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Pick the winning teams each Saturday - Be the Poolie with the most correct wins... & you win the Pool.
Basics
- Begins on the first Saturday of November & covers most Saturdays thru the end of season.
- Each Saturday has its own PGP card to be completed.
- One time entry fee of $40 is due by second Saturday of November.
- Deadline for each PGP Card is 1:00 pm on the given Saturday.
- Every PGP Card submitted creates a date/time stamp.
- Cards can be completed online or using hardcopy (or reasonable facsimile); a photo of, then emailed/text.
How to partake in this Pool
- You register when you submit the first PGP Card entry.
- Optional… send an email prior to first Nov-Sat, letting me know you’re partaking. This helps everyone to know the possible number of participants.
- Deadlines are always 1:00 pm on the given Saturday.
- Your personal info (on your 1st Card) is required but never posted or shared. Only your Poolie name is posted online.
- Each PGP Saturday you complete the PGP Card by selecting the winners & entering total goals.
If you Forget
- If you forget to submit a PGP Card, one is automatically submitted for you. This Card is submitted with all set defaults.
- The set defaults are all visitor teams selected and total goals = 40. (see *)
- You can win an individual Saturday as well as the entire Pool by forgetting to complete multiple Cards (or all of them) because of the set defaults.
- Yes you can win by doing nothing at all after you register & pay the entry fee.
Late Entry Date
* This is not similar to forgetting a Sat’s Card
- There’s a late-entry date, if you miss the first entry. You complete the 2nd Saturday’s Card, accepting the defaults from the first Saturday’s Card.
- You agree to accept the defaults from the first Saturday.
- Default for total goals scored, is the ‘40 goals’.
- Default for wins/losses is the number of visitor wins. Visitors are selected by default on each Card. However, the number of wins (visitor default)
cannot exceed 50% of the number of games.
Example A: First Sat has Ten games… 4 of the visiting teams win. The late-entry earns 4 out of 10 wins (& total goals = 40).
Example B: First Sat has Ten games… 7 of the visiting teams win. The late-entry earns 5 out of 10 wins (& total goals = 40).
How to fill-out the PGP Card
Online:
- Go to the Online PGP Card web-page.
- Select the radio-button adjacent the team you think will win. Note that all visitor teams are selected by default.
- Include the total goals scored (all teams & games combined on that Sat).
- Your name & email address is only required the one time. All future cards need only your Poolie name.
- When finished, click ‘Submit’. The web-page will instantly refresh & display your picks.
- You can right-click anywhere on this page & do save-as (for your own records). The fact you see your picks, confirms they have been received & logged.
- A snap-shot is taken of every entry. This image is posted on the Poolies Picks web-page each Saturday. Often between noon & 1:00.
Hardcopy:
- Any reasonable facsimile with easy to read team names.
- Add a mark (‘X”) only beside the team you think may win.
- Include the total goals scored (all teams & games combined on that Sat).
- Include your Poolie-Name (always use the same Poolie-Name).
- Take photo of this and email it or text it (if you have my number). This creates the date time-stamp.
About Tie-Breaker
- Total goals means both visitors & home teams’ goals combined. These total goals are recorded thru the entire season and used as a tie-breaker.
- If a tie-breaker is required for any individual Saturday, only that individual Saturday’s tie-breaker is used, to confirm the winner.
- Tie-breaker for individual Saturdays goes to the closest (over/under) to actual total goals scored on that Saturday.
If a tie still remains, the Poolie who is ‘under’ gets the win. If still tied, prize &/or points are shared on that Saturday.
- If a tie-breaker is required for the final standings, all the Saturdays’ tie-breakers (over the season) are totalled & used, to confirm the winner.
- Tie-breaker for the final standings goes to the closest (over/under) to the total goals scored.
- If a tie still remains, the Poolie who is ‘under’ gets the win. If still tied, the prize is shared.
The Pool Money This section will be updated to reflect the number of participants after late-entry date has passed.
- A one-time entry fee of $40.00 gives you approx 20 Saturday picks.
- A $20.00 website fee is deducted from total entry fees. Remaining $$$ goes to prizes - to you.
This 2022-23 season has 25 (including late entries) Poolies X $40 = $1000 and therefore a cash prizes pot of $980.
Prizes
The following figures are adjusted accordingly as per the number of participants. The amounts below are confirmed by the second Saturday of November.
6 # of Saturdays pay instant cash of $40 to the Poolie with most correct wins on ‘Cash-Card’ Saturdays, for a total $240 for the season.
$660 goes to 1st place overall (most correct wins for the season).
$80 goes to 2nd place overall (most correct wins for the season). The amount was decided, based upon 2nd place winning $40 & getting their $40 entry fee back.
