Idea for these winner take all pools... Once a team is eliminated, the value zero's out. Seeing issue where there is a lot of "dead" value being held in teams eliminated, suppressing the potential value of those still with a chance. Mavs are +190 to win it all and nearly +500 on bracket game at current prices.

Part of this dead money is that teams were “premined” to non zero amounts to begin game. 

How are you calculating “+500”?

Currently 220 shares pays 140k

To buy that many shares atm it costs ~25k Degen. If there was a mechanism to zero out loser's value and prop up remaining teams, we'd have a more accurate "cash out" value of shares.

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In that case it presents same problem as ncaat. Mavs were +1600 and if you purchased them when playoffs started you’ll see a fraction of what a sportsbook would yield. I get it’s a different game but as much benefit to outweigh playing this vs trad sports book

The max prize goes down as more people buy in — so the actual odds for Dallas rn is prob closer to +250

I’m still not understanding where you are wanting “zeroed out” team value to go to