Suicide Pools and Eliminator Pools
Check this page weekly during the 2007-08 NFL season for a weekly article giving advice for suicide pools, eliminator pools, survivor pools and confidence pools. Doc's Sports will recommend the best teams to pick each week for your NFL survivor pool and we will give the best analysis of anyone on the Internet.
NFL Survivor Pool Advice - Week 12
by Drew Mangione - 11/20/2007
Bill Belichick is a vengeful man. He's come under flack for running up the score (the over is 8-2 in Patriot games this year). However, he's not running up the score against the teams he's playing. He's getting revenge. He's tearing down the legend of the league's biggest star and further elevating his sixth-round stroke of genius like he's playing a season of Madden 2008. Tom Brady may have tossed that fifth touchdown pass to Ben Watson against the Bills, but the score went against the NFL and Peyton Manning record 49 TDs.
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NFL Survivor Pool Advice - Week 11
by Drew Mangione - 11/14/2007
What a sap I am. I can't believe I waxed on and on about the beauty of football even in the face of defeat. My stance this week: There's no beauty in losing. And there certainly was no beauty in the Saints loss to the Rams or Carolina's loss to Atlanta. What's worse is my savage co-worker the I-man Existo Shuttlesworth is a damned Falcons fan, who has been claiming superiority to my Jets since day one. This is a man who once called KGB a top 5 defensive end of all time. He doesn't deserve to be right.
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NFL Survivor Pool Advice - Week 10
by Drew Mangione - 11/08/2007
The NFL is a beautiful thing. Even in the misery of defeat, you can smile at the artistry before you. The Chargers tased me again, but it was worth it to see Adrian Peterson slice through an eight-man front and then the secondary for almost 10 yards per carry. Maybe it's easier to swallow because it was only my smallest suicide pool that ended and I'm still alive in the larger ones, but I say that I stand as a true fan, willing to appreciate the beauty of the game.
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NFL Survivor Pool Advice - Week 9
by Drew Mangione - 11/01/2007
Another perfect week for me and even though the stock of sure-fire selections available has dwindled, so finally has the population of my survivor pools. There may well be light at the end of the tunnel. The Bears trapped one contestant in my big league and another two in my smallest league. (Didn't they hear Kitna predict a 10-win season?) We're down to four contestants from 35 in one pool and just me and another buffoon in the pool of 10.
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NFL Survivor Pool Advice - Week 8
by Drew Mangione - 10/25/2007
It's not often you see a suicide-eliminator-survivor pool last this deep into the season. It's the reason second chance pools spring up in these middle weeks. Usually if you make seven good picks, you're taking home the pot. Yet I find myself week after week riding the same beautiful waves as everyone else in two separate pools. Something has to change, I just hope it's not my luck.
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NFL Survivor Pool Advice - Week 7
by Drew Mangione - 10/18/2007
The ring had an ominous feel to it. What call in the fading hours before daylight isn't a concern when it wakes you from a dead sleep? I could see on my phone that it was the Conquistador, a tragic figure, that 28-year-old predator still running strong in college town. I opted to answer the call on the off chance that he needed bail money. Turns out, all he needed was an answer to his simple question: Who did you pick this week?
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NFL Survivor Pool Advice - Week 6
by Drew Mangione - 10/11/2007
I'm still alive. Sure there was a healthy dose of fear wrapped in Craig Hentrich's failure to get his punt off and then Warrick Dunn's 18-yard run to Tennessee's 1-yard line. But Albert "Head Stepper" Haynesworth saved the day, pushing the Falcons off the goal line, just far enough for Byron Leftwich to throw some missiles to fans in the first few rows. Now I'm looking forward with two consecutive perfect weeks behind me.
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NFL Survivor Pool Advice - Week 5
by Drew Mangione - 10/04/2007
I was on the road in Asheville, North Carolina for a wedding last weekend, so football had to take a back seat. Never before had I been so willing to pass up football-it was the first time I'd seen my girlfriend in two months. Still, when she wanted to subject me to ear candles, not only did I find a chance to reverse what I thought was the beginning of hearing loss, but as I lay on my side with a conical candle flaming just inches away from my head, I found new life in my suicide-eliminator-survivor pools over just 30 minutes.
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NFL Survivor Pool Advice - Week 4
by Drew Mangione - 09/26/2007
They tased me bro! The San Diego Chargers decided to fall apart this season and take me down with 50,000 volts of disappointment. I stand by the pick, though. Brett Favre & Co. are playing out of their shoes and have now stunned me twice. Norv Turner is a joke. He may turn this team around by year's end, but with the talent on that squad, a trained giraffe could probably oversee a 9-7 squad.
