Welcome to Lord Bah's Football Pool!


The pool is almost open for the 2024 season. The rules are the same.

The entry fee is $2/week and must be paid in advance. You must pick every game against the point spread. I will lock the point spread, usually Tuesday or Wednesday, before opening the pool for picks that week. You also pick the point total for the Monday night game as a tie-breaker. Each week the total entry fees for that week less $2 is awarded to the player with the most correct picks. In the case of a tie, the player who comes closest to the total points for the latest Monday night game wins - it does not matter whether the real total is over or under the pick. If there is still a tie, the pot for that week is split evenly among the tied players.

At the end of the year, the player with the highest winning percentage who has not won any money in any week during the year is awarded $36 (the remaining $2 from each week). Only players who paid and entered at least 10 weeks during the year, and have also paid and entered the final two weeks of the year, are eligible for this award.

The pool closes to picks at noon on Sunday. In weeks where there are games on Thursday the pool closes to picks FOR THAT GAME at 7pm Thursday - you can still make or change picks for the other games until noon Sunday. These times are subject to change depending on NFL schedules but will be approximately 1 hour before the start of the earliest game that week.

You will be able to change your picks after you have submitted them, right up until the pool closes for picks that week. This requires us to use a username/password system. See me with your entry fee and you will receive a username and password to use for the pool.

Unpaid entries are allowed and tracked but are not eligible to win anything.

When you have your username and password, proceed to the user page. Bookmark it to bypass this page in the future.

You may pay via PayPal to jeff.vanepps@gmail.com, but if you fund PayPal from your credit card you will have to cover the transaction fee. If you fund PayPal from your bank account there will be no transaction fee. To do this:

D = dollars to deposit in your account
P = amount to pay via PayPal

D = P - (P x 0.29) - 0.30
D x 1.03 + 0.30 = P

So, to deposit $34, 

36 x 1.03 + 0.30
37.08  <-- send payment for this amount

Also, please don't enter any kind of memo text or email subject or whatever to associate the payment with "football pool" or anything else which remotely sounds like gambling. Select the 'Friends or Family' option, NOT 'Goods or Services'.

If using PayPal from a browser, you can use https://paypal.me/JeffVanEpps

You can also use Venmo @Jeff-VanEpps

  1. If a game gets cancelled/delayed/deferred past Monday 11:59pm, that game and all picks for it will be deleted (this does not apply to the normal Monday night game which happens to run late). If that turns out to be infeasible, the game will be counted as a loss for everyone.
  2. If cancellations result in fewer than 8 active games, the week will be cancelled entirely and the weekly fee will be refunded.
  3. The consolation prize will be $2 times the number of weeks we actually play.
  4. If the NFL ends the season early, or if our rules result in the cancellation of the last or second-to-last week of the season, the consolation prize requirement for playing the final two weeks will not be required.
  5. If we play fewer than 10 weeks, the consolation prize requirement for playing at least 10 weeks will not be required.
  6. Forfeited games will be deleted.