If you’re reading this NFL Week 18 survivor picks piece with an entry still alive in your respective pool, congrats. To steal a line from Captain Kirk, you’ve boldly gone where no survivor player has gone before: Week 18.
The 2021-22 NFL season was my first foray back into the whacky world of survivor pools in more than a decade, and it came with plenty of hard – yet valuable – lessons, especially after our entry in the Circa Sportsbook Survivor Pool Contest went tits up in Week 1.
Here are some of those lessons that I will take into next season, should they actually let me do this weekly article again:
• Don’t get cute. Stick with the bigger favorites until you can’t.
• Don’t take the most popular pick/biggest favorite. Let those upsets thin the herd.
• You can bank on “bad” teams over really bad teams late in the season.
• Wait until late. I had to submit these on Thursdays. A lot changes before Sunday.
So once more into the fray my friends, with dreams of survivor pool riches helping us pay off that heaping pile of holiday bills. Good luck in Week 18 and thanks for reading.
