The Best NFL Survivor Pool Sites in 2026: An Honest Comparison

If you've searched for a survivor pool platform, you've probably noticed there are a handful of options out there, and they're not all built the same way. Some are massive multi-sport gaming platforms where survivor pools are just one of dozens of features. Some are fantasy football apps that added survivor as an afterthought. And a couple are built specifically for survivor pools.

This guide breaks down the main options honestly, so you can pick the right one for your group.

The Contenders

RunYourPool (now part of Splash Sports, with OfficeFootballPool)

First, something worth knowing: RunYourPool, OfficeFootballPool and Splash Sports are all the same company, now a single brand. Private pools from RunYourPool and OfficeFootballPool run inside the Splash Sports app as private, self-managed contests.

RunYourPool is the name most commissioners know, and it earned that reputation honestly. It has been running office pools for years, supports a long list of pool types across several sports, and its survivor settings go deep: extra lives and revives, multi-pick weeks, loser pools, straight-up or against-the-spread picks, team reuse limits, auto-picks and playoff resets. The commissioner pays a one-time fee per entry, and the NFL price comes from a calculator inside Splash's commissioner console rather than a published price list. If you are running six different office pools across three sports, it is a reasonable place to run all of them.

Splash Sports itself has grown into a large real-money peer-to-peer contest platform, with survivor, pick'em, tiers and fantasy contests in a polished app on iOS and Android. This season it ran a $21 million Survivor World Championship with Polymarket at $1,000 an entry, and added a marketplace for buying and selling stakes in survivor entries.

The tradeoff is complexity. If you just want to run a simple survivor pool for your friends or office, you're navigating a platform designed for a much broader audience, with the real-money contests sitting alongside your pool. Those contests also mean identity checks and state-by-state availability, though a private pool doesn't need them.

Best for: Groups interested in real-money contests across multiple game formats.
Not ideal for: Commissioners who just want a clean, simple survivor pool without the casino-adjacent experience.

Sleeper

Sleeper is primarily a fantasy football platform, and a popular one. It has a great app, a strong social layer, and a loyal user base built around fantasy leagues.

Sleeper does run NFL survivor pools: private pools of up to 250 people or public matchmaking, straight-up or spread scoring, and settings for extra lives and bringing players back. But survivor is one item in a long menu built around fantasy. If your group is already on Sleeper for fantasy, it's convenient. If survivor pools are your main event, Sleeper wasn't built with you in mind.

Best for: Fantasy football leagues that want to add a survivor pool as a side game.
Not ideal for: Commissioners running a dedicated survivor pool as the main attraction.

MySurvivorPool

This is the most direct competitor in the survivor-specific space. MySurvivorPool is built around NFL survivor pools (it has since added football squares), handles the core commissioner and player experience well, and has a clear one-time price list: free up to 10 entries, then $29 for 25, $49 for 50, $79 for 100, $149 for 250, $249 for 500, and $399 with no entry limit.

It's a solid product. It covers mulligans, multi-pick weeks, auto-picks, picks hidden until kickoff, private host notes and a message board, and it does the job.

Best for: Commissioners who want a survivor-focused platform and don't mind paying a bit more.
Not ideal for: Groups looking for the best value or a more modern interface.

OfficePoolStop

OfficePoolStop leans hard into pool administration: tracking entry fees, collecting player fees online on its paid plan, emailing players about unpaid balances, and custom logos and branding. If tracking money is your biggest headache as a commissioner, it's built with that in mind. Survivor runs on its free plan with ads, and the ads are pretty relentless; removing them costs $1 a player for the first 100 ($20 minimum), less per player beyond that.

It has added a lot of survivor rules in 2026: lives and buybacks, a second-place bracket, multi-pick weeks, a bye week, auto-picks and against-the-spread picks. The tradeoff is that survivor is one pool type among several it supports, so the experience isn't shaped purely around survivor the way a dedicated platform is, and its mobile app is still listed as coming soon.

Best for: Commissioners who want built-in tools for collecting and tracking entry fees alongside their pool.
Not ideal for: Groups who just want a clean, survivor-specific experience.

