Worst Team Standing
Pick one team a week.
Pick the one you think will lose.
Everything is backwards here. You want your team to lose. If they do, you live to next week. If they win, that is a strike. Take 2 strikes and you are out, and the last entry still breathing takes the pot.
Back the losers. The more your teams “lose”, the longer you win.
How it works
- Every week you pick one NFL team you think will lose. Straight up, no point spreads. Yes, the wrong way round on purpose.
- You can only use each team once all season. Spend Kansas City in week 1 and they are gone for good.
- Your team loses and you move on. Your team wins and you take a strike. 2 strikes and you are out.
- Fill in as many weeks ahead as you like. A week locks the moment its first game kicks off, and everything you picked is then final.
- Last entry standing wins. If the last few go out together, they split it.
The fine print
Buy in
$10 an entry, paid to Blaine directly. Venmo, cash, whatever. Your entry shows as unpaid until he marks it off.
Multiple entries
You can run up to 3 entries. Each one costs $10, and each is its own separate run with its own used teams. Nothing carries between them.
Deadline
The whole week locks at the first kickoff of that week, not at your own team's kickoff. Nobody gets to watch Thursday before choosing Sunday.
Everyone else's picks
Hidden until the week locks. Once it locks, every pick is public.
Forgot to pick
You get handed the biggest underdog still available to you. It still burns that team.
Ties
A tie counts as surviving, but the team is still used up.
Byes
A team on bye cannot be picked that week. The board grays them out for you.