Survivor Pool Advice for 2025 NFL Playoff Pools

Picks, strategy, and analysis for 2024-25 NFL playoffs survivor pools, from the Wild Card round all the way through the Super Bowl.

Do you use Baltimore or Philadelphia now, or save them for deep runs in playoff survivor? (Randy Litzinger/Icon Sportswire)

Welcome to the PoolGenius Survivor Pool Strategy Article for the 2024-25 NFL playoffs. This is a premium article available to subscribers with access to our NFL Survivor Picks product.

Because of the unique complexity of playoff survivor pools, our NFL Survivor Picks product does not provide customized, pool-specific pick recommendations for playoff pools like it does for regular-season pools.

Instead, this article provides our data-driven analysis of playoff survivor pool pick strategies, from the Wild Card Round to the Super Bowl. We update it multiple times weekly throughout the playoffs and include news updates that are likely to impact survivor pick strategy.

So check here to get our recommendations for each playoff round.

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Conference Championship Survivor Content

Here are the updates and schedule for the conference championship games.

• Mon, Jan. 20: Championship Game Matchups and Spreads
• Tue, Jan. 21: Championship Game Advancement Odds
• Wed, Jan. 22: Championship Game Pick Popularity and EV
• Wed, Jan. 22: Survivor Strategy in Pools Where You Can’t Reuse Teams
• Wed, Jan. 22: Survivor Strategy in Pools Where You Can Reuse Teams

If you have strategy questions after reading this article, please drop a question in the Support Forum. Just get it in by Friday at noon to guarantee that we have time to review it.

Monday 1/20

2025 Conference Championship Matchups and Spreads

Here are the Conference Championship matchups, listed in descending order of spread, and our projected win odds:

• AFC: Kansas City (-2) vs. Buffalo, 53% win odds
• NFC: Philadelphia (-5.5) vs. Washington, 68% win odds

Check the Conference Championship Week schedule for when additional content is coming, including pick popularity numbers and survivor pick strategy.

Tuesday 1/21

Championship Game Advancement Odds