FPGS Annual Football Incentive Program 

 

Rule #1

It's a friendly game. All games (all weeks) for the regular NFL football season must be played (picked). Except first game first week is not counted.

Picks are made online from anywhere via the Internet starting at the http://www.strait2glory.com/fpgs/Handlers.aspx homepage.

If you are going on vacation, or won’t be able to get Online during any given week, then the picks can be made in advance and selected week(s) ahead of time during the NFL Football season year. This feature helps prevent missing a week or missing the cutoff. Be aware that odds are established weekly (see Rule #3) and they will not be projected in advance. Players that do miss the cutoff (including late entry participants) will receive an overall average of wins and loses for the week minus 1.70 wins rounded down to the nearest whole number.

 

Example:

Say, the average is 8.82 wins and 7.18 loses for a 16 game week (this is considered a winning week for all participants)

8.82 minus 1.70 = 7.12 would round down to 7 wins and 9 loses and would be given each player who did not play that week.

If the average is 8.59 wins and 7.41 loses for a 16 game week (closer to 50/50 but still a winning week)

8.59 minus 1.70 = 6.89 would round down to 6 wins and 10 loses.

 

Rule #2

Donation of $75 is requested to play the entire season for the whole NFL year. If you can not or wish to not donate, please communicate your reasons so that other arrangements can be made for you. This donation will be used to project all participants each week for the regular and post season football play on the Internet. This breakdown is similar to a $3.20 a week processing and handling expense per participant ($3 for 22 weeks processing + $9 handling for the conclusion).  In other words, for the 17 weeks of the regular season play, $1.60 from all players each week will go to the weekly winner prizes and $1.60 will go to the accumulated regular season placed finisher prizes. For the last 5 weeks of Post Season play, the full $3.20 per players electing to play post season will go to weekly winner prize.                               See: Actual Audit

 

Please make donation ASAP within the first week of the regular NFL football season and before program entry closes. Note: program entry can close at anytime so don’t be left out if you want to participate. This donation helps cover operating expenses for 27 weeks of playing time and also helps pay for prizes. Prizes should only be given away after everybody has donated or other arrangements have been made for them. Thank you.

 

Rule #3 

There will be odds (points added per game) to establish Favorite and Underdog teams for each game. These Odds will be posted for the incentive program usually on Tuesday afternoon and can be locked in at that time (i.e. the added points won't change or float during the week once they are established). There can be half (½) and whole number point forecasting. Sure picks are almost eliminated when one team has been given added points. Also, when highly favored teams play overly under dogged teams without points as even or heads-up Pick’em game, a wash-out can occur. A wash-out will occur when all participants pick the same team to win. Having odds on games also helps prevent this.

 

Odds will be taken from a consensus of popular Vegas Sport books facilities such as:, Caesars Harrah’s Rio, MGM Mirage, etc. This information can usually be found in the local newspaper and on many different web sites.  This system uses: http://www.vegas.com/gaming/index.html 

EVEN or Plus zero (+0) points are given to both teams when Pick'em or no points are forecast with the sports book or local newspaper.

EVEN or Plus zero (+0) points are given to both teams when the game is “OFF” the board. This can happen when the condition of a star player’s injury is not known or a coach has just been fired or hasn’t decided on which player he will start, etc., in which case nothing can be done about a possible wash-out. Again, points will not change once forecasted on Tuesday and established into the system.

 

Rule #4 

A winner will be decided in all games where possible (only WIN picks or LOSS picks are counted / Neutral picks are tossed out - no PUSHes).

A favored team (the team WITHOUT points) always uses only its actual points scored to determine the outcome of the pick.

The underdog team always adds the points given them to the actual points they scored to determine the outcome of the pick.

The favored team wins the pick if the total (favored score matched against the underdog score plus points) is greater.

The underdog team wins the pick if the total (actual underdog score plus points) is greater than the favored team score.

Where the underdog team’s score with the added points match the favored team’s score… this is a Neutral game and is thrown out and not counted.

Where Half (½) points are part of the underdog’s added points, a winner and a loser will always be determined and can never be thrown out.

In the event where no points (EVEN GAMES) are forecast and the actual game ends in a tie... this game is thrown out and not accumulated and counted, but the chances of this happening are very unlikely.

 

Rule #5 

There is one prize awarded each week to the player(s) who pick the most wins and comes closer to matching the tiebreaker. There can be multiple winners per week in which case the weekly prize of equal value is awarded between the winners. The regular season weekly prize will be an award by points worth the number of participants playing in the incentive program for any given season. That is: total processing cost divided by two then divided by 17. In general, 1.5 points from all players goes to the weekly winner and 1.5 points from all players goes to the top five finishers for the 17 weeks of the regular season play.

