• Top 6 squads make the playoffs, running weeks 15–17 (default — the commissioner can adjust).
• Regular season is weeks 1–14. Week 18 is not used.
• Seeds 1 and 2 get a first-round bye in week 15.

How the bracket works

• Week 15: seed 3 vs. seed 6, and seed 4 vs. seed 5. Seeds 1 and 2 are on bye.
• Week 16 (semifinals): the bracket reseeds — the highest remaining seed plays the lowest remaining seed. Seed 1 plays the lowest advancing seed (if 5 wins their opener, 1 plays 5), and seed 2 plays the other winner.
• Week 17 (championship): the two semifinal winners play for it all.
• If a playoff matchup ends in a tie, the commissioner is notified and makes the call on who advances. (Regular-season ties just count as ties — this only matters in the bracket.)
• The champion wins a limited-edition 2026–27 NFL Squads championship mascot — it lives in your squad's locker. Flex it.
• Squads that miss the playoffs are done after week 14 — no games in weeks 15–17. A consolation bracket is a feature we're working on.

Regular season schedule

Your league's schedule is randomized when the league is created and can't be edited. It's balanced — every squad plays every other squad at least once. In bigger leagues you'll play each squad one or two times; in smaller leagues, up to two or three.

Seeding tiebreakers, in order

1. Record — best record seeds highest.
2. Total Points For (PF) — the total points your squad has scored all season. If records are tied, the squad with more points for gets the higher seed.
3. Total Points Against (PA) — the total points scored against your squad. If points for are also identical (rare — we score to the hundredth decimal), the squad with fewer points against gets the higher seed.
4. Still tied? The commissioner is notified and makes the call for whichever bracket spot needs deciding — settle it as a league.

The same tiebreaker chain orders the standings all season, so what you see in the standings is what seeds the bracket.

Matchup ties

If a head-to-head matchup ends in an exact tie, it's recorded as a tie. MESH uses decimal scoring to the hundredth, so it's rare — but it counts.