Staff Eliminator Picks, Week 9

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

Last week, we wondered if the action was about to heat. Indeed, it got hot. Over half the field was eliminated as half of the remaining field was done in with losses from Atlanta, Cincinnati, and the Chargers.

The Jets upset over the Bengals was the big killer. You know, it's good to pick against bad teams, but those rare is the NFL team that goes winless.

This Week's Picks

Out of 5 selections, five teams were named:

• Buffalo
• Dallas
• Kansas City
• LA Rams
• Pittsburgh

Rare is the week where all five participants could win it all, but that's where we are.

Home vs. Road

• Home picks
  • 4 teams (Dallas, Kansas City, LA Rams, Pittsburgh)
  • 4 picks total
• Road pick
  • 1 team (Buffalo)
  • 1 pick

Good luck this weekend!