Joshua Dawalt Wins 2022 NFBC Cutline Championship & $75,000

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Joshua Dawalt Wins 2022 NFBC Cutline Championship & $75,000

Post by Greg Ambrosius » Mon Sep 26, 2022 8:05 am

Joshua Dawalt of Noblesville, Indiana won the 2022 NFBC Best Ball Cutline Championship and the $75,000 grand prize as he outlasted 1,609 other teams for the title. Joshua had two teams at "the final table" of 20 teams and he finished 1st and 19th overall. He finished with 2,759.1 points to win this year's Cutline title going away by 202.9 points.

Bill Strickler, who passed away two weeks ago, finished second to win $25,000. Eric Albright finished third to win $15,000, Bryan Bevis finished fourth to win $10,000 and Bryce Schnellenberger finished fifth to win $7,500. We paid all 20 teams at "the final table" in the Championship Round.

Jon Stadtmueller, who won the inaugural Cutline Championship title, won the Wild Card Tier to win $2,000. We paid the Top 5 teams in the Wild Card Tier.

Joshua first joined the NFBC in 2019 and he has fallen in love with the Best Ball and Draft Champions formats. He won three BestBall12 and Best Ball Double Up league titles this year and cashed in six of those formats. He had nine Best Ball Cutline Championship teams in 2022 and he cashed in six of them, winning three Cutline league titles and finishing second in three other leagues. His overall championship team was one of those teams that won a league title.

His championship team -- DeWALT CL -- ended the regular season in 67th place overall as he had seven teams that made the Championship Round. This team was 8th overall after the First Round of the Championship Round and he had only two teams that advanced to the next Championship Round. This team moved up to 7th overall after the Second Round of the Championship Round and he got another team through that was 11th overall. Heading into the final Championship round, he had two shots at the $75,000 grand prize.

He moved into the lead during the first week of the final Championship Round by scoring 796 points and his other team was 13th overall. He fell to 2nd overall in week 2 as Bryce Schnellenberger held a 13.2 point lead over him, while his second team was 17th overall heading into the final week of the season. But his team had a huge 704 point final week to win the title going away, with his other team finishing 19th overall.

We thank everyone who competed in this "survivor" format this year and we know that the 99-day lockout affected our final numbers. We have big plans for the Best Ball format in 2023 as we strongly believe that people enjoy this format with little or no FAAB during the season. Stay tuned for what we have in store for the Best Ball Cutline Championship in 2023 and what we have in mind for the BestBall12s format. Will that stay as a private league format or is there demand for a national championship with no FAAB during the season? Stay tuned.

Anyway, congrats to all of our prize winners. Here's the final standings from the 2022 Best Ball Cutline Championship's Final Championship Round:

2022 NFBC Cutline Championship, Championship Round Final Standings:
1 Joshua Dawalt DeWALT CL 2,759.10
2 Bill Strickler Warning Track Power CL3 2,556.20
3 Eric Albright EA Sports C17 2,524.30
4 Bryan Bevis Schonfish BB Cut3 2,504.70
5 Bryce Schnellenberger Schonfish AS Cut 3 2,495.30
6 Graham Dawick Lunkers 2,489.70
7 Bruce Carlson Carlson 2,487.00
8 Walid Makbul DNT GET CUT 1 2,483.40
9 Matthew Greene Kentucky Fraud Chickens 2,465.40
10 Christopher Saturno CSMD Cutline150 2,464.10
11 Tim Sansome Sansome CL.3 2,461.80
12 Michael Dodson Dodson CL6 2,398.30
13 David Anunson Cheese Whizzards 2,395.60
14 Bryce Schnellenberger Schonfish AS Cut 5 2,389.20
15 Jason Kufs Kufs Family Cutline 29 2,335.80
16 kc cha deadmoneyCL4 2,333.30
17 Brian Leigh BL Cutline 15 2,318.00
18 Robert Klein Klein CL08 R1 2,313.50
19 Joshua Dawalt DeWALT CL 2,182.70
20 DAVID GRONSKY TAZ VI 2,009.10

2022 NFBC Cutline Championship, Wild Card Tier Final Standings:
1 Jon Stadtmueller Mudhens 2,684.40
2 TYLER MCCORMICK Ankle Biters 2,644.10
3 Kenneth Morita Mean Machine CL10 86 Tre2RJ ** 2,572.50
4 MARK EPSTEIN EPSTEIN 2,506.10
5 Mark Evans Bounty Hunters 2,495.40
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Re: Joshua Dawalt Wins 2022 NFBC Cutline Championship & $75,000

Post by Greg Ambrosius » Mon Sep 26, 2022 8:11 am

Joshua Dawalt becomes our sixth different champion since the NFBC Best Ball Cutline Championship was created in 2016. Only Bob Catsiroumpas has won this title twice. Here's a look at our overall champions:

