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[Hybrid]

$ used in my starting lineup each week (where there's a tie, I went with the lower $ guy)

Week 1: $126

Week 2: $102

Week 3: $114

Week 4: $129

Week 5: $149

Week 6: $96

Week 7: $92

Week 8: $110

Week 9: $106

Week 10: $80

Curious what these amounts are for the typical 18-player entry

-QG

Another 18 player team.

Week 1: $178

Week 2: $173

Week 3: $143

Week 4: $179

Week 5: $165

Week 6: $152

Week 7: $181

Week 8: $171

Week 9: $169

Week 10: $155

I went with an extremely stud-heavy approach (Peyton, Foster, Megatron, Antonio Brown, Graham, Gronk), as well as only the one QB, and they've been playing very well for the most part. Hit homeruns with a couple (popular) sleepers (Sanu and Benjamin). Only real misses have been Patterson and Woodhead.

 

[FUBAR]

Found all teams that have at least 1 players, spent at least $1 on all players, and include Marshawn Lynch, Dez Bryant, and Jimmy Graham.

There are 40 entries that meet these criteria. 3 of them are still alive, for a survival rate of 7.5%.

unfortunately for me, both of the other teams are better elsewhere. :(

 

[The Man With No Name]

The last remaining Charles Sims owner is OUT

 

[Phil Elliott]

Missed by 1.4 points this week. Usually I spread the dollars around more but this year decided to go with the stud approach - McCoy. Made it past week 11 a few years ago. This year is my highest average points overall and thought might be the year to go further. Great contest and good luck to this week's survivors!!! Back to my dynasty team...

 

[Tennessee_ATO]

I'm sitting at 148.5. Theoretically I'm the last guy in. Assuming no changes, errors, stat corrections, etc.

Congratsyou better kiss Cam.

We'll see. Many a slip twixt a cup and a lip.I sincerely apologize to the fantasy football gods for any offense I may have given bagging on Cam and cheering against Benjamin.

Officially the last survivor.

Thanks. That was a little too close for comfort.

 

[QuizGuy66]

Nate Freese is the 3rd-most surviving kicker

Btw kinda shocked to learn my entry was and is the only one in the whole contest that has both Jace Amaro and Mychel Rivera. They are combining (along with Ertz sometimes) to make up for the Cameron mistake.

Actually 11 left out of 29

-QG

 

[Anarchy99]

Bless the lord for garbage time for fantasy football purposes. Benjamin saved me after I was legally pronounced dead and given last rights. Moved on by a single point. I suspect that is the end of the line for me as I have too many guys that don't do anything and do nothing more than take up roster space.

 

[Real Man of Genius]

Lowest week of the season by 20 points. Missed the cut by three. Rolled with only 2QB (Foles and Brady). Foles dead, Brady on bye. So close. Fell to #277 overall with the down week. Was thinking A. Brown/Murray/Forte might be a special combo.

 

[Tennessee_ATO]

Gonna come down to MNF for me this week methinks. I've got Ben flying solo at QB and Miller essentially flying solo at TE (Witten on bye and Ertz essentially useless). I also have Hunter, but if I'm relying on him at that point, I've already lost.

 

[QuizGuy66]

$ used in my starting lineup each week (where there's a tie, I went with the lower $ guy)

Week 1: $126

Week 2: $102

Week 3: $114

Week 4: $129

Week 5: $149

Week 6: $96

Week 7: $92

Week 8: $110

Week 9: $106

Week 10: $80

Curious what these amounts are for the typical 18-player entry

-QG

Another 18 player team.


Week 1: $178

Week 2: $173

Week 3: $143

Week 4: $179

Week 5: $165

Week 6: $152

Week 7: $181

Week 8: $171

Week 9: $169

Week 10: $155


I went with an extremely stud-heavy approach (Peyton, Foster, Megatron, Antonio Brown, Graham, Gronk), as well as only the one QB, and they've been playing very well for the most part. Hit homeruns with a couple (popular) sleepers (Sanu and Benjamin). Only real misses have been Patterson and Woodhead.

