Two-Minute Drill: Daily NFL Play-Calling Game

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What is Two-Minute Drill?

Two-Minute Drill is a free daily football game: you call the plays for the end of a real game. Every day everyone gets the same real spot, most often a late-game drive from a recent NFL season (playoffs included), now and then a famous moment from another year or from college football, with the real score, clock, timeouts and the 22 players who were on the field. Your job is to win it.

How it works

Call Run, Pass, RPO or Trick, then the play: 27 calls in all, from inside runs and quick passes to deep shots, play action and a flea-flicker. On a pass, tap a receiver to change his route (in Pro games, draw your own) and pick who gets the ball. Timeouts, spikes, kneel-downs and field goals appear when they matter, and you choose the tempo. When the other team has the ball, you call the defense. Every snap is played out with a real NFL play of the call you made, from the same kind of situation.

How scoring works

Every call is graded on win chance. Before showing the result, the game simulates the rest of the game for every option you had and compares your call with the best one: green is the best call or within half a point of win chance, yellow is close, orange is costly and red is a big miss. A good call that didn't work is still a good call. Your day ends with a percentile against NFL play-callers that counts your calls and the result: each simulated play-caller makes his calls and plays the game out. It is mostly the calls: a win lifts the same calls by about 15-20 points, and a 90 takes sharp calls. Then your rank among everyone who played, and the NFL head coach your calls look most like.

Two ways to play

Daily: one drive a day, the same for everyone. Survivor: random real fourth quarters back to back; win to keep going, one loss ends your run.

The data behind it

The situations, the 160,141 real plays the snaps are drawn from and the player ratings all come from public NFL play-by-play, participation and charting data published by nflverse. The ranks and stats come from real players' results. Read the full guide.