FRIDAY, MIDNIGHT PST: If you're reading this, you must be still interested in the game after "The Packening" and the competition from EA's mobile version spicing up soon. Seems like NOW IS THE TIME to go hard after the Star and RC card if you need them to upgrade lineup and have time and/or RP resources to get to the lowered point totals (relative to previous Star RCs). So the Grizzly Gasol Brothers (literally in Pau's case ) are essentially on a discount. The usual last 6-12 hour rush is expected, but you can definitely get ahead of the crashing waves before then!

Quick new calculation scenarios that I will only do for Top 1800 (output potential based on average of the masses rather than top output by an individual):
NIGHTMARE: (42 hours remaining) x (100 pt/hr top output) = 4,200 + (1,716 current pts) = 5,916 pts.
APOLCALYPTIC: (42 hours remaining) x (200 pt/hr top output) = 8,400 + (1,716 current pts) = 10,116 pts.

SATURDAY, MIDNIGHT PST: Race for Top 500 picked up a bit, with all other tiers' pace fell a bit. There will definitely be a hard Sunday push as many are probably planning their weekends accordingly. With Top 1800 dropping to record low rates, I've added another quick calculation to gauge possible finish line numbers. Do the same for the tier you're chasing based on current and past rates to plan grinding and HS-ing efforts.

Hopefully everyone is enjoying (or will enjoy) the weekend, and good luck with your goal!

Quick new calculation scenarios that I will only do for Top 1800 (output potential based on average of the masses rather than top output by an individual):
HARDCORE: (18 hours remaining) x (50 pt/hr top output) = 900 + (2,762 current pts) = 3,662 pts.
NIGHTMARE: (18 hours remaining) x (100 pt/hr top output) = 1,800 + (2,762 current pts) = 4,562 pts.
APOLCALYPTIC: (18 hours remaining) x (200 pt/hr top output) = 3,600 + (2,762 current pts) = 6,362 pts.

SUNDAY, 10am PST: No major changes since last update, but there are signs that the Sunday rush is getting started. As usual, prepare accordingly to your tier, and good luck getting your goal!

Quick new calculation scenarios that I will only do for Top 1800 (output potential based on average of the masses rather than top output by an individual):
HARDCORE: (8 hours remaining) x (50 pt/hr top output) = 400 + (3,268 current pts) = 3,668 pts.
NIGHTMARE: (8 hours remaining) x (100 pt/hr top output) = 800 + (3,268 current pts) = 4,068 pts.
APOLCALYPTIC: (8 hours remaining) x (200 pt/hr top output) = 4,868 + (3,268 current pts) = 6,362 pts.

FINAL: First off, my sincere apologies for anyone who took my advice regarding Top 500/Top 1800 having major discounts and went to battle expecting a rock fight and then finding yourself in a major War with Hot Streak missiles, rocket launchers, and automatic machine guns. The regular RC/Top 500 ended up about the same as last RC but there was a major Sunday jump while the foil Star/Top 1800 came in about 300 points cheaper. As always, the disclaimer here is the data is provided with some approximating calculations, but you make the final choice on what play call to run.

I'm sure there are more ways to interpret the data, but I must apologize that I don't care enough to get Top 500 and figure out the analysis to help myself. If there's anyone else who wants to take that endeavor (and therefore assisting your competition), go for it!

One thing that may have been interesting to track is number of games played by the entire field, but it doesn't take that specific data to figure out that fewer RC games in total are being played outside of the Top 500. Seems like this is great timing for a new event/gameplay mode!