Why Try The PointPool?

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MyPointPool.com is only web site where you’ll find the PointPool.
2007 is the first year this fun, innovative pool is available to the general public.
The PointPool is a fun and exciting game because it requires strategy, patience, guts and luck to do well.
The PointPool is based entirely on the outcomes of pro football games so you are watching games you otherwise wouldn’t and rooting for your teams to WIN.
The PointPool is simple, requiring only minutes each week (if you don’t count watching the games). Huge comebacks and swings in the standings are not the exception they are the rule. The long-term strategic aspects and fluid nature of the pool standings make this pool uniquely fun and entertaining.

Simple

You start with 50 points and a random schedule of two games per week.
You pick a winner of each game each week and decide how many of your points you want to risk on those games.
If you lose all your points, you are OUT.
You do not need to be a statistics geek or a football expert to be successful. And although there is strategy involved, you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to be able to compete. In fact, no rocket-scientist has EVER won!

Winners

You are wagering on teams to WIN their games – covering the point spread means nothing.
If your team wins, you win. If they lose, you lose. That means the teams are doing their absolute best to do exactly what you want them to do – WIN!! And that makes watching the games more fun.

Strategy

Manage Yourself

Every player has a unique regular season schedule.
As the season unfolds, you will probably see other players shooting ahead and you will be tempted to PANIC and try to keep up. At that point, patience and discipline become crucial. If you react to others success by taking foolish risks, you will almost certainly crash and burn.
The season is long and growing your point total is usually a slow, steady process. Gaining points is a slow, steady process but losing them can happen in one fell swoop. If you reach 20 points or fewer, it is very, very tough to recover. So remember, don’t panic . . . . until you need to.

21 Weeks of Fun

When the regular season ends, so do other football pools.
The PointPool is just getting started. Everyone still standing after the regular season will use their points to wager on ALL the playoff games (four games each during the wildcard and divisional weeks, the two conference championship games and, finally, the Big Game), competing head-to-head with everyone and increasing the volatility of the standings.
Point swings from week to week can easily be in the tens of thousands of points and sometimes come in unexpected ways.
You can even end up rooting against a team you picked because it will benefit you more by losing than by winning (i.e. someone else will lose more). Or, if you have the guts, you can take the underdog. But make no mistake you will have a rooting interest in every single playoff game.
Check out some of our stories of previous years – they tell the true story of how volatile the season can be and how much fun the PointPool can be.

Root, Root, Root For . . . . . Who Is It This Week?

�The PointPool gives me a chance to cheer for teams I really hate like the Dallas Cowboys�

Craig S., Glen Gardner, NJ

Usually, it is little to no fun to watch a game where you have no rooting interest.
The PointPool gives you a direct rooting interest in two games per week that you wager on. It also gives you an indirect rooting interest in games others have – specifically, rooting against others. In this age of NFL Sunday Ticket and every game being televised, how cool is that?
And then there are ALL of the playoff games even if your ACTUAL favorite team has long since been eliminated.

Big Comebacks

In 22^nd place and with about 8% of the 1^st place point total (164pts vs 2092pts) in early November, Player 10 slowly worked back to eventually take the lead in week 17, lose it, regain it, lose it and regain it again to win the 2006 PointPool.
Large comebacks are not the exception in the PointPool, they are the rule. Players go shooting up the standings for a few weeks only to crash and burn with one untimely upset. Underdogs and upsets are powerful sources of hope for the trail pack – especially in the playoffs.

Ultimate Water-Cooler Pool

Whether trash-talking on the web site or around the water-cooler at the office, this pool makes for endless conversation, loads of interest and great fun.
By the time the playoffs roll around, the pool increasingly becomes a chess match as competitors try to figure out what the other is thinking and what they might do.
Carefully planted misinformation becomes a perfectly justified tactic that can dramatically affect the point totals if the technique is employed effectively.
There are few things more gratifying than talking your opponent into making a wager that you anticipate (since they are secret) and then taking advantage of. On the other hand, they might be onto your little game . . .

Every Year Is Different

In nearly 25 years of the PointPool, winners have had as few as 2,200 points and as many as 132,000 points and pretty much every possible total in between.
2006 saw the second lowest total ever with just over 9,200 while the winning total in 2005 total was 54,000 – pretty typical. Every year is different and successful strategies will vary. That means there is always next year.