National Fantasy Baseball Championship (1 Viewer)

[Notorious T.R.E.]

1,350 to win 5,000 in a 15 team league?

What a complete ripoff. :down:

I completely agree. A friend and I were going to sign up, but it's a complete ripoff. Who cares if there is a 100,000 grand prize? Even if they added 10k to each league prize it would still be a ripoff.ripoff

my fantasy football league that I run is $500 and the winning team takes home $3,000, not to mention all the weekly prizes and division winners money.

Their payouts are on par with almost every pay league in the industry. There are costs involved, such as renting out 4 convention centers for 3 days, 2 full-time salaries for Tom and Greg to create and maintain the NFFC and NFBC, advertising, draft supplies and draft facilitators, etc.

The next time you and your pal decide to bring 360 people together from across the nation for a live draft at your house and guarantee 100% payout, I'm in! Talk about comparing apples to oranges.

Whinedown?

 

[guru_007]

Their payouts are on par with almost every pay league in the industry. There are costs involved, such as renting out 4 convention centers for 3 days, 2 full-time salaries for Tom and Greg to create and maintain the NFFC and NFBC, advertising, draft supplies and draft facilitators, etc.The next time you and your pal decide to bring 360 people together from across the nation for a live draft at your house and guarantee 100% payout, I'm in! Talk about comparing apples to oranges.

Suppose you could get 12 people together from a message board, willing to spend $1,400 on 95% payout ...I'm just saying. Hell, I'll host it at my house for a day for a 5% cut....and I'll participate in the league. The payout structures universally suck, imo, for all website related baseball leagues. If anyone could figure out a way to run one, and take a minimal rake, they'd have more business than they'd know what to do with.

 

[Statorama]

Their payouts are on par with almost every pay league in the industry. There are costs involved, such as renting out 4 convention centers for 3 days, 2 full-time salaries for Tom and Greg to create and maintain the NFFC and NFBC, advertising, draft supplies and draft facilitators, etc.The next time you and your pal decide to bring 360 people together from across the nation for a live draft at your house and guarantee 100% payout, I'm in! Talk about comparing apples to oranges.

Suppose you could get 12 people together from a message board, willing to spend $1,400 on 95% payout ...I'm just saying. Hell, I'll host it at my house for a day for a 5% cut....and I'll participate in the league. The payout structures universally suck, imo, for all website related baseball leagues. If anyone could figure out a way to run one, and take a minimal rake, they'd have more business than they'd know what to do with.

Preach on.I understand both sides though. That 100K carrot that they dangle is pretty enticing, almost in a way like the world poker tour events.I really do like the idea of a big money FBG baseball tournament of champions.

 

[cosjobs]

Their payouts are on par with almost every pay league in the industry. There are costs involved, such as renting out 4 convention centers for 3 days, 2 full-time salaries for Tom and Greg to create and maintain the NFFC and NFBC, advertising, draft supplies and draft facilitators, etc.The next time you and your pal decide to bring 360 people together from across the nation for a live draft at your house and guarantee 100% payout, I'm in! Talk about comparing apples to oranges.

Suppose you could get 12 people together from a message board, willing to spend $1,400 on 95% payout ...I'm just saying. Hell, I'll host it at my house for a day for a 5% cut....and I'll participate in the league. The payout structures universally suck, imo, for all website related baseball leagues. If anyone could figure out a way to run one, and take a minimal rake, they'd have more business than they'd know what to do with.

Preach on.I understand both sides though. That 100K carrot that they dangle is pretty enticing, almost in a way like the world poker tour events.I really do like the idea of a big money FBG baseball tournament of champions.

I'd do this. Too bad Antsports doen't do baseball. They seem to have the most generous payout structure.

 

[RnR]

Their payouts are on par with almost every pay league in the industry. There are costs involved, such as renting out 4 convention centers for 3 days, 2 full-time salaries for Tom and Greg to create and maintain the NFFC and NFBC, advertising, draft supplies and draft facilitators, etc.The next time you and your pal decide to bring 360 people together from across the nation for a live draft at your house and guarantee 100% payout, I'm in! Talk about comparing apples to oranges.

Suppose you could get 12 people together from a message board, willing to spend $1,400 on 95% payout ...I'm just saying. Hell, I'll host it at my house for a day for a 5% cut....and I'll participate in the league. The payout structures universally suck, imo, for all website related baseball leagues. If anyone could figure out a way to run one, and take a minimal rake, they'd have more business than they'd know what to do with.

A single 12-team league with no overhead could always do this no matter what the entry fee. We're talking a 360-team live draft with a 100k prize on top of the league prize. Apples to oranges.

 

[RnR]

1,350 to win 5,000 in a 15 team league?

What a complete ripoff. :down:

I completely agree. A friend and I were going to sign up, but it's a complete ripoff. Who cares if there is a 100,000 grand prize? Even if they added 10k to each league prize it would still be a ripoff.ripoff

my fantasy football league that I run is $500 and the winning team takes home $3,000, not to mention all the weekly prizes and division winners money.

Their payouts are on par with almost every pay league in the industry. There are costs involved, such as renting out 4 convention centers for 3 days, 2 full-time salaries for Tom and Greg to create and maintain the NFFC and NFBC, advertising, draft supplies and draft facilitators, etc.

The next time you and your pal decide to bring 360 people together from across the nation for a live draft at your house and guarantee 100% payout, I'm in! Talk about comparing apples to oranges.

Whinedown?

No whinedown, just informing some people that may not be aware of all that is involved with putting this together. It doesn't magically happen, there is some serious expense, time, and effort involved in producing an event such as this.ETA: Whoever compared it to the World Poker Tour is making a pretty good comparison. The WPT has to take a rake to pay for the facilities, the dealers, the tournament director, the cards, etc. You can't just payout 100% of the entry fee.

 

[cosjobs]

ANy chance we have enough Texans to get together a high dollar live draft leeg. I'd host in Austin or be willing to drive to DAllas or HOuston. I'd like it to be at least $500 entry tho.