Our 2024 NCAAF pick contest is now live. We have prizes on offer for both weekly and season winners, and full details can be found below.
How can I win?
To win any of our prizes this season, you must win the most picks, and make the most profit from them to separate yourself from your competition!
Each week we'll have a prize on offer for the fan with the most wins in each category. As a tie-breaker, the fan with the most profit from their moneyline, spread, and points total picks will triumph. We'll also have season prizes on offer for these categories too of $1,000.
Prize Breakdown
Weekly - The fan with the most wins, with the tie-breaker of the most profit, at the end of each week in each pick category will receive a $50 Amazon gift card.
Season - At the end of the season, we will have prizes for the top three fans in each pick category, which will be as follows:
- First place - $1,000 Amazon voucher
- Second place - Annual Pickwatch VIP subscription
- Third place - Annual Pickwatch Pro subscription
Please note, in the event of a tie, we will determine the winner by number of picks made.
How to enter
To take part in our contests, you have to simply make picks. This can be done either using the Pickwatch app or the Pickwatch website.
When you make your picks, as long as there are odds available for the game, a $50 stake is added to the pick. You can decrease this to as little as $0 if you are not entirely confident with the pick, or increase it to $100 dollars if you think it's definitely the right call.
Your picks are locked in as soon as the game starts, and no further changes can be made. When the game ends, you'll receive a profit amount based on your stake and the odds when you made your pick.
Tips
We know it can be hard to work out a strategy to win pick'em contests, that's why we exist! Here are our top tips to perform better:
- Don't place the maximum amount on every game!
You may have some good weeks doing this, but over a season, every game you lose, you will lose $100, whereas the games you win, you will likely make substantially less than this in profit due to the lower odds of favorites. - Use Pickwatch VIP!
Some users may prefer to know which underdogs have a good chance of yielding profit which they can find on our new underdog ranking for experts and fans, coming next week. Others might reserve their bigger wagers for dead cert favorites chosen from our CPU algorithm. Pro gives you the best options for both strategies. - Remember, you can make picks for every game, but you do not need to place a wager amount on them all.
Be clever about the games you avoid, and go harder towards the games you love. - Follow the best experts and fans!
Again, Pro users always perform well in our contests because they can see the strategies of the best players in our tables. - Check who is hot recently
Pickwatch Pro members have use of the 'Custom Date Range' feature, meaning you can check who has the best performance over the last 5 weeks, or over your own timeframe. Don't just follow the overall leader who is in a slump, check who is best right now!
That's it! That's how to take part in our 2024 contest. Good luck!