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Contest difficulty — 2026-11-02

Which contests on this slate were shark tanks, and which paid wide.

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contests ranked
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largest field
0.871
mean difficulty score

Difficulty rankings — hardest to cash

Sorted by difficulty score: cash line ÷ top lineup score. A score near 1.0 means you needed close to the best score in the field just to cash — that is a shark tank. Low scores mean wide cashing brackets.

ContestFieldEntryPrizesCash lineTop scoreWinner chalkScore
contest 197302895 single — — — 100.6 115.5 — 0.871

How to read it

Cash line is the score that took the last paying spot. Top score is the best single lineup in the contest. Winner chalk is the average ownership of the slate's top scorers — high values mean the optimal build was mostly obvious players, which makes beating the field harder, not easier. Big fields with near-parity between cash line and top score concentrate equity in very few lineups.

Method

Score = cash line ÷ top lineup score within each contest. Where a cash line is unavailable, prize density (prizes ÷ field) ranks as a fallback. All inputs come from settled contest data in the gold archive; rankings regenerate on every build.

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