Sunday Survivor

Full disclosure: this is our platform. We're including ourselves in this comparison because we think the honest side-by-side actually makes the case for us. And if it didn't, we'd want to know.

Sunday Survivor is built exclusively for NFL survivor pools. No fantasy football, no real-money casino contests, no other sports bolted on. Just survivor pools, done well.

It is also not only for small groups, which is the assumption a free tier for 10 entries tends to create. The published pricing runs to 1,000 entries with no cap above that, and pools of over 2,000 entries run on it today, graded automatically every week alongside everything else. A twelve-person office pool and a pool two hundred times that size run on the same software, with the same settings available to both.

Pricing is one flat fee for the whole season, paid once, and never a subscription. You pay for the SIZE of your pool rather than a rate per entry, so adding entries costs nothing until you cross into the next tier. Up to 10 entries is completely free. Beyond that, pricing starts at $19 for up to 25 entries, less than MySurvivorPool at every size up to 750 entries, and the tiers run up through 1,000 entries with custom pricing above that. See the full pricing page for every tier.

Size is worth calling out, because survivor platforms are often assumed to be for small friend groups. There is no cap here: pools of over 2,000 entries run on Sunday Survivor today, and it handles the Sunday afternoon spike when an entire pool is refreshing the standings at once. A 20-person office pool and a 2,000-entry pool use the same product.

It covers the fundamentals you'd expect from any solid survivor pool platform: a pool is ready to share in minutes, players can join with multiple entries, commissioners set custom pick deadlines (weekly or locked game-by-game), and the standings and pick stats update automatically as games go final, no manual scorekeeping required. Optional double-pick weeks raise the difficulty for groups that want more strategy, and a commissioner can add one mid-season if the field is still too big, with every member told by email the moment it is set.

On top of that, commissioners get more direct control over how the pool plays: configurable tie handling, optional team reuse, no-repeat-opponent rules, required game slates in double-pick weeks, and a second chance bracket that keeps eliminated entries alive for second place. Entries can carry multiple lives so one bad week doesn't end a season, forgotten picks can auto-select the best spread option instead of costing an entry its season, and if a commissioner needs to step in, one-click revives (a single entry or the whole pool at once) are built in. Sunday Survivor also supports loser pool mode, a full reversal of the standard rules where entries pick a team to lose each week and picking a winner is what gets you eliminated, and against-the-spread mode, where picks have to cover the spread instead of just winning outright, with lines locked every Wednesday at noon ET. Playoff weeks handle the ending most pools fumble: if Week 18 finishes with more than one entry still alive, the pool carries on through the Wild Card round to the Super Bowl instead of splitting the win between whoever happened to be left.

None of these are separate products. A commissioner picks the ones they want and runs them together in the same pool, so a loser pool can also use against-the-spread scoring, double-pick weeks, and hidden picks at once, and if it goes the distance it plays its postseason under those same rules rather than reverting to a plain survivor bracket. That combination is the part that is genuinely hard to find elsewhere, because most platforms sell those formats as different contest types you have to choose between. A couple of them will run your pool into the playoffs; what we have not found anywhere is playoffs that keep the format the pool has been playing all season. The full list of configurable rules covers what each one does.

The part groups talk about most is everything around the picks. Once an entry has two weeks of results it gets a Survivor Card: a phone-sized card of its season, with each week's pick and result, how many entries went out that week and how many are still alive, made to be posted in the group chat. An Activity feed on the pool's home page recaps the week as it happens: when picks lock, the most-taken team, how many entries went out and on which team. Members react and comment, and the commissioner chooses its tone, from just the facts to commentary aimed at the picks, never at anyone by name.

The reports go well past standings. War Chest projects each surviving entry's best path through the rest of the season, one unused team a week on the posted lines, and rates it against the rest of the field. Pick Risk ranks the entries still alive by how boldly they have picked, from the ones leaning on underdogs to the ones riding big favorites. Add pool-wide stats like which teams are running out of available picks and which have busted the most entries, plus live scores in the pick view, and the pool has something to talk about all week, not just on Sunday afternoon.

For the commissioner there are private notes on each member, a paid checkbox for tracking who has settled up outside the platform, and group polls for anything that needs a quick vote, the admin conveniences of a tool like OfficePoolStop without the extra pool types and clutter.

