NFL Survivor Pool 2008
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 at 2:37 pm by Bill
(cue Monday Night Football theme)
It’s that time of the year! Training camps for all NFL teams have commenced, so it’s a good time to start thinking about football again!
As many of you know, I’ve been running an annual NFL Survivor Pool since 2002. This will be the seventh year!
WHAT IS A SURVIVOR POOL?
For those of you that don’t know what a Survivor Pool is, another common name for it is a Suicide Pool.
The basic concept is that each week, you pick one NFL team to win their game that week (a tie is considered a loss since you’re picking a team to win — it’s happened once in the last five years). If your team wins, you move on. If your team loses, you’re out. The catch is that you can only pick each team once.
You can get the full rules on the pool’s website (see below).
You can enter up to five times, with each entry considered a distinctly seperate player. Each entry is $10.
If you lose during weeks 1 through 5, you have the option of “buying back” into the game for $15. Each entry has the option of buying back once. Buy backs are discontinued starting with week 6. I know buy backs are unpopular with some folks, but it also has the effects of increasing the pot size as well as prolonging the game if there are a lot of upsets at the beginning of the season.
THE REST OF THE DETAILS
…can be found on the pool’s website. There is a new address this year: http://www.zebrapool.com
Please feel free to forward this to anyone else that might be interested.
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