Looking at the league as it currently stands, with the top two teams pretty well decided, I was trying to figure out what my incentive is to try to stay in 3rd place. Really, there isn't any. There's only an incentive for me to finish as low as possible, to maximize my chances of a high draft pick. I think there needs to be some reason to keep trying, and that reason should be cash.
I'm not talking a huge buy-in. $10-20/season, tops. If it were $20, there could be a $80 reward for first, $20 for second, and the third place team could break even. I don't really care how it's divided up, I just think it's important that it exists.
I believe the league was originally founded as a cash league, but after Spencer won no one ever sent him any money. Shame on us. Mailing checks is tedious, but couldn't we use PayPal? Would other people get behind this?
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I liek the idea, and I'm sure Spencer does too, since we all know he's a degenerate gambler.
I strongly support having some incentive to keep trying, and I'd be okay with it being money.
YES to the buy in. I am also a degenerate gambler.
Sounds good to me - my fantasy team would have provided a much better rate of return than my IRA has the last 3 years. With a $20 buy we'd have $100, $40, $20 for the top 3.
Ideally, it'd be nice to have some sort of incentive to play for fourth, maybe even fifth.
How about $5,000 each?
What's that about being a degenerate gambler?
Sounds good to me.
With a $25 buy in the payout could look something like this:
$100
$50
$30
$20
Which would give incentive for the first 4 places.
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