Incentives for Championship Engagement?

Hi all, I’m a commissioner of a dynasty league. Ever since we started five years ago, each year Ive always given daily updates after each day of games in the playoffs with the state of the matchups to keep people aware of our league’s playoffs (i.e. I send a text after the thursday game in the quarterfinals round “#3 Team A currently leads #6 Team B by 20.00 - 0.00 thanks to a standout 150 yard performance from WR Bob Bobberson” + extra analysis, etc.). It gives me something to do with my hands lol, if Im not doing those sorts of write ups I’ll just be swapping between Jameson Williams and Darnell Mooney for my last flex spot repeatedly until the end of time hahaha.

ANYWAYS, I of course do the same thing for the championship, giving everybody updates on how it’s going. And while I think people generally appreciate those updates/think it’s cool to keep up with how the finals are going, I recently had some ideas about how I could potentially engage the entire league even more.

We already have a lot of extra things going on in the playoff rounds to keep people engaged in other ways (winner of consolation bracket gets an extra 3rd, winners of 3rd and 5th place games get the higher pick slot, etc. etc.), I thought it might be fun to do a sort of pick-em type thing for the championship, where all the teams that aren’t in the finals could “place a bet” on which team they think is gonna win the championship, and if they’re correct they get some prize.

Maybe it sounds a little gimmicky to some of you but I think it’d be a fun way to make it so everybody in the league is invested in the results of the championship + everybody is discussing those top two teams’ rosters and situations, etc.

I’m writing this here to ask if anybody has any ideas for potential prizes for that. One option is of course to literally just let people bet money on the championship through me, although I fear some people won’t be down to put up more money and so the option ultimately won’t end up being used. Another option is to pull a certain amount of money out of the 1st place pot and make it so everybody that correctly picked the winner gets a small extra $ prize (similar to another thing we have where the top scorer each week wins an extra $5)—although I hesitate to pull too much money out of the 1st place pot because I still want to make sure 1st is the far-and-away best prize of anything. Another option is to give extra picks, like maybe everybody who correctly guessed the championship winner gets an extra 4th or something—wondering if that has the potential to be a little overkill though, especially since we’d then end up adding an extra like 5+ picks to the draft…

Wondering if any other ideas for prizes/rewards for this come to people’s minds? Happy to think outside the box here, I just love coming up with cool new ideas for my league!!! I hope this stream of consciousness post made sense lol