They didn't save well, they just had that 5% extra they could go over, and as the team with the most overall pool money, it meant more for them to spend than everyone else.
And Kal, have you not followed any of my 40,000-something posts? I engage on a lot, often simply trying to just put factual information out there. That's all I've been trying to do with the Friedl narrative for 10 months now and it seems that even still, people don't quite have them on how his entire situation played out.