Total Accumulated point divisions are rounded down to the nearest whole point.

The Weekly prize will normally be awarded to the winning player before the following week begins.

Note: The preseason and post season weekly prize (where participation is not compulsory) will consist of an award on a winner take all bases according to the total number of participants entered for and post season week (2 times the number of participants playing that week for preseason and 3 times the number of participants playing that week for post season). For preseason and playoffs, participation is not mandatory or required, except playing the whole NFL season is a way of extending the football incentive program and creates a sweepstakes condition at the end of the season and helps to promote as many participants as possible in winning a week.

The American Bowl and/or Hall of Fame weekend begins the season and the pro-bowl game ends the NFL football year.

        

Rule #6 

The tiebreaker rule (if necessary) will be applied as follows…

1.  Against the last game to end a NFL games week (usually Monday night regular season and Sunday afternoon during the post season).

2.  Determine how many actual points will be scored by both teams for this one game (actual scores added together = result).

     Note: Added Underdog points are not used here.

3. The player(s) matching the most wins for the week and whose tiebreaker projection matches or comes closer (high or low / over or under) to any other projection with the same amount of wins will be determined the winner(s) for the week using this last game.

A player can conceivably still win if they forget to enter the tiebreaker score ‑ a zero point score is applied when they do.

 

Rule #7 

Turn in time for all (17 regular season, 4 post season, 4 pre-season, HOF, and pro-bowl) weeks will be anytime before game time on the first game(s) to start any particular NFL week. All participants must have there Online entries selected and submitted before then, otherwise it is considered a missed week for them. (see Rule#1 on missed weeks during the regular season)

 

REMEMBER to make your entry early especially when there are Thursday and Saturday games, etc.

(24 hours in advance is recommended).

Upon making at least one selection and initialing the pick process (that is: pushing the SUBMIT button), you can go back and make changes up until game time. After game time though, the week selection process will be locked. If you had forgotten to select one or more picks upon the initial pick submission, they will be defaulted to the AWAY (visitor) picks.

 

If you need assistance or need a question answered on the selection process, Support and Help is available.

 

The Recap screen of all picks is updated automatically as picks are submitted Online during the current NFL week. Be sure to verify that you have been projected on the recap list to ensure that the pick selection process was completed successfully. There are occasions where pick projections do not get processed because of time-out problems electronically. So be sure to verify your picks!. Also, waiting to the last minute to make your pick selections in order to see what trend all the participants are selecting is not recommended. The consequences of this action might be missing the cutoff or being in the middle of the cutoff getting stuck in an electronic traffic jam and having to miss, etc.  In any event, avoid getting locked out inadvertently by putting in your picks in ahead of the cutoff time.

 

Any discretion on the kinds of picks made against the kind of picks entered will be resolved by select participant committee.

 

Rule #8 

Those participants with the most wins at the end of the regular season will receive yearly prizes as follows......

           1st  place prize will consist of an award worth 45% of the total processing cost divided by two.

           2nd place prize will consist of an award worth 25% of the total processing cost divided by two.

           3rd  place prize will consist of an award worth 15% of the total processing cost divided by two.

           4th  place prize will consist of an award worth 10% of the total processing cost divided by two.

           5th  place prize will consist of an award worth  5%  of the total processing cost divided by two. That's it (only 5 places).

There can be yearly ties in which case place finishes are combined and the prizes are evenly divided to players in those positions.

           Last Place prize will consist of an award worth a regular season weekly winner point prize minus 15%.

          (See: bonus points rule #10).

Top Finisher and Last Place prices will be awarded at the conclusion of the Regular Season usually around New Years

 

Rule #9 

Only 50 (fifty) players are allowed in the football incentive program per year.

CHOOSE a seven letter first name (and a 16 letter last name if needed) to identify all players in the program uniquely.

Please don't request to change this name after the first two weeks of the NFL season.

One to Fifty (1 through 50) numbers are reserved to all participants (sorted bottom up) on a first come first serve basis.

 

Rule #10  

BONUS POINTS Picks are now from a minimum of 1 game up to a maximum of 16 games per week for 27 weeks.

Bonus Points ensure that all participants win at least one prize.

The bonus point system or further football incentive program rules are as follows:

 

{Weekly}

IN THE RUNNING (OUTCOME OF TIE BREAKER GAME MIGHT WIN YOU THE WEEK)

(MUST BE WEEKS WITH 4 OR MORE GAMES, 2 GAMES OR LESS EXCLUDED):

A possible win is at stake if the last game goes your way but you don't win,

so one point is awarded to you (1 POINT) for at least being in the running.

