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25. What about this scenario:

An unscrupulous gambler bets huge sums of money on a fantasy team that includes a QB who isn't widely owned, because another much better QB is also playing (Let's say it's just a 2 game slate, such as last night's MNF). So if over half the players in a given high stakes tournament have the same QB, the unscrupulous gambler could take a very low-owned QB (such as the QB of the Niners in last night's game). Said unscrupulous gambler could then pay off the high-owned QB to tank his stats (which he could easily do while still winning the game for his team). So all the people who owned the popular QB would fare poorly in the tournament, and the small minority who took the low owned QB with this unscrupulous gambler would have a greatly increased chance of winning or at least faring well in the tournament.

In practical matters, if it's a 4-game slate and Tom Brady, for instance, is the most highly owned QB by a wide margin, I could take one of the other QB's and "persuade" Tom Brady to hand off rather than throw for a TD whenever he is at the goal line which would drive his point total down and help me get an edge on all the players who took him as a QB expecting him to throw for multiple TDs.

Edit to Add: I could also "persuade" him to hand off to a secondary RB or to throw to an obscure TE that less than one percent of tournament players own, but I do.