WNBA Survivor Pool for 2027 — free for friends
Pick one WNBA team a week. If it wins, you are through to next week; if it loses, your run is over. WNBA survivor pools open on Sportpoolz for the 2027 season, with the rules adapted to a fifteen-team league — and like every pool here, they are free, with no money changing hands.
Free forever — no credit card, no money changing hands.
How a WNBA survivor pool will work
Each Monday-to-Sunday week, every member picks one team to win one of its games. A win keeps you alive. A loss, or a week that closes without a pick, costs you a life — and in a classic one-life pool, that is the end of your season. Basketball has no ties, so every pick is settled one way or the other.
The big difference from an NFL survivor pool is the team count. The WNBA has fifteen teams and its season runs about twenty weeks, so a rule that never lets you pick a team twice would run out of teams before the season ran out of weeks. WNBA survivor pools will let you pick a team again, which turns the strategy from rationing teams into timing them.
What the manager will set
- How many lives everyone starts with — one, two or three.
- Whether a missed week is filled automatically with an available favorite, or simply costs a life.
- Which week the pool starts. A pool that starts later in the summer just starts later, with nobody behind on day one.
- How many members it takes, from 2 to 30.
Key dates for the 2027 season
- Season tip-off (expected; dates not yet announced): May 2027
A survivor pool runs on the regular season, week by week, until one member is left or the weeks run out.
A sample run
Here is how the first few weeks could go in a twelve-person, one-life pool.
- Week 1: you take the league's best team at home. It wins, and you move on. Two members picked upsets that did not happen — ten left.
- Week 2: you take a mid-table team with a soft matchup, saving the favorite for a week when you need it more. It wins by four.
- Week 3: the favorite plays twice this week. You go back to it, which the WNBA's reuse rule allows, and survive again while three more fall.
Common questions
Why can you pick the same WNBA team more than once?
Because there are only fifteen teams and about twenty weeks. A strict no-repeat rule would leave everyone with no teams to pick before the season ends, so the pool ends on luck instead of judgment.
Does a WNBA survivor pool keep going into the playoffs?
No — it runs on the regular season. For the postseason, the same group can start a WNBA playoff bracket pool and call every series instead.
Be ready the day it opens
Sportpoolz is free. Create your account now, and starting your pool takes a couple of minutes once it opens.