Is There a Fantasy Fishing cheat code?

[OCdockskipper]

After years of playing BASS Fantasy Fishing, I realized a couple of events ago that when you went to the leaderboard section, you could tap on an event number to see who was leading that particular event (gimme a break, I'm old!).  Anyway, when I did that for this event, I noticed something odd.  Three of the top 5 point getters so far in this event did not play any of the previous 5 events.  They have all zeros for events 1 thru 5 and now, in the first event they are playing, they nailed nearly all of the day 1 picks.

 

Without going down a conspiracy hole, I have a problem accepting this as being on the up & up.  If someone is good enough to ace Fantasy Fishing, why would they not start picking teams until now?  And 3 folks, all who have not played at all this year, make near perfect choices the 1st time they play?  Something is fishy (pun intended).

 

My guess is there may be a glitch in the Fantasy Fishing registration that allows a first time player (or newly registered player) to make their choices sometime after fishing has already begun instead of cutting them off when the event starts.  That doesn't guarantee you a win, but it does let you pick folks like Chad Pipkens & Garrett Paquette (both of whom were 1% choices) when you see they have a good bag early on.  It would make sense this would show up more in this event than others because in this event, BASSTrak is 100% accurate (due to the catch, weigh, release format).  In the other events, Basstrak is a guess and can often be off either way by a few pounds.

 

It may be my ego talking here, what with my choices getting pounded event after event, but I have a hard time believing folks are walking into their first event, and choosing 1%ers that just happen to have a big day 1.

[scaleface]

Are   these  counting all the people who are in  fantasy fishing ? I  dont see it in our group or Tackle warehouse group .

[OCdockskipper]

Correct, this is for the entire Fantasy Fishing field.  When you are on the page to make your selections for a tournament, go to the heading that reads "leaderboards".  There will be a list of the overall leaders for all of the tournaments combined (under "all entries").  If you then click on one of the event numbers, it will format a list of the highest point getters for that event. 

 

The winner for this event (Lake Fork) was "Munoz", who had not participated in the first 5 events and then miraculously posts a 1395 score for this event.  There are 2 others with the same scenario in the top 10.

 

I hate to sound paranoid, but something is off... 

[BassNJake]

On 5/6/2019 at 11:51 PM, OCdockskipper said:

Correct, this is for the entire Fantasy Fishing field.  When you are on the page to make your selections for a tournament, go to the heading that reads "leaderboards".  There will be a list of the overall leaders for all of the tournaments combined (under "all entries").  If you then click on one of the event numbers, it will format a list of the highest point getters for that event. 

 

The winner for this event (Lake Fork) was "Munoz", who had not participated in the first 5 events and then miraculously posts a 1395 score for this event.  There are 2 others with the same scenario in the top 10.

 

I hate to sound paranoid, but something is off... 

When I first started fantasy fishing a few years ago, I would create different accounts for different picks

So my main account I would pick all events

But for other events I would create a second account (use a different email address to register) mainly because there were several guys in buckets a and b that I liked

This allowed me to pick a combination of the guys I liked just for that 1 event.

 

I never checked to see if there was a rule against multiple entries