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1. Eligibility
Open to legal residents of the United States who are 18 years of age or older at the time of entry. Employees and immediate family members of the contest administrator and of any weekly sponsor are not eligible to win that sponsor’s prize. Void where prohibited by law.
2. How to enter
Provide your first name, last name, and email address, then confirm your email address using the link we send you. Confirmation is required before you can play. Each person may hold one entry per week. Entering is free.
3. Playing a week
- At the start of each NFL week we email you a link to that week’s games.
- Select the team you believe will win each game.
- Enter your prediction for the total combined points scored by all teams in all of that week’s games. This is the tiebreaker.
- Submit. You may change your picks as often as you like until picks lock.
Each week stands on its own. Scores do not carry over, and you may play any week whether or not you played the week before.
4. When picks lock
Picks lock 10 minutes before the scheduled kickoff of the first game of that NFL week. Picks submitted or changed after that moment are not accepted. Lock time is determined by the contest server, not by your device clock.
If the NFL reschedules a game, the lock time follows the first game as then scheduled. If a game is postponed to a later week, it is scored in the week in which it is actually played.
5. Scoring
- You earn one point for each game in which you correctly select the winner.
- If a game ends in a tie, no entrant receives a point for that game.
- Games you left blank score as incorrect.
- The entrant with the most points wins the week.
6. Tiebreaker
If two or more entrants finish with the same number of points, the winner is determined in this order:
- The entrant whose total-points prediction is closest to the actual total without exceeding it.
- If every tied entrant exceeded the actual total, the entrant whose prediction is closest to the actual total in either direction.
- If entrants remain tied, the entrant who submitted first, by server timestamp. Editing your picks later does not change your submission time.
These rules always produce exactly one winner per week.
7. Results
Results are determined after the final game of the NFL week concludes, using final scores as published by the league. Every entrant who played that week receives an email with their score and the winner’s name. Weekly results, including entrant names and scores, are posted publicly on this site. By entering, you consent to your name and score being displayed.
The contest administrator’s determination of results is final. If a scoring error is identified within 72 hours of results being announced, the administrator may correct it.
8. Prizes
Each week’s prize is provided by that week’s sponsor and is described in the email that opens the week. There is one winner per week. Prizes are not transferable and no substitution is offered except by the sponsor. Winners are responsible for any applicable taxes. A winner may be asked to provide information reasonably necessary to deliver the prize.
9. Email and privacy
We use your email address only to run this contest: to confirm your entry, to open each week, to remind you before picks lock, to confirm picks we receive, and to announce results. We do not sell or rent your information. Every email includes an unsubscribe link, and unsubscribing removes you from all contest email.
10. Administrator
This contest is administered by Temple Emanuel, 385 Ward Street, Newton, MA 02459. Questions: picks@tebhweeklypickem.com.
The administrator may suspend, modify, or terminate the contest if it cannot be run as planned. Entrants who tamper with the entry process or act in bad faith may be disqualified.
11. Not affiliated with the NFL
This contest is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the National Football League or any of its member clubs. Team names and logos are the property of their respective owners and are used here only to identify the games being played.
Last updated August 25, 2026.