NFL Survivor Pool Picks
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NFL Survivor Pool Picks and Advice: Week 12
by Matt Severance - 11/21/2012
For the first time since the bye weeks began, every team has now played exactly the same amount of games in the NFL: 10. So we should know what every club is by now. I say "should," because it rarely works that way. And currently, a whopping 25 teams are within two games of a playoff spot with six weeks to go. Read More >>
NFL Survivor Pools Strategy Advice and Predictions: Week 12
by T.O. Whenham - 11/20/2012
It's time for another week of survivor pool strategy, advice and predictions. Whether you have somehow managed to survive this deep into the season with your first pool, or you are on your second or third try, you need to find the best spots you can. Luckily, there are lots of good spots available this week: Read More >>
NFL Survivor Pool Picks and Advice: Week 11
by Matt Severance - 11/14/2012
The Kansas City Chiefs and St. Louis Rams each were a potential missed field goal away from pulling huge upsets in Week 10 of NFL action and likely torpedoing your survivor pool competition. The Rams tied the 49ers in San Francisco at 24, the first "sister-kisser" in the NFL in four years. Excellent St. Louis rookie kicker Greg Zuerlein kicked a 53-yarder to win it in overtime, but the Rams were penalized five yards for delay of game. Read More >>
NFL Survivor Pools Strategy Advice and Predictions: Week 11
by T.O. Whenham - 11/13/2012
Whether you are still alive in your survivor pool, or fighting for glory in a second-chance (or fifth-chance) pool, you need to always be on the lookout for the games that could be safe picks and the games that absolutely should be avoided each week on the NFL schedule. Luckily, things are reasonably straightforward this week - at least compared to some weeks. In the continued hunt for winning picks, here is some survivor pools strategy advice and predictions for this week: Read More >>
NFL Survivor Pool Picks and Advice: Week 10
by Matt Severance - 11/7/2012
Not sure if you read the story somewhere, but Week 9 in the NFL was almost catastrophic for the Las Vegas sportsbooks because they lost so much money essentially due to so many favorites covering: 10 of 14 by my count (casual bettors hugely lean toward favorites). Those that didn't:: the Giants, who lost at home to the Steelers; the Raiders (who were only a one-point favorite), who lost at home to Tampa Bay; the Dolphins, who lost at Indianapolis; and the Panthers, who won at the Redskins. Read More >>
NFL Survivor Pools Strategy Advice and Predictions: Week 10
by T.O. Whenham - 11/7/2012
The deeper we get into the season, the harder survivor pool players need to look for picks that they can use. That means that you have to find games with small spreads that are still worth a risk. This week eight of the 14 games on the schedule have a spread of four or fewer points. Let's look at each of those eight close games to see which ones aren't as close as they seem - and could be attractive for survivor pool players as well: Read More >>
NFL Survivor Pool Picks and Advice: Week 9
by Matt Severance - 10/31/2012
It's unofficially the halfway point of the season this week as by the end of Monday night's game every team will have played at least eight of its 16 regular-season games. There were a few somewhat surprising upsets in Week 8: Bucs over Vikings, Dolphins over Jets and Browns over Chargers (who are officially dead-men walking). I warned you the first two might happen and simply didn't care much about the San Diego-Cleveland game. Read More >>
NFL Survivor Pools Strategy Advice and Predictions: Week 9
by T.O. Whenham - 10/30/2012
We have made it halfway through the NFL season. if you are still alive in your survivor pool then you deserve hearty congratulations. By now the obvious teams are all off the board, and it's time to gamble and find some more creative choices to give you the edge and get you the win. Heavy favorites like Green Bay against Arizona or the Texans versus the Bills would be great picks, but those teams have almost certainly been used. Thankfully, though, there are five games on the board this week that are still attractive but more likely to be usable. Read More >>
NFL Survivor Pool Picks and Advice: Week 8
by Matt Severance - 10/25/2012
For the most part, the NFL is now starting to skew back toward what we mostly expected - i.e. chalk. While there were earth-shattering upsets in the first few weeks, those are becoming harder to find. The Arizona Cardinals were a big early surprise and pulled arguably the upset of the year by winning in New England. But the Cardinals are now "who we thought they were" to quote a famous diatribe from ex-Cards coach Dennis Green. Arizona started 4-0 and is now 4-3. Read More >>
NFL Survivor Pools Strategy Advice and Predictions: Week 8
by T.O. Whenham - 10/25/2012
We are not even halfway through the regular season, but we are very deep into the survivor pool season. Because we are down to the nitty gritty, we're going to change the format a little bit and look for the best and worst picks of the week regardless of what the odds happen to be. Read More >>
