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The all-time football draft game

Draft legends.
Chase the perfect season.

Spin a franchise era — any team, any decade back to the sixties. Draft your twelve. Then sweat every week of the season your roster earns. Going perfect is rare. That's the point.

Free to playNo sign-up for your first runSixty seconds to your first verdict
How it plays

Three moves. One verdict.

01 / SPIN

The wheel picks your history

Every spin lands on a franchise and a window — Dallas '92, Oakland '74, anywhere greatness happened. One legend era guaranteed per run.

02 / DRAFT

One pick per spin, twelve slots

Offense first, then defense. Skips are precious. A roster of balanced killers beats one superstar carrying eleven passengers.

03 / SURVIVE

The season plays out week by week

Seventeen weeks, then January. Watch the record build — or break. Run the table and join the immortals. Most rosters don't.

The whole record book

Six decades deep.

Most roster games remember football back to 1999. We rate every franchise era back to the sixties — every window spinnable, every legend scored against their own time, computed from the public record and published methodology. Rated by real history. Not a video game.

FRANCHISE ERA · DEFENSE
Pittsburgh
1974–79

A front seven that decided games before halftime. Four titles in six seasons — the pool runs deep here.

96
FRANCHISE ERA · OFFENSE
San Francisco
1987–91

Precision passing before it was fashionable. The era other eras get measured against.

98
FRANCHISE ERA · OFFENSE
Kansas City
2019–23

The modern dynasty answer. Draft it — then find out if it survives a seventies secondary.

97
S  ·  Pittsburgh '74 SLOT 11/12
First-team All-Pro ×34× championPro Bowl ×5

Era context: passing volume in 1974 was half of today's — coverage numbers from this window are rated against 1974, not 2024.

The reveal

Every pick teaches you ball.

Draft a name you don't know and the card flips: the honors, the rings, what the game looked like that year. No homework, no wiki tab.

"You arrive a casual. You leave a ball-knower."
Founding drafters

The game is live. The season is coming.

Play free right now — then join the kickoff list for the NFL-season launch: founder badge, ranked-day-one access, and the first themed Daily.

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