# SDMB NFL Pick 'em and Survival Leagues
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-nfl-pick-em-and-survival-leagues/459838
**Category:** The Game Room
**Created:** [August 13, 2008, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-nfl-pick-em-and-survival-leagues/459838 "2008-08-13T13:17:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2008, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-nfl-pick-em-and-survival-leagues/459838/1 "2008-08-13T13:17:31Z")
[Last year’s thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=432021)
In NFL Pick 'em leagues, each player predicts the outcome of every NFL game. There are three different types, and we run all three. You can join any or all of them.
Straight up: You simply pick the winner of each game, and get a point.
Spread: A spread is determined for a game (like with sports betting), where one team has a certain amount of points given to them, and you have to pick the game with that adjustment taken into account.
Confidence: The most complex one, but in my view also the most fun. There are no spreads, so you pick the winner straight up. But you get a confidence value you can assign to every game, 1 through the number of games being played that weekend, and can only use each number once. So if there are 16 games that weekend, you’ll assign the confidence number 16 to the game where the outcome seems most clear to you, 15 for the next one, all the way down to 1 for the one you’re least sure of. If you pick correctly, the confidence value of your pick is added to your weekly score.
And survival football: Each player picks one team that has to win each week. If your picked team fails to win, you’re out for the season. You can only use each team once.
These leagues can hold up to 50 players each, so we’re not really at risk for filling up, and you’re competing against the whole league, not one other team per week like fantasy football, so it’s not a big deal if you end up dropping out. I’d like for everyone to play all the way through the season, but it’s not a big deal if you don’t, so feel free to sign up if you’re only a little interested.
To Join to go [fantasysports.yahoo.com](http://fantasysports.yahoo.com), go to NFL pick 'em (and/or survival) and join the following groups:
Straight Up Pick 'Em: Group ID# 20844
Spread Pick 'Em: Group ID# 20848
Confidence Pick 'em: Group ID# 20852
SDMB Survival: Group ID# 4775
Password for all is cecil.
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### Author:  [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2008, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-nfl-pick-em-and-survival-leagues/459838/2 "2008-08-13T13:37:52Z")
Hooray! off to join 'em.
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### Author:  [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2008, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-nfl-pick-em-and-survival-leagues/459838/3 "2008-08-13T14:08:41Z")
I joined the straight up game. Easiest to play.
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### Author:  [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2008, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-nfl-pick-em-and-survival-leagues/459838/4 "2008-08-13T14:38:26Z")
We’ve got a bad password on the Survival Pool.
I’m keeping it light this season – Pick’ Em and Survival only. I enjoy the confidence and spread pools, but I’m not going in on them this time around. With my daughter getting older, I don’t have the amount of research time I used to, so I’m cutting back on the number of pools I’m in. I love confidence pools, but it seems I’d spend a good half-hour each week trying to figure the best position for each number.
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### Author:  [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2008, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-nfl-pick-em-and-survival-leagues/459838/5 "2008-08-13T14:40:49Z")
[QUOTE=Hal Briston]
We’ve got a bad password on the Survival Pool.
[/QUOTE]
You have to go to the survival section to join that.
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### Author:  [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2008, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-nfl-pick-em-and-survival-leagues/459838/6 "2008-08-13T15:06:44Z")
[QUOTE=MadTheSwine]
You have to go to the survival section to join that.
[/QUOTE]
Wha-oops…ok, makes sense.
I like the addition of the “% User Picked” on the selection page. You’ll get buried if you rely on picking exactly what people expect, but it makes for interesting info.
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### Author:  [@Kid\_A\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_A_1)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2008, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-nfl-pick-em-and-survival-leagues/459838/7 "2008-08-13T15:27:37Z")
Sweet…I’m in. As soon as work lightens up, I can actually think about football.
On the plus side, I’ve missed pretty much the whole Favre situation.
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### Author:  [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2008, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-nfl-pick-em-and-survival-leagues/459838/8 "2008-08-13T16:29:16Z")
I don’t like this:
> [@](#):
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> There was a problem
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> ```
> * You have already joined the maximum number of groups. (Error #123)
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> ```
Because I joined another private Pick’Em, I can’t join all 3 SDMB? Very disappointed, Yahoo!
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### Author:  [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2008, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-nfl-pick-em-and-survival-leagues/459838/9 "2008-08-13T16:40:50Z")
You could use a second yahoo account…
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### Author:  [@Fear\_the\_Turtle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_the_Turtle)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2008, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-nfl-pick-em-and-survival-leagues/459838/10 "2008-08-13T17:48:40Z")
I’m in (again)
Hopefully I can improve from last years debacle.
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### Author:  [@Frosted\_Glass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frosted_Glass)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2008, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-nfl-pick-em-and-survival-leagues/459838/11 "2008-08-13T19:58:35Z")
I joined up with the Confidence, Spread and Survival. Here is me hoping that I can last more than a week or two in the Survival league this year.
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### Author:  [@meek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meek)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2008, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-nfl-pick-em-and-survival-leagues/459838/12 "2008-08-13T20:12:58Z")
I was waiting for this thread.
GL everybody!
.
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### Author:  [@CatInASuit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatInASuit)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2008, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-nfl-pick-em-and-survival-leagues/459838/13 "2008-08-14T14:18:22Z")
Time to set a benchmark.
I haven’t followed it properly for ages and I’m on the wrong continent.
If you can’t beat me, there’s a problem 😃
Edit: Entered the Straight Pick and Survival Games, this should be fun.
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### Author:  [@Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boozahol_Squid_P.I)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2008, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-nfl-pick-em-and-survival-leagues/459838/14 "2008-08-15T03:14:24Z")
[QUOTE=CatInASuit]
Time to set a benchmark.
I haven’t followed it properly for ages and I’m on the wrong continent.
If you can’t beat me, there’s a problem 😃
Edit: Entered the Straight Pick and Survival Games, this should be fun.
[/QUOTE]
I wasn’t going to play… but how can I resist the opportunity to gloat at you?
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### Author:  [@flickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flickster)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2008, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-nfl-pick-em-and-survival-leagues/459838/15 "2008-08-15T04:48:56Z")
The Checkered Demon is back for abuse and ridicule once more 😛
Can’t hardly wait for the season to start
Go Pack
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### Author:  [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2008, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-nfl-pick-em-and-survival-leagues/459838/16 "2008-08-20T02:40:41Z")
Since these things usually get many more people joining, I’m guessing there are people out there who haven’t seen this yet so I’m going to bump it once a week or so.
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### Author:  [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2008, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-nfl-pick-em-and-survival-leagues/459838/17 "2008-08-20T17:05:53Z")
In. If I can beat my results in last years various pools, I still stand a really good chance of doing horribly.
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### Author:  [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2008, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-nfl-pick-em-and-survival-leagues/459838/18 "2008-08-26T06:05:35Z")
Just signed up for everything. See you all there.
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### Author:  [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2008, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-nfl-pick-em-and-survival-leagues/459838/19 "2008-08-26T18:08:27Z")
I’m signed up for all four. I hope only to last longer than two weeks in Survival.
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### Author:  [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2008, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-nfl-pick-em-and-survival-leagues/459838/20 "2008-08-27T14:36:07Z")
While we’re talking pools, I’ve emptied out the waiting list and I still have one, possibly two slots open up in the pool that I run. It seems that just about every year we have one Doper join in, so if anyone is interested in an insanely fun pool, come [take a look](http://www.sirblah.com/1on1pool/).
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