Player Dashboard & Making Picks

This page covers your player dashboard and how to submit and change your weekly pick.

Your Player Dashboard

Your dashboard shows every pool you're part of, grouped by pool, with all your entries listed underneath each one (if you have more than one entry in a pool).

Each entry shows a quick status banner so you can tell at a glance what to do:

Survivor entries:

✅ Picked — you've already submitted a pick for the current week
⚠️ No pick yet — you haven't picked yet and the week is open
📅 Offseason — there's no active week right now (between seasons, or before the season starts)

Pick'em entries — since a Pick'em week means picking every game, not just one, the banner tracks how many of that week's games you've covered:

✅ All picks in for Week N — X games — you've submitted a pick for every game this week
⚠️ Picks incomplete — X of Y games picked — you've started but haven't finished this week's picks
⚠️ No picks yet this week — the week is open and you haven't started
📅 Offseason — picks open Week 1 — no active week right now

Eliminated Survivor entries are visually muted so your eye goes straight to the ones still alive. Pick'em entries are never muted this way — every entry plays every week, all season, with no elimination.

Both a commissioner and a player? If you also run your own pool, your dashboard includes a toggle to switch between your Commissioner view and your Player view.

Submitting a Pick

Survivor:

From your dashboard, find the entry you want to pick for and click Submit Pick (or Change Pick →, if you've already picked and want to switch).
You'll see the available teams for that week's games — your already-used teams won't be selectable.
Choose a team and confirm.

That's it — your dashboard updates immediately to show ✅ Picked.

Pick'em:

From your dashboard, click Submit Picks (or Change Picks →) for the entry you want.
You'll see every game on the week's schedule — pick a team for each one. If your pool uses spread scoring, the spread for each game is shown next to the matchup (unless your commissioner hasn't locked it yet, in which case it shows "Spread TBD" and that game isn't pickable until they do).
Submit — you don't have to fill in every game in one visit; you can come back and finish the rest before each individual game kicks off.

There's no reuse restriction in Pick'em — pick the same team as many weeks as you like.

Changing Your Pick

Works the same for both game types: you can change a pick as many times as you want, right up until the specific game you picked kicks off. Once that game starts, your pick for it locks in — even if other games that week haven't started yet.

So if you picked a team playing Thursday night, that pick is locked in once that game starts, even though most of the week's games are still ahead. In Pick'em this applies per game — your Thursday night pick can lock while your Sunday and Monday picks are still open to change.

If You Forget to Pick

Survivor: every commissioner sets their own rule for this, so what happens depends on the pool:

Some pools eliminate you immediately if you don't pick before the week locks
Others have a fallback — you might automatically get the most popular pick in the pool, the away team from Monday Night Football, or a bye week, depending on what your commissioner has configured

Pick'em: missing a game's pick before it kicks off doesn't eliminate you — it costs you points for that game only, and every other game that week is unaffected. Your commissioner sets one rule for what happens to unpicked games: zero points for every unpicked game (the default), zero points only for games that have actually kicked off (leaving still-open games pickable), a randomly assigned team, the away team, or — in spread-mode pools — the underdog on the spread.

If you're not sure which rule your pool uses, check your pool's rules page or ask your commissioner.

Bye Weeks (Survivor only)

If your commissioner has bye weeks enabled, you may be able to take a bye in a given week instead of picking — using up one of your limited byes for the season instead of being at risk of elimination. Check your pool's rules page to see if byes are available and how many you have left. Pick'em has no bye-week mechanic — there's no elimination to protect against.

Double-Pick Weeks (Survivor only)

Some pools raise the stakes partway through the season by requiring two picks per week instead of one. If your pool has this enabled, once the configured start week arrives, every player still alive must submit two picks — both have to win for you to survive. This isn't a one-time thing: from that start week onward, it's two picks every week, continuing all the way until the pool has a winner.

Check your pool's rules page to see if your pool uses this, and which week it starts. This setting doesn't apply to Pick'em, where you already pick every game, every week.

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