Nfl Week 1 Pick Em Master Sheet (2024)

FAQs

How does NFL pick em work? ›

Test your knowledge of professional football by guessing each week's winning teams. You'll score points each time you correctly guess the winning teams and accumulate those points throughout the season. The player with the most points at the end of the season wins!

Filling out the Sheet

Each participant should choose the team they think will win each game, they should also write down what they think will be the total number of points scored in the Monday Night Football game. This will be used as a tie breaker if two or more participants pick the same number of games correctly.

So you should pick the underdog, or in a spread pool, pick the less popular team or team you think the leader is less likely to pick. Of course, this advice depends on how many entries are ahead of you, what your chances of winning the week are, the size of the underdog, and where you are in the season standings.

Teams that didn't qualify for the playoffs are assigned draft slots 1-20. The order is determined by the standings at the end of the regular season: The club with the worst record will pick first, and the one with the best record will pick 20th. Teams that did qualify for the playoffs are assigned draft slots 21-32.

In Squares formats, football pool sheets include a grid, where one team is the column and one is the row. Winners are determined at the end of each quarter when the last number in the team's score (on each side) is matched to the numbers on the grid, and the intersecting square wins.

Each player picks a manager-configured number of games for the week (or season if college bowl pool), either straight up or against the spread. Points are awarded for each correct pick (a win is worth 1 by default, or more if configured by the manager).

A pick'em is a game that sportsbooks deem to be a complete toss-up. There's no spread to account for, and the odds are equal on both sides. Pick'em bets can be challenging to handicap and win.

Standard scoring - Each win counts as one point. Point spreads - Pick against a point spread, not just a winner, to increase difficulty. Confidence points - Rank each pick by your level of confidence to earn more points.

At its core, the draft assigns each of the 32 NFL teams a pick in each of the seven rounds, with the order of selection determined by the previous season's standings. The team with the worst record gets the first pick in each round, while the Super Bowl champions have the final pick.

How does bowl pick em work? ›

For each correct pick, you will receive a designated number of Correct Pick Points (CPP). The Correct Pick Points for each game are not final and will change up to the kickoff of the particular game. The sum of the two participating team's CPP in every bowl game is 100.