After choosing NFL Confidence Pick'em or NFL Pick'em as your template, you'll land on the Contest Settings page, starting with the General tab — contest name, schedule, and entry controls.
General settings
Contest name — Name your contest so members can easily identify it. Splash auto-generates a default name (e.g. "NFL Team Pickem contest - 2026-07-09") that you can edit.
Description — Optional. Add context for your members about the contest (up to 500 characters).
Set your schedule
Define the first and last week of your contest.
Start week — Choose the week your contest begins (e.g. Week 1, Sep 7, 2026 – Sep 14, 2026).
End week — Choose the week your contest ends (e.g. Week 18, Jan 4, 2027 – Jan 11, 2027).
Since this is an NFL-only contest, weeks are labeled simply by NFL week number — there's no Slate names section here, since there's only one league's schedule to account for (unlike the combined NFL + NCAAF format, which lets you customize how NFL and CFB weeks are labeled together).
Entry controls
Manage how and when members can join, and how many entries they can submit.
Maximum entries per entrant — Set how many entries a single member can submit (1–250).
Entry deadline — Off by default, meaning entries close automatically at the standard deadline. Turn this on to set a custom date and time for entries to close.
Lock entries immediately — Off by default. Stops new members from joining right away, regardless of the entry deadline.
Hide Future Picks From Commissioner — On by default. Controls whether the commissioner can see and edit members' future picks.
