No Way Bets gives your bar, restaurant, office or group its own NFL pick’em site. Your customers play all season, you put up the prizes and set the rules, and they come back to you every week to watch, argue and claim what they won. We run everything else.
A pick’em is the classic office football pool: each week everyone picks who they think will win each NFL game, and whoever picks best wins. No Way Bets runs that game for you, online, with your business’s name on it.
Every week there’s a reason to come in: to watch their picks play out with everyone else, and to collect a prize when they win.
A season-long leaderboard keeps people coming back week after week — nobody wants to fall behind their buddies.
Your business name is on the site, and the weekly emails your players get come with your site address on them.
Trash talk, upsets, the guy who’s been last for three weeks running — it gives your crowd something to bond over (and stay for another round).
Put your own banner ads on your site: specials, events, game-day deals — seen by everyone checking their picks.
We handle the schedule, the betting lines, the scoring and the emails. Your staff’s only job is scanning a winner’s QR code.
Every pool is one of these. You choose when you create it, and you can run as many of each as you like.
The main event. Every week, your players pick every NFL game on the schedule. For each game they pick the winner, and answer two extra questions: will the favorite cover the spread (win by more than the betting line says), and will the total score go over or under the line.
| On each game | Points |
|---|---|
| Picked the winner | +6 |
| Spread question right / wrong (or left blank) | +3 / −3 |
| Over/under question right / wrong (or left blank) | +1 / −1 |
The Upset Pick: once a week, each player can tag one game as their Upset Pick. If they picked the underdog and the underdog wins, that game’s 6 winner points become 12.
Winners: the top score each week wins that week’s prize, and points add up all season for the season standings and your season prize. Picks lock 15 minutes before each game kicks off.
Built for the crowd that comes in to watch the big prime-time game. A night pool covers just that night’s game and stands completely on its own: its own leaderboard, its own winner, its own prize, with no season total.
Players pick that game’s winner, spread and over/under (scored just like the weekly pool), plus two extra questions:
| Extra question | Points |
|---|---|
| First score — which team scores first (touchdown, field goal or safety, anything) | 5 |
| Final score — guess both teams’ final scores; whoever is closest wins (we add up how far off they were on each team) | 10 |
The leaderboard updates live during the game, so the room can follow along play by play. On nights with more than one game, you choose which game your pool plays.
Mix and match. A common setup: one Weekly Pool for your regulars all season, plus a Thursday Night pool with a smaller prize to fill the room on Thursdays. Preseason games can be played for fun — prizes kick in once the regular season starts.
One payment covers the whole season.
No monthly bills and nothing per player. For pricing, email admin@nowaybets.com.
No. No Way Bets never takes bets, never charges your players, and never holds anyone’s money. We run the game; you run your pool — the prizes, the rules, and how you handle them are up to you. (You’re responsible for the prizes you offer, the rules you set and following your local laws — see the Terms of Service.)
You do. Must be present to win, one prize per person per week, a deadline to claim it — whatever suits your place. Tell your players your rules when you invite them.
Each prize has its own QR code, and it locks the moment your staff redeem it. Scan it again — or scan a copy someone screenshotted — and it says it’s already been redeemed, with the date and time. You get an email every time a prize is claimed.
No. If you can fill in a form and upload a photo, you can run a pool. Everything else is automatic.
Only scan a winner’s QR code when they come in to claim a prize (and check your house rules, like being there in person).
Every pool gets a short pool code. Put it on a table tent, a receipt, a sign by the bar or a social post — people type it on the sign-up page and they’re in. You can also send email invitations from your Pool Manager, or invite people who already play on your site.
Yes, as many as you like — weekly pools, night pools, or both.
Yes. Start any week and play from there.
Yes. One account can join any number of pools on your site, and each pool keeps its own score.
The final season standings decide your season winner. Your site and players stay put, and we’ll be in touch before next season about running it again.
Rather talk it through first? Email admin@nowaybets.com.
No Way Bets is not a gambling site and never takes bets or holds money. Prizes, rules and conditions are set and fulfilled by the business running each pool. Players must be 18 or older. See the Terms of Service.