Guides for running a great pool
Step-by-step playbooks from commissioners who’ve run these before — what to set up, what the platform does for you, and how much you can actually raise. No fluff, no filler.
The NFL Season Squares Pool (Every Game, Every Week)
Run one squares pool for the whole NFL season: buy a square once, get fresh numbers every week, and every game each week has a winner. Auto-loads the schedule, splits each week’s pot across its games, and can raise money for your program. Includes a calculator.
The High School Football Season Squares Fundraiser
Turn your whole regular season into one fundraiser. Each player sells squares that play in every Friday-night game — more games, more excitement, more raised. Includes a calculator to size your goal.
Case Study: A 300 Club That Raised $18,000 for a Baseball Program
How an American Legion baseball program ran a 300 Club — 300 tickets at $100, a $1,000 prize drawing every month for a year — to give away $12,000 and net $18,000 for travel, coaches, and uniforms, year after year. Smaller program? A 100 or 200 Club works the same way.
The Calendar Fundraiser (“Choose A Date”) Playbook
A no-luck, everyone-can-give drive: each player gets a calendar, supporters pick days and donate that date’s value (the 12th = $12). Simple, friendly, and free to run — with a calculator to set your goal.
Run an NFL Survivor Pool as a Fundraiser
The most-followed office pool there is — one team a week, lose and you’re out — turned into a season-long fundraiser. How to set entry fees, strikes, and prizes so it raises money and runs itself.
Run a Draft & Keeper League (and the Death Pool Twist)
Build a season-long draft league for any pool of names — draft to teams, score all season, and keep your best year to year. Plus the cult-classic “death pool” variant, available as an optional add-on.
Run a PGA Pick’Em Pool (Draft Golfers, Win the Weekend)
Turn any tournament week into a live pool: everyone drafts a roster of golfers, they earn points by performance, and a live leaderboard tracks it all. Prize-money, position-points or low-score scoring, ownership caps, and it runs itself — for fun or as a fundraiser.
Run a NASCAR Pick’Em Pool (Draft Drivers, Chase the Checkered Flag)
Every race weekend becomes a pool: everyone drafts a roster of drivers, they earn points by performance, and a live running order tracks the standings. Official-points, finish or average-finish scoring, DNF handling, and it settles itself — for fun or as a fundraiser.
The NFL Confidence Pool (Rank Every Pick, Win the Season)
Run a season-long NFL confidence pool: each week players rank their picks by confidence, from 1 up to the number of games, and bank those points when a pick wins. Auto-scored from live scores, with weekly and season standings, a featured-game tiebreaker, and an optional fundraiser cut.
The NFL Pick’Em Pool (Straight-Up or Against the Spread)
Run a season-long NFL pick’em: every week players pick winners straight-up or against the spread, and points add up into weekly and season standings. Auto-scored from live scores, with an optional confidence twist, a featured-game tiebreaker, and a fundraiser cut.
The NFL Power Points Pool (Pick One Team, Win by the Margin)
Run a season-long NFL margin-of-victory pool: each week players pick one game and one team, score that team’s margin of victory (or the negative if it loses), and can’t reuse a team all season. Nobody is ever eliminated — the highest cumulative margin wins. Auto-scored, straight or against the spread, free to run.