Survivor

Pick one NFL team a week. Never the same team twice. Lose and you’re out.

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Advanced rules
Double-pick weeks (two teams, both must survive)

Required games for a double-pick week (Thanksgiving, say) are set from the admin page once the pool exists.

The admin PIN is the only way back into pool settings. There is no reset.

How it works

  1. Create a pool and get a link.
  2. Friends open it, enter a name and a 4-digit PIN.
  3. Everyone picks one team a week, and never the same team twice.
  4. Scores sync automatically. Last one standing wins.

Rules

How does a pick work?
One team per week, and it has to win outright — there are no spreads. A pick locks when that team’s game kicks off. Until then you can pick or change to any team whose game has not started.
Can I pick the same team twice?
Not unless the pool allows team reuse. By default a team you have used is gone for the rest of the season, so the schedule has to be spent carefully.
What are lives?
The pool creator chooses 1 to 3. A loss costs one life, and at zero lives a player is eliminated.
What if I forget to pick?
A missed pick counts as a loss once the week closes, the same as picking a team that loses.
What happens if my team ties?
A tie counts as a loss unless the pool counts ties as wins. Either way the team still counts as used.
Can other players see my pick?
Not until the picked team’s game kicks off. Your own pick is always visible to you, and to the pool admin.
When do joins close?
The creator sets a start week, and a week that is already under way is allowed — games that have kicked off simply cannot be picked, so a mid-week joiner chooses from what is left. Joins close at the start week’s last kickoff.
How does a pool end?
When one player is left alive after a closed week, that player wins. If every remaining player loses or misses a pick in the same week, they are co-winners. (A pool with revival on treats a week where everyone left loses or misses a pick as a wash instead: nobody goes out and play continues, sudden death.) By default a pool covers the regular season, through week 18, and anyone still alive after week 18 shares the win. A pool with playoffs on keeps going through the Wild Card, Divisional, Conference Championship and Super Bowl rounds when more than one player survives week 18; used teams reset for that run.
Can the rules be changed?
Yes, per pool, when it is created or from the admin page. Most rules lock at the pool’s first kickoff; double-pick weeks can still be added or edited until that week kicks off. Options: loser pool (pick a team to lose), ties counting as wins, team reuse, a no-repeat-opponent rule, double-pick weeks with optional required games, a second chance bracket for runner-up, playoffs (play on through the Super Bowl if more than one player survives week 18), revival on a wipeout (everyone left losing or missing a pick the same week is a wash, not a shared win), and a cumulative-margin tiebreaker when co-winners would otherwise share. Every option is off by default.