Skins Series links two or more tournaments into one connected game. A commissioner picks the tournaments — each one is a "leg" — and you draft a fresh roster for every leg. Each leg is scored like a standard pool, and the top-finishing team that leg claims a share of the pot based on where it lands. Money that is not claimed rolls forward into the next leg, so the pot can build as the series goes on. Computer-managed teams fill out the field and compete for position; they can finish ahead of you and hold money back, which is what feeds the rollover. Join with a season pass (one payment covering every leg) or ante leg by leg. The Skins Ledger in My Clubhouse tracks the running pot, the standings, and who has won what.
A Skins Series chains several tournaments into one game. You draft a fresh roster each leg, the best real team that leg claims a ladder share of the pot, and anything unclaimed rolls forward — so the pot can grow across the series.
How a series is built
A standard pool covers one tournament. A Skins Series covers a run of them. The commissioner chooses which tournaments to chain — the four majors are the natural set, but any two or more tournaments on the calendar can form a series — and each tournament becomes a leg. A series needs at least two members to run.
The defining rule is that every leg gets a fresh roster. You are not locked into the golfers you drafted in leg one for the rest of the series. Each leg opens as its own pool, you draft against that tournament's field, and your picks for the next leg are a clean slate. A member who reads one tournament well and another poorly carries the result of each leg forward independently; there is no single roster that has to survive the whole run.
Because each leg is its own pool with its own lock, the series moves in steps. One leg locks, plays out, and settles; then the next leg opens for drafting. The Skins Ledger keeps the whole arc in one place so you always see where the series stands.
How each leg is scored and claimed
Each leg is scored exactly the way a standard pool is scored. You draft a roster within the leg's value cap, the counting golfers on your roster are summed, and the team totals produce a leaderboard for that leg. Player draft values are points, the same as any pool — the point budget is what shapes your roster. The money is separate, and it lives at the series level.
What is different is how a leg pays out. Each leg carries a pot, and the top-finishing team that leg claims a share of that pot according to a ladder the commissioner sets — a percentage for the best finish, a smaller percentage for the next, and so on down the ladder. The claim is rank-based: where your team lands that leg decides what share, if any, it claims. A leg does not necessarily pay every position, and it does not necessarily pay out its whole pot — which is where the rollover comes in.
Only real members can claim money. The computer-managed teams in the field are scored and ranked alongside everyone else, but they are never paid.
How the pot rolls forward
The reason a Skins Series feels different from a set of one-off pools is the rollover. When a leg settles, any part of that leg's pot that no real team claimed does not disappear — it rolls forward and is added to the next leg's pot. A quiet leg where the money mostly went unclaimed makes the following leg richer. Over a full series, the pot can build into something much larger than any single leg's antes on their own.
On publicly listed Skins Series, the full pot goes to players — the money either gets claimed by a real team on a leg or rolls forward to a later one. The Skins Ledger shows the running balance leg by leg so every member can see the pot grow and see exactly where each leg's money went.
The computer-managed teams
A Skins Series fills out its field with persistent computer-managed teams. They draft a roster each leg, they are scored on the same leaderboard, and they hold a position in the standings across the whole series. They compete for real — a computer-managed team can finish ahead of you on a leg.
Here is the part that matters strategically: those teams cannot win money. When a computer-managed team finishes in a position that would have claimed a share of the pot, that share is not paid out to it — it feeds the rollover instead. So the field is not just decoration. A strong showing by the computer-managed teams on a given leg means more money rolls forward to the next one. They raise the bar you have to clear to claim, and everything they would have claimed stays in play for the members.
Joining: season pass or leg by leg
There are two ways to ante into a series, and the commissioner decides which model the series uses.
A season pass is one payment that covers every leg of the series up front. You pay once, you are in for the whole run, and you draft a fresh roster each leg without anteing again. A weekly ante is paid leg by leg — you ante for each leg as it comes, and you decide leg to leg whether to play.
A series allows multiple entries where the commissioner permits it, so a member can field more than one team in a leg, each with its own ante slot. And a series can accept members after it has already started: a catch-up buy-in lets a late joiner enter an in-progress series by paying to catch up on the legs already played, so they come in on fair footing with the founding members rather than for free.
However you join, the antes themselves are real money moving directly between you and your commissioner. OfficePoolGolf never touches the funds — it keeps score and tracks the ledger.
The Skins Ledger
Every series has a Skins Ledger in My Clubhouse, at /dashboard/series/[id]. It is the one screen that holds the whole series together. At a glance it shows the running pot and this leg's pot, the standings across every member, the per-leg results — who claimed, how much, and how much rolled forward — and your own line: what you have anted and what you have won.
For the commissioner, the Ledger adds an ante-collection panel for confirming or waiving each member's ante leg by leg, and a read-only view of who is owed what. Because OfficePoolGolf does not move money, the Ledger is a tracking record, not a payment processor — it tells everyone what is owed and what has been won so the peer-to-peer payments can happen cleanly.
Common questions
How is a Skins Series different from running a separate pool for each tournament?›
Two things. First, the money is connected — a leg that goes largely unclaimed rolls its pot forward, so later legs can carry a much bigger pot than their own antes. A set of one-off pools has no shared pot. Second, the standings and the ledger live in one place across the whole run, so members follow a single arc rather than tracking a handful of unrelated pools. You still draft a fresh roster each leg, exactly as you would in a standalone pool.
Can the computer-managed teams take money out of the pot?›
No. They are scored and ranked alongside real members, and they can finish ahead of you on a leg, but they are never paid. Any share a computer-managed team finishes in position to claim is added to the rollover instead of being paid out — so the field competes for position and, in effect, protects the pot for the members.
What happens if I want to join after the series has already started?›
If the commissioner has enabled it, you can join in progress with a catch-up buy-in — a payment that covers the legs already played so you enter on the same footing as the founding members. From there you draft a fresh roster each remaining leg like everyone else.
Who handles the money?›
You and your commissioner do, directly. Antes are real money arranged and paid between members and the commissioner using whatever method the group agrees on. OfficePoolGolf does not collect, hold, escrow, distribute, or process any funds — it keeps score and tracks the Skins Ledger so everyone can see what is owed and what has been won.
A Skins Series turns a run of tournaments into one game with a pot that carries. Draft fresh each leg, chase the rollover, and outlast the field — including the computer-managed teams holding money back at every position. The Skins Ledger keeps the whole thing honest and in one place, from the first ante to the final standing.