Overview

UnImaginable UnThinkable Football is a free pro-football based game that lets you compete with friends, colleagues, and other football fans by picking four teams each week that you think can cover the point-spread. If you are unsure what a point-spread is, that's okay. There is an explanation below.

The competition runs the entire pro-football season including playoffs. Simply enter your selections each week.

Getting Started

No purchase or payment of any kind is necessary to play UUFootball. UUFootball will not ask for credit card information, banking information, or any other form of payment information.

To play UUFootball, you must either log into an existing account or create a free account. To create a free account, you will need to complete the online registration form by submitting a username, password, and e-mail address. You are required to verify your email address by clicking a link that will be sent to the email address provided.

Once your account is created, you can make your own leagues and invite your friends to play by providing them the league name and password.

You can also join an existing league. To join an existing league, you will need to get the League Name and Password from the league's creator.

Gameplay

Each week, you need to select four teams you think will cover the point-spread.

You'll get points for every correct pick you make. UUFootball will gather the results and compute the point totals for each week and each season.

UnImaginable - UnThinkable Bonuses

Please note that UnImaginable UnThinkable can be played free of charge. That being said, players may choose to use the following two rules at their own discretion.

If a player picks all 4 games correct in a single week, also known as "goes UnImaginable", all other players must pay the UnImaginable player $5 (or an agreed to sum of money)

If a player picks all 4 games wrong in a single week, also known as "goes UnThinkable", they must pay all other players $5 (or an agreed to sum of money)

What is a Point Spread?

Suppose Pittsburgh is playing Cleveland and Pittsburgh is believed to be the better football team. In bettor-speak, this makes Pittsburgh "the Favorite" and Cleveland "the Underdog." When choosing who will win between these two teams, bettors will almost always select the Favorite (Pittsburgh) to win the matchup because they are the better team.

To even the playing field for both teams, oddsmakers assign a point-spread to a matchup. Let's assume for this example that the point-spread is -7.5. If you were to pick Pittsburgh as one of your weekly picks, that means Pittsburgh, the Favorite, must beat Cleveland, the Underdog, by at least 7.5 points for the pick to be correct.

In other words, if Pittsburgh wins by a score of Pittsburgh=21, Cleveland=7, the pick is correct because Pittsburgh won by more than 7.5 points. However, if Pittsburgh won by a score of Pittsburgh=21, Cleveland=14, your pick would lose because Pittsburgh did not win by more than 7.5 points. Not only does Pittsburgh have to win the game, but they also have to win by a margin larger than the point-spread.

Similarly, if you were to pick Cleveland, the Underdog, to win the matchup, Cleveland only has to keep their final score within 7.5 points to win the matchup.

For example, if you picked Cleveland and they lost by a score of Pittsburgh=30, Cleveland=24, your pick would win because Cleveland kept the game within 7.5 points. Also, if Cleveland won the game outright Pittsburgh=30, Cleveland=50, the pick also wins.

When picking a team that is listed as the Favorite the question you should be asking yourself is "Do I think this team can beat the other team by a margin greater than the point-spread?"

When picking an Underdog, the question you should be asking yourself is "Do I think the Underdog can keep the game close enough to be within the point-spread?"

The spreads will look like this each week: (Go ahead and pick a few teams!)

Additional Info:

The spreads are posted on Tuesday at 8 AM EST and every player's 4 picks must be made before the start of the Thursday night football game.

In the regular season, players will get 1 point for every correct pick. UUFootball continues into the postseason and points are multiplied in the playoffs.

- In the wildcard round, players will get 2 points for every correct pick.

- In the divisional round, players will get 3 points for every correct pick.

- In the conference round, players will get 5 points for every correct pick.

- In the championship round, players will get 7 points for a correct pick.

Players can go UnImaginable and UnThinkable in the wildcard and divisional rounds.

The regular season winner in your league gets 5 bonus points, second place gets 3 bonus points, and third place gets 1 bonus point.

Tie-breakers:

Most UnImaginables

Least UnThinkables

Player with most correct selections going backward from Week 18.