The College Football Guesser is the online office pool; it manages the entry of picks, scores, etc.
Althought the NFL Guesser started in 1994, the CFBG started in 2024.

This site is deigned as a phone app in portrait orientation

Navigation
All pages that are Week specific are driven by the listbox at the top of the page.  Select a different week to see future or past details.

New Guessers
New users can be added until the start of the first Saturday game of Week 2.

How to Win
A uesr picks their expected winners of College Football Games.  Correct picks are awarded points (see Weights section below).  Earn the most points to win the season.

A subset of games are selected for picks each week; games that people are interested in following, are available for watching, and are competitive.

We will settle on the game list on Monday mornings, selecting 8-10 games.
Criteria to rank the games for selection:

• AP rankings
• betting line
• Status of Power conferences
• Intraconference matchup

1. Users must be curteous to other users.
2. Users must ignore #1 when a trash-talking opportunity presents itself.
3. Users must enter their picks before the game begins.  A non-pick will receive zero points.
4. In the case of a tie game, all users are winners.

To encourage picking of underdog teams and to add additional weight to correctly picked games for which there is even picking, points are awarded for wins.

Example: Team A vs Team B. If Team A is a 7pt favorite, then team A is weighted at 1 point and team B at 3 points.

Example: Team A vs Team B. If Team A is a 2pt favorite, then team A is weighted at 1.5 points and team B at 2 points.

Example: Team A vs Team B. If the line is 1.5 or less, both teams are weighted at 2 points.

All players are required to make a $20 USD donation by week #3. The donations are pooled and returned in full as prize money.

Donation methods:

• Venmo to @David-Landrum-4
• Zelle to 214-212-5337
• Paypal to David@Landrum.email
• Check:
  David Landrum
  1001 Collingwood Cove
  Round Rock, TX, 78665

During the regular season, the picker each week earns $5.

$20 USD is paid to the winner of the Prognosticator.

$20 USD is paid to the winner of the Swagger.

For the remaining funds, 82.5% of the money is returned for the Regular Season; 17.5% for the Playoffs.
The top 25% of the players in each season receive money, ranked by points descending. The points accumulated for the playoffs is distinct from the regular season.

This page is avalible until the start of the first Saturday game of Week 2.

Note: nickname is the field used to mark your picks on all pages.

The Profile page allows you to customize the site.

• Team display - School Logos or School Names
• Supress Reminder Email - A Reminder email is sent in the morning of gameday ... in case you forget to make your picks.
• Participate in Winnings Rollover - Choose this if you want upto $20 of your winnings to be held by the CFB Guesser admin for the next season. .... just a time saver.
  

This page allows the user to enter their picks. The user is unable to modify picks for games where the start date/time has passed.  After results are entered this page displays the users wins and losses for the week.

A user may hide upto 1 pick from other users. After the game has started, the hidden picks will be visible to all users.

An automated job pulls game scores. This is scheduled at 5 minute intervals whilst games are in progress.

• Who - This page allows anyone to view everyone's picks for a week. The users are sorted according to earned points
• Results - After results are entered the losses are shown as a red X.
• Navigation - swipe the column headers to page thru the picks for the week
• Weights - The game weights are displayed in the team image if it is 1/1.5/2/2.5/3 points.
• Money - The green line represent the break between in-the-money and not.

This page allows anyone to view everyone's points (wins-losses) for the season or playoffs. The users are sorted according to winning percentage. Results in green signify the highest score for the given week.

This is a seperate pool where Guessers can enter their predictions for playoff teams and results.

• Predictions are locked at the start of Week 2.
• After the start of Week 2, predictions are visible to everyone.
• Users receive 1 points for correct team predictions, 2 points for naming the correct 4 semifinal teams, 3 points for the correct Finals winner.
• Payout is equal to the donation amount

This is a seperate pool where you select your 1st and 2nd most confident picks. Points = 2x your #1 pick result + 1x your #2 pick result Sum for the regular season. No Elimination. There are too many possible ncaa teams to implement an eliminator, so this is something confidence-adjacent to try.

This page shows the financial credits and debits for your logon across all Guesser pools. At the end of the season one can choose to "rollover" the next year's donation and have their current data replicated.