The Thursday games, the off field stuff, Europe games, info overload, over zealous "fans" and everybody and their mom playing fantasy with a lot of the same info available to them all has taken pleasure away from the nfl and ff for me.
There is something to be said about those of us who pioneered fantasy sports (particularly baseball and football). I started playing rotisserie baseball in 1988. It really is the greatest format and sport to play fantasy. Auction day was always the best. 12 of us getting together in my good friends baseball card shop and and doing our auction that would take the better part of 10 hours, ordering pizza's and trash talking for hours bout how much you paid for Brett Saberhagen.
Anyway the game was amazing. 162 games, reading baseball box scores everyday over a cup of coffee. Watching Baseball tonight like religion. Great times. But then after college I realizedI did not have time for this anymore. in 1988 I also played in my first fantasy football league. My first ever pick was Dan Marino and then Jerry Rice in the second round. We used to read the USA today on Monday, score everything by hand, call in our lineups, waiver moves etc. Information was gold if you knew locals, and worked are to get information.
The fun in FF lasted like that till 2003. Then everything really started to change.
Still, I always loved it and in 2004 went full dynasty league bat crazy. 13 teams!!! I won plenty of titles, and slowly but surely started dropping teams. I am now down to 4 Dynasty teams (1 local 3 online with a longtime trusted commish) and one redraft (local).
I am done. The fun is gone. Everyone and their uncle has a team, everyone get's all the same info, any edge that us hardcore players used to have has disappeared like a fart in the wind. And it has jumped the shark (it did a long time ago actually). The novelty has finally wore off. I have a lot more fun playing in my Madden 14 (32 team) online league (PS4) for no money then I do playing FF. I really did not work my teams this year like I normally do. And I still had a few 3rd place teams despite basically ignoring them. I watched football this year just to watch football. What a revelation.
I like just watching football for the game itself and not my so called players.
Time to move on from fantasy sports. It really is time (ok maybe I will keep a couple of teams LOL).
) but it was mostly incidental; I had good drafts for all my teams that made the playoffs and did the minimum on the waiver wire. I watched what I normally watch (RZC on Sundays and all three night games, sometimes FFing to the next down after incomplete passes and low-yield running plays), and then just checked my magic football results later.
And playing IDP has been a huge boost to my interest in football as a whole, not just fantasy. So I'm still enjoying it.
