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:

✅ 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)

Eliminated entries are visually muted so your eye goes straight to the ones still alive.

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

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.

Changing Your Pick

You can change your 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, you're locked in once that game starts, even though most of the week's games are still ahead.

If You Forget to Pick

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

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

Bye Weeks

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.

Double-Pick Weeks

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.

Need Help?

Check the FAQ or email us at support@thecommish.app.