When you first join a contest, we create a simple SBPS User Account to store your box information, including your email address, to help the contest commissioner facilitate their contest.

You will be sent a brief welcome email that encourages you to set a password for your account. You will need this password the next time you visit our site, in order to protect your own identity against other people pretending to be you and use your email address.

We like to think of it like this: "Oh, we know that email address! You were here before. Please prove that was you by providing your password."

Sharing this contest is as easy as sharing the link to this contest.

This can be done via social media post on Facebook or Twitter (or any other platform), by email to your list of friends and family, or by text message.

You can also quite easily share this contest via QR code, by letting anyone else nearby use their smart phone to activate the image with their phone camera.

Please consult your contest commissioner with any specific rules, however, as they are the ones who determine who should or should not have access to join this contest. Please be respectful of their desired setup, which may or may not intend for this to be shared publicly.

Our website does not enforce any sort of limit on square counts. As far as we're concerned, you are "able" to reserve as many squares as you like.

However - we recommend that you please click here to visit the Contest Rules page to see if the commissioner has provided any further information about box quantities.

If your contest has a linked sporting event scoreboard, that scoreboard should be updating constantly.

For all NFL football games - including regular season and the playoffs - the scoreboard will update in nearly real time. In other sports, it updates every minute or two or three, depending on the sport.

Contest Passwords are case sensitive - meaning every upper case and lower case letter has to match the true password exactly as it was set by the commissioner.

Additionally, any extra spaces or characters will trigger an error as well. Often, mobile devices will try to "correct" your input by fixing spelling, capitalizing letters, or adding spaces and punctuation. Be sure to undo whatever corrections your mobile device makes, leaving only the exact password.

If for some reason your password isn't working, your first step should be to contact the contest commissioner, whose information is shown at the top of the contest page, and ask them to confirm the exact correct contest password, including which letters need to be capitalized.

The website does not automatically show which squares are currently winning, which squares already won, or where the current score of the game is on the contest grid.

This is for a variety of reasons - the most important being that every contest is unique, with its own unique rules that apply to it, and we aren't going to attempt to "guess" what each of our commissioners uniquely intended for their specific contest.

The commissioner has the ability to manually define winners any time they like - so hopefully they will take advantage of this feature to highlight the winning squares.

We encourage you to click here to visit the Contest Winners page to see if the commissioner has declared any of the winners..

Of course you can!

Contests at SBPS are always free to create, and the entire setup process takes about 3 minutes.