- 1Create an account — email, Venmo handle, and a display name for the leaderboard. Takes under a minute.
- 2Select your My Teams — pick 9 teams (one per division, plus a Wild Card) and answer the bonus questions.
- 3Earn points all season — regular-season wins, then bigger flat bonuses for each playoff round your teams survive, all the way to the Super Bowl.
How are teams seeded
Every team is ranked 1st–4th within its own division based on that team's odds to make the playoffs at the time seeding is set. Better odds = a lower, better seed number (1st is the best odds in the division, 4th the worst).
Seeding is fixed once entries open, so the seed you draft against stays the same all season — it doesn't move if a team's odds shift later. Your Wild Card pick is always a 4-seed team on the field, but for scoring purposes it counts as a 5-seed — meaning it earns more points per win than a regular 4-seed, as a bonus for being drawn from the whole league rather than a single division (5 pts/win instead of 4 — see the scoring breakdown below).
Roster requirement (full breakdown)
Final roster: 2× 1-seeds, 2× 2-seeds, 2× 3-seeds, 3× 4-seeds (one 4-seed is your Wild Card) — 9 teams total.
Picking your teams
Your roster is 9 teams total: one team from each of the 8 divisions (a 1, 2, 3, and 4-seed from both the AFC and NFC), plus 1 Wild Card — any 4-seed not already on your roster. You can only take one team per seed slot per conference, so once you've picked your AFC 1-seed, for example, no other AFC 1-seed is available to you.
You'll also answer the bonus questions as part of building your entry (see below). You can save your picks and answers as a draft and come back to finish before the entry deadline; once you submit, your entry is locked and can't be edited.
What are bonus questions
8–12 questions covering things your team picks alone can't predict — season-long or league-wide outcomes rather than any single team's record. They're answered from a dropdown when you build your entry, alongside your 9 team picks, and each is worth its own point value shown at the time you answer it.
Bonus questions are resolved after the regular season and added to your total — they're a separate score from your team picks, not a multiplier on them. Like your team picks, your answers lock once you submit your entry.
See full regular season scoring
| Result | Formula | 4-Seed Example |
|---|---|---|
| Win | Seed × 1 pt | 4 × 1 = 4 pts |
| Tie | Seed × 0.5 pt | 4 × 0.5 = 2 pts |
| Loss | 0 pts | 0 pts |
Strategy tip: a Wild Card pick scores as a "5-seed" (5 pts/win) — a small bonus since it's drawn from the whole league. A 4-seed that goes 10-7 scores 40 points from the regular season alone.
See full playoff scoring
Seeds no longer set the win value — it's flat and cumulative. The #1 seed in each conference gets bye credit instead of playing a Wild Card game.
| Milestone | Running Total |
|---|---|
| Make the playoffs | 15 |
| #1 seed bye bonus (+10) | 25 |
| Win Wild Card round (#1 seed auto-credited) | 40 (30 for non-#1) |
| Win Divisional round | 60 |
| Win Conference Championship | 90 |
| Win Super Bowl | 140 |
No points are gained or lost for a loss itself — you keep what you've earned. Example: a 4-seed that goes 10-7 and loses in the Wild Card round scores 40 + 15 = 55 pts. A #1 seed that goes 13-4 and wins the Super Bowl scores 13 + 140 = 153 pts.
Buy-In
Entry costs $50 per person: $45 to the prize pot, $5 covers software & maintenance.
Bonus Questions
8–12 questions, resolved after the regular season. Point values shown in the Entry tab.
Prizes
Pot is split 70% to 1st place, 25% to 2nd, 5% to 3rd.