Congrats To All 2014 NFBC Primetime Champions

[Greg Ambrosius]

This was the first year that we had a $100,000 grand prize in the NFBC Primetime, our 12-Team Main Event. We finished with 20 leagues and 240 teams, and in 2015 we sure hope to grow that number. This is a great contest and very different from our NFBC 15-Team Main Event. Congrats to all of the league champions and to everyone who cashed in the league and overall payouts. Here's a look at some interesting facts, followed by the league champions and where they drafted from:

** The only owners to win multiple league titles in the Primetime this year were Greg Headrick and Eric Heberlig, who won the overall grand prize as well. Eric won the March 30th Online league title and tied for first place with Bill Bros for the March 27th Online league title. That was the only tie in either of our Main Events this year. Greg and Ty Parsons won the March 28th and 29th Online league titles.

** Three owners won league titles in the NFBC Main Event and in the NFBC Primetime. They were Lindy Hinkelman, Eric Heberlig and Steve Fiore. Steve finished 3rd overall in the Primetime and 7th in the Main Event, while Eric finished 1st in the Primetime and 13th in the Main Event. Lindy is an NFBC Hall of Famer who continues to add to his impressive resume with two more titles in 2014 and an 8th place overall finish in the Primetime and a 19th place overall finish in the Main Event.

** 15 of 21 league champions came from the top half of the draft order, with Nos. 1 and 6 having the most league champions at 4 each. Only eight draft spots produced league champions with Nos. 3, 7, 8 and 11 not producing a league champion in the Primetime.

** Mike Trout was on four first place Primetime teams, the most from any first round player.

Here's a look at the champions in every Primetime league:

Chicago - Joseph Martens, Pick 2 (Miguel Cabrera)
Las Vegas March 22 - Ryan Atkins & Sam Erickson, Pick 4 (Andrew McCutchen)
Las Vegas March 27 - Steve Fiore, Pick 1 (Mike Trout)
Las Vegas March 28 1 pm - Scott Jenstad, Pick 2 (Miguel Cabrera)
Las Vegas March 28 10 am - Sam Botnick, Pick 5 (Andrew McCutchen)
Las Vegas, March 28 5 pm - Ronny Mor, Pick 6 (Ryan Braun)
LV-Online March 28 - Gregory Glukhovsky, Pick 6 (Carlos Gonzalez)
LV-Online March 29 - Andrew Nichols, Pick 6 (Clayton Kershaw)
LV-Online March 30 - Lindy Hinkelman, Pick 4 (Ryan Braun)
March 21 Online - Joe Berg, Pick 5 (Paul Goldschmidt)
March 22 Online - Pat Gagne & Michael Cohen, Pick 9 (Adam Jones)
March 23 Online 1 pm - Mike Cameron, Pick 1 (Mike Trout)
March 23 Online 9 pm - John Pausma, Pick 4 (Andrew McCutchen)
March 25 Online - David Penrice, Pick 10 (Prince Fielder)
March 26 Online - John Bosch, Pick 12 (Chris Davis)
March 27 Online - Eric Heberlig, Bill Bros tied for 1st, Pick 12 (Jacoby Ellsbury) and Pick 1 (Mike Trout)
March 28 Online - Greg Headrick, Pick 12 (Hanley Ramirez)
March 29 Online - Greg Headrick, Pick 6 (Clayton Kershaw)
March 30 Online - Eric Heberlig, Pick 10 (Jacoby Ellsbury)
New York - Michael Edelman, Pick 1 (Mike Trout)

Here's a look at the draft spots and the number of league champions in the 2014 NFBC Primetime:

Draft Spots - # of league champions
No. 1 - 4 league champions
No. 2 - 2 league champions
No. 3 - 0 league champions
No. 4 - 3 league champions
No. 5 - 2 league champions
No. 6 - 4 league champions
No. 7 - 0 league champions
No. 8 - 0 league champions
No. 9 - 1 league champion
No. 10 - 2 league champions
No. 11 - 0 league champions
No. 12 - 3 league champions