# What are the highest stakes (money wise)  fantasy football games you've heard of?

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**Created:** [September 28, 2008, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-highest-stakes-money-wise-fantasy-football-games-youve-heard-of/465556 "2008-09-28T06:31:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2008, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-highest-stakes-money-wise-fantasy-football-games-youve-heard-of/465556/1 "2008-09-28T06:31:41Z")

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Just curious. In the office league we all kick in 25 each and some of my friends are members of a league where entry is 300 each. What are the highest entry stakes FF games you’ve witnessed or have (with reasobaly reliability) heard of?

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**Author:** ![BlackNGold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@BlackNGold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackNGold)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2008, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-highest-stakes-money-wise-fantasy-football-games-youve-heard-of/465556/2 "2008-09-28T12:31:24Z")

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> [@astro](#):
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> Just curious. In the office league we all kick in 25 each and some of my friends are members of a league where entry is 300 each. What are the highest entry stakes FF games you’ve witnessed or have (with reasobaly reliability) heard of?

On ESPN radio the other night they had one of their “fantasy experts” on, and he dropped a mention of “million-dollar” leagues. From context, I think he was talking about Vegas-run Pro outfits here, not someone holding meetings iun his garage, but I wasn’t paying all that much attention. Maybe someone else heard him? This was probably friday night.

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**Author:** ![borschevsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@borschevsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/borschevsky)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2008, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-highest-stakes-money-wise-fantasy-football-games-youve-heard-of/465556/3 "2008-09-28T23:04:48Z")

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In December last year, there was a play where Brian Westbrook chose to slide rather than to score a touchdown at the end of the game. From the [Bill Simmons](http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/071221) article that week:

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> By the way, I have the Brian Westbrook story to top all Brian Westbrook stories: I know a high roller who’s in a $100,000-per-person fantasy league – $600K for first place, $300K for second place, $100K for third – and got knocked out of last week’s semifinals by five points. He had Westbrook. I defy anyone to top this story.