 

{Weekly}

OUTRIGHT WIN (LAST GAME & TIE‑BREAKER NOT NEEDED TO DETERMINE WINNER):

Players doing it get 1 POINT. (No need to be concerned with final game for the week… you’ve already won)

There is a billboard method of notifying players that are IN THE RUNNING and OUTRIGHT winners done on the Handlers’ screen Online.

 

{Weekly}

TIE FOR WEEKLY WIN: 1 POINT additional to each tied participant. This can happen even using the tie-breaker rule where both players chose the same tie-breaker or are even high and low against the tie-breaker evenly.

 

{Weekly}

BACK TO BACK WEEKLY WINS (INCLUDES ANY WEEKLY TIES) ALL SEASON:

5 POINTS additional (progressive points of 10 15 20...) for doing it the 3rd 4th and 5th times in a row.

 

{Weekly}

MATCHING THE TIE‑BREAKER EXACTLY AND BINGO:

a) If you hit it = 1 POINT (Is when you are not a weekly winner). 

b) If you hit it and you are a weekly winner at the same time, (BINGO) 5 POINTS.

 

{Weekly}

LOWEST SCORE AND WORST RECORD (IF PARTICIPANTS TIE... POINTS ARE NOT AWARDED)

Must be more than four(4) games in the week:  

a) When a participant has the most losses as other participant(s) and is furthest away from the tie‑breaker = 1 POINT for being the LOWEST.

b) When a participant has picked the most losses and is the outright WORST (excluding any tie‑breaker) then 2 POINTS are awarded.

 

{Weekly}

EVEN GAME ENDS IN A TIE (EXCLUDE BYE/NO Games and point added ties) then:

(Game is kicked‑out and eliminated) 1 POINT given to all participants.

 

{Weekly}

PERFECT WEEK (REGULAR SEASON ONLY) SOMEONE GOING 16 & oh  OR  oh'fer 16 ALL WINS (no loses) or also NO wins (all loses):

Must be more than 10 games then the perfect number of wins/loses are awarded as bonus points and an additional bonus prize as follows:

(i.e. 12= NFL Sportswear 14= Deluxe NFL Jersey 16=NFL Letterman’s Jacket)... of your choice of favorite NFL team.

 

{Regular}

ON TOP OF THE LIST (EXCLUDE FIRST & LAST WEEKS) of the Regular Season:

a) If by lonesome (2nd THRU 16th WEEK) = 1 POINT. 

b) If tied on top with any player (2nd thru 16th week) = 1 POINT awarded to each.

 

{Regular}

LAST PLACE (MUST NOT BE TIED FOR LAST PLACE, and MUST NOT BE A PREVIOUS WEEKLY WINNER,

and MUST NOT MISS MORE THAN TWO WEEKS): for the REGULAR SEASON

If you have the outright worst regular season record (1st thru the 17th week)

and meet the above conditions = 50 POINTS based on 40 participants.

 

{Regular}

FINISH AT 500 (FINISH REGULAR SEASON WITH SAME NUMBER OF WINS AND LOSES) 50/50 = 5 POINTS

If possible with the elimination of pushed games the regular season ends in an even amount of selectable wins or loses,

and you neither had a winning percentage of picks or losing percentage against them, you get 5 points

 

{Season}

MOST IN THE RUNNING WITHOUT A WEEKLY WIN accumulated (1st thru the 19th, 24th thru the 27th) weeks.

One POINT awarded for each in the running. Only the most times "IN THE RUNNING" is awarded.

There can be ties. Note: preseason is also counted here and prize is award after the divisional championship games of week 19.

 

{Season}

Getting NO POINTS and doing any other NOTEWORTHY thing during the incentive program (1st week THRU the 22nd week).

This limited season bonus will be worth 1 POINT.  Includes Regular Season + Playoffs awarded after the Super Bowl  (NO POINTS = 1 POINT)

 

{Season}

MOST BONUS POINTS award (1st week THRU the 27th week) will be worth DOUBLE POINTS ties will SPLIT. Includes the accumulation of:

IN THE RUNNING, OUTRIGHT WIN, TIE FOR WEEKLY WIN, BACK TO BACK WEEKLY WINS, MATCHING THE TIEBREAKER, BINGO, LOWEST SCORE, WORST RECORD, ON TOP OF THE LIST, FINISH AT 500, MOST IN THE RUNNING, and NOTEWORTHLY points only. 

This will conclude the Bonus Point awards.

 

All Bonus point prizes will be awarded at the time of Super Bowl XLI unless the Pro Bowl is needed for any significant tie breakers.

 

Rule #11

Good Luck! to all player and participants.  This is always to be considered in order.   Please.

Have fun. If you win a bunch of times ‑ you win a bunch of times ‑ no favors. Thank you.  

Note >>‑‑‑> Tips are always appreciated and never rejected.

 

 

 

 

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Incentive 11.3  9/17/06.