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Two ways to play the NFL season with your mates — no money, just bragging rights.
Own The League turns the NFL season into a game you can play with your mates without setting an alarm for the middle of the night. Every pick locks at 23:59 UK time the evening before that week's first kickoff — so you never have to be awake for a Thursday night game that doesn't get going here until gone 1am. Set up a private league, share a join code, and follow the whole thing — 32 teams across an 18-week regular season — from the September kickoff through to January.
There's no stake and no catch — every NFL game on Own The League is completely free. You're playing for the group chat, the office trophy and a season of "I told you so." Pick your format, get your friends in, and see who actually knows their AFC from their NFC.
Whether your league is three mates or thirty colleagues, everyone plays the same game on the same live leaderboard. Results are pulled straight from the real NFL season, so there's nothing to score by hand and no arguments about who's actually ahead.
SET UP A LEAGUEPick 4
Set once, season-long: draft four teams, one per role.
Draft one NFL team for each of four roles before the Week 1 deadline: a Champion for the best final record, a Gunslinger for pure scoring output, a high-risk Dark Horse restricted to teams that finished 17th or worse last season, and a Banker for a straight bet on making the playoffs. Set it once and follow it from September to January — there are no changes once the deadline passes.
Play Pick 4 →Fourcast
Play every week — four fresh picks, nobody knocked out.
Pick four different NFL teams every week — one per role — and score points multiplied by each team's live standing: struggling teams in the bottom tier score double, mid-table teams score higher too, and the top eight score at face value. Miss a week and your picks simply roll over at a flat rate, so there's always a score on the board.
Play Fourcast →Runs every NFL season, from the September kickoff through to the end of the regular season in January.
Picks close Wed, 9 Sept 2026, 23:59
The NFL regular season runs 18 weeks across 32 teams, with every team getting one bye week worked into the schedule — a long, steady grind that's perfect for a season-long prediction league.
Pick 4 rewards a smart one-time draft — nail your Champion, Gunslinger, Dark Horse and Banker in Week 1 and follow the table all the way to January. Fourcast rewards showing up every week, with nobody ever facing an early exit.
New season, clean slate: everyone starts level in September, so it's never too late to get a league together before Week 1.
Fancy your NFL knowledge and happy to set it once? Pick 4 is where the season-long strategists prove it. Prefer a fresh call every week without the risk of missing a pick because you were asleep at kickoff? Fourcast keeps everyone in it, every week, all season — and your picks lock at a sensible UK hour, not a 1am kickoff.
Yes. Every Own The League NFL game is completely free — there's no stake and no entry fee. You're playing for bragging rights.
As many as you like. Create a private league, share the join code, and invite as many friends, family or colleagues as you want.
Both games run across the NFL regular season, from the September kickoff to January. Get your league set up before Week 1 so nobody misses out.
Pick 4 is a one-time season-long draft: you pick four teams, one per role — Champion, Gunslinger, Dark Horse and Banker — before the Week 1 deadline and follow them all the way to January with no changes allowed. Fourcast is weekly: pick four different teams every week, one per role, and score points multiplied by each team's live standing — and if you miss a week your picks simply roll over.
Every NFL team gets one bye week during the regular season, and a team can't be picked in the week it's resting. That matters for Fourcast, where you pick fresh teams every week anyway — but Pick 4 settles off the season as a whole, so a bye is just part of the 17-game schedule each team plays and isn't something a Pick 4 player needs to think about.
No. Own The League scores everything automatically from the real NFL results — you just make your picks before the deadline and check the leaderboard whenever you like.
Yes. Pick 4 and Fourcast are separate games, so you can set up or join a league in each and run them side by side across the same season.
Ready to get your league together?
SET UP A LEAGUE