NFL Survivor Pool Picks and Advice: Week 7
by Matt Severance - 10/17/2012
So why is Week 7 an important one to NFL teams? Because players who were placed on the physically-unable-to-perform list back in training camp or the preseason are eligible to be activated after their team's first six regular-season games. Obviously, clubs that already have had a bye week would have to wait until Week 8, but someone like the Ravens' Terrell Suggs could be activated this week. Read More >>
NFL Survivor Pools Strategy Advice and Predictions: Week 7
by T.O. Whenham - 10/16/2012
Last week in survivor pool action all you could really hope for is that you hadn't picked the Falcons yet. Atlanta seemed like a very easy pick against Oakland. While they made things much, much harder than they should have, they ultimately won. If you couldn't pick Atlanta, though, then things likely didn't go very well for you. Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Arizona, Minnesota, Cincinnati, New England - all reasonably popular picks that found ways to lose. Read More >>
NFL Survivor Pool Picks and Advice: Week 6
by Matt Severance - 10/10/2012
My top two choices in Week 5 were the Giants over the Browns - although I recommended possibly shifting off them if Hakeem Nicks sat (and he did) - and the 49ers over the Bills. Neither team had much trouble in its win, and San Francisco became the first club in NFL history to put up 300 yards passing and rushing in its blowout of Buffalo. Mark it down now: Chan Gailey will be the first head coach fired. Read More >>
Survivor Pools Strategy Advice and Predictions: Week 6
by T.O. Whenham - 10/9/2012
What did we learn last week in survivor pools? Don't trust the Packers, and the Saints aren't as bad as their record. Beyond that it wasn't a particularly challenging week - at least not compared to weeks that have come before it. This is a particularly interesting week. Most weeks we see three or four games with spreads of more than a touchdown, so we have a wide range of games to choose from that are often relatively low risk. Read More >>
NFL Survivor Pool Picks and Advice: Week 5
by Matt Severance - 10/3/2012
You could call the Vikings winning at Detroit a slight upset in Week 4 of the NFL season. Maybe also St. Louis at home over Seattle, Washington winning at Tampa Bay and Chicago stomping Dallas in Big D. But none of those really were that surprising, and, in fact, it was a pretty chalk week in pro football for the first time this year. Thus, no big surprises likely were seen in your survivor pool competitions, although Atlanta, Green Bay and Arizona all easily could have lost at home against underdogs. Read More >>
Survivor Pools Strategy Advice and Predictions: Week 5
by T.O. Whenham - 10/3/2012
It was too late for a lot of people, but last week we finally had a week in the NFL that made sense from a survivor pool perspective. Baltimore, Houston, Atlanta, and Green Bay were the four most obvious picks, and they all came through with a win - albeit just barely in the case of the Packers. Read More >>
NFL Survivor Pool Picks and Advice: Week 4
by Matt Severance - 9/26/2012
Crickets. That is the sound emanating from survivor pools all around the country with many already having been emptied through just three weeks of the NFL season. There have been mammoth upsets each week so far, and Week 3 was no different. I recommended Dallas over Tampa Bay (Cowboys were somewhat lucky to win) and Chicago over St. Louis, both correct, but my top choice was New Orleans at home over Kansas City. Read More >>
Survivor Pools Strategy Advice and Predictions: Week 4
by T.O. Whenham - 9/26/2012
Carnage. There is no other word to describe last week in the NFL - at least from a survivor pool perspective. The two most popular picks by far were New Orleans and San Francisco. The Saints showed just how deep their troubles run when they threw away a sure win against the Chiefs. The Niners, meanwhile, were inexplicably absent in Minnesota. Perhaps they were suffering a letdown after two nice wins against elite opponents to open the season. Read More >>
NFL Survivor Pool Picks and Advice: Week 3
by Matt Severance - 9/19/2012
I would like to say I changed my mind between the posting of this column and the start of Sunday's Week 2 NFL games. I would like to say I saw a big injury and that caused me to dump my top Week 2 survivor pool pick, the New England Patriots at home over Arizona. I would like to tell you that. Read More >>
Survivor Pools Strategy Advice and Predictions: Week 3
by T.O. Whenham - 9/19/2012
Well, that sucked. In my biggest survivor pool more than 50 percent of the entrants went out thanks to the Patriots, and I was one of them. It was the perfect proof of just how hard these seemingly simple pools can be. My initial reaction to the setback was to second guess the pick. With a little distance, though, the competitive juices quit flowing quite so fast, and I realized that you can't have any regrets. Read More >>
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