James McAdoo - UNC + 27 points

Elijah Johnson -Kansas + 27 points

Dexter Strickland -  UNC <30 points>

The reasoning for this payout:

For a $50 payout, this is a very underrated part of our game but obviously totally uncontrollable.  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 now 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 thus far in the tournament.  This becomes the +/- 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. 

Claude Childers & Dave Eccles at <116> points, accumulated the most negative amounts from their draft selections in the 2012 NCAA tournament.  Had they scored what they did during the regular season, it would have changed their final position in the game from last place to 8th place but not a money position. 

The recalculated rerun of the points with the negative totals added back and the positive totals subtracted show pretty much the same results that our Final Results ended up at. 

* denotes highest total and 50% return of entry fee

 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 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 Player(s) : James McAdoo (North Carolina) & Elijah Johnson (Kansas) both accumulated a + 27 point total during the tournament.
• Worst Player(s) : Dexter Strickland (North Carolina) & Mike Marra (Louisville) accumulated a <30> point total during the tournament.  Neither player appeared in a game during the tournament so they must have been injured or suspended from their respective team.

Click on this link for the pdf recap of the Top 10 and Bottom 10 plus minus draft picks.....................