A pick’em pool is a weekly game where participants predict the winners of upcoming matchups and score points for the ones they call correctly. The traditional format has everyone pick NFL game winners each week; a “confidence” variant additionally asks players to rank their picks and weight the points they assign.

What makes pick’em sticky is that it’s low-effort and universal — you don’t need to understand rosters or matchups to play, so it pulls in the casual members of a league who might otherwise check out once their fantasy team fades.

Sleeper runs a native NFL pick’em game over NFL matchups. LeagueSide’s Pick’em runs over your fantasy league’s own matchups: each week members predict which fantasy team wins each head-to-head, laid out as a consensus matrix that shows where the league agrees and where it splits. It turns your league’s weekly slate into a second game with its own bragging rights, distinct from picking NFL sides.