2nd-Chance Football Pool -- Official Rules

PRE-REQUIREMENTS: Each contestant must:

• have been a Ducey Pool contestant posted on the board during the 2015 regular season
• be eliminated from the Ducey Pool before the playoffs begin.

ENTRY FEE: Each contestant must mail a check for $50 with the "Pay to:" line left blank to enter.

• Checks must be postmarked no later than Friday, January 8, 2016.
• Checks must be received no later than Friday, January 15, 2016.
• Mail entry fee(s) to PO Box 1411, Studio City, CA, 91614-0411

RULES (basically a short Ducey Pool with only one strike & a tie-breaker)

• Each contestant must select one team per weekend that will win its football game.
• Eligible games are those being played on Saturday and Sunday.
• A team may not be picked more than once during the post-season.
• Each week's pick is due by 12:30pm Pacific Time on Saturday.
• If a picked team loses, that contestant is eliminated.
• The last person left in the pool wins the pot.

If more than one person picks the Superbowl winner, there are two tie-breakers, in this order:

1. Correct Bonus Pick in Week Two
2. Total points scored in the 3 final games (AFC & NFC Championships and Superbowl)

Bonus Pick must be submitted during Week Two, and the tie-breaker total must be submitted by the deadline of the AFC/NFC Championship weekend.

A "Correct Bonus Pick" is a team that wins its game that week, AND the player does NOT pick that team again for the rest of the playoffs. So, the two ways to have made an "incorrect Bonus Pick" are either 1. the team loses, or 2. the player has to pick that team later in the playoffs. An incorrect Bonus Pick does NOT eliminate the player from the pool. The Bonus Pick CAN be a repeat pick from Week One.

All of the contestants with the winning Superbowl team qualify for the tie-breakers, executed as follows...

Tie-Breaker #1: If only one contestant has a correct Bonus Pick in Week Two, that player wins the pot. If more than one player has a correct Bonus Pick, only those players are considered eligible for the Tie-Breaker #2. If no players have a correct Bonus Pick, all players are eligible for Tie-Breaker #2.

Tie-Breaker #2: Whichever remaining contestant is closest to the correct tie-breaker point-total wins the pot. If more than one contestant is closest to the total, they split the pot. (Over ties under. For example, if the total is 40, picks of 41 and 39 would both be winners.)

NFL decisions on wins and losses will be official.
If, for some reason, a picked game is not completed AND not re-scheduled, all picks from that weekend will be thrown out.
If a picked game is not completed and then made up at a later date from the beginning, each contestant will be allowed to change his pick for the make-up game. The deadline will be Saturday 12:30pm PST if the league is making up an entire weekend of games (as in 2001), or 1 hour prior to kickoff if they are making up only a game or two.
For weeks one and two, picks will be posted on the website as soon as they are made. For Championship weekend, pick and point-total will remain hidden until after the deadline.

Questions? Send them to pool16@ducey.com.