NFL Office Pool Idea – Confidence matters most

One of the best football office pools to participate in is a confidence pool. Though it is often associated with the college bowl season, it can be a extremely fun way to spend an NFL season. An NFL confidence pool is very difficult to master and takes the most skill of all the pool options, that is why I would not use the point spread in putting it together.

Here is how I would put together an: NFL CONFIDENCE OFFICE POOL

Objective: To pick the winners of NFL games and earn the most points by being confident.

Group Size: Any

1. Have each participant download week 1-17 of my NFL Confidence Sheets.

2. Each participant will pick the winner of each of the games and then rank them from 1-16 in how confident they are in their pick. confidence (16 being very confident and 1 not confident).

3. Each participant should then email their Confidence Sheet to you by Sunday 9 am PST.

Optional: Download my Confidence Pool Tracker (coming soon) to track the pool.

Scoring:

• Participants get points for each correct game
• Points are determined by the participant's ranking of those games they got correct.
• For example...if a participant has New England to win with a 16 confidence ranking they would get 16 points, if they miss the game they get zero points.
• Add up all the points that the participant gets from his/her correct games.
• In a week with 16 games  there will be 136 maximum points

4. Participant who scores the most points for all 17 weeks will be the winner.

5. Use the payout calculator to figure out how much each place gets.

PROS:

• Rankings add tons of strategy
• Very few ties because using a point total
• Don't have to worry about the spread

CONS:

• Takes more time than other pools
• Must use some sort of tracker to keep the totals
• Can be more difficult to explain to others

If you don't have time to create your own pool then you could let one of the following do it for you:

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