Survivor Pools

[Pony Soup]

Survivor pool article in the NYT today. This guy talked to those of us remaining in my pool and just sent me a link. Pretty good read.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/26/sport ... .html?_r=2


December 26, 2008
N.F.L. and Survivor Pools Come to a Nail-Biting Finish
By ALAN SCHWARZ
Big E is a New Jersey optician. His credit cards have five figures of memories from his son’s recent bar mitzvah. And all he needs to pay them off is to pick the winner of just one more N.F.L. game Sunday, make it 17 weeks in a row, and win up to $300,000 in his season-long survivor pool.

Baltimore over Jacksonville? Atlanta over St. Louis? Picking the last winner is actually easier than the negotiations that he will surely begin percolating by Friday. Will he want to split the pot now with his 14 fellow survivors — take $20,000 and call it a season? Or will he risk his sure share by putting it all on the Ravens or the Falcons, with the possibility of one fullback’s ill-timed fumble leaving him with nothing?

It’s fourth-and-inches, time ticking away. And like the coach whom so many fans scream at when he wimps out and settles for a tie, Big E is finding himself a tad conservative.

“I would probably go for the $20,000,â€