To be clear - my $ were for a 26-player team

Side note - how awesome is 12-kicker guy's run? No other team with more than FIVE kickers is left. And there's only 4 5-kicker guys.

-QG

 

[shader]

The good news: I'm still alive.

The bad news: My qbs are:

Geno Smith

Jake Locker

Carson Palmer....

and

Jay Cutler.

So my team is riding the Cutler train for the rest of the season.

 

[lsutigers]

#120 this week, highest finish all season.

Looking good this week but will need some big perfomances next week with Bell/Benjamin/Olsen out.

Brees/Bell/Ingram/Demaryius/Dez/Benjamin/Graham/Olsen

 

[msudaisy26]

Figures I get l knocked out and proceed to kill the cut line.

 

[BassNBrew]

$ used in my starting lineup each week (where there's a tie, I went with the lower $ guy)

Week 1: $126

Week 2: $102

Week 3: $114

Week 4: $129

Week 5: $149

Week 6: $96

Week 7: $92

Week 8: $110

Week 9: $106

Week 10: $80

Curious what these amounts are for the typical 18-player entry

-QG

Another 18 player team.

Week 1: $178

Week 2: $173

Week 3: $143

Week 4: $179

Week 5: $165

Week 6: $152

Week 7: $181

Week 8: $171

Week 9: $169

Week 10: $155

I went with an extremely stud-heavy approach (Peyton, Foster, Megatron, Antonio Brown, Graham, Gronk), as well as only the one QB, and they've been playing very well for the most part. Hit homeruns with a couple (popular) sleepers (Sanu and Benjamin). Only real misses have been Patterson and Woodhead.

Used $75 this week to advance. Could have done it with $60. My max possible is $141.

 

[jeaton6]

I'm sure it's already been asked, but does anyone have historical cutline info for the cut down to 1,000, 500 & 250 entries including how many entries began that week before the cut?

 

[BassNBrew]

I'm sure it's already been asked, but does anyone have historical cutline info for the cut down to 1,000, 500 & 250 entries including how many entries began that week before the cut?

One of the guys here has it. Unfortunately it's not very useful. Benjamin moved the cut line 8 pts with his 40 yd TD catch worth 11 pts. We have so many guys so heavily owned that it that it will rise and fall with them. Also we typically don't have this many bye teams left this late in the year. Roughly a 1/3 of the surviving entries are missing Dez.

 

[The Man With No Name]

5 Staff members bit the dust this week and 6 are still alive

 

[FUBAR]

I'm sure it's already been asked, but does anyone have historical cutline info for the cut down to 1,000, 500 & 250 entries including how many entries began that week before the cut?

One of the guys here has it. Unfortunately it's not very useful. Benjamin moved the cut line 8 pts with his 40 yd TD catch worth 11 pts. We have so many guys so heavily owned that it that it will rise and fall with them. Also we typically don't have this many bye teams left this late in the year. Roughly a 1/3 of the surviving entries are missing Dez.

Some interesting bye weeks coming up. 211 have Murray, 437 have Ben, 1208 have Benjamin, 753 have Antonio Brown.

 

[Bamac]

Lowest week of the season by 20 points. Missed the cut by three. Rolled with only 2QB (Foles and Brady). Foles dead, Brady on bye. So close. Fell to #277 overall with the down week. Was thinking A. Brown/Murray/Forte might be a special combo.

That's a tough one.

 

[apalmer]

I'm sure it's already been asked, but does anyone have historical cutline info for the cut down to 1,000, 500 & 250 entries including how many entries began that week before the cut?

One of the guys here has it. Unfortunately it's not very useful. Benjamin moved the cut line 8 pts with his 40 yd TD catch worth 11 pts. We have so many guys so heavily owned that it that it will rise and fall with them. Also we typically don't have this many bye teams left this late in the year. Roughly a 1/3 of the surviving entries are missing Dez.

Some interesting bye weeks coming up. 211 have Murray, 437 have Ben, 1208 have Benjamin, 753 have Antonio Brown.

Yeah, Week 12 is the one I've been fearing all along--Antonio, Benjamin, Wheaton and Heath Miller all seemed like too much of a bargain to pass up, even with the late bye week (actually, so was Ben, but I decided I absolutely needed 2 qbs active that week). Of course, that means I'll probably get cut this week when Dez is my only significant bye.

