Heads up: this page and your TV won't agree
Scores here can be ahead of what you're watching. The page gets them from the league feed within seconds of the play, while streaming services typically run ten seconds to a minute or more behind, further still if you've paused, rewound, or started a recording late. So a score can change here, or a 🔥 appear, before you see the play that caused it.
It can also go the other way: the page refreshes every ten seconds, so now and then your TV gets there first and the page takes a moment to catch up. Either way, nothing is broken. If you'd rather not be spoiled, collapse the games you're watching, or hide the Score column by clicking its header.
Navigating
Use the Season and Week buttons (top left) to switch what you're viewing. The page auto-updates every 10 seconds when games are live, less often between games and once the week is final. No need to refresh.
Toolbar
- Who's watching. The oval button left of Players counts the tabs open on the site right now, yours included. Tap it to see what people are watching on (2 × iPhone · Safari). A new tab takes a few seconds to appear and drops off within a minute of closing. It knows nothing about who you are; there are no accounts here.
- Players shows or hides players and orders their columns. Use ▲▼ to move anyone up or down. Pin (★) the players you care about: Clear all hides everyone but your pins, Pinned mode shows only them, and Show all brings everyone back. Pinning a hidden player shows them again, but doesn't change their position. Order and pins are saved on this device.
- Theme picks a color scheme. The default is Neutral, a calm color-free look; there's also Rowdy Mode (the house theme) and all 32 NFL teams, in Modern or Throwback style. The Marks control adds a glyph to each pick so you aren't relying on color alone: ✓ marks wins only, ✓ ✗ also crosses out losses, Off uses color by itself. It works with any theme and starts on ✓ ✗ for Neutral. With ✓ alone, a loss and an unfinished game both show nothing. Build your own with Custom Theme: tap Edit, then tap any part of the sample scoreboard (background, header, group header, win, or loss cell) to recolor it, with text contrast handled for you. A custom background keeps its hue in both modes; the Light/Dark toggle just sets a pale tint or a deep shade. It starts as a copy of Neutral, and Reset returns it there. You can also copy the theme you were on, roll a random one with Surprise Me, or Share a link to your palette.
- Light / Dark switches between light and dark mode. Until you choose, the site matches your device's setting; once you pick, your preference is saved.
The two sections
The page has two collapsible sections. Click any section title to expand or collapse it.
- Games lists every game this week, with scores and pick results.
- Projected / Season Standings shows each player's Season total, their This Week record, their Entering Wk N record (where they stood coming in), and Weeks Won (weeks finished with the pool's best record, ties sharing credit). A marks the season leader; it moves only once a week is final, so during play it shows who led going in. A ✨ marks whoever's winning this week, live. Ties all get one. Click any of Season, This Week, Entering Wk N, or Weeks Won to re-sort; your choice sticks. Season Rank and GB (games behind) follow the sorted column, so sorting by This Week shows the gap to the week's leader, not the season's. The section reads Projected Standings during play and becomes Season Standings once every game is final. While games are live, a Count live games checkbox appears: on, a live game counts at its current score; off, it's set aside and shown separately (e.g. 10-4, 1 live, 2 scheduled). When the week is final, a Download row offers Season Standings or Week by Week CSVs.
Inside the Games section
- Time slot groups. Games are grouped by time slot (Sunday Early, Sunday Late, Sunday Night, and so on). Click a slot row to collapse just that group, or Expand / Collapse All Games for everything. Kickoff times show in your device's local time, so the same game reads 1:00 PM in New York and 10:00 AM in Phoenix. Slot names track the national broadcast windows, so a Sunday Early game can list a time that doesn't look early where you are.
- Scoring plays. Tap a matchup (the underlined team names in the Game column) for a list of every score in that game: who scored, from how far out, who threw or kicked it, and what the score became. Live games keep filling in; reopen it for later scores. Games that haven't kicked off say so.
- Columns. Click any of the four info column headers (Game, Kickoff, Score, Pick Lead) to collapse that column and save space. Player columns don't collapse; use the Players button to hide players.
- Score. Live games show both scores and where things stand (e.g. CIN 31 | BUF 32 | 7:44 - 3rd), leading team in bold. A 🏈 means that team has the ball. Before kickoff a game reads Scheduled, then Starting Soon with a football countdown in the last five minutes; at the break it counts down to the restart; halted mid-play it shows the clock it stopped at and keeps counting toward records at that score, with the reason in Pick Lead. Tap Delayed or Suspended for why: the cause most headlines agree on, the headlines with their publishers, and the National Weather Service for that stadium. The NFL states no reason itself, so nothing here is official. A live game's clock is underlined; tap it for down, distance and field position, or what's happening between series (Kickoff, End of quarter, Official timeout).
- Pick Lead shows which team is covering right now and by how much, in the winning color. A 🔥 flags a game worth watching in its last moments: inside the final two minutes (or overtime), with either the cover still in reach (spread-adjusted margin within six points) or a one-score game on the scoreboard (within seven). It clears when the game ends.
- Sheet ⤓ downloads that week's original spreadsheet, the file the picks came in on, in case you'd rather print it and follow along on paper. It appears once the week's picks are in.
- Missed picks count as losses. A blank pick scores as a loss, and so does a whole week missed: a loss for every game that week. A no-show still gets a column in Games, shaded as a loss all the way down, so Standings always matches what you see there. Anyone who joins mid-season isn't charged for the weeks before they arrived. A cancelled game counts for nobody, and that week is just out of one fewer game.
- Color coding. Every pick is shaded winning or losing against the spread. During live games the colors follow the current score, so they can flip as the game swings; they lock in once the game is final. Games that haven't started yet are uncolored.
- TV, stadium & weather. Tap the ⓘ by any kickoff time for the TV broadcast, the stadium and its location, and the weather. Before kickoff you get both the current conditions and the forecast for game time; once it's under way, just what it's doing at the stadium. It updates while open. Domed stadiums read Indoor stadium. Weather drops off once a game is final.
How scoring works
Each game has a point spread, for example Lions +7.5. The Lions are getting 7.5 points, so a Lions pick wins if they win outright or lose by fewer than 7.5. Picking the other team wins only if they win by more than 7.5 points.
Because spreads are always a half-point, there are no ties. Every pick is a clear win or loss.