About PoolCrunch

I first built SurvivorGrid in 2009 as a simple way to visualize matchups for my own Survivor pools. Over the years, tens of thousands of players came to rely on it, and I kept diving deeper into pools myself. I always wanted a more complete tool, and after years of tinkering with different ideas, I decided to bring everything together into one platform. That is what PoolCrunch is.

PoolCrunch takes a different view from most pool sites. We don't try to out-predict the betting market on games. The market is the best forecast there is, and we use it as-is. The edge in a survivor pool comes from understanding the people you're playing against, so that is where the work goes: pick projections trained on more than 40,000 real pools, future value for every team you're holding, and expected value measured against the entries actually alive in your pool.

This season brings the biggest update since launch: the Optimal Path tab, per-entry future value, historical odds on every past week, and, rolling out in September, pick projections and a pool simulation built from your pool's own rules. PoolCrunch is built and run by one person, so if something is off, email me. I read every message.