Adding Daily/Weekly prizes to Optimal Scoring

[TRAIN]

My goal in posting this is to try to make an optimal scoring contest more attractive so that all of the $ prizes will increase.

So there are actually 4 ways to win $ prizes in this type of contest (Daily, Weekly, League, and Overall) and 3 of them can be won multiple times - Daily, Weekly, and League (if entering more than 1 team).

This idea would probably only work in a new "season long" optimal scoring contest because the Cutline eliminates half of the teams at the All-Star break (although I suppose it could be added to the Cutline as well, with limited effect).

So, one of my Cutline teams had a daily net gain +195 in one day last week according to the "Change" column on the Overall Standings page. That's a big increase for one day and it gave me an idea that might attract new customers and keep everyone involved all season long, as well.

What if there were Daily and/or Weekly $ prizes awarded for the largest Daily and Weekly net gain totals in addition to the League and Overall prizes awarded now.

With this type of setup, even if you are "dead last" in the Overall Standings, you could still win either a Daily or Weekly $ prize.

Here is just a sample of Sunday morning's Overall Standings:

Rank------Team----------------Change (daily net gain)
882----WIFFLEBALLERS------------198
309----DEVIL DOG 11---------------193
288---TENNESSEE THUNDER------192
686---The Ecstasy of Gold--------191
31-----Twinkies----------------------186
1104--Team Langenderfer--------183

As you can see, a team that is ranked #882 overall would have won the Daily $ prize for the largest daily net gain.

I don't know how the NFBC would determine how much the $ prizes would be worth, but whatever the amount, it would be put in your NFBC account, and could be either withdrawn, or used for a future NFBC contest.

Perhaps an extra $10 per team entry fee could be added to cover these daily and/or weekly $ prizes.

If there were 1400 teams paying that extra $10 fee, that is $14,000 extra in prize money, that if spread out over 26 weeks, comes out to about $538 per week, or $76 per day.

If both daily and weekly prizes were in play, the daily prize could be $50, and the weekly prize could be $175.

Having Daily, Weekly, League, and Overall $ prizes should attract a lot of new customers and keep everyone involved on a daily basis, as well as all season long.

I think this type of setup might even attract some DFS players to the NFBC.

If this were to be adopted, the daily "Change" column on the Overall Standings page would have to be made sortable, and a sortable "Weekly" change column would have to be added to the Overall Standings page, as well.

[Edwards Kings]

[Greg Ambrosius]

That promotional item from 2004 has kept 50+ of you around for 14 years!! That's a keeper.

[TRAIN]

I would like to amend my original post.

Please substitute the words "Pete Rose Autographed Baseball" everywhere that I used the $ symbol.

I feel a signup explosion coming. Thanks, Pete.