Suicide Football Pool
One of the staples of NFL betting each year are survivor pools, and DraftKings is rolling out a monster of a contest for the 2020 pro football season that will feature up to $100 million in prizes when all is said and done. By simply reserving entry into the $1 Million NFL Survivor Pool, users will also be able to opt into DraftKings’ free $100 Million Golden Ticket Giveaway where one person is guaranteed to win $1 million in cash.
Pool is run for the entire NFL season and is very easy to use. Welcome to ezfootballpool.com the fully comprehensive web site for office football pools. This site was developed for both the League Administrator and Player. SUICIDE POOL RULES You are allowed to pick one team each week. Your team must win outright; no point spread is used. If your team loses or ties, you will be out of the pool. You can get advice for the 2020 NFL Survivor Pool on this page. I'll be posting my top five picks each week, as well as the trap of the week, so check back if you need tips and analysis. If you want to enter - it's free with a $350 prize - go here to the 2020 NFL Survivor Pool page. As always, follow me @walterfootball to stay up to date. Survivor Contest for 2020 is Over There were 31 players who made it the entire season. This is not unprecedented as we has 13 in 2016.
Not only is the total prize pool for Week 1 massive, but there is no entry fee to enter the pool. That’s right, it’s free to participate!
In addition, because it’s not a paid-entry contest, it’s accessible even to residents of states that don’t yet offer legalized sports betting.
DraftKings Sportsbook is already offering pool-based contests for golf, lacrosse, UFC and NBA. There’s even a pool for what could turn out to be the biggest spectacle of any kind in 2020 – the presidential election. But NFL survivor pools are almost always the most popular of all, given how much interest pro football generates for all types of real-money-based gaming products.
How to sign up for DraftKings Free NFL Survivor Pool
To get started with DraftKings’ NFL Survivor Pool, go here.
- Those wishing to enter the contest simply need to go to the Pools tab near the top right corner of the home page within DK Sportsbook’s web platform or through the DK app.
- Once in Pools, a list of available contests, including the $1 Million Pro Football Survivor Pool, will be seen running vertically down the right side of the screen. Interested participants simply need to select the contest and follow the prompts to enter.
- The list of survivor picks for Week 1 will be available by Tuesday, Sept. 8, two days before the Texans-Chiefs game that is slated to launch the 2020 season.
- As detailed in the Survivor Pool rules above, the $1 million prize could conceivably go to one participant in its entirety, or it may be split among multiple contestants.
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How to play DraftKings Free NFL Survivor Pool
NFL Survivor Pools should be immediately familiar to the casual football fan who perhaps has never even placed a bet on a game or entered a DFS contest.
In DK’s NFL Survivor Pool, participants operate within the following rules:
- They must designate an NFL team each week that they think will win their game. The pick must be made within DK Sportsbook’s contest platform before 1 p.m. ET on Sundays during the regular season for any Sunday or Monday night games. Participants selecting a team from a Thursday night game must make their selection before the kickoff of that contest.
- If their selected team is a winner that week, the participant “survives” to play again the following week. He or she will then pick a different team that they think will win their contest that following week. The participant remains in the Survivor Pool as long as their pick each week wins.
- Whenever a team the participant selects loses their game that week, the participant is eliminated from the Survivor Pool.
- Once a participant has picked a team, they can no longer utilize the same team as a selection at any point the rest of the season.
- By this process, participants are eliminated each week when the teams they select lose their games. The last participant remaining, at whatever point in the regular season that is, is declared the winner. If multiple participants are still alive at the end of Week 17 of the NFL season, the prize pool is split among all survivors.
$100 Million Golden Ticket Giveaway
It addition to the $1 million survivor pool, DraftKings users will also get a shot at the $100 million Golden Ticket Giveaway. Here is how it works:
- By reserving entry into the $1 million survivor pool, users can claim a free reward ranging from $5 – $25,000 in value.
- Users will then be able to opt into the free Golden Ticket Giveaway sweepstakes where one person is guaranteed to win $1 million in cash.
- The drawing will take place on Sept. 13.
- The $100 Million Golden Ticket Giveaway is for both DraftKings DFS and DraftKings Sportsbook users – new and existing.
Survivor contests engage through strategy and competition
Survivor Pools for a sport as popular as pro football should attract many who already regularly play similar contests among co-workers, family or friends.
The concept is extremely straightforward and also taps into a prominent part of many sports fans’ psyches — ego.
Most football aficionados aren’t exactly short on opinions. Survivor pools give them a chance to put the expertise they think they have toward weekly predictions that could ultimately win them cold, hard cash.
