Circa ups the stakes: a guaranteed $14 million for football contests

[Squarepants]

SuperBook Nevada@SuperBookNV
39s

Good luck to all 1,301 entries in this year's #SuperContest

REMINDER:
Mobile selections must be in by 9 pm & counter selections must be in by Midnight.

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The tweet has an imbedded image file with the prize structure -- the top prize inched up to $206,220. So if I had drilled down into the minutiae previously, I would have seen that they tweaked the payouts a little bit anyway. So contestants have to get through marginally less people (1301 rather than 1598, but that amount of variance typically doesn't reliably markedly impact the point score needed to win necessarily one way or the other once a threshold of about 500 entries is crested, per past history) to win marginally more money (a bit over $200K rather than a bit under 200K).

Hopefully, the SuperBook will do something dramatic -- a guarantee, a multi-state pool if allowed, or something -- in 2024 to get things turned around in this most long-running, by decades, Las Vegas handicapping contest.

But now it's time to focus solely on 2023.

 

[railbird]

SuperBook Nevada@SuperBookNV
39s

Good luck to all 1,301 entries in this year's #SuperContest

REMINDER:
Mobile selections must be in by 9 pm & counter selections must be in by Midnight.

* * * * * *

The tweet has an imbedded image file with the prize structure -- the top prize inched up to $206,220. So if I had drilled down into the minutiae previously, I would have seen that they tweaked the payouts a little bit anyway. So have to get through marginally less people (typically doesn't reliably markedly impact the point score needed to win once a threshold of about 500 entries is crested), to win marginally more money.

when i came in 3rd in 2000, the field was 189

 

[Squarepants]

Yeah, I know, I'm a bit spoiled honestly given that for most of the long history of this contest, 1301 entries would be a phenomenal year -- and as against that perspective, still is.

1301 beats every year prior to 2014.

But as against the SuperContest's more recent numbers, up into 2019 (the 3328 entry highwater mark), and of course what Circa is doing downtown, it leaves one wishing for more, especially vis-a-vis the top prize (for me anyway as to the top payout in particular).

 

[Squarepants]

SuperBook Nevada@SuperBookNV
1m

#SuperContest GOLD

92 entries
Winner take all — $460,000

 

[Squarepants]

Now the Gold number is a definite step forward and upward.

92 entries bests the last three years (72, 87 & 80 in chrono order), and is the best entry level for the Gold since 2019 (117).

 

[Squarepants]

Of course, if you win both the SuperContest Classic and Gold this year, it's a payout of over $666K.

[cue The Omen theme music]

 

[Squarepants]

Interesting tweet -- well, in a very wonky ComptrBob kind of way -- by Circa Sports Texts@CSTextMessages about 40 minutes back (approx. 5:30 pm PT).

It breaks down the Million and Survivor entries by number of entrants.

Such as there were 5274 entries by 3480 entrants in the Million.

And only 146 of the Million entrants went with max coin 5 entries, while 2485 entrants did just 1 entry (if anything that costs $1,000 qualifies as only "just" something).

And sundry other data points in between, covering both contests.

Or . . . [duhn, duhn, duhnnnn] maybe @CSTextMessages is ComptrBob.