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Your NFL picks, week by week.

Call each game, put a number on your confidence, or predict the season. Rivory keeps each kind of prediction in its own Game, with its own scoring and standings.

Start with the question you want to answer

Weekly Picks has two independent sets over the same slate. Straight picks ask who wins. Spread picks ask who beats the line captured for that game at kickoff. Making a straight pick does not also fill your spread pick, and the two totals stay separate.

Probability Picks asks how sure you are. Set a whole percentage from 1 to 99 for each game. Confident correct calls earn more; confident wrong calls lose more. A 50% call earns zero either way, so it is a useful baseline, rather than a guaranteed point.

Season Predictions looks further ahead: division order, playoff seeds and how far teams go in the postseason. Ranked entry closes at the season’s first kickoff. A later entry can still play, but it is unranked.

Each weekly game has its own deadline

A weekly pick locks at that game’s kickoff. If the early window has started, later games can still be open. Check the lock shown in the app and save before it passes; other players see your pick once the game has kicked off.

The weekly tiebreaker is different. It asks for the combined score of the week’s last kickoff and locks at the week’s first kickoff. It can separate otherwise tied weekly standings once that final game finishes. Season standings do not use it.

Compete with the same crew all season

A crew is your continuing home for friends and chat. Add an NFL Game to the crew, join it and make your picks. Joining a crew alone does not enter you into a Game. Open the Game’s standings to follow the relevant week or season.

For a correct straight winner or a team that covers, Weekly Picks awards one point. Ties in straight picks and exact pushes in spread picks are void. A missing captured spread line also voids that spread pick. See the scoring examples and what “pending” means.

A simple first week

  1. Sign in, open the NFL competition and choose Weekly Picks.
  2. Choose a lens, make your calls for the open games and check they saved.
  3. Join a crew Game to compare the same format with friends.
  4. Return after results are graded to see your points and standings.

Availability and deadlines live with each Game in the app. You can explore one format without taking on every season prediction.

Choose a competition and see the Games available to play.

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