Overview
Welcome to Yahoo! Sports Survival Football, a weekly game that challenges you to show your skills by correctly identifying a winning professional football team in each of the 17 weeks of the regular season.
Each week you must select one team that you suspect will be a winner in their game that weekend. If that professional team wins, you remain Active and are allowed to pick again the following week. If the professional football team you selected loses (or the game ends in a tie), you are Eliminated from the competition and may no longer make future picks.
To make this simple sounding game more of a challenge, you can only select each professional football team once while an Active member of an individual group.
Rules
The object of Yahoo! Sports Survival Football is to be the last Active member of your individual group.
In order to accomplish this goal, a user must correctly pick the winner of one professional football game each week.
But, to make this somewhat simple task more difficult, each user can only pick each professional football team once during the season (this does not carry across multiple groups).
If a correct selection is made, the user will remain Active for the following week. If an incorrect selection is made, that user will be Eliminated.
Pick Submission Deadline
For all Public and Private Groups, the deadline to submit your final pick for the week is 11:59 p.m. PT on the day before the first game of that week.
For almost all weeks, this deadline will be 11:59 p.m. PT on Saturday, but it will change when there are Thursday or Saturday games.
Regretfully, it is not possible to edit picks after the weekly deadline. Similarly, it is not possible to join a group after the first weekly deadline for that group has passed.
You must make a pick every week in order to remain Active within an individual Group. Failure to make a pick by the weekly deadline will cause you to be Eliminated from competition within that Group.
It is not possible for group commissioners to edit picks after the deadline or reactivate individual members without resetting the entire group.
Update Schedule
The Active/Eliminated status within an individual group will be updated after each night of games is completed.
The Overall Results and Pick Distribution percentages will be updated after the final game of each week (typically Monday).