🏟️ OUR STORY

About Offseason

Built by a commish, for the groups that actually play together.

What is Offseason?

Offseason is a pick'em app for the tournaments your group actually cares about. We're kicking off with World Cup 2026. Predict every group-stage match, fill out your knockout bracket, and compete in a private league with the people you already watch with.

It's the app we wish existed every time we tried to run a pick'em pool with friends. The other options felt like they were built for a broadcast audience, not for the group that actually plays together. This one's built for the league, start to finish.

Why we built it

We run fantasy football leagues every year. When the World Cup rolls around, we want to do the same thing: predict matches, talk trash, compete for bragging rights. The existing tools never quite fit. They were built for the broadcast experience, not for a group playing against each other.

So we built the version we wanted. Make an account in 15 seconds, make your picks, compete with your league. Clean, focused, made for the people already in your group chat.

What we believe

Sports apps should respect the people using them. We hold ourselves to a few ideas:

  • Built for the group. The app assumes you're competing alongside people you know, not against a faceless global leaderboard.
  • Commish-friendly. The commissioner tools are there for the people actually running a league, not bolted on as an afterthought.
  • Every member, every feature. There's one experience, and everyone in your league has the whole thing.
  • Your data is yours. We run the platform. Your picks, leagues, and account belong to you. Delete your account and it's gone.
  • One thing, done right. Offseason does pick'ems for live events. That's the whole app.

Why "Offseason"

The name comes from a simple idea. Some of the best sports moments (World Cups, major tournaments, big international events) happen when your regular fantasy leagues are dormant. The offseason. Those are the moments your league shows up in the group chat asking "can we do a pick'em for this?" and nobody has a good answer.

World Cup 2026 is where we're starting. It's a tournament that deserves a clean pick'em app more than any other event on the calendar. If that goes well, we'd love to keep building. For now though, our whole focus is nailing this one. One tournament, done right.

Built for fans, in 7 languages

Football is the world's game, so Offseason ships in the languages your group actually speaks. The app and this website are localized to English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Russian, and Arabic. It auto-detects from your device and is switchable anytime in the footer or in the app's profile screen. Right-to-left languages flip the layout cleanly. We'll add more languages as the community grows.

Privacy-first, always

You'll need an email and password. That's how your picks stay yours across devices, and how your league commish can find you. Beyond that, the rule is simple: your data is yours. We run the platform. We don't sell your data, and we don't share it outside of your own league. Delete your account and it's gone.

The full breakdown of what we collect, how it's used, and how to delete it all is in our Privacy Policy.

Not affiliated with FIFA

Offseason is an independent app made by sports fans. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by FIFA, any national football federation, or any other rights holder of the FIFA World Cup. Team names, country flags, and venue names are used for editorial reference under fair use.

Get in touch

We read every email. If you want to suggest a feature, report a bug, ask a question, share a wild prediction for the tournament, or just say hi, write us at hello@offseason.org. For support questions there's also our help page.

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