NFL 2025 Weekly Predictions Contest: Points tweaks and minor rules revisions.

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Below are the new rules and points tweaks (in green) for the (regular season) 2025 NFL Weekly Predictions Contest. I will also be sending out a similar rules and tweaks notice regarding the NFL Playoff Predictions to be used in 2026, sometime soon.

If there is anything that is unclear in the following, please let me know. Thanks.

All weekly entries must be in before game times, Thursday night kickoff, or Noon Central Time on Sunday.

Guess the score of each team of each game...
Each game you pick the correct winner of: 5 points.
If you pick correctly on at least half the games scheduled for the week earns a 20 points bonus
If you pick correctly on at least 75% of the games earns a 40 point bonus (plus the previous 20 points).
If you get all but one of the games correct nets 100 bonus points (plus the 20 & 40 from above)
Guess right on all the games and enjoy an additional 150 points (plus the previous 20, 40 & 100)

If you pick a game score in which you pick the winner and the correct margin of victory in a game you earn a 25 point bonus per game predicted. This new fangled bonus we'll call a spread bingo, or mini-bingo.
And ..... If you guess the correct winner and score of any game: 125 bonus points tacked on for each correct game. This has come to be known as a score bingo.
If you've got incredibly mad skills and happen to guess every correct score of every game: you get a mega jackpot of 5000
points.

At season's end the player, or players with the most correct picks over the regular season will receive, or split 180 points.
 

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Below are the new rules and points tweaks (in green) for the (regular season) 2025 NFL Weekly Predictions Contest. I will also be sending out a similar rules and tweaks notice regarding the NFL Playoff Predictions to be used in 2026, sometime soon.

If there is anything that is unclear in the following, please let me know. Thanks.

All weekly entries must be in before game times, Thursday night kickoff, or Noon Central Time on Sunday.

Guess the score of each team of each game...
Each game you pick the correct winner of: 5 points.
If you pick correctly on at least half the games scheduled for the week earns a 20 points bonus
If you pick correctly on at least 75% of the games earns a 40 point bonus (plus the previous 20 points).
If you get all but one of the games correct nets 100 bonus points (plus the 20 & 40 from above)
Guess right on all the games and enjoy an additional 150 points (plus the previous 20, 40 & 100)

If you pick a game score in which you pick the winner and the correct margin of victory in a game you earn a 25 point bonus per game predicted. This new fangled bonus we'll call a spread bingo, or mini-bingo.
And ..... If you guess the correct winner and score of any game: 125 bonus points tacked on for each correct game. This has come to be known as a score bingo.
If you've got incredibly mad skills and happen to guess every correct score of every game: you get a mega jackpot of 5000
points.

At season's end the player, or players with the most correct picks over the regular season will receive, or split 180 points.
Do you think we should give a small handicap to rookies next season?
 
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Canadian Cheddar

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5 points a week. Little more than minimum wage. Might get more pickers to join.
Really? I really don't think that it's necessary. You and Voyageur are good pickers, but I don't think that it's to a point where newer players need, or should have a subsidy. Since we have 17 players in the playoff pool, we could likely have a dozen or more players for next season. Personally, I'd feel a bit insulted to be given bonus points just for being a rookie.
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