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Pools

Two office-pool formats, driven by The System's numbers. Future weeks use Elo's current forecast blended with any market line that already exists; they firm up as the season goes.

Survivor

One team a week, never the same team twice, and you're out when it loses. The plan below is the exact optimum for surviving the whole season from Week 10 on, given the numbers now. Alternatives are the next-best teams that week.

Save your survivor season. Sign in and lock in a team each week: the page remembers every team you've used, re-plans the rest of the season around them, and tracks your results.
Chance of surviving all 9 weeks on this path: 15%. Next week: LAR at ARI at 73%.
Survivor odds compound: even a path of 80% favorites survives 18 weeks only 2% of the time. What the optimizer does is spend your best teams where they are worth most.
WeekPickWin prob.Alternatives
10LAR at ARI73%JAX 78% · BUF 75% · BAL 70%
11KC vs ARI83%CHI 80% · BUF 79% · DEN 76%
12JAX vs TEN86%MIN 78% · CIN 76% · NE 72%
13DEN vs MIA77%MIN 83% · SEA 76% · TB 72%
14DET vs TEN83%SEA 83% · LV 70% · DEN 69%
15SEA at PHI78%MIN 75% · SF 72% · LAR 69%
16MIN vs WSH83%DET 76% · LV 75% · PIT 73%
17SF vs PHI82%MIN 79% · JAX 76% · PIT 74%
18BUF vs NYJ84%DEN 81% · SF 78% · HOU 76%

Teams available: ARI, ATL, BAL, BUF, CAR, CHI, CIN, CLE, DAL, DEN, DET, GB, HOU, IND, JAX, KC, LAC, LAR, LV, MIA, MIN, NE, NO, NYG, NYJ, PHI, PIT, SEA, SF, TB, TEN, WSH.

Confidence pool · Week 10

Rank every game from most to least confident; a right pick scores its rank. The order that maximizes expected points is simply by The System's win probability, so here it is. The order and the picks are open to all; The System's percentages are for members, except on the featured game and games that have kicked off.

PointsPickWin prob.Game
14JAX00%JAX at TEN
Sun 1:00 PM ET
13BUF00%BUF at NYJ
Sun 1:00 PM ET
12LAR00%LAR at ARI
Sun 4:05 PM ET
11BAL00%LAC at BAL
Mon 8:15 PM ET
10SF00%SF at DAL
Sun 4:25 PM ET
9SEA00%SEA at LV
Sun 4:05 PM ET
8MIN00%MIN at GB
Sun 1:00 PM ET
7KC00%KC at ATL
Sun 1:00 PM ET
6CLE00%HOU at CLE
Sun 1:00 PM ET
5CIN00%PIT at CIN
Sun 8:20 PM ET
4NO00%CAR at NO
Sun 1:00 PM ET
3NE00%NE at DET
Sun 9:30 AM ET
2IND00%MIA at IND
Sun 1:00 PM ET
1NYG51%WSH at NYG
Thu 8:15 PM ET