Changelog
What's new on Comped
Everything we have shipped lately, newest first — the settings, the screens, and the small fixes that change how a pool actually runs. No roadmap promises here, only what is already live.
Shipped
Squares pools can use a 50-square board
Pick a 50-square board (10 by 5) when you create a squares pool. Each row covers two numbers for the home team, so every square has twice the chance and the board fills with half the players. Commissioners can switch sizes in Settings until the first square is claimed.
Survivor auto-pick skips Thursday, and commissioners can undo it
Survivor auto-pick now skips Thursday games and fills from the weekend instead (commissioners can choose Any game in Settings). And if auto-pick filled a pick you'd rather it hadn't, Members has Undo auto-pick, which puts the player back in with no pick that week.
Delete your account yourself
Your account page now has Delete account. It removes your account, your email and your entries with their picks and chat. Pools you run that other people play in stay up for them.
Print my picks, right from the Picks tab
Once you've made a pick, a Print my picks button next to Save opens one page with just your picks for the week, ready to print or save as a PDF.
Survivor pools start the week they're made
A survivor pool created mid-season now starts on the current week, so nobody is knocked out for weeks before the pool existed.
The pool menu on phones puts what you use first
Players now see Home, Picks, Results, Standings and Members, with chat as the speech bubble. Commissioners see Home, Picks, Members and Results, with chat and a gear for Settings, so entering picks for someone is one tap away; Standings is under More. Overview is now called Home.
New against the spread pools freeze their lines Thursday at noon
A new against the spread pool now holds the week's lines from Thursday noon Eastern, so everyone picks against the same numbers. Commissioners can still choose Tuesday morning, Wednesday morning or the moment picks lock under Lines in Settings. Existing pools keep the setting they have.
Alerts before picks lock
Tap Turn on alerts on your pick sheet and your phone gets a heads up about two hours before picks lock, and another when the week's results are final. On an iPhone, add the site to your Home Screen first. Each pool is its own switch.
Printable sheets you can download
Every NFL week and the college football sheet now have Download PDF and Save image beside Print. On a phone you see the sheet exactly as it will print, and a one day slate prints one date instead of a range.
Commissioners can undo a removal and merge duplicate players
A removed player is kept for 7 days under Recently removed on Members and can be restored with their picks. When one person ends up with two entries, Members flags the pair and you can merge them into one.
Joining a pool you are already in asks first
If this device already holds an entry in the pool, Join now asks whether you meant to add a second one instead of quietly making a duplicate.
A clearer pool page
The masthead says whether picks are open, games are live or the pool is over. Results opens on the week being played, the desktop Overview uses the full width, and pages no longer jump around while they load.
Kickoff times in your own time zone
Pick sheets and Results show every kickoff in your device's time zone. Before this, some night games could show the wrong day.
A season board on Results
Survivor, margin and max out pools now have a board on Results with every player's pick, week by week, and each player's running total. Margin picks show the spread they were made against.
Survivor players can have more than one life
A commissioner can give any player extra lives from Members, so a loss costs a life instead of ending their run.
Under the hood
Standings, auto picks and the weekly email now count every entry in very large pools. A final game with no winner flag from the data feed takes its winner from the score, and saving picks twice in quick succession can no longer drop one.
See your own pick on Results before kickoff
Results shows the pick you made for a game before it starts. Everyone else's picks stay hidden until kickoff, with a count of how many are in.
A weekly recap made for you
Each week's recap opens from the Home tab as a short story about your own week: your picks, your finish and the moments that decided it. Any single moment can be shared on its own.
Every player has a code, so a commissioner can tell whose entry is whose
Your pick sheet shows a short code under your name, and your commissioner sees the same code beside you on Members. Nobody else sees it at all. When a prize is going out, read out your code and your commissioner can match it. It is a way to say which entry is yours, never a password.
Your pool now has its own chat
A chat in every pool, opening over whatever you are looking at, with the week's activity running through it: who has their picks in, who won the week, who just joined. Commissioners choose whether it carries chat and activity, chat only or activity only, and can mute a player or remove a message.
A printable NFL 33 sheet with the scores already on it
All 32 teams, every bye week marked, and each team's real score filled in through the latest final week, so a paper pool can be checked at a glance. There is a second sheet for pools that draw a fresh team every week.
Pick any week ahead, and see your whole season
The pick sheet opens on a strip of week cards, so you can fill in a week that has not kicked off yet. The Picks tab now shows your season as one row, a tile per week with the team you took. Survivor pools lock joining when the last week 1 game kicks off.
Choose the moment your pool's lines come from
An against the spread pool can now say its lines come from Tuesday morning, Wednesday morning, Thursday noon or the moment picks lock, and we hold the numbers from then. In Settings under Lines you can also fill this week's lines from any of those moments and edit one before you save.
Against the spread pools now grade on the line that locked
The line freezes the moment a pool's picks lock and every pick is graded on that number, so the line you saw is the line you are scored on. Commissioners can also enter their own lines for the week under Lines in Settings.
NFL 33 can draw fresh teams every week
Turn on Fresh every week in Settings and every player gets a new team for the coming week. The draw runs before that week's first kickoff, or you can press Draw this week. Every week is a fresh draw. Nobody gets a team twice in a season, and nobody sits out more than one bye week.
Real helmets and full team names on picks
Every one of the 32 teams now has its own helmet, and pick rows, the pool Overview card and the Picks tab all say the full team name instead of a three letter code.
One pick games show your team, not a count
In survivor and NFL 33 the pool page now names the team you took and gives you a Change button, so you can see where you stand without opening your entry.
Easier to get around a pool
The pool masthead reads more clearly, the tabs are bigger and easier to hit, and every entry page has a visible Back to pool button.
Get your private link back yourself
On the pool page, Already in this pool? Get your link back sends a fresh private link to the email on your entry. Your device now remembers an entry you have opened, and an account can open the entry it claimed from anywhere.
A clearer sign in message
If you asked for two sign in links, the page now tells you the newest one is the one that works instead of leaving you guessing which email to open.
Under the hood
Saving a set of picks is now one all or nothing write, so a dropped connection cannot leave half a week saved. We also fixed four findings from an outside security review of the entry and pick flows.
A weekly email that is worth opening
One message per person on Tuesday morning: how last week went, and when this week's picks are due. If you have already picked you just get the recap. On for new pools, off with one click in Settings, and every email has an unsubscribe link. Sign in emails got the same look.
Announcements where you will see them
A single line at the top of the pool page says what changed since you were last in, and this page keeps the whole list once that line goes away.
Missed picks can fill themselves
Set a pool to fill in a missed pick at the deadline: the best team left by the spread, or the home team. Off unless you turn it on, and a filled pick is marked as automatic on the results grid.
Pick popularity on the Results grid
The Results grid now shows how many players took each side, so you can see at a glance where the pool agreed and where it split.
Give a life, on the Members tab
Survivor commissioners can give a knocked out player another life from the Members tab, which is what most pools end up doing after a bad call anyway.
Pick deadlines for survivor pools
Survivor pools now choose their own deadline: each game at kickoff, the whole week at the first game, each day, or Sunday at 1 PM ET. The survivor page says which one a pool is using.
New site navigation and a real How it works page
The header now has proper navigation, and behind it one page explains running a pool start to finish, with the questions people actually send us and a link to a person when the answer is not up there.
Anything missing
If something here does not work the way it reads, tell us — a person reads it. If you are new to running a pool, how it works covers the whole thing start to finish.