MFL Football on your TV

There are two ways to watch on a TV. On a Google TV, the MFL Football app shows the full broadcast board and can also draw your scores over the game you're watching. On most other TVs and on Xbox, the TV's own web browser shows the same board, with no app to install.

Which TV do you have?

Google TV or Android TV. This includes most Sony TVs, many TCL and Hisense TVs, and a Chromecast or Google TV Streamer. Use the app, below.
Fire TV, Samsung, LG or Xbox. Use the web browser. The steps are under Watch in your TV's browser.
Roku or Apple TV. These have no web browser and there's no MFL Football app for them yet. Plug a Google TV stick, such as the Google TV Streamer or an onn 4K stick, into a spare HDMI port and use the app.
Not sure? Press Home on the remote. The home screen names the system: Google TV, Fire TV, Roku, Tizen (Samsung), webOS (LG) or VIDAA (Hisense). VIDAA's browser hasn't been tested, so a Google TV stick is the safe choice there.

The MFL Football app on Google TV. Opened on its own, it shows the full broadcast board. Its score overlay (press Back in the app and pick Show scores) draws a small see-through score box in a corner of whatever you're watching, such as YouTube TV, so you can follow your matchups without leaving the game. The app is in testing right now, so getting it takes one extra step.

Get the app

Send Brandon your TV's Google account. That's the Gmail address signed in on your Google TV. He adds you as a tester and sends you a link to join the test.
Join the test. Open that link on your phone or computer, signed in to the same Google account, and tap to join.
Install it. After a few hours, search the Play Store on your TV for MFL Football and install it.

Set it up once

Sign in. Open MFL Football on the TV and point your phone's camera at the QR code. Sign in if it asks, then tap Approve. The TV switches to your board on its own.
Allow the overlay. In MFL Football, press Back and pick Show scores at the top. The first time, it asks to show over other apps: press OK and turn it on for MFL Football, then press Back. On some TVs the switch is under Settings › Apps › Special app access › Display over other apps.
No switch on your TV? The tile shows a one-line command instead. Run it once from a computer on the same Wi-Fi, with ADB installed and network debugging turned on in the TV's Developer options: adb shell appops set football.mfl.live SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW allow
Sunday Ticket. If you have NFL Sunday Ticket, tick I have NFL Sunday Ticket in MFL Football settings. The overlay then marks every Sunday afternoon CBS and FOX game as one you can open.

While you watch

The full walkthrough. The TV score overlay covers every part of the overlay step by step, with pictures.
The score box. In MFL Football, press Back and pick Show scores at the top or at the bottom, then start your game in YouTube TV. A small see-through box in the corner shows your matchups one at a time, with team logos and a win bar, and the game's sound keeps playing. It never takes the remote, so your TV app keeps working.
Big plays. When one of your starters scores more than 3 points on a single play, the box grows for a few seconds with the player, the play and the new score.
Steer it from your phone. Install MFL Football on your Android phone too: there it opens as a remote with big buttons (sign in with MyFantasyLeague the first time). On an iPhone, open mfl.football/live/broadcast/remote in Safari and add it to your Home Screen. Quarter screen fills a corner with both lineups (made for multiview), Small shrinks it back, and tapping a corner of the little screen moves it there. The TV remembers where you put it.
The full panel. On TVs that show the Score overlay tile, open it again (or say "Open Score overlay") to open both lineups with the TV remote, then press OK for the panel: your score, win chance and both starting lineups.
Watch your players. The panel's Watch list shows the NFL games your starters are in, live games first. Up and Down pick a game and OK opens it on the TV through your TV's search, where you choose YouTube TV.
Back to the game. Back returns to the score box, and so does any other button, so the next press reaches your TV app. It also drops back to the score box after 30 seconds. To close the overlay altogether, open MFL Football, press Back and pick Turn off the score overlay.

Where to watch your games

Find it. On the Broadcast home screen, pick Where to watch, or open mfl.football/live/broadcast/watch. It lists every NFL game your starters are in this week, grouped by day, with the channel each one is on.
Open a game. On a Google TV, press OK on a game. A game on a TV network asks your TV's search for it, which offers it in YouTube TV or Sunday Ticket. A game on Prime Video, Netflix or DAZN opens that app.
Sunday afternoon games. CBS and FOX show different games in different cities. Without Sunday Ticket you only get your local one, so those rows say so. Turn on Sunday Ticket in your TV settings if you have it.
Canada. Viewers in Canada see Canadian channels: DAZN for most games, TSN and CTV for some. If the country is wrong, change it on your preferences page.

Watch in your TV's browser

Open the browser. On Samsung it's the Internet app. On LG it's Web Browser. On Fire TV it's Silk Browser; if it isn't on your home screen, search for Silk and install it, it's free. On Xbox it's Microsoft Edge, under My games & apps.
Go to mfl.football/tv. Type it into the address bar with the remote. A QR code appears.
Sign in with your phone. Point your phone's camera at the QR code, sign in if it asks, then tap Approve. The TV switches to the Broadcast page on its own. The TV only gets to watch; your sign-in stays on your phone.
Turn on sound first. Select Sound off next to the big button so it reads Sound on. A browser only plays sound after you've pressed something on the page, and that button isn't on screen once the board is full screen.
Go full screen. Select Go full screen. Back, or B on an Xbox controller, comes back out. If your browser can't do full screen, the same button opens the board on a page of its own that fills the screen instead.
Bookmark it. Add a bookmark for mfl.football/tv in the browser. Next time the board opens straight away, without the QR code.

Browser tips

Keep the TV awake. The board asks the browser to keep the screen on, but not every TV browser listens, and none of them stops the TV's own power-off timer. Turn both off before kickoff to be safe. On Fire TV: Settings › Display & Sounds › Screensaver › Start Time › Never. On Samsung and LG, look for the screen saver and Auto Power Off settings, usually under General or Energy Saving. On Xbox: Settings › General › Power options.
Using the remote. The board runs on its own, so you don't need to touch it. To steer it with the TV remote, open mfl.football/live/broadcast?view=board on the TV, the board on a page of its own. There, Down takes the player strip at the bottom and Left and Right flip its pages, and Up picks a game in the header, where OK shows just that game's two rosters. Back returns to the full board.
Steer from your phone. Some TV browsers, and Edge on Xbox, move an on-screen pointer with the arrows instead of passing them to the page. Your phone works on any of them: open mfl.football/live/broadcast?view=board on the phone, tap TV remote and pick the TV.
Older TVs. Browsers on TVs from before about 2020 may be too old to draw the board properly. If yours shows a blank or broken page, a Google TV stick is the fix.

What the browser can't do. The score overlay over the game only works in the Google TV app, because a web page can't draw on top of another app. The browser shows the board on its own screen, so you switch between it and the game. A Google TV stick in any TV's HDMI port gets you the overlay.

The overlay and the browser board are still new, so tell Brandon what works on your TV and what doesn't.