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Schedule Release Draft — Official Rules

Rules version: games-release-draft-2026.v1-2026-07-16

Schedule Release Draft — $100 Contest Official Rules — effective July 16, 2026

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED. See Complete Rules

Sponsor: Cody Blaze Enterprises LLC d/b/a MockSlate. MockSlate is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or associated with the National Football League, any NFL team, or any player. All league and team names are used for descriptive reference only.

Eligibility: Open to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States and D.C. who are 18 years of age or older at time of entry. Employees, officers, and directors of Sponsor, and their immediate family members (spouse, parent, child, sibling) and household members, are not eligible. Void where prohibited or restricted by law.

Entry Period: Entries are open now: join or create a league from the contest page. Your entry locks the moment your league drafts, and drafting runs through Week 1 of the 2026 season ("Entry Deadline" per league). Sponsor's server clock is the official timekeeper.

How to Enter: Log in to your free MockSlate account, build your entry on the Contest page, review the Rules, confirm you are 18+, and click Save. One (1) entry per account. Multiple accounts or entries per person will result in disqualification of all associated entries.

Prize: One (1) prize of one hundred U.S. dollars ($100.00), paid by Zelle or Venmo (winner's choice) to the sole winner within 30 days after winner verification. Approximate Retail Value: $100. Odds of winning depend on the number and quality of entries received and skill applied. Winner is solely responsible for all applicable federal, state, and local taxes.

Judging and Tiebreakers: Entries scored per the published Scoring Rubric (below). In the event of a tie: the earliest-submitted entry wins. Sponsor's scoring decisions are final and binding. The Scoring Rubric and Tiebreakers are frozen at the Entry Deadline and will not be changed thereafter.

Winner Notification and Publicity: Winner will be notified by email at the address on their account within 14 days of the Entry Deadline. If a potential winner cannot be reached within 7 days of the first notification attempt, or if a prize is returned as undeliverable, the prize will be forfeited and awarded to the next-highest-scoring eligible entrant. By entering, winner grants Sponsor the right to publish winner's display name in connection with contest results and promotional recap on MockSlate-owned channels.

General Conditions: Sponsor reserves the right to cancel, suspend, or modify the Contest if fraud, technical failure, or any other factor beyond Sponsor's reasonable control impairs the integrity of the Contest, as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion. Sponsor may disqualify any entrant it believes has tampered with entry, scoring, or the Service.

Privacy: Information submitted is handled per the MockSlate Privacy Policy at mockslate.com/privacy.

Disputes and Governing Law: All disputes are governed by these Rules and the MockSlate Terms of Service (including the arbitration and class-waiver provisions), and by the laws of the State of Florida without regard to conflict-of-law principles.

Winner List: For a winner's list, email hello@mockslate.com.

Entry

  • Free to enter — no purchase necessary. MockSlate Pro is not required and never affects prize eligibility or odds.
  • Entrants must be 18 or older with a MockSlate account, US only at launch. Void where prohibited.
  • Your entry in a public league is your prize-eligible entry. Prize eligibility counts once per person regardless of how many leagues you play — league count affects fun, never prize odds.
  • Drafts run from schedule-release day until a Week 1 lock; your roster locks the moment your league drafts.

How to play

  • Leagues of 16, snake draft, 17 rounds — 272 picks — drafted from the pool of all 272 actual games.
  • You draft the matchup, not the broadcast window. If a game gets flexed to another week, it stays yours (the deliberate inverse of Slot Draft).
  • Public leagues are open to everyone and prize-eligible. Pro users may additionally create private friend leagues — glory only, never prize-eligible, and MockSlate hosts no buy-ins, pots, or payouts of any kind.

The draft & autopick

  • Drafts are a snake order with a 30-second pick clock. Empty seats in an under-filled league are filled automatically.
  • Can’t make the draft live? Set an optional personal draft board beforehand — your own ranked list of games.
  • If your pick clock runs out, we autodraft for you in this order: (1) the highest still-available game on your personal board; (2) if you have no board or every game on it is already taken, the default ranking (best available by projected interest). Empty (unclaimed) seats always use the default ranking.

Scoring — Best Game

  • Each week, only your single highest Game Score among the games you own counts (weeks with no games score 0). Season total is the sum of your weekly bests.
  • Game Score = combined final points + (combined net yards ÷ 25) + 5 per combined defensive/return TD + 10 if the game goes to overtime. Big totals and wild games score big.
  • Leaderboards show a “Games Left” count — how many of your games haven’t been played yet — so standings are visibly not final until everyone’s games are in.

Winner, prize & tiebreakers

  • Highest season total wins each league. Public league winners rank on the national leaderboard; the top of that public board wins the $100.
  • Private friend leagues crown their own winner for bragging rights only — no MockSlate prize.
  • Tiebreaker: the earliest-submitted entry wins the tie.

MockSlate's prize games are free-to-enter skill contests — no purchase necessary. Pro-exclusive games are prize-free and carry no cash award. Not affiliated with the NFL or any team.

MockSlate is an independent fan tool and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by the National Football League, Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, FIFA, or any team or national federation. Team names are used for identification purposes only.