NBA playoff bracket challenge
Your people pick the winner of every series before the first game, and the leaderboard moves as each series ends. Our team builds the bracket once the play-in settles the field and records every series result, under your logo and colors.
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The field is not set until the play-in tournament ends. Our team builds the 16-team bracket from the bracket the NBA publishes, seeds and all, so your people see real series rather than a blank grid.
One lock time covers the whole bracket, so set it before the first round starts. Reminders go out before lock, and nobody sees how the rest of the group picked until then. Auto-fill can start a bracket from the higher seeds or at random.
A series is up to seven games between the same two teams, so our team records the winner once the series is decided, the winner moves into the next round and every bracket is rescored.
Each person's best bracket ranks on the leaderboard. Bracket pools let a department, a fantasy league or a group chat run its own standings inside your challenge, and the Banter Board gives the loudest one somewhere to say so.
Sixteen teams make a shallow bracket. A few rules decide whether it stays interesting into the conference finals.
Eight first-round series is half the bracket. Fanzava scores one point times the round number, so the Finals pick is worth 4 and the right champion adds 10. The weighting is the same for every bracket and is not set per pool.
Some pools pay extra for backing the lower seed. Fanzava does not: points follow the round, not the seed. An eighth seed beating the one seed is still only a first-round point, which is why the champion pick carries the contest.
Ten points is more than any single round is worth, so a bracket whose champion is alive stays in contention after a rough first round. When the champion you backed goes out, the leaderboard shows it and that person is emailed once.
One per person is the default and keeps the conversation simple. You can allow up to five, and the best bracket is the one that counts. Ask for the limit before the bracket opens.
The play-in decides two seeds in each conference late, and a bracket cannot start without those names. Opening after the play-in shortens your entry window and ends any argument about what a play-in loss does to a pick.
The playoffs run from April into June. A bracket hub with pools and a leaderboard holds a group for the whole stretch, where a one-time poll does not.
If you already run an NBA pick'em for the regular season, the bracket is a separate pool in the same hub, with its own leaderboard and the same participants.
Paid plans and a Bracket Pass ship full white label. Pro and above add a custom domain and a custom email sender, so the lock reminder and round results arrive from you.
Entry is free and Fanzava never handles entry money. People make picks and a leaderboard ranks them.
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.