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NFL Survivor Pool Advice - Week 3
by Drew Mangione - 09/20/2007
I should have known better. I know better than to pick road favorites in divisional games, but the Browns seemed so bad, and the Bengals so good in week one. I knew it was a risk. With 6:18 to go in the third, I still had hope that Marvin's not-so-Marvelous D could help Carson & Co. overcome a three-point deficit. Alas, they couldn't and the points racked up faster than hits to that Youtube video with the effeminate whiner defending Britney.
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NFL Survivor Pool Advice - Week 2
by Drew Mangione - 09/14/2007
After watching a New England team systematically dismantle my beloved Jets as if they knew every move Team Green would make, my remote, and my focus, shifted toward the Philadelphia Eagles and their Week 1 game at Green Bay. The game was tied and I tuned in just in time to see Trent Cole cause a miraculous fumble and Jevon Kearse scoop it up to give Donovan McNabb's offense a short field. But the Eagles went nowhere and eventually fumbled away a would-be victory. I guess I picked the wrong week to quit smoking.
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NFL Survivor Pool Advice - Week 1
by Drew Mangione - 09/06/2007
So, as I sit here repeatedly slapping my head with a fly swatter while browsing the lines for the opening week of the National Football League season, I'm a bit perplexed. I've got to make five picks for four suicide-eliminator-survivor pools and the schedule looks like that shady dealer your older brother told you never to buy from because his best products seem too good to be true: laced with upset, rolled in nail-biter and cut with poison.
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2007 NFL Survivor Pool Advice
by Drew Mangione - 09/02/2007
For my money, the best rush when betting the NFL season comes through a survivor pool. After all, when you bet a weekly ticket and lose you always have the next week to make up for it. However, in a survivor pool (a.k.a. an eliminator or suicide pool) it's all-or-nothing and any single loss ends your season. With just one pick in the pool you can go from top dog to drowned at the Bad Newz Kennels in the span of one week.
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Advice and Tips for NFL Survivor Pools
by Trevor Whenham - 07/10/2007
The best part of the NFL is that there are hundreds of different ways to get some action and hopefully make a bit of money. You can play your basic point spreads, totals or money line, but there is so much more out there. Everybody knows somebody who is running some sort of pool or fantasy league, and if you follow football closely you'll have an edge over the long term over the people who pick teams based on mascot name or uniform color. One of the most difficult but entertaining and potentially lucrative ways to put your money in play during the pro football season is in an NFL suicide pool - also known as an NFL eliminator pool or a NFL survivor pool. This season at Doc's Sports we will provide week-by-week suicide pool advice to give you the best chance to win the pot.
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Week 8 Advice for NFL Suicide Pools
by Drew Mangione - 10/25/2006
A good friend of mine reminded me on Sunday evening that a wise man once said "Never take road favorites in a divisional game." That wise man was, of course, me. Did I listen? No. Another wise man told me last Wednesday to stay away, far away, from the Jacksonville at Houston game. That man was Doc's Sports writer and handicapper Robert Ferringo. I should have listened to him. I should have listened to myself.
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Week 7 Advice for NFL Suicide Pools
by Drew Mangione - 10/19/2006
Monday night was pure insanity. Why did I take the Bears? WHY! I can't count high enough to tell you how many times I said those words. It didn't look good and in a week when almost everyone else in the pool took the Broncos and advanced, my frustration was close to tearing apart my recliner, shattering a glass door, and severing the lining of my stomach as I crammed chips, pasta and beer down my gullet.
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Week 6 Advice for NFL Suicide Pools
by Drew Mangione - 10/13/2006
The pool of sweat beneath me around 4 p.m. Sunday was tremendous. My friend's leather recliner is certainly worse for wear. However, once the early games were over and the dog lapped up the tsunami of worries, my suicide pool slots were safe and only my pride was in jeopardy. I believed my analysis was sound last week, but the football is a fickle game.
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Week 5 Advice for NFL Suicide Pools
by Drew Mangione - 10/06/2006
I'm alive. Barely. No, I'm not talking about my suicide pool picks, which won easily. No, rather I decided to play a little game Monday night-take a shot of whiskey each time Kornheiser, Theisman and Tirico said those two magic words, Terrell Owens. Well, after the first quarter, I felt as though I had overdosed on pain medication and knew my only recourse was to switch to beer.
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Suicide Pools - Nothing to do With Terrell Owens
by Drew Mangione - 09/28/2006
They're called elimination pools, but I prefer the not-so-politically-correct name: suicide pool. Sure, it looks good on the surface-$5 a slot, winner take all. The aim is simple: pick one straight-up winner each week. You can't use the same team twice. And if your selections get beat, well, you're out a pack of cigarettes.
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