🏈🏈🏈NFL Survivor Pool - PICKS DISCUSSION 🏈🏈🏈

[krach]

There are several NFL survior pools. Let`s talk about our picks every week.


Here is a list of the two free pools I found:

Bitcoinrush
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2151885.0

Nitrogen
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2070676.0

Do you know any more free pools?




My main Survivor pick of the week is Philly to beat Washington. I think Washington could have a rough start of the season, and maybe a horrible season overall. I think Philly can win the division.

[buwaytress]

Nice links, thanks for sharing!

I'm not in the least well-versed with NFL but no one can watch Hollywood without knowing some of the big names in American Football. As you can't pick the same team for following weeks, I'm going to go on tight bookie odds for my first few rounds, leaving the "giants" towards the end. I like the pickings for the very evenly matched Cardinals vs Lions so my first week's pick will be Arizona Cardinals. It's one of the first games also, so I'll find out very quickly if I'm around for Round 2!

Also guys, the Bitcoinrush free pool needs your picks by Thursday 5pm EDT so don't forget to lock in your picks.

[leea-1334]

First time I have seen these types of promotions. The rules seem a bit confusing to me. Is this like a knockout tournament? I thought football was played over one season against each other or do they make it differently for this time? If I join the pools later on, will it still be available or is the deadline tomorrow?

[Hydrogen]

There's a NFL pick em' contest hosted on SBR (sports book review) forum every year which pays out something like $40,000 in prizes. Its known as their "beat the prick" competition.

@ sportsbookreview.com

I think to be eligible to win prizes from the contest a person needs to pay $100 for membership which comes with a number of perks in terms of the site hosting prizes which can be redeemed for sbr points.

[ralle14]

I know one more free pool from the sportsbook subreddit. They use the same system from Nitrogen's nfl survivor pool too bad it's already closed now. link of the thread. There's another nfl pool from anybet they were giving out free entries 3weeks ago here but now it'll only cost you 0.0001 to enter.  My early pick right now is for the Patriots to win on Thursday against the Chiefs.

[CarlesPuyol]

Im also in it.
Its very interesting competition that makes you also think in long term because you cant pick the same team twice.
I make a lot of researches before I pick a team for the following week.

[leea-1334]

Im also in it.
Its very interesting competition that makes you also think in long term because you cant pick the same team twice.
I make a lot of researches before I pick a team for the following week.

This was the confusing thing for me but I think I understand the concept now. If you pick a good team that you know must win, then you can move on to following round and so on but if you reach the final and that team is there then you won't win because you cannot pick it again. So, the strategy is clear to me. You have to risk the beginning rounds to make it into the middle. If you survive to the end you can pick the winner.

[krach]

First time I have seen these types of promotions. The rules seem a bit confusing to me. Is this like a knockout tournament? I thought football was played over one season against each other or do they make it differently for this time? If I join the pools later on, will it still be available or is the deadline tomorrow?

Yes it is a knockout contest. The deadline is today.

[krach]

If you picked Miami then you are going to need to repick.

[Junko]

My basic starting/default strategy each week will be to pick from among whoever is playing against: Cleveland Browns, San Francisco 49ers, New York Jets or Jacksonville Jaguars. In that order. Even better if the team I pick is playing at home against one of these shit teams. As the season progresses, I'll look for other shit teams to reveal themselves and add them to the list.

If I still don't have a good pick after with the above strat, I will just look for the worst match up I can find that favors a team I haven't picked yet.

[ralle14]

I was having a hard time on how to lock my pick on bitcoinrush. Took me a while before I found how because the page doesn't lead you to anything other than registering on to different pools then when you sign up it only says one entry allowed per user. For those who are having the same problem as me just visit this link bookmark it, unfortunately bitcoinrush doesn't have a shortcut button for it.

[buwaytress]

90 people picked Patriots in the Free Pool, so yesterday's shock loss should have killed off about 20% of the competition... except in the statistics page it shows that there are 377/430 players left. So not sure how the numbers are tallied or if I misunderstood calculations. Hoping the same thing doesn't happen in my game, although I did pick the slight bookie favourite.

Interestingly, Patriots were also joint favourites in the 25mBTC pool, but Bills are #1 choice in the 5mBTC pool.

[krach]

90 people picked Patriots in the Free Pool, so yesterday's shock loss should have killed off about 20% of the competition... except in the statistics page it shows that there are 377/430 players left. So not sure how the numbers are tallied or if I misunderstood calculations. Hoping the same thing doesn't happen in my game, although I did pick the slight bookie favourite.