 

[Winning IS Everything]

Bless the lord for garbage time for fantasy football purposes. Benjamin saved me after I was legally pronounced dead and given last rights. Moved on by a single point. I suspect that is the end of the line for me as I have too many guys that don't do anything and do nothing more than take up roster space.

I hear that. Benjamin helped me squeak past even though I had no QB this week (Brady on bye and Locker not playing)................

 

[jeaton6]

I'm sure it's already been asked, but does anyone have historical cutline info for the cut down to 1,000, 500 & 250 entries including how many entries began that week before the cut?

One of the guys here has it. Unfortunately it's not very useful. Benjamin moved the cut line 8 pts with his 40 yd TD catch worth 11 pts. We have so many guys so heavily owned that it that it will rise and fall with them. Also we typically don't have this many bye teams left this late in the year. Roughly a 1/3 of the surviving entries are missing Dez.

Understood. Lots of moving pieces and variables but wanted to see what the historical range has looked like.

 

[Ignoratio Elenchi]

bump

Historical cutlines

 

[The Duff Man]

I am actually looking forward to week 12, hoping I survive to get there!

A lot of otherwise weaker teams could have beem carried along to that point by Benjamin/Brown since both are highly owned.

Even though I own both I think I have enough to get by without them.

555 teams of 1600 have both of these players!

 

[The Duff Man]

Am in 368th, better than I would have thought after squeaking by.

My players owned by fewer than 100:

Dalton 61

Foster 80

Ball 75

Wayne 76

Rivera 85

Celek 96

Cumberland 14

The Foster/Ball combo is down to 3. I am the only one with Dalton so that looks like my chance of winning if I were to get to the show.

Dalton/Sanu is down to 19.

 

[Jed]

Am in 368th, better than I would have thought after squeaking by.

My players owned by fewer than 100:

Dalton 61

Foster 80

Ball 75

Wayne 76

Rivera 85

Celek 96

Cumberland 14

The Foster/Ball combo is down to 3. I am the only one with Dalton so that looks like my chance of winning if I were to get to the show.

Dalton/Sanu is down to 19.

I have Foster/Ball too, so we are 2 of the 3. Not sure if that's a good or bad thing.

 

[QuizGuy66]

Am in 368th, better than I would have thought after squeaking by.

My players owned by fewer than 100:

Dalton 61

Foster 80

Ball 75

Wayne 76

Rivera 85

Celek 96

Cumberland 14

The Foster/Ball combo is down to 3. I am the only one with Dalton so that looks like my chance of winning if I were to get to the show.

Dalton/Sanu is down to 19.

Dalton's playoff schedule (in terms of the contest): Pitt, At Clev, Den.

-QG

 

[Fantasy Man]

Is there a way to lookup the lowest season long high score for the teams still alive? I want to see how weak my team really is. I haven't scored above 190 all season, but as the contest goes on I seem to like my squad more and more.

 

[Winning IS Everything]

I am still in and my two highest scores are 204 and 186. I have mostly been in the 150-170 range each week.

 

[QuizGuy66]

Update:

Under 5% owned
1) AJ Green 35 owners 22

2) Jordan Cameron 87 41

3) Caleb Sturgis 66 46
4) Jeremy Maclin 97 52

5) Minnesota Vikings 88 58

5%-10% owned

6) Mychael Rivera 95 85 (up from the under 5% tier)

7) Greg Jennings 128 86

8) Kansas City Chiefs 161 114
9) Jace Amaro 159 125
10) Torrey Smith 174 132

11t) Joe Flacco 199 138

11t) Andrew Luck 243 138 (considerable thinning of the Luck herd - dropped to this tier)

13) Alfred Morris 240 148 (another guy who dropped a tier - late bye week having a major impact)

10%-15% owned

14) James White 249 182 (the late bye really hurt the owners counting on him to not score - guess it more reflects that his owners were more inclined to take on other week 10 bye players as well compared to the typical entry)

15) Jeremy Hill 247 195
16) Blake Bortles 303 230

15%-25% owned

17) Robert Turbin 340 248 (up from the 10-15% tier)

