Staff Eliminator Picks, Week 8

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This has been a very popular feature, so this year Footballguys once again is presenting the Eliminator Pool Challenge, where staffers have to pick a team to win each week.

Just one? That sounds easy, but here is the catch – you can only pick the team you choose in a given week once all season long.

Many contests and pools out there get pretty big, so an Eliminator (or Survivor) Pool can go 18 weeks.

Here are the specifics:

• It lasts until one person is alive
• Pick one winner per week
• If you are correct, you stay alive
• If you are wrong, you are eliminated
• If you miss a week, you are eliminated
• You can only use each NFL team once
• If all of the people still alive lose, those people come back the following week
• When one person remains (this person is the champion), the game will restart for fun

This Week's Picks

Notes

• People with a blank selected a losing team and have been eliminated.
• People marked with an "X" missed the pick deadline that week and have been eliminated.
• One person had to drop out due to time constraints and has been removed

Last Week's Results

Week 7 marked the third week in a row where no one picked a losing team. That's a pretty good streak with this many still alive. As the weeks roll on -- and the pool of good teams still available for people to select dwindles -- the action will heat up. Does that start this week?

This Week's Picks

Out of 11 selections, five teams were named:

• Cincinnati - 4 picks
• LAR Rams - 3 picks
• Buffalo - 2 picks
• Atlanta - 1 pick
• LA Chargers - 1 pick

With two staffers (Bonnema on the Falcons and Geary taking the Chargers) going solo, there's a chance the contest will end this week.

Home vs. Road

• Home picks
  • 3 teams (Atlanta, Buffalo, and the Chargers)
  • 4 picks total
• Road pick
  • 2 teams (Cincinnati and the Rams)
  • 7 picks total

Good luck this weekend!