Popular Pool Formats
Gridiron Games offers the top football pools, each designed to bring excitement and competition to the NFL season.
NFL Pick’em Pools
The most popular football pool. Each week, players select one team from every matchup. The player with the most correct picks wins the week. It’s simple, fun, and endlessly competitive.
NFL Survivor Pools
The ultimate knockout challenge. Each week, players pick one team to win. If their pick is correct, they advance. If not, they’re eliminated. The last player standing wins the pool.
NFL Maxout Pools
An exciting twist on Survivor. Each week, players pick one team and earn points equal to their score. A loss gets zero. The player with the most points at the end of the season wins the pool.
NFL Squares Pools
The classic party pool. Players pick squares on a 10×10 grid. At the end of each quarter, winners are determined by the last digit of each team’s score. It’s simple, social, and unpredictable.
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Private Pools
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Message Boards
Talk trash or post important updates
Printable Results
For players who prefer to track offline
Pool History
Results are stored from previous years
Customize Settings
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Frequently Asked Questions
Football pools are social games where groups of players compete by making picks tied to NFL matchups throughout the season. Some football pools focus on weekly game picks, while others use season-long elimination rules or randomized grid-style boards. Football pools are especially popular for offices, friend groups, fundraisers, and season-long NFL leagues.
Gridiron Games offers several of the most popular football pool games, including:
Each format offers a different style of play, so whether you’re running weekly office football pools or season-long leagues, there’s an option for every group.
Gridiron Games is built specifically for football pools, with tools designed to help commissioners create pools quickly, invite members, customize rules, and keep everything organized throughout the NFL season. Whether you’re running office football pools or competitive leagues with friends, Gridiron Games offers an easy way to host football pools online.
Registering an account is free, and we use a pay-as-you-go pricing model that allows commissioners to pay for only what their pool needs. To determine the cost of hosting your pool on the site, check out our pricing calculator. The hosting fee covers the entire season.
Once the commissioner has purchased entries or grids within the pool, other players can participate in the pool for free without needing to pay any additional fees. Create your football pool for free now.
For NFL Pick’em, Survivor, and Maxout pools you only need to pay for an entry once and that entry will allow a player to submit picks across all weeks of the season. As an example, if you have 10 players who would like to submit picks across all 18 weeks of the season you only need to purchase 10 entries.
For NFL Squares pools, each grid is tied to a specific game so you’ll need to purchase a grid for each game that you want to fill out squares for. The way our pricing is structured though, once you pay for 10 grids all grids after that are entirely free.
To determine the cost of hosting your pool on the site, check out our pricing calculator. The hosting fee covers the entire season.
We don’t currently offer a downloadable app, but our responsive web app is optimized for mobile devices – making it easy to access your pools and submit picks from your phone or tablet.
Gridiron Plus is a season-long subscription that grants access to premium features and analysis to help you gain an edge over the competition and dominate your pools! Check out the Gridiron Plus page for more information about which benefits are unlocked with your subscription and how you can subscribe today.
In addition to hosting football pools online, Gridiron Games offers a variety of football tools, templates, and resources to help fans stay organized, have fun, and get more out of the NFL season. You can explore:
- Football Templates for printable pick sheets, squares grids, and bingo cards
- Football Schedules for weekly schedules, playoff schedules, and more
- Football Stats for useful NFL data, trends, and standings
- Football Quizzes to test your NFL trivia knowledge
- Football Randomizers for team generators, wheels, and other fun tools
- Football Shop for football-themed products and gift ideas
Whether you’re running a pool, planning an office event, or just looking for NFL-related tools and resources, Gridiron Games has you covered.