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Beat Your Friends at NFL Pick’em
Make NFL Picks. Dominate Leaderboards. Earn Glory.
Run a private league with your friends across Survivor, Straight Picks, Confidence, and Spread contests. Climb the leaderboards and earn ultimate bragging rights.
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⚡How it works
Three steps, then it runs itself
A pick’em pool is the simplest football contest there is: call the winner of each game, count up who got the most right. The hard part has always been the admin. That part is ours.
Start a league
Name it, choose which modes you want to run, and send the invite link. Your friends join in a couple of taps — no app install required, though there is one if they want it.
Make your picks
The week’s slate is waiting when you open the site. Change your mind as often as you like; each game locks itself at kickoff, so nobody can sneak a pick in late and nobody has to police it.
Watch the standings move
Scores come in live and the leaderboard updates as the games go final. Weekly winners, season totals, head-to-head records and the season archive are all kept for you.
🎮Ways to play
Five pick modes, and one running grudge match
Every mode is a genuinely different game, not a setting. Groups usually start with straight picks, add confidence once someone complains that the winner just got lucky, and end up running three at once.
Straight picks
The defaultCall the outright winner of every game, one point per correct pick. Everyone understands it in ten seconds, and it is still the hardest mode to win over a full season: the field converges on the same chalk, so the standings come down to the three or four coin-flip games nobody had a read on.
Confidence
Where football IQ showsSame slate, but you also rank every game by how sure you are — 16 points on your surest call down to 1 on your shakiest. Getting the winners right is not enough; you have to be right about which ones you were right about. One blown top-weighted pick can cost more than a whole bad Sunday.
Against the spread
No easy gamesThe lines come in and the easy games disappear. Taking a 13-point favourite is free in straight mode and a real decision here. Spread pools are the closest thing we run to how the sport is actually priced, and they punish homer picks fast.
Survivor
One lifeOne pick a week, that team has to win, and you can never use the same team twice. Survive longer than everyone else. Most pools are down to a handful of players by Thanksgiving, and the real strategy is less about this week's game than about which teams you are saving for December.
Playoff bracket
January, all at onceFill out the whole postseason — Wild Card through the Super Bowl — and watch it live as it survives or busts. You can pick by SEED before the field is even set, and when seeding locks your picks resolve to the real teams automatically, so nothing has to be re-entered. Super Bowl week adds a tiebreaker for the brackets still standing.
The Expert Gauntlet
You versus usA running head-to-head between our model, published expert consensus, and everyone playing on the site — a permanent public scoreboard of who is actually calling games well, including the weeks where the answer is embarrassing for us.
📰The Playbook
The writing behind the picks
Typically 1,600 to 6,900 words each. Every piece is a standalone read — no account, no paywall.
Emporia State 19, Nebraska-Kearney 9: Boss Scores Twice, Defense Carries a Scoreless Second Half to 4-0
The #17 Hornets led 16-0 in the first quarter on two Landon Boss touchdowns, then did not score after halftime. The defense never allowed a…
Last week's recap left a marker on the table: if Emporia State gave up more than 20 to Nebraska-Kearney, we would start writing that the defense was getting figured out. They gave up nine…
Gilmer 48, Sulphur Springs 38: Seven Drives, Seven Touchdowns, One Stop All Night
The Buckeyes go 3-1 on the road at Sulphur Springs behind Zade Taylor's 254 total yards and three scores. A real win, and a…
Pick'emNFL Week 2 2026 Pick’em Preview: Experts, Locks, and the Model’s Boldest Call
The experts split on Panthers-Falcons and Jags-Broncos. Our model has a 77% lock and one game it literally can’t call. Read…
PreviewsGilmer at Sulphur Springs: Friday One of Two
The Buckeyes travel to Sulphur Springs on Friday for the last non-district tune-up. The tackling problem the fan base…
Start/SitWeek 2 Start/Sit: Lions-Bills TNF and the Sunday Bench Calls
Thursday shootout in Orchard Park, matchup flips across the Sunday board, and the guys you're overthinking after one bad…
Team RecapsEagles Survive Washington 24-22: Two Missed Points Bailed Us Out
Jalen Hurts threw three touchdowns and Dallas Goedert caught two of them, but Washington doubled us in first downs and the…
Waiver WireWeek 2 Waiver Wire: The Roles That Just Cracked Open
Eight pickups your leaguemates haven't seen yet, with FAAB tiers by league size and the drops that will make room for them.
📊Original research
The ITFFL Record Book
Six seasons of one real league, fully documented — and it exists nowhere else.
Most fantasy football writing runs on the same public projections everyone else has. This series is built on six complete seasons of one 12-team league’s own records — 2020 through 2025, 72 team-seasons, 22 managers and 1,080 draft picks — because nobody else has the data.
“Five of the six champions did not have the best regular-season record, and the 2020 title went to an 8-seed that finished 5-8.”
What comes out of it is not received wisdom. The manager with the best average finish across six years — 4.50 — has zero championships. Rookie picks account for a stubborn 8-13% of every draft, year after year, no matter how emphatically the room swears this class is different. Each of those is a full article with the tables behind it, and the pieces say plainly when a number is too small a sample to mean anything.
- ITFFL FAAB: How This League Bids, in 548 Claims Six seasons of ITFFL waiver data, 548 winning claims and $43,555 in league money. The bidding is a barbell, the biggest bids…
- The Week One Overreaction Trap: Why ITFFL Overpays Early Seven of the twelve biggest FAAB bids in ITFFL history landed in weeks 1 through 3 — the exact moment the league knows the least…
- Post-Draft Roster Triage: Fixing the ITFFL Team You Got The draft is over and your bench is already full. Here is what is actually fixable, what you live with, and why the first waiver…
✍️About the writing
How these pieces get made
🎯Written for one decision
Every article is written for a specific decision a reader is about to make: who to take at 1.04, whether to spend a waiver claim, whether the camp buzz on a rookie back is real. Each one opens on the question, states what the data says, then says what we would do — including when the honest answer is that the evidence is thin.
🔍Sources are named
Sources are named in the text. When a piece leans on consensus rankings, mock-draft ADP, or a team’s own camp reporting, it says so and gives the sample size. When it leans on the ITFFL archive, it says which seasons and how many team-seasons are behind the number. Small samples get labelled as small samples.
🔄Corrections stay in the piece
Corrections and follow-ups are folded into the relevant piece rather than quietly disappearing, and series posts link to each other so you can follow an argument across several weeks.
🧭Browse
By topic
The library is organised by what a piece is for — ranking players, deciding a start/sit, working a waiver wire, or reading six years of league history.
🏈Division II
The message board’s Top 25, tabulated
Posters on the D2Football.com board rank their top 25 every week. We count the ballots, publish every one of them, and show which teams the room cannot agree on. Ferris State is No. 1 in Week 4 on 9 ballots. No account needed to read it, or to send a ballot of your own.
🏈Kickoff is waiting
Your group is one link away from a real pool
Creating an account takes about thirty seconds and costs nothing. Start a league, invite the group chat, and let the standings do the trash talking — or join the Expert Gauntlet and see how you stack up against the consensus.
Free to play, all season.