Sundays with Dr. Pauly Results

We had 39 runners this week for Fantasy Sports Live's Sundays with Dr. Pauly promotion. SWDP rookie PayMe put up the high score of 141.1, and Pauly has a score of 102.5. Players who beat Pauly's score in Week 4 are shown below. Pauly beat the scores of the three people who had two week streaks against him, so no new entries into the TOC this week. After Week 5 is complete we will have our first entry into the Super-TOC.

Players who beat Pauly's score in Week 4

TOC Entries by Beating Dr. Pauly's Score 3 straight weeks ($200 added)

Jag, Expensive Wino, AlCantHang

Needs to Beat Pauly's Score Next Week for TOC Entry

Buffalo66, Chewbot, Kev, Resino

High Weekly Scores for the Season ($75/$25 added)

1st Jag 141.8 (Week 2) 2nd PayME 141.1 (Week 4)

Week 1-5 Series Standings (Winner gets $25 + Super TOC entry with $125 added)

Expensive Wino 467.3
Buffalo66 459.9
AlCantHang 451.7
bonds 442.3
Mattazuma 435
Brian 430.2
greengoddess 428.4
Chuckdnb 425.5
TaoPauly 421.3
Chewbot 416.4
bayne_s 412.4
Humperdink 382.8
jek187 382.8
Mr. Decker 381.5
repete oiffenders 379.7
Joe Speaker 378
Jag 375
Big Pirate 374.2
ebk03001 372.4
HermWarfare 366.7
Kev 365.9
Kaiseroll13 351.2
Pokerpeaker 346.5
RTrizzle 313.2
23skidoo 308.5

Blogger Battle, Sundays with Pauly, and Chase for the Cash Updates

We currently are running 3 promos offering at least $1,075 in bonus cash. We are three weeks into Sunday's with Dr. Pauly and the Blogger Fantasy Football Battle, and just one week into the Chase for the Cash. Information and the latest standings are shown below:

2nd Annual Blogger Fantasy Football Battle
Open to all users of FSL, but only sports or gaming bloggers are eligible for the $500+ in added prizes. Enter contests called "Blogger Battle Wx"

Tournament of Champions Seat Winners ($150 minimum in added cash)
Rtrizzle, AlCan'tHang, bonds

Top Weekly Scores for the Season ($100/$50/$25 in added cash)
RTrizzle 142.3 (Week 1), AlCantHang 139.7 (Week 2), Carmine316 135.4 (Week 2)

Blogger Battle Points Leaders ($100/$50/$25 in added cash)
AlCantHang 192.50
RTrizzle 171.38
Buffalo66 155.42
bonds 137.59
Big Pirate 118.22
Miami Don 101.93
I Am Legion 88.68
carmine316 87.65
Joe Speaker 86.81
Capybara Carnival 86.70
Canable 82.90
Schaubs 82.38
D-Train 71.56
Kaiseroll13 71.09
Blinders 68.33
pokernut0826 67.15
Resino 62.52
kinnehboo 61.97
Madden 48.42
only1calvary 46.85
cyandle 44.31
DARTHraider 44.21
Turf Toes 43.82
PachucaSunrise 41.32
JayP 37.37
SHaMRoCKeD 35.78
tw 35.35
bayne_s 33.13
Stop Sign 32.65
Bobby262626 32.52
love_elf 31.33
jek187 30.03
Muffins 29.22
Zeem 28.44
lakewoods 28.44

2nd Annual Sundays With Dr. Pauly
Open to all FSL users. $500 in bonus cash is added. Enter contests called "Sundays w/Dr Pauly".

TOC Entries by Beating Dr. Pauly's Score 3 straight weeks ($200 added)
Jag, Expensive Wino, AlCantHang

Needs to Beat Pauly's Score Next Week for TOC Entry
bonds, only1calvary, eddieleb

High Weekly Scores for the Season ($75/$25 added)
1st Jag 141.8 (Week 2) 2nd Kev 140.4 (Week 3)

Week 1-5 Series Standings (Winner gets $25 + Super TOC entry with $125 added)
Jag 375
Expensive Wino 362.5
AlCantHang 350.9
Buffalo66 350.7
bonds 348.5
Brian 342.5
Chuckdnb 328.4
TaoPauly 318.8
greengoddess 317.3
Mattazuma 316.8
repete oiffenders 312.7
Chewbot 309.6
bayne_s 295.6
Humperdink 292.6
jek187 292.6
Big Pirate 283.6
Joe Speaker 282.7
ebk03001 276.8
HermWarfare 273.6
BigHeeb91 266.7
Mr. Decker 253.3
Pokerpeaker 253.1
belly2bar 252.3
only1calvary 251.5
Kev 244.9
kinnehboo 244.5
eddieleb 239.7
Olliewood 234.5
donkeypuncher 227.2
RTrizzle 213.4
Kaiseroll13 212.7
23skidoo 206.2
lexx575 200.1
unbreakable 192.6
Snickers 190.6
FSLFSF 186

Pauly's Score in Week 3 was 104.8 and Kev had the highest score of 140.4

Chase for the Cash
Open to all FSL Users. Enter contests called "Chase for the Cash" during NASCAR's Chase for the Cup.

