The Rules

Every member drafts 6 NFL franchises at the live, in-person draft. No apps, no auto-pick, no mercy.

Duplicates are legal — across the room and inside your own lineup. If you want to double up on the same franchise, go for it: each of your 6 slots is scored separately, so that team's results count twice for you.

No single franchise can be drafted more than 6 times across the league, and a member may draft the same franchise more than once — each slot scores separately.

• Win = 2 points
• Tie = 1 point
• Loss = 0 points

Your score is the sum across all 6 slots for the entire NFL regular season. Playoffs don't count. Nothing is entered by hand — every point is computed from real game results.

Points For is the total points your 6drafted teams have scored in real NFL games, added together across the whole season. It's the tiebreaker if two members finish level on league points.

Points are counted per slot, so if you doubled up on a franchise its scoring counts twice for you. Yes, a garbage-time touchdown in Week 14 can absolutely change who gets paid.

Entry is $160 per member. With 29 entrants that's a $4,640 pot.

• 1st$2,300
• 2nd$1,150
• 3rd$600
• 4th$300
• 5th$190
• Biggest Loser$100

And yes — dead last still cashes. The Biggest Loser takes home a consolation payout, which is either mercy or an insult depending on your mood.

A projection estimates where you finish once the rest of the real schedule is played out. See How This Is Calculated (Detail) on the Season Projections page.

projected points = points banked + 2 × (sum of win chances in remaining games)

Add that up across your 6 teams and that's your projected final points, shown to one decimal. It moves whenever the lines move or a game finishes.

Projections give one tidy answer. The percentage gives the whole range of futures.

We play out the remainder of the real NFL schedule 5,000 times. In each run every remaining game is decided by its market win probability, we re-score all 6 slots for every member, and we record who finishes first, who lands in the money, and who ends up in the basement. Ties are broken on projected Points For. Your % Chance To Win It All is simply the share of those simulated seasons you finished first in.

A 12.4% is not a prediction that you'll lose — it means you won 12.4% of the seasons we played out. Full first / top-five / last-place breakdowns live on the Projections page.

Records, scores and schedules come straight from ESPN's public data and refresh automatically every morning (plus whenever the commissioner hits Sync). Teams are matched on stable ESPN team IDs, so nothing breaks when a broadcaster changes a nickname.

Standings, projections and odds all recompute from that data — nobody is typing your score into a spreadsheet anymore.