Rules

NFL Pick'em rules

A season-long league where members compete to build the best record picking NFL games each week, on both a weekly and a cumulative season leaderboard.

League settings

Season range — the NFL regular season, weeks 1–18. A league created mid-season starts at the first week that hasn't kicked off yet; the range is fixed once the league starts.
Pick type — Straight Up or Against the Spread, applied to every pick all season.
Picks per week — 1 to 16 (default 5).

Weekly picks

Each week you submit one set of picks — the week's full required set, in a single submission. Every game in that week's slate is eligible, and members choose their own games.
The submission is final. Once it lands, no pick in that week can be changed, replaced, or removed. A misclick is permanent for that week.
If the week has fewer available games than your league's picks per week, everyone picks every available game.
Each pick locks at its game's kickoff — that's when it becomes visible to the rest of the league, and when the game drops out of what a member who hasn't submitted can still pick.
Submitting late costs picks, not the week: you submit a full set of what can still be picked, and games that already kicked off score nothing. A member who never submits scores zero for the week — there is no auto-pick.
In Against the Spread leagues, you accept the spreads shown at the moment you submit, on the whole set at once.

Scoring

Correct pick: +1 point.
Incorrect pick: 0 points.
Push (against the spread) or tie (straight up): +0.5.
Cancelled game: treated as a push — there is no substitute pick.
A game postponed within the same week resolves normally when played.

Standings

Weekly — that week's points only, resetting each week.
Season — cumulative points from the league's start week through its end week. A week with no submission counts as zero.
Members who tie on points share the rank — there is no tiebreaker.
A member who joins mid-season simply has zero-point weeks for the weeks already completed.