spread. No confidence points are used. The pool runs all season highest points at end wins. All ties are are counted as losses. Scoring is as follows: 0 correct = -5 points, 1 correct = -2 points, 2 correct = -1 point, 3 correct = +1 point, 4 correct = +2 points, 5 correct = +5 points Season payout's are: 1st place receives 70% of the total collected pool fund 2nd place receives 30% of the total collected pool fund   HANDICAPPER'S POOL The Handicapper's Pool is run exactly like the Worm's Pool except that the point spread will be used in this pool. The office point spread will be added to the pick sheet Friday Night at midnight, whatever the point spreads are at that time will be the official numbers used no matter what the actual point spread are at actual game time. The office source for the spread has not yet been determined and will be posted here as soon as it is available. The Handicapper's Pool is a weekly pool only, there is no season portion to this pool. All ties are are counted as losses. Weekly payout's are: 1st place receives 100% of the total collected pool fund Season payout's are: 1st place receives 100% of the total collected pool fund   THE MARGIN POOL A Margin Pool is similar to a Survivor Pool in some ways. Each week the player picks a team (they cannot pick that team again, duplicate picks are treated as a loss). If his team wins, the winning margin, or margin of victory is added to his season point total. If his team loses, then the winning margin is subtracted from his season point total. The pool member that has the most points at the end of the season is the winner. Total wins are used as a tiebreaker. A Margin Pool is different from a Survivor Pool in that in a Margin Pool, you play the entire season, you are not eliminated with a loss. It is a type of pool that you are never really out of it until the end. You could be in first place, and wham, your team loses by 28 points, and another player’s team wins by 35 points. Season payout is: 1st place receives 100% of the total collected pool fund   Champions Pool The Champions Pool is where you pick one team at the beginning of the season, if that team wins, you wins the pool! However, anyone can pick any team, so there may be other players who have picked the same team, if that is the case, all the players who picked the winning team split the pot. If the winning team is not picked, the pool carry's over to next year. If this happens, each player who played this year re-enters the pool and pays another single year fee $5.00. if you missed the first year and want to join the second or third year, you must pay for each year you have missed plus a $2.50 penalty for each year plus the current year's $5.00 fee. Season Payout is: 100% of collected pool fund (split among all winners if more than one, no tie breakers)   Reverse Survivor Pool The Reverse Survivor Pool is very simple yet very challenging. A player picks one team they feel will LOSE that week, if the team loses; they survive and remain in the pool for another week. If their pick team wins, the player is out. What makes this more difficult is that the player cannot select the same team twice in the same pool season. Last player remaining (The Survivor) wins the pool! Survivor payout is: 1st place receives 100% of the total collected pool fund   All pool funds will be paid out 100% Actual payout amounts will be determined by the total number of paid players. Any information listed here is subject to correction of any un-intentional errors