SPOT ON Todd. For sure the one I'm involved with is quite the high stakes venture. If you want high stakes action it is quite simple to hang your H2H shingle out there and play for 2-3k a night. Sick of the injuries? bad draft wearing you down? Then go grab a team for the night. Want to sit back and root for Hamilton Cargo and Halladay for a night on your team? Bingo, have at it.ToddZ wrote:Are you aware of some of the payouts some of those contests are offering? They are most certainly of the high stakes variety.Steel Lugnuts wrote:
Not talking about daily games, you know what "high stakes" mean? There is nothing like what the NFBC offers, not sure why this is so hard to figrue out.
My point is (sorry if this is so hard for you to figure out) that while there are many that can afford to play multiple contests here and elsewhere, there is a huge faction with just enough "disposable" income to enter one contest.
So if someone has not cashed enough to warrant continuing to play year after year, they may sate their fantasy appetite playing the daily games -- smaller entries, immediate reward - no concern about having a squad with five DL guys on reserve, etc.
There is a fixed amount of money that can be spent on contest of this nature, regardless of "the stakes". While there is obviously a new audience for these daily games, there is also most certainly a crossover audience.
THAT is much more of a long-term threat -- NFBC vets turning to the daily games.
Since one of the thrills of the daily games is the real-time aspect of it, one way to help defuse the migration is having that same nightly "thrill" here.
The irony is, on a personal level, I am a whole lot closer to Gekko on this, though I admit to peeking at the live scoring a few more times than him
The Daily game rush is for real and is no doubt competing for your wallets with the 6 month roto draft gamers. I equate it to horse racing - 7:05 the bell goes off and BAM the live scoring kicks in and and the standings are moving on the fly. Teams are jockeying all night long and boy what a hoot to follow.
To me the two games complement each other but for some like Todd said (or I think he said) I can see people allocating their fixed baseball budget for the dailies. That wasn't apparent last year.
In a nutshell LIVE scoring is the meat and potatoes of the daily games and it works flawlessly. The Dailys and their live scoring could very well shift this landscape. STATS has to do whatever it takes to address this.