2025 Dbl Elim Rev Suicide Pool (Shark Edition)

Returning for the 21st season is the Double Elimination Reverse Suicide Pool!!!

Prior Winners:

2005: Butters
2006: ReserveRage
2007: PosterNutBag
2008: Da Bears!
2009: Kid Rock
2010: Warrior04
2011: Random Poster
2012: Random Poster
2013: manaknight14
2014: Whiskey!
2015: therealsylvos
2016: Ultimate Anyone!
2017: accobra_kid
2018: Jahiegal
2019: 3Rookie
2020: OutDoorManNowActuary
2021 : twig93
2022: Kid_Rock
2023: @Doctor_Who
2024): @Kid_Rock

Rules:

  1. Pick a team each week of the NFL season. If they win you get two strikes. If they tie, you get one strike. If you get 3 or more strikes, you are out.

  2. You may pick a given team only once during the contest.

  3. If you fail to make a pick for a given week:

    • You will get the default pick of the home team of the last game scheduled to be played that week if you have not already selected it;
    • If the above is not available, then you’ll get the secondary default pick of the away team of that last game if you have not already selected it;
    • If you have already selected both such teams, then you will get two strikes and the first team in the randomly generated list that you have not yet selected will no longer be available to you.
  4. A pick must be GoA timestamped at least 15 minutes before the kickoff of the game the team is involved in to be valid.

  5. Do not edit posts with a pick in it. If you want to make a change, make a new post.

  6. If the game moderator(s) make an error in the official picks/standings post, you are responsible for pointing it out. Please either DM all game moderators or call them out in a post using @.

  7. If all remaining players strike out in the same week:

    1. If some players have 4 strikes and some have 3 strikes, then the 4 strike players are eliminated and the 3 strike players will continue on with all players having 2 strikes.
    2. Otherwise, all affected players will continue on to the following week. with the same number of strikes they had at the beginning of the week.

Special Week 18 Rules

If more than 1 person survives to week 18, the following additional rules apply:

  1. Each player should DM a list to all game moderators of all 15 teams they have remaining, in order from most likely to lose to least likely to lose.
  1. Picks are due 1 hour before the first game of the week.

  2. Once the deadline is past, a game moderator will post a table of the picks.

  3. There are essentially 15 potential rounds to evaluate for week 18:

    1. For 18-1, everyone’s first pick will be evaluated using Rule 7 above to determine eliminated players.
    2. We then move on to 18-2, 18-3, 18-4, etc. until we have a single winner.
  4. If two or more players survive past 18-15, they will be co-champions.

SUMMARY OF RULES (TL;DR):

  1. Wins are two strikes; Ties are one strike; 3 strikes and you’re out. So essentially, you’re given a bit of grace for getting a tie.

  2. Rule 7 is adjusted to give preference to those who managed to pick a tie over those who picked two winners.

List of Players

Current list of players:

Index Player Abbrev
1 VorianAtreides VA
2 BruteForce BF
3 MountainHawk MH
4 YankeeTripper YT
5 Funemployed Fe
6 OldTimer OT
7 Kid_Rock KR
8 Macroman Mm
9 Papasmurf Papa
10 R_Daneel_Olivaw RDO
11 Ezekial_Cumberland EC
12 UltimateAnyone UA
13 actuaryjr jr
14 PatientZombie PZ
15 Italian_Halibut IH
16 Ted_Hoffman TH
17 OutdoormanNowActuary ONA

Post if you have any questions.
:slight_smile:

Here is the randomly sorted list for this year:

Chiefs
Giants
Bears
Dolphins
Eagles
Jets
Seahawks
Jaguars
Saints
Falcons
Raiders
Ravens
Packers
Lions
Cowboys
Browns
Bills
Cardinals
Colts
Rams
Steelers
Texans
Titans
Buccaneers
Patriots
Panthers
Commanders
49ers
Broncos
Chargers
Bengals
Vikings

Pinging last year’s players (I’ll need a couple of posts due to the 10 ID limit) . . .

@PatientZombie
@1695814
@Papasmurf
@Doctor_Who
@R_Daneel_Olivaw
@Ezekial_Cumberland
@OutdoormanNowActuary
@IPD
@Kid_Rock
@Ted_Hoffman

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@3rookie
@Jahiegel
@Whiskey
@YankeeTripper
@UltimateAnyone
@OldTimer

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Some others that might be interested?

@BruteForce

If you need someone who does not follow the NFL even a little to submit random things, then I’m your man :flexed_biceps:

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Week 1: BAL

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Wk1: HOW BOUT" DEM Cowboys!

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Post what team you think will lose . . . and you’re golden.

based on memes I’ve seen online, I vote for the Cowboys

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Week 1: Still Dem 'Boys

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I’m in. Just need a schedule.

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In. Week 1 is tough. Likely Cowboys. Giants an option.

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I’ll play. Week 1 pick, Saints

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In.

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Tennessee

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I’m going to take Tennessee myself.

Good luck to all!

Player S3 S2 S1 WK 1
YT . . . DAL
Mm . . . NO
BF . . . DAL
VA . . . TEN
KR . . . ?
Papa . . . ?
OT . . . TEN
Fe . . . DAL
MH . . . BAL
zBrn . . . CLE
zNyg . . . NYG

le sigh, my G-men are one of “z” teams this year. Gonna be another looooooooong NFL year for me I guess.

At least you’ll get to laugh at the Cowboys and the way they are handling Parsons?

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FWIW, I just picked a team from each conference with the worst record from 2024 as the starting point.

It’ll change once we get a team that goes 0-4 (or maybe 1-5).

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