18) Nate Freese 452 314
19) Pittsburgh Steelers 461 327

20) Blair Walsh 563 373
21) Marcus Wheaton 552 390
22) Zach Ertz 649 394

25%-75% owned

23) Mo Sanu 657 470

24) Eddie Lacy 642 526
25) Mark Ingram 790 606

75%+ owned
26) Kelvin Benjamin 1552 1208 (just give the man his own tier already - even with the bye week coming I have a feeling he will be on about 85% of the final rosters when all is said and done)

-QG

 

[FUBAR]

75%+ owned

26) Kelvin Benjamin 1552 1208 (just give the man his own tier already - even with the bye week coming I have a feeling he will be on about 85% of the final rosters when all is said and done)

it's no longer a benefit to have him, it's a hindrance not to.

 

[Ignoratio Elenchi]

Is there a way to lookup the lowest season long high score for the teams still alive? I want to see how weak my team really is. I haven't scored above 190 all season, but as the contest goes on I seem to like my squad more and more.

This guy is still alive, and his highest score all year was 174.05. That's the lowest of all the remaining live teams.

There are 104 live teams that haven't scored 190+ all year.

 

[Ironman2131]

I'm definitely in the minority without Benjamin on my team. But on the flipside, it's a nice differentiating factor between me and the other teams.

 

[Tennessee_ATO]

I'm definitely in the minority without Benjamin on my team. But on the flipside, it's a nice differentiating factor between me and the other teams.

I don't have him either, but at his salary a low score from him is hardly a negative for the 6.62 million (approximately) owners with him.

 

[Tennessee_ATO]

75%+ owned

26) Kelvin Benjamin 1552 1208 (just give the man his own tier already - even with the bye week coming I have a feeling he will be on about 85% of the final rosters when all is said and done)

it's no longer a benefit to have him, it's a hindrance not to.

Yep. When 1 guy with a tiny salary can catch 1 TD pass and move the line by 8, not having him is really, really bad.

 

[The Man With No Name]

75%+ owned

26) Kelvin Benjamin 1552 1208 (just give the man his own tier already - even with the bye week coming I have a feeling he will be on about 85% of the final rosters when all is said and done)

it's no longer a benefit to have him, it's a hindrance not to.

Yep. When 1 guy with a tiny salary can catch 1 TD pass and move the line by 8, not having him is really, really bad.

It wasn't just him. Cam Newton has plenty of owners and his points counted too.

 

[FUBAR]

75%+ owned

26) Kelvin Benjamin 1552 1208 (just give the man his own tier already - even with the bye week coming I have a feeling he will be on about 85% of the final rosters when all is said and done)

it's no longer a benefit to have him, it's a hindrance not to.

Yep. When 1 guy with a tiny salary can catch 1 TD pass and move the line by 8, not having him is really, really bad.

It wasn't just him. Cam Newton has plenty of owners and his points counted too.

sure, but do the math. If 1200 owners out of 1600 have a player, and the cutline is 1200, and that player makes a 8 point play and he counts for all 1200 people, there's a really good chance that line is moving up almost 8 points.

Of course other factors like him not counting for his owners yet, or some of those 1200 teams having otherwise bad weeks will mitigate some of that, but it's still a pretty big impact. Best the non-owners can hope for is a huge dent in his ownership next week.

 

[Tennessee_ATO]

75%+ owned

26) Kelvin Benjamin 1552 1208 (just give the man his own tier already - even with the bye week coming I have a feeling he will be on about 85% of the final rosters when all is said and done)

it's no longer a benefit to have him, it's a hindrance not to.

Yep. When 1 guy with a tiny salary can catch 1 TD pass and move the line by 8, not having him is really, really bad.

It wasn't just him. Cam Newton has plenty of owners and his points counted too.

86 Cam owners advanced. 1208 Benjamin owners advanced. Cam had a minimal impact on the cut line, if he had any at all. Benjamin was virtually all of it.