It scales with your group too, from a dozen friends up to pools of over 2,000 entries. Deadlines lock correctly around short weeks like Thanksgiving without needing manual adjustment, picks stay hidden from other members until kickoff, or for the entire week if the commissioner chooses to hide everything until the deadline, and everyone gets an email reminder before their deadline. It's all mobile-friendly out of the box and installs to your phone's home screen with its own icon, no app download required.

Best for: Commissioners running anything from a 20-person office pool to several thousand entries, who want the rules set once and enforced automatically.
Not ideal for: Groups who want the platform to collect and hold entry fees, or an all-in-one fantasy sports hub.

Side-by-Side Comparison

Looking for a Splash Sports Alternative?

This is the search that brings a lot of commissioners here, so here is the short version. Splash Sports is built for public contests, where the platform runs the contest and handles the money. Sunday Survivor is built for one private pool that you run, with your rules. Both are decent products. They solve different problems.

Splash is the right call if you want to enter big public contests and play across several sports and formats, with the platform running all of it. That is what it is for, and it does it at a scale nothing else on this list matches.

Sunday Survivor is the right call when the group already exists, at any size: an office, a family, a company running hundreds of entries, or a pool of several thousand. You set the rules instead of picking a contest template, and you can combine them on the same pool, so double-pick weeks, against the spread, loser pool, hidden picks, mulligans and playoff weeks are switches rather than separate products. Whatever your group arranges between themselves stays between them.

Size is not the dividing line either. Published pricing runs to 1,000 entries with custom pricing above that, and pools of over 2,000 entries are graded here every week. The difference is who the pool belongs to, not how many people are in it.

Coming from RunYourPool or OfficeFootballPool, the same company owns all three, and moving takes about ten minutes: create the pool, set the rules, send one invite link. There is nothing to import, because a season starts empty either way.

So Which One Should You Use?

It depends on what your group actually wants.

If you're running a traditional survivor pool, whether for friends, family, or coworkers, you want a platform built for exactly that. Splash Sports and Sleeper are great products, but they're solving a different problem. You'd be using a fraction of what they offer and navigating complexity you don't need.

Between the two survivor-focused options, Sunday Survivor is the more customizable platform. MySurvivorPool covers the basics well, but Sunday Survivor adds configurable tie handling, optional team reuse, mulligans, auto-pick, second chance, loser pool mode, playoff weeks, and more, and costs less at every size up to 750 entries. It also gives the group something to talk about all week: Survivor Cards for every entry, an Activity feed that recaps the week as it happens, and the War Chest and Pick Risk reports.

If chasing dues is the part you dread, that lives here too: private commissioner notes on each member, a paid checkbox for who has settled up, an email you can send to just the people who haven't, and the option to suspend an entry until they do. Same place you run the pool, no ads, nothing extra to learn.

If you've got a pool of 10 or fewer entries, any of these will work fine for free. But if you're running something bigger, the flat-fee-per-season model means no surprises and no recurring charges.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Sunday Survivor a Splash Sports alternative?

For a private pool, yes: the same survivor format, your own rules, and one flat fee for the season. For public money contests, no. Sunday Survivor does not run contests and never handles the money, so if that is what you are after, Splash is the better fit.

Does Sunday Survivor handle the money?

No. Whatever the group arranges between themselves stays between them, and none of it runs through Sunday Survivor. The commissioner gets tools to track who has settled up, and that is where it stops.

Can I move my pool over from RunYourPool or OfficeFootballPool?

Yes, and there is nothing to import. Create the pool, set your rules, and send the group one invite link. RunYourPool, OfficeFootballPool and Splash Sports are the same company, so it is the same move whichever of the three you are on.

Is it free?

Free up to 10 entries for the whole season. Past that it is a one-time fee for the season, priced on how many entries the pool ends up with, running to 1,000 entries with custom pricing above that. Pools of over 2,000 entries run here today. There is no subscription and no per-week charge.

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Looking for more? Check out our guides on how survivor pools work, the biggest mistakes players make, and how to avoid getting eliminated in Week 1.