A play is the entry you submit to a league. Depending on the league’s rules, a play may contain one event, several events, or a structured combination of events such as a parlay.
Each event in a play becomes one leg. A leg is your pick on a single event, and a play may contain one leg or many legs depending on the league configuration.
In a straight-play league, each play contains exactly one leg. You make one pick on one event, and that single leg determines the result of the play. Some straight leagues allow multiple independent plays per scoring period, but each play still contains only one leg.
Some leagues require more than one leg in a single play. In these leagues, you must select the minimum number of events defined by the league rules before you can submit your play.
A parlay league requires a play to contain multiple legs. All legs must be correct for the play to succeed. League rules define the minimum and maximum number of legs allowed in each parlay.
In a unit-add league, each leg contributes a predefined number of units based on the event’s advantage or handicap. The play succeeds when the combined unit total meets or exceeds the league’s requirement. These leagues still use legs and events, but the scoring is based on accumulated units rather than all-or-nothing correctness.
League rules determine how many legs a play must contain, how many it may include, and how those legs are evaluated. This allows leagues to support single-event plays, multi-event plays, parlays, and unit-add formats using the same underlying play structure.
Pick'em leagues use a different container entirely — a weekly board instead of a daily play. Rather than one set of legs submitted all at once, you fill in picks for the week's NFL games at your own pace and submit the whole board when you're ready. Each pick still scores like a single leg in a straight-play league: +1 for a correct pick, –1 for an incorrect one. See the Pick'em guide for the full walkthrough.