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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.

Survivor Straight Confidence Spread

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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.

1

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.

2

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.

3

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 default

Call 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.

One point per correct pick

Confidence

Where football IQ shows

Same 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.

You bank the number you assigned

Against the spread

No easy games

The 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.

The favourite has to cover

Survivor

One life

One 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.

Each team once, all season

Playoff bracket

January, all at once

Fill 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.

Seed picks resolve automatically

The Expert Gauntlet

You versus us

A 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.

A permanent public scoreboard

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.

44 Articles live
313 Minutes of reading
14 Topics covered

Original research

The ITFFL Record Book

Six seasons of one real league, fully documented — and it exists nowhere else.

6 Seasons
72 Team-seasons
22 Managers
1,080 Draft picks

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.

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.

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.