The full slate, because the week allows it
An NFL week is around sixteen games, which is the rare schedule you can hand somebody in full without losing them. There is no shortlist and nothing selected on your behalf: Thursday night through Monday night, it is all on the card.
That completeness is most of the appeal. Everyone is looking at the same sixteen decisions, so the standings are a genuine comparison rather than an accident of who got the easier half of the schedule.
Nobody gets eliminated
Survivor pools lose most of their players before the season ends, and the ones who are out stop reading the thread. A Pick’Em pool keeps the entire group picking in week eighteen, which for an office or a family is usually the point of running one at all.
Picks lock game by game
Each pick locks at its own kickoff rather than all at once on Sunday morning, so the Thursday game is settled while the rest of the card is still open, and nothing can be changed after a result. Reminders go out before the deadline so a forgotten card is not how somebody’s season goes.
Scores arrive off the live feed, so nobody types a result into a spreadsheet. Picks grade themselves as games go final, standings move on their own, and the commissioner finds out who won at the same time as everyone else.