Weekly Pick'em Rules

1.0 — Game Overview

Weekly Pick'em is a season-long points game. Instead of drafting one team for the whole season, you build a fresh ranked slate of houseguests every round. Each slot in your slate carries a points multiplier, and your houseguests earn points exactly the way they do in Fantasy House. Your score accumulates across the season, and the leaderboard ranks every entry by total points for Season 28.

1.1 — Entries

• You can run up to 3 entries per season — make three independent slates each round if you want.
• You can join at any point in the season. The only "penalty" for joining late is that you miss the points that were available in the rounds you weren't playing — there's nothing else to make up.
• Where to find it: open Weekly Pick'em → Make Picks from the navigation to create an entry and set your slate.

1.2 — Weekly Picks & Multipliers

• Each round you rank a slate of the remaining houseguests: 5 picks pre-jury and 3 picks once the season reaches jury (fewer only if the house has shrunk below that). On the final round you make a single pick — just the houseguest you expect to win.
• Your slate is ranked, and rank sets the multiplier. Your top pick always scores ×5, and each slot below it scores one less — so a full pre-jury slate runs ×5 down to ×1, a 3-pick jury slate is ×5 / ×4 / ×3, and the single finale pick is ×5.
• You re-choose your whole slate every round — last round's picks don't carry over.
• Picks lock for the round once the eviction window begins. You can view your slate while it's locked but can't change it.
• There is no skip — if you don't submit a slate for a round, you simply score no points that round.

1.3 — Leaderboard

• Entries are ranked by total points, highest first.
• The leaderboard tracks your placement and how far you've moved round-to-round, and you can filter it by round and by group.
• Tap any entry to open that coach's profile; tap a houseguest to see their Weekly Pick'em profile (points, how often they're picked, and how often they're slotted #1).

2.0 — Scoring

Each houseguest earns points for the round using the standard Fantasy House scoring categories below. Your points for a slot = that houseguest's round score × the slot's multiplier; your round total is the sum of all your slots, and your season total is the sum of every round. A few things are specific to Pick'em:

• Houseguests always score at the default point values — Pick'em has no custom point values and no starting-points baseline.
• There is no MVP doubling and no challenge-score multiplier — a picked houseguest simply earns their own raw round points.
• There are no Jury or Finale pick bonuses and no jury-winner cap — jury votes always count at their flat value.

2.1 — Challenges

• 12 Points for winning HOH
• 8 Points for winning the Power of Veto
• 6 Points for winning the BB BlockBuster
• 2 Points for winning a competition that's not HOH, Veto, or BB BlockBuster

2.2 — Advantages & Powers

• -1 Point to the HOH for each nomination they have to make in a round
• 2 Points for using the Power of Veto on yourself or someone else
• 3 Points if the Power of Veto is used on you by someone else
• 2 Points for gaining an advantage or power
• 2 Points for an advantage / power used successfully

2.3 — Voting

• 2 Points for voting correctly pre-jury
• 5 Points for voting correctly post-jury
• -1 Point for voting wrong
• -2 Points per vote against
• 3 Points for a successful backdoor as HOH

2.4 — Surviving

• 5 Points for surviving eviction
• -1 Point for being a Have Not or receiving a punishment that week
• -2 Points for being nominated
• Points for not being nominated, based on weeks in a row not nominated:
  • 1 week: 3 Points
  • 2 weeks: 4 Points
  • 3 weeks: 5 Points
  • 4 weeks: 6 Points
  • 5+ weeks: 7 Points
• -10 Points for quitting, getting medevaced, or being removed from the game

2.5 — Consolation & Punishment

When a houseguest quits, is medevaced, or is removed, their fellow houseguests are compensated (Consolation) and the houseguest who left forfeits points (Punishment):

• +2 Points Consolation pre-jury / +5 Points Consolation post-jury — to their fellow houseguests
• -2 Points per Punishment vote against / -1 Point Punishment voted wrong — to the houseguest who left

2.6 — Placement

• 5 Points for getting back into the game
• 5 Points for making jury
• 5 Points for making the Final 2
• 2 Points per jury vote
• 5 Points for America's Favorite Player

For the full edge-case clarifications on every category, see the Fantasy House Rules.

3.0 — Community

3.1 — Groups

• Create or join private or public groups to compete on a shared, group-only leaderboard.
• Invite friends by link or username, and register your entries to the groups you join.
• Where to find it: Weekly Pick'em → Groups.

3.2 — Statistics

Community Insights: the Statistics page aggregates the whole season for every entry, or filtered to a single group. Use the round selector to view a specific round; cumulative figures are shown "as of" that round.

• Summary totals:
  • Number of entries
  • Top score (the highest season total)
  • Average points per round
  • Best single round (the highest one-round score)
  • This round's average score
  • Longest hot streak
• Houseguests this round:
  • Most Picked — every pickable houseguest and the percent of entries that picked them
  • Top Picks by Slot — for each multiplier slot (×5, ×4, …), the houseguests most often placed there
  • Highest-Scoring — the houseguests who scored the most points that round
  • Eliminated — houseguests who are out, with the round they were evicted
• Entry superlatives (season-to-date):
  • Best Single Round — the entries with the biggest one-round scores
  • Most Consistent — the entries with the highest average points per round
  • Biggest Movers — the entries that climbed the most places since the previous round
  • Hot Streaks — the entries on the longest run of rounds scoring above the field average
• Group filtering: use the group selector to view a single group's stats or site-wide data.
• Tap a houseguest to open their Weekly Pick'em profile; tap an entry to open that coach's profile.
• Where to find it: Weekly Pick'em → Statistics.