Coming in November

Description: The NCAA Weekly Pool will allow participants to raise the stakes of the original NCAA Weekly Challenge contest by contributing to a cash prize pool which will be used for the prize payouts for the contest. Like the NCAA Weekly Challenge, participants will predict winners from ten selected games each week that usually have at least one team from the current AP Top 25 basketball poll.  The contest will be identical the NCAA Weekly Challenge, the only difference is the entry fee and higher payout.

Entry Fee: 10,000 CFBPoints or $10. To buy points, log in and click "Buy/Sell Points" from the user menu at the top right of the site. You can buy enough points for up to 10 plays at a time and your points will never expire.

Entry Fee Breakdown: Of the $10 per participant entry fee, $8.50 will go into the contest's cash prize pool. Of the remaining $1.50, 59 cents will go to PayPal for their transaction fees and 91 cents will go back into the site for other contests, future contests, site features, content and hosting fees. 100%(minus the transaction fee) of the money contributed to the pool each week will go back into this contest(90%) or the site(10%). That means that, by participating, you are helping to keep the site running, growing and adding new contests, content and features while keeping all other aspects of the site completely free. And, of course, you will have a chance to win a significant amount more than what you could only playing other contests.

How To Play: Click the NCAA basketball logo above to make your entry. You must be logged in and have at least 10,000 CFBPoints in your account in order to access this contest. If you don't have enough points you can either buy more points through the Buy/Sell Points link on the user menu at the top of the page or you can earn points through various actions on the site. Once you access the entry page it will look identical to the NCAA Weekly Challenge of the current week and you just need to follow the on-screen instructions. Those instructions are as follows. Select which team you think will win each game by selecting the option button next to that team. Enter in a Confidence Value, from 1-10, in the box between each of the teams. This value represents how confident you are that the team you picked will win. Each number may only be used once so you are basically ranking each pick from your most to least confident. 10=most confident. 1=least confident. For the 10th and final game, enter a margin of victory for your winner of the game.

Each participant may submit up to one entry per contest and only two participants per IP address are permitted. Your latest entry will always overwrite any previous entry.

Scoring: Scoring for each contest will be based on your win-loss record for that week of games. The games you pick correctly will add the confidence points you assigned to them. Any games picked incorrectly will forfeit assigned confidence points for that game. Participants will be ranked by record then by confidence points. For instance, if participant A finishes 9-1(48 points), participant B finishes 8-2(51 points) and participant C finishes 8-2(52 points), the final standings would go participant A, C then B. Unlike the NCAA Weekly Challenge, your record and points will not accumulate throughout the season, but instead, a MoneyList will be tracked so you can follow the top earners throughout the season. The MoneyList will be located under Standings > NCAA MoneyList on the main menu following Week 1.

Deadline to Play: Every Wednesday, usually at 7 PM ET unless otherwise announced in email or the forums.

Prizes: The top five participants of each weekly contest will be payed a percentage of the cash prize pool. The winner will receive 50%, second place 20%, third place 15%, fourth place 10% and fifth place 5%. So, for example, if there are thirty entrants the total cash prize pool after deductions would total $255. The winner would receive $127.50, second $51, third $38.25, fourth $25.50 and fifth would receive $12.75. The more people entered, the higher the payouts. Note: A minimum of five participants are needed for the contest to run. If there are more than five but less than ten entrants, only the top three will receive a percentage of the cash prize pool where the winner would receive 60%, second place 30% and third 10%.

Any ties will split cash prizes between the winners. All cash prizes will be sent via PayPal to the email address registered on this site. If you do not have a PayPal account, you will receive an email upon winning a contest, with easy instructions for creating a PayPal account.

Cash Prize Pool Distribution
	10+ Players	9 or fewer Players
1st	50%	60%
2nd	20%	30%
3rd	15%	10%
4th	10%
5th	5%

Trophies, Medals and Accolades: There are two virtual trophies associated with the NCAA Weekly Pool, one national prediction championship trophy and one single-season record-holder trophy. Trophies won by members will be displayed in the Trophy Room and in the member's profile trophy case. In addition to virtual hardware, MoneyList Champions and the current MoneyList record holder will reserve a placing on the College Basketball Winners Wall.

1. The player to finish with the most earnings from NCAA weekly contests in a single season will receive a gold basketball trophy. This is one of the four major college basketball prediction trophies. Current standings can always be checked in the standings section. This contest will make up the bulk of the earnings required to finish No. 1 on the MoneyList but the $10 weekly prize from the NCAA Weekly Challenge also counts toward MoneyList earnings.

2. The player who holds the single-season record for the most earnings in NCAA contests will hold a record trophy until it is broken by another player.