THE RULES

  • How do you play?
    Each week you pick one NFL team to win their game (no spreads used). If your teams wins, you "survive" and get to participate in the following week. If your team loses, you are out (ties are considered a loss). Game, set, match!

  • The catch?
    You can only use each team in the NFL once for the entire season. So, for example, if you pick the Patriots to beat the Jets in week one, and the Pats win, you cannot pick the Patriots as your team again this season.

  • What if I forget to submit my pick?
    As a safety net we have what is called the Default Pick. The Default Pick is the team with the higest favored spread that week (the spread is only used to determine the default pick, not a winner). In the event you have already used the team that happens to be the Default Pick for the week, you will receive the next highest favored spread and so on. If there is more than one team tied for the highest favored spread we will go in alphabetical order, numbers first (49ers), then by team name (Bears, Chargers, Rams, Redskins, etc).

    NOTE: You only get 2 Default Picks for the season, if you fail to submit a pick after you have used your two default picks, then you are eliminated.

  • How much to play?
    It's $5 per entry, maximum of 15 entries (paid + free entries) per person*. As a bonus, for every three NEW people you recruit to play (and pay) you get one free entry. A NEW person is considered someone who did not participate in SP1 or SP2 of 2006.

    * An entry cap is/was new for 2003 as last season (2002), even though it was jokingly, a few people threatened to enter as many times as was needed to guarantee victory. Granted it's a ridiculous amount of entires needed to do this, but with the pool growing each year at an increasing rate, the chance of running into someone who might just try it increases as well. The most entries for any one person so far (paid + free) has been 7, so 15 is a pretty high number in of itself.

  • How much do I win?
    The amount you win depends on the number of paid entries. Winner take all. If there is a tie the $$ will be divided equally.

  • When is my pick due each week?
    Your pick is due by 12:00pm on Sunday. All picks received after that time will be disregarded and you will be given the default pick for the week (if you have any defaults left).

  • What about Thursday and Saturday games?
    If there is a Thursday game, and you are going to use that game as your pick, then you must submit your pick 1 hour prior to game time (otherwise it will be assumed you are not using that game and will pick from the Sunday/Monday list).

    If there is a Saturday game (towards the end of the season), the same applies as Thursdays. Pick due 1 hour before game time, otherwise it is asumed you will pick from the Sunday/Monday list.

    NOTE: If you are using the Monday Night game, that pick is also due by the first kickoff on Sunday.

  • What if I submit my pick, but it gets lost somehow, and I am given the default when I shouldn't have?
    Unfortunately this can and has happened. Sometimes emails get swallowed up by the Internet Gods and never reach their destination. The only defense against this is to make sure you let at least one other person (in the pool) know who you are picking so they can vouch for you in the event of a disputed pick.

    Email logs are not valid proof of a pick as they can be manipulated.

  • Can I see who everyone has picked each week?
    Yes, the entire pool will be tracked at http://www.nyys.us/SurvivalPool/2007/picks.html. All picks will be posted after the Sunday deadline each week (never before, to prevent others from basing their pick off everyone else).

    NOTE: The above web address most likely will not be avaliable to view until the season has started.

    To begin the season, I will submit my pick to the league every Friday. If I go deep into the pool (when it starts to become strategic) I will submit my pick to someone who has been knocked out already, to keep things legit.

    Submitting your pick

    2007 is year number 9 for this pool, and each year the number of entries has increased significantly. We've gone from 20 entries in 1999, to over 250 the past two seasons. As you might guess it's alot of work to log everything. To make it easier for me, you should submit your pick in the following manner.

    In the SUBJECT field of your email, all you need is the following. SP1, WK#, YOUR NAME, YOUR PICK. You need not put anything in the BODY portion of the email. By having everyone just enter their pick into the email subject/heading it saves me the time of having to open 200+ message each week, instead, all the picks are in a nice list on one screen.

    SP1 = Survival Pool 1, which is the 'marker' my email looks for to filter your message to the Survival Pool box I have set up.

    WK# = The particular week number in the NFL season. For week one it should be WK1, week two, WK2, etc...

    Example:

    Since all the info I need will be in the SUBJECT, I will not be opening any of these emails. If you need to contact me to ask a question, please send a 2nd message with a different heading.

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