However, as alluded to above, there’s some nuance attached to succeeding in a survivor-themed contest. Because no team can be used more than once, participants have to familiarize themselves with individual schedules in order to determine when it might be best to deploy a selection.
For example, teams projected to be among the elite – such as the defending champion Kansas City Chiefs – might be tempting to utilize as early as possible in a season.
Yet it may actually be more prudent to first tab some squads that may be considered playoff contenders, for example, but that aren’t quite on the same tier as the Super Bowl champs. If one takes advantage of those teams’ easiest matchups, there’s reduced chances of an upset stemming from being forced to instead use them later in the season against a tougher opponent or after injuries have struck.
Meanwhile, an elite unit like the Chiefs, which are likely to be heavy favorites against many opponents, can be “stored away” for future use later in the season. At that point there will likely a lesser group of contestants remaining in the pool and even fewer that have yet to pick the Chiefs in a prior week.
Don’t look now, but we are less than a week away from the start of the National Football League season. While the world suffered through a global pandemic from March through the present day, the NFL has been essentially operating as business as usual with the exception of the lack of preseason games and shortened training camps. Nonetheless, the NFL is back and me and the rest of the Doc’s staff couldn’t be more excited to get the season started and to start winning football wagers again. Throughout the season, I’ll be covering a plethora of football articles and probably none as important or as exciting as our weekly Survivor Pool content.
Survivor pools, or suicide pools as they’re also known, have grown in popularity over the last handful of years, and with good reason. They offer football fans a chance to pick a single game per week and focus all of their attention on that one game. While it may sound as simple as pick a team to win a game, it’s far more complex given the fact that if they lose you are out of the pool (and lose your money) and the fact that you cannot use that team again the rest of the year.
If you are in a friendly or low stakes survivor pool, you might have little regard for the strategy that comes into play for this variation of betting on the NFL. Don’t worry though, throughout the course of this article, I’ll give you an idea of how survivor pools work (if you’re new to them) and a bunch of strategies that I employ when trying to win the pools I play in.
Survivor Pool Rules
As per the name of the pool, the goal is to survive and be the last person standing at the end of the season (or however long the pool goes). The most basic format of this pool is as follows:
You must pick one team per week to win the game straight up. If the team you pick wins, you live to pick again the following week. If that team loses, you are eliminated from the pool. This happens every week until one person is left standing. The person left standing wins the entire purse money. This pool could last one week or could last all 17 weeks depending on the number of entrants or the number of big upsets that occur.
Sounds easy enough right? Not so fast.
Survivor Pool Strategies
Plan Ahead: Survivor pools are such a unique way of betting on the NFL that you forget how hard winning a football game can be. As the saying goes, on any given Sunday, any team can win. That’s why you have to plan out your team picking strategy in advance and always have a backup plan if things like injuries occur. It’s imperative to remember that you can only pick a team one time throughout the whole season, so you better think twice about taking a team like Kansas City, who is 10-point favorites in Week 1. There will likely be better spots to play them later on in the season. We understand that name of the game is to survive the week and advance to the next round, but if you burn out all the top teams (KC, SF, NO, BALT, etc), within the first four weeks, come Week 5, you’ll be in a precarious position as you’ll have to rely on second-tier teams to get the job done.
Pick Popularity: While this may seem like it’s contradicting the first strategy, it’s important to understand how popular a certain team is going to be on any given week. Typically, when everyone on the pool is on a certain team, it’s more of a sweat than it should be as Vegas doesn’t give out free money. If your plan allows you to be flexible and avoid the most popular pick, it’s never a bad idea to do so. If that team were to lose, the majority of the pool will be eliminated while you’ll be left standings because you planned ahead and adjusted accordingly.
Fading certain teams: Every year there are teams that finish well below .500, but not since 2017 has there been a team that’s gone 0-16 (good job, Cleveland). Picking a team to pick against every week is generally a good idea since they won’t get good overnight, but remember to pick your spots wisely as even the worst teams win 1-4 games on the season. Last year, the Bengals and Redskins were the teams to fade, but even they combined to win 5 games as underdogs against teams in bad spots.
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Primetime Games: One of the biggest mistakes a player can make while playing a survivor pool is taking a primetime game whether that be Thursday, Sunday, or Monday. Primetime games typically bring out the best in both teams and the matchups are generally even because the NFL wants competitive games. Thursday night games are typically sloppy and turnover-filled, resulting in some weird results, while Sunday and Monday are so heavily bet on, it’s almost impossible to find value on either team.
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