Highest Weekly Score of Season ($25 Added)
Sparty80 863

Season Standings ($50 for overall winner)
Sparty80 863
oas_3 749
Buffalo66 646
Dhow 624
lemoyneken 535
win2day 430

Advantages of Salary Cap Drafts in Daily Fantasy Sports Leagues

We have used a salary cap style draft at FantasySportsLive.com since our launch in June 2007 for many reasons. We have many more salary cap versions defined and in the queue, as well as some other alternative draft methods waiting to be developed. We will also have a live draft in the future. We do not have a live draft now because it would take a bunch more traffic to get them to fill up in real time (we don’t want people waiting for hours or days to draft), and a live draft is too time consuming in general for daily contests. When we do launch live drafts at FSL we do not expect their popularity to come close to that of the salary cap drafts. Live drafts are great for season long fantasy sports where you hang on to your team, and have an entire season to leverage the time spent preparing for and executing the live draft. With daily fantasy contests you keep your roster for just a day, so it becomes much less worth it to spend that kind of time and effort. Some of the many advantages of Salary Cap Drafts in Fantasy Sports contests are listed below.

Salary Cap Draft Advantages

The Draft Is Asynchronous
That’s a pretty big word. What it means is that you can draft on your time and your schedule. You do not need to coordinate with the others in the contest when the fantasy football draft will take place. If you have some free time at 2AM you can jump on FantasySportsLive.com and enter a fantasy contest and draft your team, even if everyone else is asleep. Live drafts require a coordinated effort from everyone in the fantasy league by definition. This is not required at all on our site.

There Is No Draft Order Advantage
A salary cap levels the playing field. The draft order luck factor is completely removed from a fantasy contest that uses a Salary Cap draft. All competitors get the exact same cap to work with allowing their skill in building a competitive fantasy team to shine. Why let a random number generator decide your fantasy league?

You Can Always Draft Your Favorite or a Must Have Player
Every year there is always some fantasy player who just blows up. It might be L.T., or Randy Moss, or Tom Brady. If you do not have them on your team, you may have no chance due to the huge numbers they keep putting up. You may also want to draft a favorite player. With a salary cap draft, you can’t be shut out of drafting a must have or favorite player. If the player has a large cap value, you simply must spend less on the rest of your team. With a live draft, a lucky pick-up of a must have player can decide the entire season. With a Salary Cap Draft, your skill gets to decide.

The Draft Is Much Faster
Using a salary cap draft, you are only waiting on yourself to complete the draft. With a live draft you are waiting on 10x the decisions and people vs. a salary cap draft. An equally prepared individual can complete a Salary Cap Draft in 2 minutes on our site vs. 20-60 minutes on a competing live draft site. If you are trying to profit from fantasy sports, this extra time and effort can crush your win rates.

There Can Be More Variety with Salary Cap Drafts
A live draft is a live draft is a live draft. With a salary cap draft you can play around with the cap levels and cap types to add a ton of variety and choices in fantasy sports contests. We currently offer a cap based on performance (ranking cap), a cap based on pay (salary cap), and a cap based on the New York Yankees payroll (no cap). By playing with the values in the ranking cap games and salary cap games the whole complexion of the typical fantasy team can be changed. If you like a bunch of stars on your team we can accommodate you. If you like a bunch of sleepers on your fantasy baseball team we can help you out there as well. When we add the other four cap types we have defined in the future you will have even more choices.

Salary Cap Drafts Advantages for Compressed Season Fantasy Sports

You Can Update Your Team Post Draft
If you use a live draft to select just starters for a Daily or Weekly Fantasy Sports Contest, and one of your starters has a late injury you take a zero for that player. You do not carry a bench like in a season long league to make a change with. With a Salary Cap draft, you can adjust your roster with the entire draft pool available at any time prior to the start of the contest. You can now make the customary Sunday morning adjustments to your fantasy football team even if you drafted the previous Thursday.

Salary Cap Drafts are Faster
I touched on this above, but this is even more important for daily or weekly fantasy contests. If you take an hour live drafting for a season long fantasy football league, at least you can keep your team for the entire season, and are really only spending about 5 minutes/week drafting over the season. For fantasy baseball you draft once and compete over 180 days or so. For a daily contest your draft is tossed out at the end of the day. Do you really want to spend an hour building a fantasy team that you do not get to keep? The time that you save helps you to earn more money. Let’s say you have an hour to spend drafting and are well prepared. You can enter about 30 contests on out site and about 2 on a live draft site. At similar stakes you can win 15 times as much per hour of work with a salary cap draft. This has always seemed like a massive advantage to us, and why we based our site on Salary Cap Drafts.

