I am in a survivor pool with 175 people and a $15 entry fee, for a total of $2625. I am on Houston for week one.

Week 1 picks:

58 - Houston
40 - Detroit
35 - Bears
15 - Philadelphia
7 - New Orleans
5 - Minnesota
4 - New England
4 - Baltimore
3 - Green Bay
2 - NY Giants
1 - Kansas City
1 - Cleveland

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14 bit the dust last week, leaving 161. New England seems like a lock to win, but if you have mapped out the entire season like I have, then they are not the right play this week.

I am on Cincinnati

93 - New England
15 - NY Giants
13 - Cincinnati
10 - San Diego
9 - Houston
6 - Washington
3 - Dallas
3 - Pittsburgh
3 - San Francisco
2 - Oakland
1 - Buffalo
1 - Minnesota
1 - New Orleans
1 - Philadelphia

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Go Cardinals!

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That would be awesome for you

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Unfucking real. Hold on to the fucking ball, asshole.

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Fuck yeah, son!

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Pats go down, that is awesome.

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Good shit Chus.

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97 down today already.

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Great minds think alike. I didn't even see this thread until now. I also had Houston and Cincinnati. 44 left out of 105.

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15 of them got pretty damn lucky.

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Seriously still can't understand how the Patriots lose to Arizona. Brady looked like shit and the Cardinals are now 2-0.

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I'm one of the brilliant ones who had the Pats.

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106 people have been eliminated today. Let's go Lions!

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Whoever grabbed Philly has some balls.

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This.

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I thought we were down to 55 people, but apparently there are 56. I am on the Saints.

14 - Bears
14 - New Orleans
13 - San Francisco
6 - Dallas
3 - Pittsburgh
2 - Green Bay
2 - Detroit
1 - Buffalo
1 - Kansas City

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Wow, who in their right mind would take KC or Buffalo

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Good luck, Chus


Back in the trading floor heyday, we had a ridiculous pool. 8-900 people at 20$ a piece.

At least Buffalo is favored. The Chefs are 9 pt dogs.

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I think ours is fifteen because the weekly confidence pool is $85 for all 17 weeks, making an even $100 yearly investment.

What is the closest you came to winning that huge pool?

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Yeah the buffalo pick makes a little sense. Cleveland is terrible. The KC pick is just dumb.

Detroit would've been a good one to pick this week.

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Not close. I think I made it to week 6 once.


Usually the final 5 or 6 would work out a deal.

My manager at the time ran the pool. He didnt take a pct because people who win thousands of dollars usually tip well. One year a guy won like 12 grand and tipped him 20$. Publically shamed into a hundred but then he had to start doing a pct. What a jag that guy was.

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We have a survivor pool too at work, $20 fee, and $10 buy back in fee if you're eliminated one time....second time and you're done.

I was eliminated with Patriots, but I bought back in, and I'm going with the Saints.

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As someone who runs pools at work fairly often, I don't ever expect a tip. If the motivation for you to run the pool is to get a tip, then let someone else run it. They really aren't that hard to do. Maybe back in the pre-computer day it was if you had to manually calculate it all, but now they run themselves. That being said, a $20 tip on a $12000 win is pretty pathetic... more respect for not tipping in that situation (because maybe it doesn't occur to the guy to tip -- giving a $20 is like leaving a nickel to the waitress after dinner.) If you go in from the beginning with a "I keep 2%" rule, then you look like a dick running the thing for money.

Easiest way is to have the government run all pools and take a 10% cut but have it be completely legal.

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That was my impression also.

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I got to week 11 once. Then all 5 people left lost. Instead of letting everyone back in, just had those five go the next week. I lost the next week.

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How did the Saints blow an 18 point lead at home to the Chiefs?

I hope they go 0-16.

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I hope they do as well.

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