 

[QuizGuy66]

75%+ owned

26) Kelvin Benjamin 1552 1208 (just give the man his own tier already - even with the bye week coming I have a feeling he will be on about 85% of the final rosters when all is said and done)

it's no longer a benefit to have him, it's a hindrance not to.

Yep. When 1 guy with a tiny salary can catch 1 TD pass and move the line by 8, not having him is really, really bad.

It wasn't just him. Cam Newton has plenty of owners and his points counted too.

sure, but do the math. If 1200 owners out of 1600 have a player, and the cutline is 1200, and that player makes a 8 point play and he counts for all 1200 people, there's a really good chance that line is moving up almost 8 points.

Of course other factors like him not counting for his owners yet, or some of those 1200 teams having otherwise bad weeks will mitigate some of that, but it's still a pretty big impact. Best the non-owners can hope for is a huge dent in his ownership next week.

It's beyond that at this point - there's no dent in his ownership that will be big enough. Basically the non-Benjamin owners just have to root for him to be bad. A vast majority of entries in the final 250 are going to have him, even with the bye and even if he does poorly in week 11 and 13. Heck look at how well Nate Freese owners are doing - even if he ends up being a passenger, Benjamin will be very present in the final 250.

-QG

 

[Tennessee_ATO]

75%+ owned

26) Kelvin Benjamin 1552 1208 (just give the man his own tier already - even with the bye week coming I have a feeling he will be on about 85% of the final rosters when all is said and done)

it's no longer a benefit to have him, it's a hindrance not to.

Yep. When 1 guy with a tiny salary can catch 1 TD pass and move the line by 8, not having him is really, really bad.

It wasn't just him. Cam Newton has plenty of owners and his points counted too.

sure, but do the math. If 1200 owners out of 1600 have a player, and the cutline is 1200, and that player makes a 8 point play and he counts for all 1200 people, there's a really good chance that line is moving up almost 8 points.

Of course other factors like him not counting for his owners yet, or some of those 1200 teams having otherwise bad weeks will mitigate some of that, but it's still a pretty big impact. Best the non-owners can hope for is a huge dent in his ownership next week.

It's beyond that at this point - there's no dent in his ownership that will be big enough. Basically the non-Benjamin owners just have to root for him to be bad. A vast majority of entries in the final 250 are going to have him, even with the bye and even if he does poorly in week 11 and 13. Heck look at how well Nate Freese owners are doing - even if he ends up being a passenger, Benjamin will be very present in the final 250.-QG

I'm just hoping I have 2 WR and 2 Flex players who outscore him every week so his absence on my roster is irrelevant.

 

[QuizGuy66]

75%+ owned

26) Kelvin Benjamin 1552 1208 (just give the man his own tier already - even with the bye week coming I have a feeling he will be on about 85% of the final rosters when all is said and done)

it's no longer a benefit to have him, it's a hindrance not to.

Yep. When 1 guy with a tiny salary can catch 1 TD pass and move the line by 8, not having him is really, really bad.

It wasn't just him. Cam Newton has plenty of owners and his points counted too.

sure, but do the math. If 1200 owners out of 1600 have a player, and the cutline is 1200, and that player makes a 8 point play and he counts for all 1200 people, there's a really good chance that line is moving up almost 8 points.

Of course other factors like him not counting for his owners yet, or some of those 1200 teams having otherwise bad weeks will mitigate some of that, but it's still a pretty big impact. Best the non-owners can hope for is a huge dent in his ownership next week.

It's beyond that at this point - there's no dent in his ownership that will be big enough. Basically the non-Benjamin owners just have to root for him to be bad. A vast majority of entries in the final 250 are going to have him, even with the bye and even if he does poorly in week 11 and 13. Heck look at how well Nate Freese owners are doing - even if he ends up being a passenger, Benjamin will be very present in the final 250.-QG

I'm just hoping I have 2 WR and 2 Flex players who outscore him every week so his absence on my roster is irrelevant.

See but it's actually not completely irrelevant - his presence on those other rosters provides a floor of sorts to all the teams that have him. His omnipresence thus serves to blunt the advantage your guys have if Benamin does well (even if your guys do better).

