What are the best numbers in football squares?
0 and 7 are the best numbers in football squares. Across 7,362 NFL games since 2000, the 0-7 square won the final score 3.7% of the time — the highest of all 100 squares. 3 and 4 follow; 2, 5, and 8 are the worst.
Which squares win most often?
Computed from every NFL game from the 2000 season through 2025 — 7,362 games — the five best final-score squares are home 0 / away 7 (3.7% of games), 7/0 (3.5%), 0/3 (3.4%), 7/4 (3.3%), and 4/7 (3.1%). A perfectly average square would win 1% of the time, so landing 0-7 nearly quadruples your odds.
The pattern comes straight from how football scores: touchdowns with extra points add 7, field goals add 3, and shutout quarters leave zeros on the board. Those three mechanics push final-digit combinations toward 0, 3, 4, and 7 and away from everything else.
What are the worst numbers in squares?
The 2-2 square is the worst on the board: it has won the final score in exactly 4 of 7,362 NFL games since 2000 — about 0.05%, or one-twentieth of an average square. Twos, fives, and eights in general are squares graveyards because reaching a score ending in 2 or 5 requires unusual stacks of safeties, two-point conversions, or missed extra points.
Early-game checkpoints are even more lopsided: 0-0 dominates first-quarter payouts because so many NFL first quarters end scoreless or with a single team on the board. By the final whistle the distribution spreads out, but it never comes close to even. The full 10×10 heat map for every checkpoint is on the Blocklock squares statistics page, computed from the same 26-season dataset.
Can you pick the good numbers?
No — and that's by design. In a properly run squares pool, players claim squares before any digits exist; the numbers are drawn randomly afterward. Knowing that 0-7 is gold and 2-2 is a dud doesn't help you, because nobody can aim for either. The stats are for after the draw: they tell you whether to celebrate or make peace with your fate.
The draw being genuinely random — and provably after the claims — is the integrity of the whole game. Blocklock draws digits server-side, exactly once, only when the board locks, so neither players nor the commissioner can influence or redo the outcome. If your pool's digits appear before the board is full, ask questions.
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