About Crowned

Pick. Survive. Gloat.

Crowned is a place to run a sports pool with your people (the office, the group chat, the family thread) without a spreadsheet or a commissioner who forgets. You make picks, Crowned keeps score, and the standings settle who gets to talk.

How it works

1
Host signs in
Hosts get a one-time email link. No passwords, nothing to remember.
2
Create a pool
Pick a game type, a league, and which weeks count. Crowned handles the schedule.
3
Share one link
Players join from the invite link with just a display name. No account, no app to install.
4
Pick before kickoff
Every pick locks when its game starts. Change your mind as often as you like before then.
5
Watch the standings
Scores update as games finish and the standings recompute on every visit. Gloat accordingly.

The games

Available now for Pro Football and College Football.

Survivor

Pick one team to win each week; lose once and you're out.

Each week, pick exactly one team to win its game. Picking a team in a different game moves your pick, since you only ever have one per week.
You can change your pick freely until the game you picked kicks off. Then it's locked.
If your team wins, you survive to next week. If it loses (or you never submit a pick), you're eliminated.
A tie, or a game that gets canceled, is a push: your team didn't lose, so you survive.
Each team can only be used once per season, so spend the favorites wisely.
Some weeks include a team playing twice; the season's opening weekend is one. Your pick is still tied to one game, so choose which one.
Last entry standing wins.

Pick'em

Pick a winner in every game. Most correct picks wins.

Every week, pick the winner of each game on the slate. Each game is its own pick.
Each pick locks at that game's kickoff; you can change it any time before then.
One point per correct pick. Everyone is scored against the same slate, so a game you skip counts as a miss. Pick them all.
A tie or a canceled game is a push: it counts for no one.
Standings rank total correct picks across the pool's weeks; an exact tie shares a rank.

Confidence

Rank every pick by how sure you are. Most points wins.

Every week, pick the winner of each game (same as pick'em), but you also stake confidence points.
Assign each game a value from 1 up to the number of games that week, using every number once. Your surest pick gets the highest number.
You earn a game's points only if that pick is correct. Miss it and those points are gone, but you're never docked below zero.
Each pick locks at that game's kickoff; you can shuffle your numbers freely until then.
A tie or a canceled game is a push: it counts for no one.
Standings rank total points across the pool's weeks; an exact tie shares a rank.

Squares

Claim squares on a 10x10 grid; the last digits of the score pick the winners.

The rows and columns are numbered 0-9. Every square is the pairing of one digit from each team.
Claim squares before the game. Grab as many open squares as your pool allows.
After each scoring period, take the last digit of each team's score. The square where the away digit (its row) and the home digit (its column) meet wins that period.
The host picks which periods count, usually each quarter and the final.
There are no picks to make once the game starts. Just watch the scores land.

Fair play, by design

Not a betting site. Crowned never collects, holds, or pays out money. There are no wagers, no odds or point spreads, and no payouts. It keeps score.
Any money is your group’s own. Some pools play for a cash entry or a prize. That’s arranged and settled directly among your group (Venmo, cash, whatever you like); Crowned isn’t involved in it.
Picks lock at kickoff. Lock times come from the official schedule, so nobody can slip a pick in after a game starts.
Names and colors only. Crowned isn’t affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any league or team. Team names and colors appear only to identify real-world games. You won’t find a logo anywhere.

Who makes it

Crowned is built by NeuralForge, a small independent studio. It’s currently in alpha: features land often, rough edges remain, and feedback is welcome. Free pools support a small group; paid options for bigger groups are coming, and those pay for software features, not any pool money.

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