Auto Pick Settings
Setting | What It Does | Default | Notes |
Auto Picks | Fills a missed pick automatically after the deadline. | Off | When off, a missed pick costs a life (after any available Bye Pick). The default differs from what many legacy players expect — worth calling out proactively. |
Maximum Auto Picks | Season-long cap on auto-pick events per entry. | Unlimited | Once the cap is hit, further missed picks cost a life. |
Who Sets the Auto-Pick Rule | Commissioner sets one rule for everyone, or each entrant chooses their own. | Each entrant chooses | — |
Auto Pick Strategy
What it does: The fallback logic.
Default: Largest Available Home Favorite
Options: Largest Available Home Favorite; Largest Available Away Favorite; Random. In Pick Losers contests, the favorite options become Largest Available Home/Away Underdog.
Notes: Auto Pick only chooses from the entry's eligible teams (team-use and pick-against limits respected), never selects a game that has already kicked off, and never selects a cancelled game. There is no Auto Pick Forgiveness in Survivor (Pick'em-only feature).
Summary: With Auto Picks off (the default), a missed deadline costs a life outright — a change from what players coming from other Survivor products may expect, so it's worth surfacing to new commissioners at setup. When Auto Picks is on, the fallback logic always respects the entry's existing team-use and pick-against limits, so it can never assign a team that's already been used up.