-QG

 

[Tennessee_ATO]

75%+ owned

26) Kelvin Benjamin 1552 1208 (just give the man his own tier already - even with the bye week coming I have a feeling he will be on about 85% of the final rosters when all is said and done)

it's no longer a benefit to have him, it's a hindrance not to.

Yep. When 1 guy with a tiny salary can catch 1 TD pass and move the line by 8, not having him is really, really bad.

It wasn't just him. Cam Newton has plenty of owners and his points counted too.

sure, but do the math. If 1200 owners out of 1600 have a player, and the cutline is 1200, and that player makes a 8 point play and he counts for all 1200 people, there's a really good chance that line is moving up almost 8 points.

Of course other factors like him not counting for his owners yet, or some of those 1200 teams having otherwise bad weeks will mitigate some of that, but it's still a pretty big impact. Best the non-owners can hope for is a huge dent in his ownership next week.

It's beyond that at this point - there's no dent in his ownership that will be big enough. Basically the non-Benjamin owners just have to root for him to be bad. A vast majority of entries in the final 250 are going to have him, even with the bye and even if he does poorly in week 11 and 13. Heck look at how well Nate Freese owners are doing - even if he ends up being a passenger, Benjamin will be very present in the final 250.-QG

I'm just hoping I have 2 WR and 2 Flex players who outscore him every week so his absence on my roster is irrelevant.

See but it's actually not completely irrelevant - his presence on those other rosters provides a floor of sorts to all the teams that have him. His omnipresence thus serves to blunt the advantage your guys have if Benamin does well (even if your guys do better).-QG

Sure, but that's true of the entire universe of players not on my team. Obviously he's on many rosters, but at the of the day any player I don't own hurts me w/ every point scored.And his absence on my roster is irrelevant if he wouldn't have counted. His presence in other rosters potentially hurts, but I had zippo control over that when creating my roster.

 

[FUBAR]

You forgot to add Josh Gordon for $2.

As David said, there are always players like that we leave off. It's no fun when 80% of the rosters include a player that skyrockted in value in mid August.

But I've always thought it would be fun to add some type of twist where you got bonus points or something the earlier you locked in your roster. I doubt we'd ever do it as David and Doug might kill me but that always has felt like a fun twist to me.

J

 

[Ironman2131]

It's not so much that the owners will be losing out if Benjamin has a bad week (since he was so inexpensive), it's that I have a feeling a number of teams are relying on him pretty heavily just to keep making the cut. He's definitely going to have an impact, one way or the other, on the end result, but so will a lot of players.

I may not have Benjamin, but at WR alone I have Julio, A. Brown, Sanders, Randle, Sanu, and J. Brown. Sure, missing out on Benjamin for $5 isn't ideal, but I'll be okay. My team's success seems more dependent on Graham's health (Ertz is my only other TE) and getting production from Bradshaw and/or Ingram than anything else.

My goal is to keep surviving and make it to the last 250 (I've never done that before) and then just root for my guys. They've been good enough thus far to make me the 12th highest scoring team, so I figure I have as good a shot as anyone, even if I don't have Benjamin.

 

[jeaton6]

By eyeball method the weekly cutoff is constant at 140 approx. Based on number of enyries at what time does the cutoff start migrating upward and at what slope / increased points per week? Is flat then linear with positive slope the historical and projected cutline trend behavior?

Historical cutlines

Thanks Iggy!

 

[Quez]

Made it another week but with Ben/ Palmer/ Locker as my QBs I am bound to be eliminated on Steelers bye week.

 

[QuizGuy66]

9.0 points for Sturgis. Not gangbusters but it's okay as a floor.

-QG

 

[FUBAR]

9.0 points for Sturgis. Not gangbusters but it's okay as a floor.

-QG

yep. Fins D could have done better too, but not a horrible start.

 

[Tennessee_ATO]

Sanders injury may be the final shoe to drop for me.

 

[jeaton6]

9.0 points for Sturgis. Not gangbusters but it's okay as a floor.

-QG

yep. Fins D could have done better too, but not a horrible start.

I've said it before they really should look at DST scoring in this contest. Team gives up 9 points and gets 4 fantasy points doesn't seem right. Just like last week they had a shut out and scored something like 12 points.