kjduke wrote:BillyWaz wrote: Yea.....that totally needs to be revamped.
I think it is VERY important to tier EACH position to a different prize. Saying 6th-12th (for example) all get the same amount is ridiculous to me. So a team who has a far better week and finishes 6th gets the same as a team who conceivably got a ZERO for the week? I never understood the logic in "lumping" finishes with the same prize. The excitement of gaining a point or two which could mean an extra $500, $1,000, etc. is what these championship rounds should be about. I THINK THIS SHOULD BE FOR ALL THE CONTESTS....CLASSIC, PRIMETIME, CUTLINE, ETC. Giving a ton of $$ in the consolation round doesn't make sense, pay 5 places, and move on. The team who is 12th in the championship round of the Cutline should earn MORE than the winner of the consolation round (same goes for Classic and Primetime IMO).
Congrats to KJ Duke having TWO teams in the finals.....nice job! Out of curiousity....how many teams did you buy here?
Thanks Billy, I had 14 teams, 5 won the league title, I think 4-5 more finished 2nd and in all 13 made the playoff. Total investment was $1500.
As for the prize pool, you are suggesting that this pool become like every other. Hate it. Diversity is good. There are no other flattish prize pools in high stakes except for individual leagues, and even those are under assault as guys like Mikey push the Platinum setup that gives outsized reward to 1st place only at the expense of 2nd-4th.
The FFPC has a $250,000 first prize and for second pays some sort of chicken feed, $15-20k, I think. It's ridiculous and it favors the lucky over the skilled. For what could be a trivial point difference , a $200,000 gain/loss. I love the fact that the next place down in cutline pays 50% of the spot ahead of it and I'd hate to see that "revamped" to look like every other high stakes prize pool that is more about getting a headline than having a fair pay scale. With a bigger pot to go around next season, no quarrel with your idea to differentiate 6-12, however.
KJ,
For the record, I am NOT in favor of a 100K grand prize for this event (I just thought that was pretty much a given after some of the previous talk).
I would love to see this stay at 50K grand prize and load it up after that. More so than ever right now, I TOTALLY understand your issue with a MONSTER grand prize, and 2nd place being less than 10-15% of that.
My biggest issues are;
1) The NFFC is putting FAR too much into the consolation round for all it's contests. In the Cutline for example, the 4th place finisher will make MORE than the 6th place finisher in the championship round. That makes ZERO sense to me! Why shouldn't the 12 best teams (i.e the championship round) ALL make more than the BEST consolation team? Doesn't that make sense??? This goes for the Classic and Primetime as well.
2) I would like to see different prizes for EACH spot. Again, if I finish 6th or 10th (for example), I get the same amount????
Again...this is just completely illogical, IMO.
Good luck KJ.....bring it home!
