Media and predictions / Commissioner
Create Player Picks and matchup graphics
Prepare a free draft, choose eligible players and lines, then generate and publish. Automatic generation does not need photo approval.
Choose from current NFL players with photos
The player dropdowns and automatic suggestions include only current real NFL players with supported headshots who are active on that team's imported Madden roster. Custom rookies, college players, retired players and missing-photo identities are excluded before you prepare a draft. The real NFL team does not override your franchise's trades.
The NFL catalog refreshes daily and keeps the last complete version during an outage. Roster assignment and photos are checked again before generation. An old unsupported unpaid draft must be rebuilt; automation can rebuild invalid unpaid selections without consuming credits during preparation.
Configure the Media Center
Open /media view or Media Center in the dashboard. Map GOTW, picks and news destinations in the channel manager. Enable the appropriate media preferences and verify the league's active AI allowance. Only the platform owner controls paid allowances.
Change an unpublished GOTW matchup
Open the current week’s GOTW in Drafts & publications and choose Replace GOTW matchup. Select a different upcoming game and one player from each team, then confirm. The new draft opens so you can generate its graphic; automatic generation also picks it up when enabled.
Published Player Picks can keep its own matchup, players and votes. The old GOTW image is retired to history and cannot publish. Credits already used stay used; generating the replacement uses credits normally. You cannot replace GOTW once its contest exists, while generation or publication is running, or while an uncertain attempt needs review.
Prepare the matchup
Preparing a draft is free. Player Picks can be created without first making a GOTW poster.
- Choose Player Picks, GOTW, or both.
- Select the intended current-week matchup.
- Choose one eligible offensive player from each team's current roster.
- For Player Picks, choose manual lines or automatic suggestions. Manual mode requires a half-point number for each player and works without imported stat samples.
- Automatic suggestions require three completed games with imported stats for each selected player. Week 4 by itself is not enough.
- Prepare the draft. If that graphic's Automatic generation is on, matched player photos are used without approval. Otherwise open the draft and confirm both photos.
- Automatic generation picks up eligible current-week drafts; Review before posting decides whether the finished image needs your approval. In manual mode, generate and then approve publication yourself.
/media view/media prepareResolve roster or line errors
If a player is reported on the wrong team, confirm the selected matchup and both player dropdowns, refresh the roster, and retry. Current forms preserve selections after errors; older browser sessions may need a reload to receive that fix.
If automatic lines lack samples, select manual and enter both numbers. Missing samples do not consume AI allowance during preparation. Inactive, free-agent, injured-reserve or practice-squad players may fail eligibility. A real-world team or ESPN headshot does not override the franchise roster.
A fictional rookie without a verified supported headshot cannot be mapped to an unrelated real player just to pass generation.