The NFL playoffs run fourteen teams through single elimination to the Super Bowl. Six Wild Card games, four Divisional games, two Conference Championships, one Super Bowl Sunday. Free printable bracket, live-updating, no signup.
14 teams · single elimination
Fourteen teams make the playoffs — seven per conference. The top seed in each conference gets a first-round bye, so the opening Wild Card Weekend features six games, three per conference. Survivors advance to the Divisional Round (eight teams), then Conference Championships (four teams), then the Super Bowl.
Progression: 14 → 12 → 8 → 4 → 2 → champion. Four weeks of games.
Seeding matters. Within each conference, the higher seed always gets home-field advantage and (if they're the top seed) a bye. The #1 seed plays the lowest-seeded winner in the Divisional Round.
Playoff pools can be simple (pick every game straight up) or elaborate (confidence points, spreads, survivor formats). For a basic bracket pool, this tool does the job — everyone picks their bracket before Wild Card Weekend and fills in actual results as games finish.
For confidence-point pools (where each week you assign point values to your picks), a bracket is still useful for visualizing the path, but you'll want a spreadsheet alongside for scoring.