the biggest BTCDPool.com SHA miner got paid out 88 BTCD last shift ...
http://btcd.explorer.ssdpool.com:9050/tx/133e2dc06257ff4f29bf818acd003a944a49b61e17d91bbc1eb4e64a0fdce140 ..
... tons of miners got between 5-9 BTCD..
Not sure how the other pool works but at the end of every shift all of the BTC earned from the confirmed coins that shift (that has been used to buy BTCD incrementally throughout the shift) is sent out according to how much work each miner did, for each completed round that was finished that shift.
I tracked down the cause of the autopay failure - i had forgot to add the pool's wallet as a cryptsy trusted address. that has now been done and it should be smooth sailing from here.
This means that everyone doesn't get screwed if some mega huge miner hop on the pool for 3 hours of every shift and does an obscene number of shares - when they leave the pool and are no longer playing a part in the blocks that are being solved, they will get zero of the reward from those blocks.