NFL Margin Football Pools

The Margin Football Pool is a highly entertaining format and like a number of our other non-standard formats is susceptible to big swings in standings. The goal is to pick a team each week that is going to win big as your score for the week is the difference in your picks score vs their opponents score. You can only pick a team once for the season, so it's often good to look at the schedule, plan ahead and save a couple solid teams for later in the season.

The Margin Football Pool is also sometimes referred to as a Plus/Minus Football Pool.

How to Play

  1. Entrants pick one team each week of the NFL regular season with the intention of the selection winning big.
  2. If the team selected wins the entry earns the margin of victory as their score for the week (ie. win by 7, earn 7 points).
  3. If the team selected loses, the entry gets the negative margin of defeat as their score for the week (ie. lose by 3, earn -3 points).
  4. The entry with the most total points at the end of the regular season is the winner.
  5. Teams may only be selected one time for the duration of the pool.

Options

Default Picks - Choose from several options to assign a pick to an entry that doesn't make a selection prior to the deadline.
Margin 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.