How to Play — NFL

One mystery roster. Three questions. Every day.

The basics

Restreak is a daily sports game. Each day, for every sport, you get the full roster and stat table for one mystery team-season — with the team name, season, and record hidden. Pick your sport from the tabs at the top (more sports on the way), and figure out all three:

• Team — pick the franchise from the dropdown. Eras matter, and the franchise's name of the day is the answer: the 1978 Buffalo Braves and today's Los Angeles Clippers are one franchise but two answers — same for the Hartford Whalers and the Carolina Hurricanes.
• Season — pick the season the roster is from.
• Record — slide to the team's regular-season win total. Only wins are graded, so don't sweat the losses side.

Lock in all three answers, hit Submit, and see how you did. Everyone in the world gets the same rosters on the same day, and new ones arrive at midnight. You can play each sport once per day.

Scoring

• Each exactly-correct answer is worth 3 points.
• Get all three exactly right and you earn a +1 bonus for a perfect 10.
• Close counts on the season. One season off on either side earns 2 points; two seasons off earns 1.
• Close counts on the record. Within two wins of the actual total earns 2 points; within four wins earns 1.
• The team is all or nothing — you either know them or you don't.

Streaks and the leaderboard

Play on consecutive days to build a streak. Any sport counts — playing one game keeps your streak alive; you don't have to play them all. Miss a full day and it resets. With a free account (verified email), your scores, streaks, and question-by-question averages are saved forever, and you'll appear on the leaderboard. You can play without an account, but your results only live in your browser — and streaks reset.

NFL strategy

The same instincts work in every sport: the names are the clue — recognize one player and their career arc narrows the era fast. Sorting the table by the headline stat surfaces the stars. And missing stats are a time machine — a dash (—) means the stat wasn't tracked in that era. A few NFL-specific tells:

• No sacks on defense? Sacks went official in 1982. No tackle column at all? It doesn't appear before 2000. Catches but a dashed Tgt column? Receiving targets only start in 2009.
• A games-played leader of 14 is the 1970-77 era; 16 is the long 1978-2020 stretch; 17 means 2021 or later. A leader stuck around 9 is the strike-shortened 1982 season; around 15, the 1987 strike.
• Passing volume dates a team fast: a 4,000-yard passer points to the modern game, while a run-first roster whose top passer sits under ~2,700 yards leans 1970s.

Playing another sport? NBA rules · MLB rules · NHL rules.

House rules

• One play per sport, per day — no retries, no take-backs.
• The rosters roll over at midnight, your local time.
• No looking things up. (We can't stop you. But you'll know.)