Your second chance starts in Week 10

What it costs

Paying your dues

• You can pay with cash, PayPal, Venmo, or Zelle.
• You can make picks before you pay.
• Payment is due by noon Central on Sunday of that week: Week 10 for regular entries, Week 11 for rebuys.
• Buying after that deadline? Your entry has to be paid before its pick locks.
• An entry that's still unpaid after its deadline is out. It stays listed in the standings as "Unpaid", but it can't win and it doesn't count toward the pot.
• If all of your entries are still unpaid after their deadlines, you won't be able to log in.

How to play

• One strike and you're out. A loss, a tie, or a missed pick all count as a strike.
• Your team has to play and win. If its game is postponed or canceled, your team is treated as not playing, and that's a strike. No exceptions.
• Each pick locks at that game's kickoff. There's no weekly deadline. You can change your pick until your team's game starts, as long as the game you're switching to hasn't started either. If a game gets moved, its lock moves with it.
• Don't miss a week. If you haven't picked by the time the week's last game kicks off, that's a missed pick and a strike.
• Plan ahead if you want. You can make future picks for any later week on the schedule. They're highly recommended, since they protect you from a missed pick. A future regular-season pick uses that team for the entry until you change it.
• Regular season: you can use each NFL team once per entry, and you can't pick a team on its bye.
• Playoffs: your teams reset, and you can pick the same team more than once. Repeats are allowed in the playoffs only.
• Late rebuys can only pick from Week 11 games that haven't started.
• Once an entry strikes out, it can't make new picks, and any future picks it had don't count.

On the site

• You'll find the standings, the pot, and everyone's locked picks.
• Nobody sees your pick until it locks, including your future picks.
• Unpaid entries don't show their picks after that game starts. The entry stays in the standings, but the pick just says "Unpaid".
• The site is built to enforce these rules, but it isn't perfect. If something looks wrong, tell Joe right away.
• Avoiding an invalid pick is your responsibility. If one gets past the site, like a repeat team or a bye, it counts as a strike.

Winning

• Sole survivor: once rebuys close, if all of the entries left belong to one player, the game ends and that player wins the pot. That can happen after any week, including the Super Bowl.
• Still alive after the Super Bowl: if more than one player has an entry left, every entry still alive splits the pot.
• Everyone strikes out together: if all of the remaining entries strike out in the same week, including the Super Bowl, the game ends and those entries split the pot.

Already play LMS? Here's what's different

• One strike, not three. There are no mulligans.
• No points or power rankings. You just need your team to win.
• No Saturday noon deadline. Each pick locks when that game kicks off.
• Every game counts, including Thursday and Friday games.
• Your teams reset for the playoffs. Repeats are allowed in the playoffs only.
• Unlimited entries, not five.
• Everyone alive after the Super Bowl splits the pot. There's no points tiebreaker.

Your account

If you play LMS, you'll log in with your LMS username and password. If you don't, you'll be able to register right here once we open. That account works on 2nd Chance only.