Armchair Hockey Pools

2010/11 Boxes are available

2010-09-03T15:42:00Z

If you are running a box pool, our boxes are ready to go. We may make minor changes to the boxes depending on injuries or signings that happen over the next month. We will announce any changes on the blog.

2010/11 NHL Season is coming

2010-08-18T16:00:00Z

The 2010/11 season is approaching fast. If you're a keener and looking to setup your pool early, jump right in and get started. Armchair Pools never closes down so you can create a new pool at any time. Getting started is easy, but if you do have any issues, feel free to email us at support@armchairpools.com with any questions

If you are an pool administrator and a fan of www.dobberhockey.com, definitely check out his 2010/11 Fantasy Pool Guide. Not only does it contain useful tips and advice, but there is a coupon that will give you $5 off your regular season pool at Armchair Pools. The code can be used on our payment page in October.

And if you've been waiting for Armchair Hockey Pools to support trading and add/drops, your wait is over! Sometime in September, pool admin's and poolies will see new menu items for these features. You will be able to choose between admin or poolie controlled trades and the interface is simple and easy to use.

We will be implementing a keeper pool feature that will allow pool administrators to roll their previous season's pools (ie poolies, teams, settings, etc ..) into the current season. It might not be ready for October so if you want your 2009 pool copied into a pool for the 2010 season, just send us an email and we'd be happy to do it manually for you.

Awkward hug

2010-04-17T15:37:10Z

Kevin Weeks calls it "joy and jubilation". I call it an awkward hug. Best seen at the 1:45 mark in this clip of Devin Setoguci's OT winner against Colorado last night.

Facebook

2010-04-17T00:20:00Z

We will be getting more active on our Facebook page, so if you have any questions or comments, feel free to post them there. You can check out our page here.

Also - we have a Facebook plugin that allows you to view your pools and trash talk right from your Facebook account. You can get it here and check out a sample below.

Take your trash talk to a new level

2010-04-17T20:27:00Z

Hockey Pool updates throughout the night

2010-04-15T02:28:34Z

And we're off!

We received all of our game files for the opening night of the playoffs. Looks like it will only be a 20 minute delay between when the game ends and when we can update the nightly standings. If you're not familiar with our new nightly standings screen, click the link on the Pool Standings page and check it out.

How do my poolies view the pool?

2010-04-15T18:04:43Z

Now that the playoffs are underway and your pool has been created, the fun part begins. Watching the pool and hoping that Colorado can make you look like a genius.

So how can you and your poolies track your pool?

There are 2 ways to view a pool you have created at the Armchair Pools website.

1. Log in.
If your poolie has an account at Armchair Hockey Pools, they can login and view the Pool Standings. For those poolies obsessed with stats, there is a detailed standings page in addition to our main standings page. We also update stats throught the night and you can track your pool's progress throught the night on our Nightly Standings page.

2. View your pool's public page.
If your poolies don't have an account, don't want an account, or just can't be bothered with emails and passwords, that's ok. Just make your pool public and send out the URL to all your poolies. The pool's public standings page can be accessed by anyone. No login is required and poolies can bookmark it so it's easy to find again.

The public page can be setup by the administrator under the Pool Settings -> Basic Settings as fast as it takes to type a unique pool name and hit save.

Pool admins. Lock your pools!

2010-04-15T09:38:00Z

If you have setup your pool to allow poolies the ability to change their picks, make sure you remove this ability pretty darn soon. Otherwise your poolies will be able to log in and change their picks at any time!

And if you are not an admin, but notice you can change your picks, you may want to send a friendly reminder to your admin. Unless , of course, you need to "freshen up" your roster first.

To lock your standard draft pool, go to [Pool Settings] -> [Basic Settings] and set 'Pool Lock' to 'On'

To lock your box pool, go to [Pool Settings] and set 'Pool Lock' to 'On'

If you have any questions about this, leave a question on this post, or email support@armchairpools.com.

Playoff Hockey Pool at The Hockey Card Show

2010-04-12T03:57:00Z

Want to join a free hockey pool? The Hockey Card Show is putting on a free playoff pool. You can check it out here

The regular season ends with a bang. Ovi comes up with nothing.

2010-04-12T06:21:50Z

The regular season ended with some excitement. I don't know if it's foreshadowing of things to come during the Stanley Cup run, but the leagues most exciting player was left out of headlines - and the hardware.

Sidney Crosby had a five point night and beat Alexander Ovechkin for the goal scoring title with 51 mesh ripplers to Ovi's 50. Henrik Sedin recorded a 4 point night and blew past Ovechkin to win the overall points title by 3 points. So unless he's a finalist for the Lady Bing (unlikely) he has only Lord Stanley's mug to chase

And according to everyone at my draft, he has a decent chance. 4/15 of the first rounders were Capitals, and despite his disappointing finish, Alex the Great went 1st overall.

And speaking of first overall, Redlight Rosie won our first ever Owner's Challenge and will be receiving a $100 gift certificate from shop.nhl.com. The owner's challenge was a hockey pool consisting of administrators of our regular season pools. We won't be running an owners challenge for the playoffs but look for one next regular season. We are hoping to have more sponsors and more prizes.

Good luck in your playoff pools!

20 year old gum

2010-04-05T06:45:00Z

Check out some old hockey cards and some 20 year old gum with the guys at thehockeycardshow.com?

Nightly Standings for your playoff pool

2010-04-04T05:02:31Z

If you are currently running a regular season hockey pool at our site, you may notice a new addition to the pool standings screen. There is a link in the right corner called "nightly standings".

Nightly standings is a new feature that will be operational for the 2010 playoffs. It is updated about 30 mins after each game is completed and shows the performance of each team and player in the pool. It also displays the current pool standings and updates them throughout the night.

Sorry for the teaser. I wish we could flip the switch and make it operational now. However, for various reasons, we need to wait until the playoffs.

Some more advice for your playoff hockey pool

2010-04-03T06:09:37Z

Some more draft strategy tips from Dobber over at Puck Daddy. Some good stuff. If you're in a pool with people reading his page, prepare for a rush on Buffalo players ....