Site Features

New Features

*  Football Pool Branding and Custom Logo

- Pool admins can upload their own logo to the website and it will be shown in place of the normal "Football Frenzy Online" logo. Your users will never know that you are using a third party site to host your football pool!!

*  Aliases for Your Football Pool Participants

- The pool admins have the ability to enable the use of player aliases. This allows the players to use an alias for the pick sheets, season summaries, and message boards instead of their real names.

*  Football Pool Administrator Functions

- Pool admins have the ability to "auto unlock" users who have just joined their pool. When this option is set, new users will be able to log into your pool immediately after registering. If this option is not set, you will need to manually unlock the new user's account using the "Manage Users" module.
- The pool admin now has the ability to email only the effected user when making changes to picks or submitting picks for a user.

Supported Football Pool Formats

*  Straight Pick'em Football Pools

- Pick the winners of each game. Click here for the complete rules.

*  Confidence Football Pools

- Pick the winners of each game and assign a unique confidence rating to each game. Click here for the complete rules.

*  Pick'em Football Pool with Point Spreads

- Pick the winners of each game according to the point spread. Click here for the complete rules.

*  Confidence Football Pool with Point Spreads

- Pick the winners of each game according to the point spread and assign a unique confidence rating to each game. Click here for the complete rules.

*  Playoff Football Pool

- Conference championship games and the championship game are now separated into two weeks.

Additional Features

*  Free User Licenses

- You get 10 free licenses with your free football pool. That's for the entire regular season and playoffs. You can buy more if you need them.

*  Fast Score Updates

- Football pool results are automatically updated on a 5 minute interval.

*  Football Pool Administrator Functions

- Pool admins can assign point values (multipliers) to individual games.
- Pool admins can submit and change picks for all users in their football pools before or after the picks deadline.
- Pool admins can assign administrator access to anybody in their football pools.
- Pool admins can remove any game (except the tiebreaker game) from the week.
- Transaction report includes which pool admin made a transaction.
- Pool admins can change their pool's name.

*  Automated Invitation System

- This feature is key to getting participants to register for your football pool. E-mail invitations are generated to invite users to come play in your football pool. They in turn use a link in the e-mail to register, and once they do, the pool admin will be sent a notice that the user registered. The pool admin, then unlocks the user account so that the new user can log into the football pool.

*  Integrated E-mail Correspondence System

- This system allows you to easily generate e-mails to your football pool participants using various scenarios. For instance, you can generate e-mail reminders to participants in your football pool whom have not entered picks yet.
- E-mail correspondence is automatically generated when the pool admin makes changes to a users account (for instance, changes to the user's balance).

*  User Manager (Track/Manage user balances)

- A user's balance is modified when picks are entered (or removed). You also have the ability to modify user balances with the User Manager interface.

*  Football Pool Message Board

- A good place for pool collaboration (or trash talking)

*  Advertisement Removal

- Purchasing user liceses for your football pool will remove the advertisements from your entire football pool for the entire year.
- For a $2.00 donation your advertisements are removed from your profile for the entire year.

*  Reliability

- This website utilizes an enterprise database for it's backend. PostgreSQL not only provides a stable database environment, but blazing speeds for data retrieval.
- This web site utilizes Microsoft ASP.NET for the web front-end.
- The database is backed up twice daily.

*  Compatible with most web browsers

- The site is specifically designed to work with Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Netscape, but it works with most browsers.