I participate in a local home run pool. At the start of the season, for an entry fee of $160, one selects eight players who hit 18 or more homers in the previous season, with the proviso that their total 2018 homers sum to less than 210. In each month, your top 6 count and the pool returns $750 to the winner. The top 6 for the season returns the rest of the entry fees to the top 4 finishers to make the whole thing balance.
Having participated in this pool for years, it is astonishing to me how hard it is to win a month.