An office football pool should be easy enough that everyone can join before the Monday meeting ends. Pickem Maker gives commissioners a clean, no-signup way to run a standard NFL pickem pool for coworkers.
Create the pool, paste the link into Slack, Teams, email, or a group text, and members can join with a name. There is no bracket to seed, no spreadsheet to maintain, and no login system to explain.
Set up your office football pool in under a minute.
Create an Office Football PoolSimple rules for office pools
The easiest office pool format is straight-up NFL pickem: pick the winner of every game, one win for every correct pick, most wins leads the standings. It works for casual fans because nobody needs to understand betting lines or point spreads.
Each game locks at kickoff. That lets people make Sunday picks on Sunday morning while keeping earlier games fair. Once the game is final, picks are graded automatically.
Good for small and large groups
A small department can use Pickem Maker for a friendly weekly contest. A larger office can use it for a season-long leaderboard. Since access is controlled by the random pool URL and browser cookies, it avoids the overhead of user accounts while still keeping each member's picks attached to their display name.
Commissioner checklist
- Name the pool clearly, such as "Acme 2026 NFL Pickem".
- Share the pool link in the channel where reminders will happen.
- Tell members that picks can change until each game's kickoff.
- Lock the pool if you want to close joins after Week 1 starts.