An NFL pickem pool is the simplest football contest to run with friends, coworkers, family, or a fantasy league. Everyone picks the winner of each regular-season game, and the standings sort themselves by correct picks.
Pickem Maker keeps the format intentionally standard: straight-up winners, one pick per game, no spreads, no confidence points, and no accounts. That makes it easy for a 12-person office pool and a 100-person group chat to use the same link.
Create your pool before Week 1 and invite everyone now.
Create a Free NFL Pickem PoolHow an NFL pickem pool works
The commissioner creates a pool and shares the pool URL. Members enter a display name, pick winners for the current week, and save their picks. Each game locks at kickoff, so members can change a Sunday afternoon pick until that specific game starts without affecting the Thursday night game.
When games finish, the scoreboard updates from ESPN's NFL feed. Correct picks count as wins. Incorrect or missing picks count as losses once the game is final. Standings rank members by wins, with losses used as the next sort.
Why use Pickem Maker?
- No signup: nobody needs a username, password, or app.
- One link: the pool URL is the invite, the dashboard, and the weekly picking page.
- Commissioner controls: rename the pool, remove members, lock the pool, or delete it.
- Mobile first: picks are designed for phones because most people make picks from texts and group chats.
Built for the 2026 NFL season
The 2026 schedule is expected in mid-May. Until the NFL releases it, Pickem Maker lets pools be created and joined in pre-launch mode. As soon as the official regular-season schedule is available, Week 1 games appear automatically.