Another phantom rung

Last night, I finished in 15th place. In general, that's a fine thing. Unfortunately, in this case, only 12 places were paid. That got me to wondering what the minimum number of entries is for PokerStars to pay 15 places. I looked it up; the answer is 61. Since there were only 50 entries in last night's tournament, the only thing my finish achieved was another phantom rung :-)

style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

MTT-R NLHE    43500  6500       9    59      50   12    15        0

delta: $-100,000
MTT with rebuys NLHE balance: $40,358,000
2019 balance: $6,354,250
balance: $52,938,510