NFBC Cutline Championship
National Champions

2016 - Jon Stadtmueller
2017 - Rian Lange
2018 - John Magnozzi
2019 - Bob Catsiroumpas
2020 - Mike Dirkman
2021 - Bob Catsiroumpas
2022 - Joshua Dawalt
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Re: Joshua Dawalt Wins 2022 NFBC Cutline Championship & $75,000

Post by Greg Ambrosius » Mon Sep 26, 2022 8:14 am

Here was the prize pool for the 2022 NFFC Cutline Championship:

Overall Prizes
Championship Round:
Overall Prizes
1 $75,000
2 $25,000
3 $15,000
4 $10,000
5 $7,500
6 $5,000
7 $3,500
8 $3,000
9 $2,500
10 $2,000
11 $1,500
12 $1,400
13 $1,300
14 $1,250
15 $1,200
16 $1,100
17 $1,000
18 $950
19 $900
20 $850

Wild Card Tier:
1 $2,000
2 $1,500
3 $1,000
4 $800
5 $750

League Prizes:
1 $350
2 $150
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Re: Joshua Dawalt Wins 2022 NFBC Cutline Championship & $75,000

Post by Greg Ambrosius » Mon Sep 26, 2022 8:22 am

Joshua Dawalt had 9 NFBC Best Ball Cutline Championship teams in 2022 and seven of them made the Championship Round after the regular season concluded. He won three league titles and finished second in three other leagues, earning $1,500 through the regular season. He then had two teams advance to the Second Round of the Championship Round and both of those teams made it to "the final table" of 20 teams in the Final Round. He finished 1st and 19th overall.

Joshua had the 8th pick in his 10-team league that went on to win the Cutline Championship overall title. Here's a look at his draft results from that title team:

Bichette, Bo 1 8 SS DeWALT CL
Alvarez, Yordan 2 13 OF DeWALT CL
Realmuto, J.T. 3 28 C DeWALT CL
Merrifield, Whit 4 33 2B DeWALT CL
Goldschmidt, Paul 5 48 1B DeWALT CL
Nola, Aaron 6 53 P DeWALT CL
Berrios, Jose 7 68 P DeWALT CL
Varsho, Daulton 8 73 C DeWALT CL
Reynolds, Bryan 9 88 OF DeWALT CL
Castillo, Luis 10 93 P DeWALT CL
Bell, Josh 11 108 CI DeWALT CL
Adames, Willy 12 113 MI DeWALT CL
Turner, Justin 13 128 3B DeWALT CL
Rosario, Eddie 14 133 OF DeWALT CL
Gallen, Zac 15 148 P DeWALT CL
Torres, Gleyber 16 153 UT DeWALT CL
Conforto, Michael 17 168 OF DeWALT CL
Smith, Will 18 173 P DeWALT CL
Skubal, Tarik 19 188 P DeWALT CL
Blackmon, Charlie 20 193 OF DeWALT CL
Vazquez, Christian 21 208 C DeWALT CL
Marquez, German 22 213 P DeWALT CL
Wong, Kolten 23 228 2B DeWALT CL
Lowe, Nathaniel 24 233 1B DeWALT CL
Santander, Anthony 25 248 OF DeWALT CL
Gallegos, Giovanny 26 253 P DeWALT CL
Pham, Tommy 27 268 OF DeWALT CL
Doval, Camilo 28 273 P DeWALT CL
Hernandez, Cesar 29 288 2B DeWALT CL
Flexen, Chris 30 293 P DeWALT CL
Fletcher, David 31 308 2B DeWALT CL
Diaz, Yandy 32 313 1B DeWALT CL
Kelly, Merrill 33 328 P DeWALT CL
Grichuk, Randal 34 333 OF DeWALT CL
Stallings, Jacob 35 348 C DeWALT CL
Minor, Mike 36 353 P DeWALT CL
Brubaker, JT 37 368 P DeWALT CL
Houser, Adrian 38 373 P DeWALT CL
Calhoun, Kole 39 388 OF DeWALT CL
Anderson, Tyler 40 393 P DeWALT CL
Irvin, Cole 41 408 P DeWALT CL
Sims, Lucas 42 413 P DeWALT CL
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Re: Joshua Dawalt Wins 2022 NFBC Cutline Championship & $75,000

Post by Greg Ambrosius » Mon Sep 26, 2022 8:25 am

Here were Josh's FAAB pickups from April 19th:

1 Jeremy Pena 325
1 Jose Quintana 95
1 Dallas Keuchel 90

And here were his FAAB pickups from June 7th:

1 Lance Lynn 270
1 Josh Naylor 95
1 Kyle Farmer 95
1 Jordan Lyles 25
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