Pick every game.
The longer the odds,
the more it pays.
The 2026 NFL Pick’em competition runs all season on Catalyst. Make your picks on every game, every week. Points scale with the odds, so calling an upset is worth more than riding the favorite. There’s $15,000 in prizes: $10,000 in cash at the end of the season and $5,000 awarded along the way.
You took the Cardinals at 19%
Free to enter. Nothing to buy and nothing at risk.
An illustration. The matchup, the score and the standings are invented to show how the scoring compounds; in the app the odds are live prediction market prices.
Scoring
Being right is worth more when nobody agrees with you.
Points = 100 − your pick’s chance to win
The less likely your pick, the more it’s worth. You score whatever percentage the market gave the other side. If a game is 60/40 and you take the 40% side and they win, you bank 60. Take the 60% side and they win, you bank 40. A wrong pick scores zero, and points are not deducted.
You take the underdog at 40%
You win
You take the favorite at 60%
You win
Your pick loses
You get
Try it
Take a side and see what it pays
This is the card you get in the app. Pick either team to see what it pays, then cycle through the games to watch the payout move with the odds.
Tap a side. The number under each team is what a correct pick banks, and it is always the chance the market gives the other one.
$15,000 in prizes
$10,000 in cash at the end of the season, with the grand prize going to whoever finishes with the most points, and $5,000 in prizes awarded along the way.
- Free to enter, free all season
- Most points overall takes the $2,500 grand prize
- $5,000 in prizes awarded during the season
Every game is worth playing
A wrong pick costs you nothing, so there is never a reason to sit one out. Leave a game unpicked and you bank zero on it while others have a chance to pull ahead.
Underdogs compound
One correct longshot can be worth two or three correct favorites. Over eighteen weeks that is the gap between the top of the leaderboard and the middle of it.
There is always something to play for
On top of the $10,000 in cash at the end of the season, $5,000 in prizes is awarded during it. The leaderboard moves every week, so a good run in October pays off in October.
Questions
Yes. The NFL Pick’em competition is free to enter and free to play all season. No Catalyst Challenge purchase is required to enter or win.
The less likely your pick, the more it’s worth. You score whatever percentage the market gave the other side. If a game is 60/40 and you take the 40% side and they win, you bank 60. Take the 60% side and they win, you bank 40. A wrong pick scores zero, and points are not deducted.
$15,000 in prizes: $10,000 in cash at the end of the season, and $5,000 in prizes awarded throughout it. The largest single award is the $2,500 grand prize for the most points across the regular season, and the prizes that land during the season mean there is something to play for whichever week you join.
From live prediction market prices, the same source the rest of Catalyst runs on. They move through the week as money comes in, and the points on offer move with them.
No, but it is how you win. A wrong pick costs you nothing, so there is never a reason to sit one out. Skip a game and you score zero while others have a chance to pull ahead.
Each game locks at its own kickoff. Games later in the week stay open after the early window has already been played, so a full slate does not have to be filled in one sitting.
Most points across the regular season takes the grand prize. The season-long leaderboard updates as games go final, so you can see where you stand every week rather than waiting until January.