Winners & Money
Winners of Instant PGP Cash and of the final standings Cash are contacted individually (within 1-2 days) and arrangements made so they quickly receive their cash prizes.
* Postponed is the same as cancelled
Any Saturday scheduled game postponed until a later date, is considered void (cancelled), regardless which team was picked to win. The rescheduled game is considered a completely new game, on whichever day of the week it lands.
Any Saturday game or group of Saturday games cancelled, and no later dated intended, are considered void. If the total number of cancelled games reduces the predetermined number of PGP Sat Cards by quantity 3 or more, prizes will not be awarded, based on that predetermined number of PGP Cards. Partial prizes and discounts will be provided; so to have closure to an unfinished season.
Poolies are solely responsible for monitoring games that can be or have been postponed, when completing PGP Cards. More specifically total number of goals score on the respective Saturday. For example if 12 games are scheduled and 2 are postponed, a Poolie may consider a lower number of total goals scored (qty 10 vs qty 12). Note: All Poolies have the option of resubmitting their PGP Cards regardless the reason. Any resubmitted Card must abide by the 1:00 pm deadline.
If you want to take a snap-shot of Poolies picks, particularly on the current Saturday (for your own records), please feel free. I recommend shortly after 1:00 pm deadline. This way you include any 1:00 pm entries and late postings/uploads.
You can do a screen capture or <right-click> anywhere on the page & do <save-as>.
Note:
At 1:00 pm the PGP Card Submit Button is disabled. If for any reason (ie Poolies’ browser settings) a Card is submitted and received passed 1:00 pm, it’s immediately flagged and examined. If it’s not detrimental or unfavourable with respect to the overall pool and its date/time stamp is only a few seconds passed; it may be accepted (given the ok). After all, every effort is made to ensure this pool is fair and honest and included with this effort, is the importance of Poolies having an enjoyable experience while participating. Please do understand, just a few “minutes” passed is different, and most likely will not be accepted.
Each entry and it’s date/time stamp is verified, prior to acceptance, and posting. Every flagged entry is posted here with proper explanation of why it was accepted or not accepted. If any Poolie questions an entry they are encouraged to review this page and contact the pool for additional explanations and clarity.
Everyone should think fun & have fun while partaking in any thenhljl hockey pool.
- [nov11] Error reported Nov 11 & fixed Nov 11, 2:30pm. Game #6, if you had selected Home Team Toronto to win the Card posted Tampa Bay. This was corrected. Anyone who has Tampa Bay, displayed on their PGP Card… it will be acknowledged as the G#6 Home Team selected and therefore the actual team is Toronto.
- [nov13] Error reported with the sorting of the standings. This was checked and was found that only 90% of the standings were properly sorted. The missed portion created 2 errors with Poolies points as per the obvious miss sorted names (vs points). This has been corrected. All was then re-checked and resorted a 3rd time to verify no further errors.
- [nov15] Error reported with Poolie’s picks. Wins/Losses were rechecked, error confirmed & corrected. Standings were resorted immediately after to reflect the correction.
- [dec17] Pooliename KATNISS submitted their pgp card. It was missed in the email so an “auto” card was posted. This error, not seeing the email, has been corrected and the auto card deleted and the “submitted card posted. (completed between 3pm & 5pm).
- [dec29] A significant number of games on Sat Dec 31 have had their scheduled ‘time’ changed from originally scheduled. All teams playing this day remain the same only certain ‘times’ have changed. See pic “AA” below.
- [jan02] specific to the issue of time changes to scheduled games; there is no issue. Poolies are responsible for monitoring any time changes to Saturdays’ games. As they are with canceled or postponed games. The thenhljl will continue to check for changes to Sat schedules and post updates if timing permits but time changes will be low priority. See postponed/canceled games as ref.
- [mar04] game #2 Philadelphia vs Buffalo is canceled due to an error with these teams playing today. The actual game is TBL vs BUF, not PHI vs BUF. This error was captured too late to have a correction made. Therefore regardless which team is selected the outcome will not count.
- [mar25] unexpectedly Poolies picks were not uploaded ~1:00pm (typical time) on the Saturday. Therefore extra info was included along with any pgp card photo to reassure all these cards were verified and legit. Late Sat 25th & early Sun 26th Poolies Picks page was updated. All were reminded to freely question any entry at any time as well as win/loses calculated and posted each Sunday thru out the season.
Pic “AA”
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NOTE
Please be reminded, thenhljl have being running hockey pools for over 24 years and multiple steps & processes have been put into place, with each and every pool, to ensure and maintain our clean slate for credibility and honesty.
Integrity has always been imperative with all hockey pools and has been so, from day one.
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