Set up cash or prize awards for your pool, and decide how ties get resolved at the end of the season — or at the end of a division or league, if you're using Leagues & Divisions. Prize tiers and tiebreakers work the same way for Survivor and Pick'em pools, except where noted below.
From your pool's Settings page (or Step 4 of the setup wizard), open the Prizes section. For each prize you want to offer, you'll set:
If you're using Leagues & Divisions, you can set up prizes at every level — for example, a small prize for each division winner, a bigger prize for each league winner, and your top prize for the overall pool winner.
You can add, edit, or remove prize tiers any time — before or during the season — as long as the prize hasn't already been awarded.
Survivor: it's common for more than one player to make it to the final week still alive. Pick'em: it's less common but still possible for two or more entries to finish the season with the exact same points. Either way, you decide in advance how ties get resolved, using the Tiebreaker setting on each prize tier.
The prize is divided evenly among all tied players.
Good for: cash prizes where you want a clean, no-argument resolution.
The tied player whose winning picks had the largest combined margin of victory throughout the season wins outright. (Margin of victory is the point difference in each game your pick won — a pick that won 30–10 contributes more than one that won 17–14.)
Good for: rewarding players who picked more dominant teams, not just teams that happened to win.
Instead of resolving the tie, all tied players are revived and the pool continues into the following week — as if no one had been eliminated. This only works if there are more weeks left in the season.
If Keep Playing is selected and the tie happens in the final week of the season (so there's no following week to continue into), the pool automatically falls back to whichever tiebreaker you've set as the Tiebreaker Fallback for that tier.
Good for: pools where the commissioner wants ties resolved by more football, not by a formula. This option doesn't apply to Pick'em — there's no elimination to revive from, and the season always runs its full fixed schedule regardless of standings.
The tie is flagged for your manual review. You'll choose how to award the prize yourself from your Prizes page once the tie occurs.
Good for: pools where you want full discretion — for example, splitting differently than 50/50, or factoring in something outside the system's rules.
Survivor: when your pool (or a league, or a division) comes down to a single survivor, or a tie that's been resolved, the pool's status changes to Pending Review — you'll see an alert on your dashboard letting you know results are ready for your attention. This can happen at any point in the season, as soon as everyone but the winner (or winners) has been eliminated.
Pick'em: there's no elimination to watch for, so the trigger is simpler — once Week 18 is fully scored, your pool automatically moves to Pending Review regardless of how close the standings are. You then declare the winner (or winners, if tied) yourself from the Prizes page, same as Survivor.
From there, for both game types:
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