Bracket challenge
Everyone fills out the same bracket before the tournament starts, and points follow the real results. Fanzava runs yours under your own brand: our team builds the bracket and records every result. Looking for an official bracket instead? The links are just below.
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The NFL playoffs
Every January someone asks for an NFL playoff bracket. The league's own format decides what you can actually run.
Seven teams make it from each conference. The top seed in each rests on Wild Card weekend while the second seed plays the seventh, the third plays the sixth and the fourth plays the fifth. Then the divisional round, the conference championships and the Super Bowl: 13 games.
After Wild Card weekend the top seed plays the lowest seed still alive, not a fixed opponent. Who plays whom in the divisional round depends on which upsets happen first, so nobody can fill out that round before the playoffs start.
A bracket fixes every path to the final before the first game, and Fanzava brackets run a clean field of 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 or 128 with no byes. A 14-team field with byes and reseeding is neither, so the full playoffs cannot be one of them.
Keep your pick'em going through the playoffs, one week at a time, as the matchups are set. Once the conference championships are set, the last four teams are a true four-team knockout: two games, then the Super Bowl. Our team can build that as a bracket, locked before the conference championships.
Seeds, first-round matchups and the shape of the bracket go up at once. Everyone picks every game through to the final in one sitting, rather than being chased week after week.
One deadline, usually minutes before the first game. Nobody sees anyone else's picks before then, so there is nothing to copy. After lock, pick percentages show how the field split.
Each result is recorded as its game is decided: from Fanzava's results feed where it carries the game, and by our team where it does not. Correct later-round picks are worth more, so a bracket that looks busted after one upset can still win.
A bracket has one deadline and almost no admin. What it has instead is scoring design.
Double elimination gives every entrant a second life but doubles the games and produces a bracket most people cannot read at a glance. For a prediction game, single elimination is almost always right, and it is the only kind Fanzava runs.
Fanzava scores one point in round one, two in round two and so on, with ten more for the champion. Doubling weights make every round worth the same in total. Linear keeps the first round meaningful and lets the champion pick swing the pool.
Some pools pay extra for correctly picking a lower seed. Fanzava does not: points follow the round, not the seed, and the weighting is not set per pool.
64 teams, 63 picks, three weeks from the first tip to the title game.
An office or customer challenge under your company brand.
16 teams and four best-of-seven rounds, one pick per series.
16 teams and four best-of-seven rounds, one pick per series.
The last sixteen, with a route to the final fixed by the round of 16 draw.
128 players and seven rounds, from the Australian Open to the US Open.
Knockout brackets run on Fanzava today, scored round by round, with results recorded for you. Our team builds the bracket and records every result the feed does not carry.
Paid plans and a Bracket Pass ship full white label. Pro and above add a custom domain and a custom email sender. Groups let an office floor or a team run a pool inside your challenge.
Brackets start above the Free plan. Run them on Starter or higher, or pay once for a Bracket Pass that covers a single tournament with no subscription. Included: Full white label · Fanzava watermark removed · Brackets.
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Free to start. No credit card.