The NFL season kicks off Thursday. If you have not already created contests now is the time.

Even if you are late off the starting gate, you can still start a Survivor league at any time. This also let’s you run a “second chance” Survivor in case your contest ends early due to upsets like we saw last year.

Once the season starts, I will be making improvements in terms of usability and other areas. Feel free to use that Help menu item under your name to get to the Support portal and make suggestions - that is super helpful to me in terms of what to prioritize.

With the season running and those contests humming, I plan to shift my attention to expanding the use of AI. I want to make it easier for you to create your own contests of varying kinds (brackets, parimutuels, closes to the number “jelly bean count” type contests, etc.).

Then as the NFL season winds down I will enable predictions contest around NFL Player Awards (MVP, Comeback Player of the Year, etc.) and the Coaching Carousel (which teams hire which coaches).

You can expect updates here every week. I look forward to hearing from you, too.