Golden Turkey Pool — 2026 Season
The Basics
✓Buy-in: $100 per player, due by September 8
✓Pick every NFL game against the spread (ATS), every week
✓Spread lock: Spreads freeze at 11:00 PM ET the night before each game
✓Pick lock: Picks lock individually at each game's kickoff — submit before then
✓Missed picks: If you don't submit before kickoff, that pick is simply excluded — not counted as a loss. Keeps the standings race fair and removes any incentive to tank
✓Goal: Most total correct picks over the season wins
Divisions & Playoffs
✓The pool is split into 4 equal divisions
✓The best overall ATS record in each division wins that division and takes a playoff spot (4 total)
✓Remaining playoff spots go to wildcards — the next-best overall ATS records league-wide, outside the division winners:
·16 players: 4 division winners + 3 wildcards = 7 playoff spots
·12 players: 4 division winners + 2 wildcards = 6 playoff spots
Tiebreakers (in order)
1.Most correct Monday Night Football picks across the season
2.Highest correct picks in any single week
3.Best ATS record in Week 18, then working backward (Week 17, 16, etc.) until broken
Super Bowl Pool
✓Predict: the two Super Bowl teams, the winner, and the combined final score
✓Deadline: before the first playoff game kicks off
Tiebreakers (in order)
1.Correctly picked both Super Bowl teams
2.Correctly picked the winner
3.Correctly picked the runner-up (losing team)
4.Closest combined-score prediction without going over
Questions
Reach out to the commissioner (SlowerThanU) via the Feedback tab.
GOOD LUCK — Golden Turkey Pool