Everything you need to know about Offseason, the free prediction game you play with your friends.
Offseason is the prediction game for you and your friends. Everyone's got a take, so you pool it. Start a private league, browse a marketplace of "pools" (pickems for the World Cup, Wimbledon, the Oscars, the Derby and more), add the ones your group cares about, and make your calls. There's a built-in group chat, live standings, and the running consensus on every question. No money, all bragging rights.
Anything in the pool. Sports tournaments, awards shows, golf majors, even pop-culture and reality-TV moments, each one is its own pool you can add to your league. New pools drop regularly, and a pool is just a set of questions with options to call, so the catalog keeps growing.
No and no. Offseason is free and there's no money, no wagering, and no payouts, just bragging rights and the receipts your group chat will never let anyone forget. It's a friendly prediction game, not a sportsbook.
Yes. Offseason is free to play, create leagues, add pools, invite your group, play everything at zero cost. It's a passion project from a league commish for people who'd rather settle the debate than just argue about it.
Offseason is live on iOS, iPad, and the web at offseason.org. Sign in once and your picks sync across devices in under fifteen seconds.
Yes. Signing up takes about 15 seconds. Email, password, username, done. We keep it minimal so your picks follow you across devices and your league commissioner can find you. No phone number, no real name, no personal info beyond that.
Just what we need to run your account: email, a hashed password, your username, and your picks. Your data is yours. We run the platform, and we don't share your info outside of the people in your own league. The full breakdown is in our Privacy Policy.
About 30 seconds to install and create an account. Joining a league is one tap with a code from your commish. Making your first set of picks takes a few minutes if you go fast, or as long as you want if you like to deliberate.
Each pool sets its own questions and points. A champion call is worth more than a coin-flip prop, your standing is computed live from real picks, and you can always see what the rest of the pool is calling.
It depends on the pool, but the rules of thumb are the same everywhere. The big calls (a champion, a winner, an outright) are worth the most, especially when you lock them in early. Tougher or more precise calls earn bonus points on top. Quick yes-or-no props are worth less. Whatever the pool, points are tallied automatically from real picks the moment results land.
Many pools reward you for being directionally right even if you miss the exact detail. Get the outcome and you score; nail the precise result on top of that and you earn the bonus. It rewards precision without punishing you for being right in spirit.
Each pool locks when its event begins. Some lock everything at a single deadline; others lock question by question as each part of the event starts. The lock time is always shown on the pool, and your picks stay editable right up until then.
Yes, anytime before the pool's lock deadline. Edit, change, refine, agonize all you want. Once a pool locks, those picks are final.
A few shapes, and the catalog keeps growing: brackets (fill out every round), survivor pools (pick one to advance each week, lose once and you're out), prop sets (answer a list of questions with set options), and straight pick-the-winner calls. Each pool tells you exactly what you're predicting before you join.
If two members finish tied on points, the pool's own tiebreakers settle it (for example, most exact calls, or whoever locked the winner earliest). If you're still dead even after that, you share the rank. That's a great problem to have.
Open the app, tap "Create a League", give it a name, set a password, and share the league code with your friends. They enter the code and password to join. Whoever creates the league becomes the commissioner.
You set the max when creating the league. We support up to 50 members per league. If you need more, run multiple leagues. There's no limit on how many leagues you can be in.
Absolutely. Join as many leagues as you want: your office league, your family league, your college friends league, your fantasy league. Each league tracks picks separately, so you can experiment with different strategies (or play the same picks across all of them).
Commissioners can rename the league, change the password, kick disruptive members, and (if needed) generate one-time recovery links for league members who lost access. They cannot see members' picks before lock time. That would defeat the whole point.
No. Picks stay hidden from the rest of your league until they lock. Once a question locks, everyone's call on it becomes visible, so the trash talk finally has receipts.
Yes. Profile → Leagues → tap the league → Leave. Your picks remain in the leaderboard for the people you left behind, but you'll no longer see updates from that league.
Tap "Forgot password?" on the login screen and we'll email you a reset link. Standard stuff, no special recovery dance required.
Yes. Profile → Edit Profile → Username. You can change it once every 30 days. If you need an emergency rename (e.g. your username has personal info you want removed), email support@offseason.org.
Profile → Settings → Delete Account, or email support@offseason.org. We'll permanently delete your data within 30 days, per our Privacy Policy.
No. Your data is yours. We run the platform, and we don't sell, rent, license, or otherwise hand off your personal data to anyone outside of the people in your own league. The one exception is the service providers we rely on to keep the app running (hosting, email delivery, crash reporting), and those are covered in our Privacy Policy.
Not currently. Offseason is funded by the people who built it, and the experience is designed around a clean pickem flow. If that ever changes, we'll be upfront about it here first.
English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Russian, and Arabic. The app auto-detects your device language. You can change it anytime in Profile → Language.
We add timely pools to the marketplace as events come up, from the World Cup to the Oscars to a golf major. Browse the catalog, and your commish can add any of them to your league in a tap. New drops land regularly.
Yes. Awards shows, reality TV, pop-culture moments, whatever your group argues about can be a pool. If it has a clear outcome and a date, it can be a pickem.
Results come from the official outcome of each event, and scoring runs automatically once they're in. If something looks off, email support and we'll sort it out fast.
If an event is rescheduled, the affected picks stay locked and get scored when it actually plays out. If a question is voided or replaced, we adjust the pool and reset its lock accordingly.
Please do. Email support@offseason.org with the event your group wants to call and we'll look at adding it.
Make sure you tapped the Save button in the upper-right of the picks screen. Picks are not saved automatically. If the issue persists, try closing and reopening the app, or pull down on the picks screen to force a refresh.
Standings update as results come in. There may be a short delay after an event while we score everyone's picks. If you see stale data, pull down on the leaderboard to refresh.
We pull results from official sources for each pool. If something looks off, email support@offseason.org with the pool and the correct result and we'll investigate within a few hours.
On iOS: Settings → Offseason → Notifications → enable Allow Notifications. On Android: Settings → Apps → Offseason → Notifications → enable. Then in the Offseason app: Profile → Notifications to pick which alerts you want (live results, league updates, lock reminders).
Email support@offseason.org with the steps to reproduce and (if you can) a screenshot. We read every bug report and respond within 1–2 days.
Have a question we didn't cover? Email support@offseason.org and we'll get back to you fast.
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