Luke Maye UNC     + 22  pts

Donte DiVincenzo -  Villanova + 20 pts

Malik Monk - Kentucky

  <26 pts>

This payout portion was instituted a number of years ago to "reward" or payback if you will, the guy who got shafted the most out of his draft picks.  There is a +/- column added to the printouts that calculates how many points your draft pick scored over or <under> his regular season average during the NCAA tournament.  It's a simple calculation of multiplying the number of games played times the reg season average less the total points scored in the tournament.  This becomes the +/- calculated number for each draft pick.

Before the tournament starts, we can only go on what our draft picks scored per game during the regular season.  We have no control over how they are asked to perform by the coaching staff or actually perform in pressure situations during the NCAA tournament, so their tournament scoring may or may not be affected negatively.  We may also be affected by draft night mistakes where a player is drafted that for whatever reason probably or will not play in the tournament due to injury or suspension. 

Dennis Hammer <94> points, accumulated the most negative amounts from his draft picks in the 2017 NCAA tournament, so Dennis will earn about 1/2 his entry fee or $65.  On the opposite end, and for the second year in a row, Team SID finished with a +34 from their draft picks.

With the recalc, Team Snyder would have finished in 2nd place and Team Trevino would have finished 1 point behind them in 3rd place.  The other "non money" position changes are shown below on the 1/- recalc.

The recalculated rerun of the points with the negative totals added back and the positive totals subtracted ended up at:

note: the player averages used are from ESPN.com's website after the regular season is over and before they play in any post season tournament game.  The only exception to this would be from those teams who came out of nowhere to qualify which almost always happens and then we use whatever their end of the year (including post season tournament) average per game

• Best Players : Tyler Dorsey (Oregon) accumulated an almost unheard of + 57 points in 5 games played (this has to be a record) during the tournament for the SID team.  De'Aaron Fox (Kentucky) accumulated a + 23 point total for Team Trevino.   
• Worst Players : Kenny Williams (North Carolina) a 30th round, 234th overall pick, accumulated a <37> point total for the Team Snyder.  Williams was not expected to play in the tournament after undergoing knee surgery in February so this was just a bad draft pick. Malik Monk (Kentucky) the 7th overall pick in the draft for Team Snyder ended up <26>.  Monk never really exploded with a big game like he had done with some frequency during the regular season.. 

Click on this link for the pdf plus minus results.....................