Prizes start being awarded from Week 5 on. You don't have to wait till the end of the season to see if you may win something. FREE PICKS POOLS are run 4 weeks at a time, with the last pool covering 5 weeks. You are going to pick the games anyway, you may as well do it where you can win something for it.
Also, while playing in the contest you will have access to extensive tracking software for your results, a custom team situation trend searching tool that offers ATS records for teams in various game situations, and you will have Hot and Cold tables to view that displays the hottest and coldest teams ATS and offers historical break points to streaks based on if it is a Good team or Bad team and what kind of streak they are on, W or L.
If you are weary of putting in your info into the registration form, then make up an address and a name if you want, just give me a real email where I can contact you in case you win. Open up a paypal account and I will just drop the money in.
This will probably football pool all year long you will play in where you can only win and have no chance at losing.