Spin a franchise and an era. Draft the best player you can from what you're dealt. Then find out whether seven names can run the table.
A run takes under a minute. Getting a good one takes considerably longer.
Two reels: one of the 32 NFL franchises, and one of eleven five-year eras stretching back to 1970. Whatever lands is what you get to pick from.
One team reroll and one era reroll. Each locks the half you keep — so a great franchise in a weak decade isn't a dead end, it's a decision. Spend them early and you're exposed later.
QB, RB, two WRs, TE, DEF and a FLEX. Every option is a genuine NFL season with the real numbers attached. No ratings are shown — judging them is the game.
A lineup full of legends still fails if one spot is soft, exactly as in real football. Same seven players, same record, every time — the simulation has no hidden dice.
Short version: 82-0 is basketball. 20-0 is the football one.
82-0 is the roster-building game built around the NBA's 82-game regular season — draft an all-time starting five and see whether it can go undefeated. It went viral in 2026, and the obvious question followed almost immediately: what's the football version?
A perfect NFL season isn't 82 games. It's 17 regular-season wins plus three playoff rounds — 20-0. The 1972 Dolphins are the only team to finish a season unbeaten, and they did it over 17 games. Nobody has done it since the schedule expanded.
This is an independent game with its own roster data, its own scoring, and its own decisions about what makes the format work. It is not affiliated with 82-0.
Every player is a real NFL season. Nothing is invented.
Statistics from 1999 on come from nflverse, an open dataset of NFL play-by-play and player records, used under a CC BY 4.0 licence. Each player is rated against everyone else who has played his position — which means only a handful at each spot rate as genuinely elite, and a perfect roster needs several of them to turn up in the same seven picks.
Everything before 1999 comes from Wikipedia's career-statistics tables (CC BY-SA 4.0), Pro Football Archives and ESPN — Marino, Elway, Jerry Rice, Barry Sanders, Walter Payton, Emmitt Smith, Bradshaw, Staubach, Lawrence Taylor. Every figure was checked against the real record: the highest passing season the game holds is Marino's 5,084 yards in 1984, because that is the record.
Coverage runs 1970 to 2025. Two honest gaps: nothing before 1970, and thin 1970s defence, because sacks did not become an official statistic until 1982. We would rather show real numbers than invent them for older seasons.
This one. 82-0 is built on the NBA's 82-game season; the football equivalent is 20-0 — 17 regular-season wins plus a three-game playoff run.
Yes, and there's no account. It runs in any browser. Your streak, career points and stats are stored on your own device.
Most people need dozens of runs. Only a small number of players at each position rate as elite, so going 20-0 needs several of them to appear across your seven picks — and needs you to recognise them.
Two, for the entire run: one team and one era. Each locks the other half.
Yes. Finish a run and send a challenge link — they get your exact seven spins with the same two rerolls, and can play whenever they want. Nothing has to happen at the same time.
Every day, everyone in the world gets the same seven spins. One attempt, and a streak to protect.
1970. Eleven five-year eras run from 1970–1974 to 2020–2025, so you can draw the 1972 Dolphins, the 1975 Steel Curtain, the 1985 Bears or the 1992 Cowboys. Nothing before 1970, because defensive statistics were not recorded then and a board with no defenders is not a board.
Wikipedia's career-statistics tables under CC BY-SA, Pro Football Archives, and ESPN's public data. Every figure was checked against the record book — the biggest passing season in the game is Marino's 5,084 yards in 1984, because that is the record.
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Because working out who was actually better is the game. You get the real stat line; what it's worth is up to you.
The web version is the whole game — nothing is held back. The app adds what a phone does better: a home-screen icon, haptics on the reels, and a nudge when your daily streak is about to break.
One email when it ships. Nothing else, and no sharing it. Don't want to wait? Play it now in your browser.
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