2024 NFL Playoff Survivor Pool Leaderboard

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2024 NFL Playoff Survivor Pool

2024 NFL Playoff Survivor Pool

Welcome back to your favorite gray area of legality survivor pool for the NINTH year! Can you believe the Steelers are in this dumb thing?!

Hey man!  I did this last year.  Just tell me what changed so I can get on with my day.

Nothing changed, but just a reminder how picks work here since it's a little different than our NCAA pool and someone ALWAYS forgets that we just pick the weekend as a whole rather than individual days.

Ok, there was one change - if you want to mail a check, I do have an address down there now. I'd suggest making it out to ThoroughCrowd since I'm using my business PO Box and I don't need the UPS store employees confused.

The Basics

• Each weekend, you pick 1-2 teams depending on how many days there are games that weekend. (I don't care that wildcard "weekend" now has a Monday night game - we're still doing only two picks.)  If you're team(s) wins, congrats!  You live to fight another day.  If not, it's GAME OVER MAN!
• As with any survivor pool, you cannot pick the same team twice.  If you do pick the same team twice and don't catch it yourself, you're out.  If you do catch it in time, just resubmit via the same form you used initially (I constantly check all submissions and take the latest one for each entry).
• Picks must be submitted via Google Forms that I will both post here and send to participants once available. The form will ask for your email address and will automatically send you a copy of your responses. I get hundreds of entries and update them as frequently as I can, so please do not bug me with questions about whether your pick went in or reminders of who you picked - you should have this information already. Please do let me know if you do not get an email back with your picks BEFORE kick-off of your intended game so I can make sure it's in there - I will not add your pick b/c you didn't look for that email receipt before kick-off.
• Due to how few possible combinations of selections there are, there is no tiebreaker in this game.
• The pool will be "winner take all," but I'm figuring there will be a few people there at the end, so everyone who makes it to the last day and picks the winner (whatever that is) will split the pot.
• Pot will be reduced by my "effort take." As a reminder, I skim the pool based on how much I have to fix on the backend:
• $1/back-end error I fix  
• $2/email I deal with that could have been answered just by reading this blog post all the way through.
• $3/error I have to fix per email sent that requires some real extra effort. 
• Just in case anyone is unaware, there are a possible total of SIX games to be picked - wild card weekend (2 games), divisional playoff weekend (2 games) championship Sunday, and finally super bowl Sunday.  Plan accordingly!

Entry

• Cost will be $20
• You may buy only a maximum of THREE entries - HOWEVER, if you lose an entry prior to the final deadline on Wild Card weekend (which is the 8:15 PM ET Sunday game), I'll allow you to continue purchasing entries, throwing good money at bad, to your heart's content, so long as you have no more than THREE active entries at any given time. (So yes, before you can even submit entry #4, you'll have to have lost #1, #2, or #3. An entry is "lost" once a single game is lost on an entry.)
• Easiest way to pay is, as usual, via PayPal or Venmo.  
• Paypal: paypal.me/PhilipCrone
• Venmo: @Philip-Crone (PLEASE NOTE MY NAME HAS ONE L, I have informed the guy with two L's that he can keep $5 of your $20 entry fee)
• Zelle: steelcard30@gmail.com
• Cash/Checks: Get it in my hands or mail - ThoroughCrowd, LLC, 974 Breckenridge Ln, Box #133, Louisville, KY 40207
• For those of you who still live in 1997 and are scared of computers and think everything that happened in that Sandra Bullock movie The Net is real, I guess you can find me and hand the money over.  If you choose this route, you need to do so before the kickoff of the last pickable game, which is Sunday, January 14th, 2023. 

That's it. As usual, feel free to forward this along to friends who may want to play. If you have any questions I somehow didn't address above, just let me know at tourneypools@gmail.com.  I'll use the same website (tourneypools.blogspot.com) for all updates. Good luck all!