NFL Suicide Pool Expert Strategy and Advice with Winning Eliminator Tips

Everyone out there seems to have their own strategy when it comes to playing in an NFL Suicide Pool contest. For me it’s easy: go against the bad teams in the league. There are always a handful of teams that are going to win six or fewer games each season. I try and identify those bad teams before the season starts then go against them early and often each week of the NFL season.

Last season in the NFL there were 10 teams that won six or fewer games. Three of those teams won three or fewer games. I used the teams that were playing the Oakland Raiders (3-13), Tennessee Titans (2-14) and Tampa Bay Buccaneers (2-14) quite often. Even though I didn’t win my Suicide Pool last season, I have won with this strategy in the past and am convinced it is one of the best ways to achieve success in a Suicide Pool.

The thing is, when you use this strategy you still have to put some thought into it. Heck, even the Titans and Buccaneers combined for four wins last season. I was knocked out of one of my pools in Week 1 last season when the Titans beat the Chiefs in Kansas City. Tennessee ended up being horrible, and the Chiefs were pretty good, but it just goes to show that every dog has its day and that you need to pick your spots when you use the “picking against bad teams” strategy.

There are some other pitfalls to using this strategy as well. You can’t just blindly pick against one team each week and expect to win your pool. Not only do the bad teams win a couple times (at least) during the course of a 17-week NFL season, but also each team plays each other team in their division twice, so you will run into situations where you have already used one of these bad team’s opponents. I also tend to only pick against these bad teams when they are on the road, so each bad team has only eight games (out of a 16-game schedule) where I would possibly go against them.

Before the season starts I compile a list of 7-8 bad teams that I look to play against. I will try and pick the best opponent out of this grouping each week to use for my pick. Sometimes it will come down to three matchups where I think the opponent has an equal chance. In these cases I try and go against the worst team from the group of games.

My grouping of bad teams will change throughout the season. I try and do as much research as possible before the season starts to identify these bad teams. However, there are always those surprise teams that overachieve and play well above expectations. After I see a few performances like this, a team can easily be removed from my group of bad teams and replaced possibly with another underachieving squad that is falling well short of its preseason prognosis.

This is a good strategy overall, though, and there are always those NFL teams that are certain to struggle all season long. Checking team’s strength of schedule before the season starts is also helpful because the only thing better than going against a bad team for Suicide Pool strategy is going against an awful team that has amongst the toughest schedule in the league.

Many in your pool will probably use this strategy as well. But I like to use this to advance myself well into the season and then normally I have a group of solid teams still available to use for my picks, so I may adjust my strategy accordingly depending on the teams that I have left at my disposal. There is no exact science in using this strategy, but it always pays to pay attention to the bad teams in the league when looking for Suicide Pool success because going against the bad teams in the league can be just as successful as picking the best teams in the league!