Thanks Jared.ForLoveOfTheGame wrote:I couldnt agree more with anything in the world than what you said Greg - "always make sure the best teams win the most money." Thats why I spend 100% of my fantasy football money here. Plain and simple. If I wanted to crush my league and risk being one and done due to bad luck I could go else where.
I think Greg has done an excellent job of explaining why you can't compare individual leagues with the high stakes payouts (and I would consider "high stakes" in this instance as being a league with a national championship component) from a game operator perspective and why the prize payouts are different and need to be different. I think Ronny has nailed it from a player's perspective. We do believe our format awards the best teams within the league over the course of 13 weeks. That's especially true in the high-stakes leagues where we want the best teams advancing for a chance to win the national prizes. Once you get in those playoffs anything can happen as we've seen many times. But we want the premier teams from each league having that opportunity and we believe our format as currently constructed provides the best opportunity for that to occur.
That doesn't mean it's flawless; no format is. There are always going to be teams which are good but for one reason or another don't move advance and don't receive the opportunity to compete for the grand prizes. But with the high-stakes leagues the reality is we can't pay every team that was good in the league but wasn't quite great. So the emphasis there is on providing high payouts for the league champ and then having the national prizes be as enticing as possible. If we've learned anything over the years it's that the latter is what is driving this market at the present time. If you have an enticing national prize, especially with the $350 entry fee, now you have something which can grow in significant fashion every year. We've obviously seen that with the Online Championship which we first introduced to the fantasy industry in both the NFFC and NFBC. FFPC has clearly seen even more growth since it began its similar event with the same entry fee.
That's why we offer a variety of choices. If you want the big carrot, you can play in the Primetime, Classic or Online Championship. If you prefer deeper league prizes you can compete in our satellite or other "private" leagues. Or ideally you play some combination of both and make Greg and I very happy game operators every year.
Bottom line is there is enough variety in my opinion with what we offer for fantasy players to find something they like. Does that mean we have everything down perfectly? Of course not. That's why we'll be sending our a survey soon asking all of your for your input on some things we may look to change or adjust in the future. But I do believe the current setup is the best in the industry and ultimately we do what we hope - reward the best teams for their success each season.