About 2nd Half 2nd Chance

Key dates

What it costs

Paying your dues

• Choose how many entries and rebuys you want on your Profile page.
• You can pay with cash, PayPal, Venmo, or Zelle.
• You can make picks before you pay.
• Regular entries are due by Sunday, November 15th, 12:00pm Central.
• Rebuys are due by Sunday, November 22nd, 12:00pm Central.
• 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 drops off the standings, can't make picks, and 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.
• Week 10's Thursday game can't be picked. Pick from the Sunday and Monday games that week. From Week 11 on, every game is open.
• 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.
• Thursday and Friday games are open to pick, except Week 10's Thursday game.
• 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.

Where to pay

• PayPal: paypal.me/JoeBeitler
• Venmo: @joebeitler
• Zelle: email@joebeitler.com (through your bank's app)
• Cash

Using payment apps

• Send all your entries in a single payment. For two entries, send $20 once, not $10 twice.
• Don't send Joe a payment request through PayPal, because fees apply.
• In the payment note, just put your username so Joe can match it to your entries.

Your account

If you play LMS, you log in with your LMS username and password, and you manage your account on lmsgame.org. If you don't, register here. That account works on 2nd Chance only. Registration closes when the last Week 11 game kicks off: Monday, November 23rd, 7:15pm Central.