NFL Running Squares Pool

EMLOA /SDCLOA “Special Events” Fund Raiser

Format & Rules for 2014/2015 NFL season

Basic Format:

1. Maximum 100 players choose one (1) square on a typical football squares sheet. This will be that player’s square location for entire season including Thanksgiving, playoffs, and the Super Bowl.
2. Commissioner will send out twice-weekly emails: 1 to announce that Squares have been posted, and the 2^nd to announce the results of that week’s Game-Of-The-Week (GOTW).
3. Numbers on top and side rows change on weekly basis, so players will not have same numbers each week. Numbers will be posted on the pool’s website http://www.bizlax.com/. Square sheets will be posted as both HTML (internet readable) and in Word Document (printable) formats. It is your duty to contact commissioner if you have not received numbers by game time.
4. Game-of-the-Week (GOTW) will be determined by commissioner (Note: The NFL has adopted a “flex” schedule for the latter half of the season and may have direct effect on our GOTWs).
5. Playoff games will be determined as soon as TV schedule and game match-ups are declared that week.

Squares:

1. Each player has one (1) square per game. Any player can pay double to have two (2) squares per game, triple (3), etc.
2. Square cost $5 apiece per regular season game (1 Square = $5 per game x 17 regular season games = $85)
3. Thanksgiving Day games are $10 per square (2 squares = $20)
4. Playoff games will also be $5 per square, (Wildcard, 1^st round, and Conference Championships) (4 squares x $5 = 20)
5. The Super Bowl will cost $10 per square (1 square = $10)
6. The Super Grande Super Bowl will cost $25 per square (1 square = $25)
7. **EXTRA** Rolling Overtime pool cost $.80/game
8. The grand total cost for entire season is the low, low price of $180.

Payouts:

Fundraiser:

Monetary Rules:

1. Commissioner’s accountant will collect, save, payout all finances
2. No payouts will be made until all participants are paid-in-full.
3. Commissioner will record, document, and publish weekly results via email and website the following day of each game. He will keep tally of winners, also to be published weekly, and send out payments on a weekly and/or bi-weekly basis, and after Super Bowl.
4. Any money left from rolling OT Pool at the end of the season shall go back into fundraiser
5. The commissioner and/or his assigns refuse to pay any out-of-pocket expenses.
6. Send all payments to DB Sports Management - 8 Rainbow Pond Dr. #7, Walpole, MA 02081

Special Game Rules:

1.        Winners of the Weekly $100 ($200 for Super Bowl) are determined by the scores at the end of the 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, & 4^th quarter scores only. (ex. Game ends in 20-20 tie, whomever has 0-0 wins $100 – OT pool then determines next winner for that game).

2.       OT Pool explained – Week 1 starts with $50 in OT Pool. If there is no OT then Week 2 goes up to $100, Week 3 - $150, etc. Whenever a game goes into OT Winner will be determined by final score If OT ends in tie, whomever won the 4^th quarter hit will also collect in OT. When OT pool pays out the following week starts over at $50. Also see Rule 5 of “Monetary Rules.”

Commissioner:

John “Big Electric Biz” Bistowski 14923 White Butte Drive – Poway, Ca 92064 (Cell) 858-334-8376

(W) 858-614-5088 e-mail: jbistowski@aol.com bizlax2002@yahoo.com

Please feel free to contact me with any questions

Good luck – J. Biz