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Double-pick weeks in survivor pools

In a double-pick week you make two picks, and in most contests both must win. Two good favorites together are far less safe than either alone, and every double week uses up an extra team. Plan the double weeks first and keep enough strong teams for them.

Both picks have to win

Take the two strongest favorites on the Week 4 board: the Baltimore Ravens at 83.2% and the Minnesota Vikings at 80.5%. If both had to win, the pair would survive about 67% of the time. Doubling up turns a comfortable week into a risky one.

Board as of 2026-10-04 07:20 AM PDT, AI Assisted model. The pair figure multiplies the two win chances and treats the games as independent.

Splash Sports contests score double weeks this way. In the Splash seasons we track, every entry that split a double week, one pick winning and one losing, was eliminated.

Double weeks use up your teams

Each double week needs one more team than a normal week, and you still can never reuse one. In this season's Splash contests that adds up fast:

With only a handful of teams to spare, the late double weeks are where entries run out of good options. A team that looks like an easy single pick in October may be what gets you through a double week in December.

What double weeks did to a real field

The Big Splash $2.5M NFL Survivor (2025) had 16,337 entries. 961 were still alive for the first double week, Week 11. This is how many made picks in each double week after that:

Pick data from PoolCrunch, as shown on our Public pools page.