NFL predictor
An NFL prediction league run from the UK, where picking the winners is the easy part and getting people to predict before the late games is the actual job. Eighteen weeks, 272 games, locks that follow kick-off and reminders that arrive while your players are awake. Your logo, your colours, your domain.
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Thursday Night Football is the first lock of the week and it lands in the small hours of Friday here. The full slate arrives in your hub with kick-off times already converted to your players' time zone and a countdown on every fixture, so nobody is doing arithmetic about what 8:15pm Eastern means.
The bulk of the week kicks off in two windows, around 6pm and around 9pm UK time. Predictions lock game by game, so the early window closing does not close the late one. A reminder on Sunday morning catches the people who predict over breakfast, and the standard one before kick-off catches the rest.
Monday Night Football closes the week in the early hours of Tuesday. Results score as each game ends, the leaderboard moves overnight, and the recap is waiting on Tuesday morning when the office gets in to argue about it.
Almost nothing that goes wrong in a UK NFL competition is about the picks. It is about the clock. The first game of the week and the last two land in the middle of the night, and the Sunday slate runs from teatime to bedtime.
Thursday, Sunday night and Monday night all start after 1am UK time. A reminder an hour before those kick-offs lands while your players are asleep. Keep the pre-kick-off reminder for the Sunday windows, where it works, and make sure the 24-hour reminder reaches people for the late games while they are still awake.
The UK and the United States put their clocks back a week apart, so for one week in autumn every kick-off lands an hour earlier here. Any competition that publishes fixed UK deadlines in a welcome email will be wrong that week. Locks are tied to kick-off and reminders to the lock, so the shift happens without anyone touching a setting.
Thursday Night Football locks in the early hours of Friday, roughly four days before the Monday night game. A single weekly deadline set at the Thursday kick-off locks people out of most of the week's football. Per-fixture locks are the right default. If you want one deadline because your players are casual, set it at the first Sunday kick-off and leave the Thursday game out of the competition entirely, rather than scoring a game nobody could predict.
Sixteen games in a full week, fourteen when four clubs are out, thirteen in the heaviest bye week. Straight predictions absorb that without anyone noticing. A confidence ranking does not: the top rank is worth 16 one week and 13 the next unless you renumber. Decide whether the ranking shrinks with the slate or the point values stay fixed, and say which before Week 1.
The playoffs run single elimination across four weekends: six Wild Card games, then four, then two, then one. Scored as ordinary weeks, the Conference Championships and the Super Bowl are worth almost nothing and your competition ends with a whimper. Either weight the later rounds upward, run the 14-team bracket as its own competition, or close the predictor at Week 18 and start something new in January.
A winner in every game, up to sixteen a week, eighteen weeks. The default, and the only format that survives an office where half the field could not name a starting quarterback.
Rank every game in the week by how sure you are, from 16 down to 1. It rewards the people who actually watch, and it is the format most affected by bye weeks shortening the slate.
One team a week, never twice, one wrong call and you are out. Thirty-two teams against eighteen weeks means running out of teams is almost never what ends you. Bye weeks taking four or six clubs off the board is what actually does it.
Fourteen teams, thirteen games, four weekends, ending in Atlanta on 13 February 2028. Fill it in once in January and run it as a separate competition for the people who never predicted a regular-season week.
Every fixture shows its kick-off in the reader's local time with a live countdown, and reminders are timed from the lock, so they move with it. The autumn week when the clocks disagree passes without you editing anything or fielding a single email about it.
Your logo, your colours, your domain on every screen and every email. Pro and above run on a custom domain with a custom email sender, so the Tuesday recap arrives from you and nobody sees a Fanzava logo at any point in eighteen weeks.
Thursday night to the early hours of Tuesday is a long week to hold open. Fixtures lock individually at kick-off, so the Thursday game closes on its own and the Monday night game stays open until it starts. One missed deadline costs one game, not the week.
Split your players into groups by office, department or team allegiance. Group leaderboards run alongside the overall one, and the Banter Board keeps the Tuesday morning argument somewhere other than your inbox.
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