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How ChooseASquare works

You set up the game.CAS runs the busywork.

Create the contest your group wants to play, send one link, and let ChooseASquare keep everyone organised from the first pick to the final winner.

Start a contest freeSee the four steps ↓
STEP 01CreateChoose the game and the rulesSTEP 02ShareSend one invite linkSTEP 03PlayEveryone picks from their phoneSTEP 04EnjoyCAS does the repetitive part

Step 01 · Create

Choose what you want to run.

Pick the contest your group already knows — Pick’Em, Survivor, Confidence, Squares, a bracket, a draft or a fundraiser. Each type has its own short wizard that asks only what that game needs, with sensible defaults the whole way.

  • Every contest type has its own guided setup
  • Schedules load themselves for NFL, college, MLB and more
  • Set scoring, deadlines, tiebreakers and payouts
  • Change any of it later without starting over

Step 02 · Share

One link. That’s it.

Copy your invite link and drop it in the group chat, a text or an email. Players open it, create their entry, and from then on everything they do stays attached to the contest — so you stop keeping a list of who is in.

  • Nothing to install — it opens in a browser
  • Players join from a phone, tablet or laptop
  • See who has joined and who has paid, in one place
  • Invite by email too, and resend to anyone who missed it

Step 03 · Play

Your players know what to do.

Picks, squares, standings and results all live on one mobile-first page your group returns to all season. Nobody has to ask you how it works, and you do not become technical support on a Sunday afternoon.

  • Picks save as they tap — no screenshots to send you
  • Everyone sees the same deadline clock
  • Live standings once results start coming in
  • One page they come back to all season

Step 04 · Enjoy

Then CAS goes to work.

Once the contest is running, the repetitive commissioner jobs happen on their own: scores come in, standings recalculate, reminders go to whoever has not picked, and the winner is worked out without you opening a spreadsheet.

  • Scores import and grade automatically for supported leagues
  • Standings recalculate — no formulas to maintain
  • Missing picks and unpaid players stay visible
  • Winners are identified for you, with a payout list

Money stays organised too

Know who paid without becoming an accountant.

Payment status sits next to each player instead of in a second spreadsheet. Players pay you directly through Venmo or PayPal with the amount already filled in — the money never touches ChooseASquare, and we never take a cut of the pot.

Collected$3,360
Players paid84/84
Reconciled100%

On Pro, forwarded receipts match themselves against your list, so “who actually paid?” stops being a weekly job.

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Add only what you need

Your pool starts clean. You bolt on the rest.

A new pool opens with nothing extra switched on, so the console shows the job in front of you and not a menu of things you will never use. Everything else is an appyou install in one press from Setup → Apps — and remove just as easily, which hides it and deletes nothing, so reinstalling brings your posts, votes and artwork back exactly as they were.

The Column
Free on every plan
A newsletter inside your pool — recaps, previews and standings arguments, with named contributors carrying their own byline and picture.
Announcements
Free on every plan
A notice pinned to the top of the pool, so the thing everyone needs to read is the first thing they see.
Custom page sections
Free on every plan
Your own blocks of content on the pool page — rules, sponsors, a thank-you, a photo.
Smack Talk
Needs a plan with messaging
A chat room that follows your players onto every page of the pool, instead of a group text nobody can find.
Polls
Needs a plan with Polls
Ask the pool a question and show them the answers.
Sponsors
Needs a plan with Sponsors
Sell ad space on your pool’s pages to local businesses — tracked, so you can tell a sponsor what they got.
Fundraising
Needs a plan with Fundraising
Give every volunteer their own link and see exactly who sold what.

An app your plan does not cover is still listed with what it does, so you can see what the pool could do before you decide it is worth paying for. Pools that were already using one of these kept it.

How The Column works →

Set it up. Send the link. Watch the game.

Your next contest can be live in minutes.

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