I’ve been waiting on this thread because I was discussing an idea someone had for a money league and I was going to let him propose it, but it looks like he’s too busy this year to get around to it.
So you know me by now, I’m always trying to up the level of participation and competition in my various fantasy leagues. For the most part we’re pretty good here - certainly our leagues are tougher than the average FF league - but I always crave more participation, more effort, more competition.
So I was thinking I might try joining a money league this year - a league where everyone pays an entry fee and prizes are paid out based on finishings. In theory it makes people care about the league more, hence raising the level of participation and competition.
I’m pretty open minded about how we’d actually run it, I’m just creating this thread to see if there’s enough interest out there. I figure the buy-in will be some non-token amount, but nothing too serious. Maybe $50? Enough to make people care, but not enough to discourage people from giving it a try.
I figured we’d probably aim for a pretty normal league, 8-12 man auction draft format (almost all serious players prefer auction), probably pretty normal rules, no keepers or anything. Prizes would probably pay out to the top 3 spots. Something like 50%-30%-20% to first second and third. I could either collect the money to hold in a paypal account (I’d think I’ve got enough credibility built up here that there’d be trust) but whatever we decide is fine. I trust established SDMBers, new people would have more scrutiny.
Is anyone interested? What sort of buy-in would you be hoping for? League rules/settings?