Maybe it just needs to be updated. #

Yea I am sure a lot of people got rekt on the pats last night.
Moment of silence for all the parlays busted by the pats ML not hitting.

[Junko]

90 people picked Patriots in the Free Pool, so yesterday's shock loss should have killed off about 20% of the competition... except in the statistics page it shows that there are 377/430 players left. So not sure how the numbers are tallied or if I misunderstood calculations. Hoping the same thing doesn't happen in my game, although I did pick the slight bookie favourite.

Maybe it just needs to be updated. #

Yea I am sure a lot of people got rekt on the pats last night.
Moment of silence for all the parlays busted by the pats ML not hitting.

Or is it possible they allow re-entry into the pool up until a certain week if you get knocked out early?

I picked Buffalo this week. Buffalo sucks ass, but the Jets suck ass ten times harder. I mean, when you are a +9 pt underdog to Buffalo, you know you are a horrendous team. Using Buffalo this week will give me more available options down the line.

[ralle14]

90 people picked Patriots in the Free Pool, so yesterday's shock loss should have killed off about 20% of the competition... except in the statistics page it shows that there are 377/430 players left. So not sure how the numbers are tallied or if I misunderstood calculations. Hoping the same thing doesn't happen in my game, although I did pick the slight bookie favourite.

Maybe it just needs to be updated. #

Yea I am sure a lot of people got rekt on the pats last night.
Moment of silence for all the parlays busted by the pats ML not hitting.

Or is it possible they allow re-entry into the pool up until a certain week if you get knocked out early?

Which free pool are you guys talking about? The one on nitrogensports or bitcoinrush? Re entry won't be allowed on nitrogen's free pool afaik. Patriots buried me real hard last week , 3 of my free pool entries got rekt only left with one now.

[krach]

I dont think re entry is possible anywhere


Im still alive

this week I took: Raiders, Seahawks, Ravens

[Junko]

90 people picked Patriots in the Free Pool, so yesterday's shock loss should have killed off about 20% of the competition... except in the statistics page it shows that there are 377/430 players left. So not sure how the numbers are tallied or if I misunderstood calculations. Hoping the same thing doesn't happen in my game, although I did pick the slight bookie favourite.

Maybe it just needs to be updated. #

Yea I am sure a lot of people got rekt on the pats last night.
Moment of silence for all the parlays busted by the pats ML not hitting.

Or is it possible they allow re-entry into the pool up until a certain week if you get knocked out early?

Which free pool are you guys talking about? The one on nitrogensports or bitcoinrush? Re entry won't be allowed on nitrogen's free pool afaik. Patriots buried me real hard last week , 3 of my free pool entries got rekt only left with one now.

I was talking about NitrogenSports. Yeah, I've never heard of re-entry into survivor pools. That would defeat the purpose. Anyway, another possibility could be new entrants joining after the first week was completed (even after many were eliminated). On the NitrogenSports Survivor Pool page, all the different pay pool levels, including the free pool, have the "Join Pool!" button on them even though the first week of games is completed.

And according the the FAQ below the pools:

Can I enter more than once?
You can absolutely buy into the paid pools more than once! However, you can only submit one entry into the free pool.


Anyway, I'm only in the free pool for Nitrogen. Still alive and I picked Baltimore this week. They should easily win at home against Cleveland. Baltimore looks to have a harder schedule this year so might as well use them now.

[Joca97]

Well i got knocked out from the free pool on the nfl pool because of new england like most of the people did
but stil alive on the twitter/fb pool of nitrogen,only 60 people left there so i think i have a good chance there to win it
hoping i win this week

big prizes from nitro

[ralle14]

Well i got knocked out from the free pool on the nfl pool because of new england like most of the people did
but stil alive on the twitter/fb pool of nitrogen,only 60 people left there so i think i have a good chance there to win it
hoping i win this week

big prizes from nitro

What's the prize on the twitter secret pool ? Is it same with the public free pool 0.5btc or a big free bet?

-snip-

That would be great if that's possible. I already tried it before and there's no way to join on nitro's paid pools.
If you want to join another nfl pool, anybet is opening a pool for this week but with a 0.0001 buy in. Worth joining imo since there's only 6 entries with a 0.018 btc prize.

[krach]

Im still alive

this week I took: Raiders, Seahawks, Ravens

boom

I entered 5 pools at bitcoinrush and im still alive at three