TheWinz
Footballguy
The reason I disagree with a hard cut is because people will spend the bare minimum for week 1, and the rest on their SB hopefuls. FYI - in the last 7 years, all 14 teams to make it to the SB had a 1st round bye. While spending the bare to advance is the best current strategy for normal years, by knowing the exact cut going in, you can select exactly what you need. For example, if the cut is 1 point, I will select the cheapest kicker, and still have around $245 to stack 2 teams (if my 2 SB teams are the bye teams). And if one of my teams plays in week 1, I can spend my entire budget on 2 teams.Any > 1 would work.... where there has to be something spent on Wild Card games. But to actually make it competetive, I think >35 pts would be a good number. This makes it a balance that we all have to obtain.
With a 50% cut every week, you could have 1000 or 1,000,000 entries, and the cut lines would be similar.