2009 Survivor Pool is open for sign-ups
The 2009 pool is now open!
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 eighth 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 by clicking on the Rules link above.
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.
Returning players
Not too much is different than last year. The major change on the website is hiding of players’ last names and an online sign-up form. (What I was finding is that people who email me out of the blue sometimes get marked as spam by Gmail because of certain keywords.)
Other than that, the game itself remains the same. $10 for each entry, $15 for buybacks during the first five weeks.
Signing up
Use the new sign-up form here.
To pay the entry fees, I still recommend Paypal. However, you MUST send the payment with funds drawn from a checking account so no fees are taken out of the payment. If I don’t receive the full payment with no fees deducted, it will be returned to you.
Let me know if there are any questions using the comments form below. Welcome to the game!