Football pools for the office
The office pool HR doesn't have to worry about.
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Can you run a football pool at the office?
Yes — the part that gets office pools in trouble is the money, not the football. KickoffPools never collects, holds, or pays out money and awards no prizes, so what you're running is a scoreboard, not a wager. Winners win bragging rights and a crown next to their name. That's the version you can post in the company Slack without a second thought.
Which pool type works best for an office?
Survivor is the office classic: one pick a week, no team twice, and the field thins itself all season — thirty seconds of effort per person per week, months of hallway trash talk. Pick'em suits groups that want everyone involved every week (turn on confidence scoring for the spreadsheet crowd). For a one-game party — the playoffs, the Big Game — a squares board or game-day bingo gets the people who don't know a blitz from a punt involved in one tap.
How much work is it for the organizer?
About a minute to set up, then nothing. Create the pool, drop one link in Slack or Teams, and the site does the rest: picks lock at kickoff automatically, scores come in live, standings and eliminations update themselves. No spreadsheet, no chasing people for picks on Sunday morning — there's even a built-in reminder email you can send the stragglers.
Do coworkers need to download anything?
No. Players open the link and type a name — no app, no account, no password, nothing installed on a work phone. Only the organizer uses an email, and that's just so the manage link can't get lost.
What does it cost?
Nothing. KickoffPools is completely free with no ads — every pool type, any size group.
Keep reading: survivor rules · pick'em rules · vs RunYourPool