On a final note, there are a few advantages of compressed season fantasy leagues regardless of if they use a salary cap or live draft to generate the fantasy teams. With compressed season fantasy contests, you only need to draft starters for one day, and can forget about all of the hassles and hidden costs associated with season long fantasy sports. First off there is no trading, or picking up players on waivers, or the fees associated with roster moves. If an in game injury happens to one of your key players you are only penalized for one week. Think Tom Brady here, and what his injury would have done to your season in a season long contest. You can’t be hurt by a bad draft or key injury for more than one week. You can fully adjust the composition of your team from week to week, fully account for match-ups and other information maximizing the level of skill that can be brought to a fantasy contest. The playing field is also leveled every week. So somebody who has an excellent draft one week loses that advantage the following week.

Those are our thoughts on Salary Cap Drafts in Daily contests like those offered at Fantasy Sports Live. They are a bit different, and take a little getting used to, but the advantages are so large it is well worth it. Jump into a Daily Salary Cap Fantasy Sports Contest on FSL today!

Baltimore / Houston Game is Postponed - Scores for that game will not count Sunday

Hurricane Ike has caused the postponement of the Houston home game to Monday night. Per our rules a game that is postponed to another day will not be scored. Most contests currently registering do not have the Houston game included, but many contests that are already closed include that game. If you have any BAL or HOU players on a fantasy team for Sunday, please update your rooster to players from the other 14 games that will be completed on Sunday. 1AM eastern Sunday is the deadline for rooster updates. Please refer to the Rules or FAQ tab for further information, or contact support if you have any questions.

On a positive note, we now have two NFL games on Monday, and will be able to run Monday fantasy football contests again like last week.

Chase for the Cash and Site Updates

This Friday our Fantasy NASCAR racing "Chase for the Cash" promotion begins. Enter the "Chase for the Cash" Contests during the 10 week NASCAR Chase for the Cup. We will accumulate the fantasy points scored during the series, and the highest cumulative score will win an extra $50 cash bonus. The highest individual fantasy score in any week during the chase will also get and extra $25 cash bonus for a total of $75 bonus cash added. Chase for the Cup contests will be 6 player with a $5.5 entry fee and $20 for first/$10 for second. Chase for the Cup contests will use the Sprint race plus Sprint qualifying fantasy racing contest structure where your team is 4 qualifiers and 5 racers for the week's chase race. We will also be running our normal Nationwide plus Sprint race structures during the seven weekends of the series that we have both races. If you have not tried out fantasy racing at FantasySportsLive.com, now is the time to get into the action.

New website contest structures and comment functionality

We will be upping the maximum number of contestants allowed in our contests to 50 starting next week vs. the 10 max. we have used since our launch in June 2007. The Blogger Fantasy Football Battle and Sundays with Dr. Pauly contests will be expanded to include all or most players each week in a single contest. We have no intention of running lottery style fantasy contests like our competitors do, so we will slowly roll out our larger max. user contests while still offering the transparent and high percentage payouts that we are known for. Simply help to fill up our larger player contests, and we will offer more and more going forward.

We will also be adding comment functionality to the contest lobbies. You will now be able to post comments on contests you are registered for and publicly ridicule your opponent's poor fantasy selections. Just make sure you can take it if you want to give it out. Both updates will be completed by the end of this week.

Sundays With Dr. Pauly - $500 in Bonus Cash Added

FantasySportsLive.com is proud to announce our second annual Sundays with Dr. Pauly promotion. Compete against Dr. Pauly in weekly fantasy football contests on FSL and earn bonus cash for your efforts. $500 total in bonus cash will be added by FSL over the season long promotion. There will be four ways to earn bonus cash, and each $11 weekly 10 player contest will also pay out $50 for 1st, $30 for second, and $20 for third. Anyone can enter the Sunday's with Dr. Pauly contests, but only your first entry each week will count towards the added bonuses.

Four ways to win bonus cash

1) Beat Dr. Pauly's fantasy score for three straight weeks and get a free entry in the season ending Tournament of Champions. Beat Pauly's score in the tournament of champions and take home some bonus cash. All TOC entries who beat Pauly's score in the TOC will split $200 in added cash equally.

2) Score the highest weekly fantasy score in any Sundays with Dr. Pauly contest all season and win a $75 bonus. Second highest for the season gets a $25 bonus.

3) Win a 5 week series and get $25 plus an entry in the 4-way Super TOC. 5 week series run Weeks 1-5, Weeks 6-10, and Weeks 11-15. Super TOC week 16. Highest total points scored over the 5 weeks wins the series.

4) Beat Pauly's score in the 4-way Super TOC. Players who beat Pauly's score in the super TOC will split $125 in added prizes. Dr. Pauly will add a personal prize to the winner of the super TOC.

Note: Dr. Pauly gains free entry into both TOC and super TOC and can win the added prizes if he wins either TOC outright. Don't let him do this. Win Dr. Pauly's money!