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NFL Loser Football Pools

The Loser Football Pool is a very unique kind of football pool, with scoring based on the previous season's finish. It's a fun and exciting format with most of the worthwhile picks being playoff teams from the previous season, and you're hoping they'll lose. It's not as easy as it sounds. Standings can have huge swings week in and week out, especially when a popular pick pulls off a win.

Fun Fact: The Loser Football Pool is the reason Hosted Pools was originally created. We couldn't find it anywhere online.

How to Play

  1. Each NFL team has a corresponding point value relative to their performance in the previous season.
  2. Entrants pick one team each week of the NFL season (including the play-offs) to lose.
  3. If the team selected loses, the entry earns the point value associated with the team as their score for the week.
  4. If the team selected wins or ties, the entry earns zero points for the week.
  5. The entry with the most total points at the end of the play offs is the winner.
  6. There is no limit to the number of times an entrant can select a team.

Options

Default Picks - Choose from several options to assign a pick to an entry that doesn't make a selection prior to the deadline.
Loser Football Pools will be available on or before 2024/06/01 12:00pm.

Site News

  • Dec 15, 2024 - It appears we're having a deliverability issue with icloud.com email addresses. A decent number of bounces have happened on emails to those accounts over the past month. Please whitelist hostedpools.com or use a different email if you have an email block on your account. We don't want to send to an email service that's rejecting them anyway.
  • Dec 11, 2024 - NFL Playoff pools will be available later this week!
  • Oct 25, 2024 - The Buffalo/Seattle line for Week 8 was entered incorrectly. Please check your picks and update accordingly!
  • Oct 11, 2024 - Hockey Pools - The Carolina/Tampa game schedule for Sat., Oct 12th has been moved out of the schedule for the week. If you had selected that game, please make another selection.