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The game is always the same: open packs, draft a fresh team, win the week with real points. What changes is who is on the other side. That might be the entire world, one friend on the sofa next to you, three people passing a single phone around, or a bot that has no opinion about your feelings. None of it needs a league, and none of it costs anything.

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Which one is yours

Almost everybody lands on their mode by answering one question: who is actually available? Find your row and follow the link. If your question is a situation rather than a mode, a dead season or too little time or playing from Europe, those are answered on fantasy football questions.

Your situationYour modeAccount?
Nobody else plays Solo online: the weekly ranking supplies the opponents. Yes, one sign-in
Exactly one friend is in The duel: one invite link, a fresh matchup every week. Yes, one each
Two to four people, one room One phone: pass it around, draft in turns. None at all
It is you and your partner One phone, no accounts: fifteen minutes on the sofa. None at all
You want to play with your children One device, no logins: no accounts, no chat, nothing to buy. None at all
You just want to open a pack Open one here: free, playable, no account. None at all
You have never drafted before The coach bot: practice that never counts. None at all
You follow football, not the NFL The Premier League edition: same game, gameweeks. Same account
All of it

Five modes, one account

Nothing here is a separate signup or a different league. They are simply the shapes a week can take, and you can change your mind next week.

Solo online

You against the world

Draft your team, and when the games kick off your score is ranked against everyone who played that week, worldwide and separately inside your own country. No friends to recruit and no league to fill: the field is already there. It is the mode most people stay in, because it asks nothing of anybody else's calendar.

  • Global and country rankings every week
  • Friends optional, and addable later
  • Join in any week of the season
How solo works
One on one

The duel

Two people, one week, one winner. You send a single link, and from then on every week is a fresh matchup with a running record between you: wins, losses, streak. Because the teams are redrawn weekly, a bad draft costs you seven days instead of the season, which is exactly what a two-person season-long league gets wrong.

  • One invite link, no league setup
  • A running record and a rivalry, not a table
  • Rematch every single week
How the duel works
One phone

Two to four, in the room

The version with the lowest possible barrier: enter names, pick avatars, and pass the phone around while you draft in turns from the same packs. Nobody creates an account and nothing is saved anywhere, so there is no barrier at all for the other people at the table. Good for a first evening with people who have never played fantasy football.

  • No sign-up, nothing stored
  • One to four players on a single device
  • Nothing to install, nothing to sign into
Playing in person
Against the machine

The coach bot

A mock draft against the coach, as often as you like, with no account and no consequences. It is dealt its own pack of six cards, exactly like you, and takes one of its three best by projection at random, so it plays a sensible draft rather than a perfect one. Beat it a couple of times and the real thing stops being intimidating.

  • Unlimited, free, nothing recorded
  • Same packs and the same projections you see
  • Opens straight in the browser
How the bot picks
Your crew

Everyone you know

Beyond two people it stops being a duel and becomes a home screen full of teams. Everybody drafts their own, all of them sit side by side, and you can star up to three as rivals so the ones you actually want to beat stay pinned at the top. Swipe sideways to walk through every matchup while the games run.

  • Add friends with one link or find them by name
  • Up to three starred rivals, always on top
  • Optional push when a matchup gets tight
Open the app
Other sport

The Premier League edition

The same game on gameweeks instead of NFL weeks, and with fourteen picks instead of ten: a real eleven in 1-4-3-3 plus three on the bench, of whom only the eleven score. Blank and double gameweeks are handled for you. Every mode on this page exists there too, and it runs on the account you already have.

  • Fourteen picks, a genuine 1-4-3-3
  • Blank gameweeks never reach your packs
  • One account for both editions
Premier League, solo

Quick answers about the modes

Which way to play should I start with?

If nobody is around, start solo: you draft a team and the weekly ranking supplies your opponents. If one friend is in, play the duel. If several people are in the same room, use the one-phone mode, because it needs no accounts at all. And if you have never drafted before, do a mock draft against the coach bot first, which takes about fifteen minutes and costs nothing.

Can I switch between the modes?

Yes, week by week and without any setup. The modes are not separate leagues you sign up for, they are just who you happen to be playing against in a given week. Playing solo one week and duelling a friend the next changes nothing about your account or your record, and the same goes for starting halfway through the season.

Do all the modes cost the same?

All of them are free, with no ads and nothing to buy. The difference between the modes is only whether you need an account: the one-phone duel and the mock draft need none at all, while anything that has to survive until game day needs a sign-in with Google or an e-mail link.

How many people can play at once?

On one phone, one to four. Online there is no upper limit, because you are not filling a league: everybody drafts their own team and the rankings sort out the rest. Rivals are capped at three, so the people you care most about beating stay pinned to the top of your screen.

Is the Premier League edition a separate game?

Same game, different sport and the same account. The NFL edition runs on weeks and a roster of ten; the Premier League edition runs on gameweeks and fourteen picks, a real eleven in 1-4-3-3 plus three on the bench. Every mode on this page exists in both.

Do I need to install anything?

No. Everything runs in a normal browser on a phone, tablet or desktop. Installing it as an app is optional and only adds a home-screen icon and, if you want them, push notifications before your draft closes. Because it is a website, it does need a connection to open, which is the subject of whether fantasy football can be played offline.

Pick one. The rest keep.

Every mode is free, and the ones without an account start in about ten seconds.