FF Impact on Real Life (1 Viewer)

[Morton Muffley]

OK, I've just noticed that after 8 years of playing fantsay football that my mood on Sunday evenings is definitely impacted by how my teams performed on Sunday afternoon. Specifically, I find myself with somewhat less patience with my wife/children on Sunday evenings when my teams have not played up to their capabilities.

Conversely, I'm definitely a little more easy-going coming off a big week. In previous years, I would get a little extra joy out of good weeks and a corresponding mild frustration from bad weeks, but this is the first time I can recall see these emotions manifesting themselves so obviously in my interpersonal relationships. I doubt this is all about FF, likely its the culmination of several factors (more stressful job, older children adding stress, wife back to work for the first time in 7 years, etc. etc)...so it's not just about me living and dying fantasy football.

Anyway, I was interested how much others felt their real lives were being affected by fantasy football.

Thanks in advance and any anecdotal stories (good or bad) are appreciated.

 

[Bodysnatcher]

I've lost my family over FF. I'm not looking back either.

 

[Morton Muffley]

I've lost my family over FF. I'm not looking back either.

That's the spirit!BTW, anyone surprised by the voting so far...I guess I'm glad to see I'm not alone, but also a little concerned about how seriously many of us take our hobby. No doubt the FBG board is a biased sample, but still.

 

[Da Guru]

If I am at home I can get a little grumpy on a bad week.

I have two friends that have not spoke to each other in 6 years over a botched FF trade.

 

[posty]

I don't watch the games, so it doesn't bother me...

 

[moondawg]

Just every time my wife reminds me that I could have drafted R. Moss and AD.

 

[Morton Muffley]

I don't watch the games, so it doesn't bother me...

I spent considerable time and effort building my mancave which consists of a single plasma TV surrounded by four 27 inch standard TVs so I could "enjoy" the football season...instead I spend most of my Sunday screaming at Brad Childress.

 

[xenith]

Week 5 I played a big Cowboy homer, and he started 5 Dallas players against me (Romo, Barber, Crayton, Witten, Folk). This was the MNF @BUF game. Romo was his QB, and I had a 99 point lead, so he needed an even C-note to beat me. This guy was 0-4, I was 1-3, we both needed a win badly.

Obviously, things started out big in my favor, as Romo was throwing up negatives faster than positives. But it was not to be...

Here's how the game finished:

Dallas drove down the field late in the 4th, down by 8 points. My team was still up by 18 or something like that.

Romo TD to Crayton, now I'm only up by 4. 2 pt conversion fails, still up by 4.

Onside kick recovered by Dallas. Oh ####...

Romo pass to TO, giving Romo another point for yardage. Play reviewed and overturned, still up by 4.

Romo pass to Barber. 1 pt for Barber reception, 1 pt for next yardage tier for Barber. Up by 2.

Romo pass to Crayton. 1 pt for Crayton reception, 1 pt for next yardage tier for Romo. Tie game! We use a non-starter as tie-breaker, which we had won. So still ahead by tie-breaker.

Folk nails 53 yard FG as time expires, we lose...WAIT, they called time out! Still ahead by tie-breaker.

Folk nails 53 yard FG as time expires, we lose by 6 points.

He's now 1-4, same as us, and he owns the H2H tie-breaker, putting me in 2nd to last. Ouch...

I was so pissed, I barely slept all night. Makes ya reevaluate what you're doin w/ your life to get this ticked by FF. Seriously comtemplated 'retiring' from competitive FF, and just playin free leagues for fun. But I was all better after a 2 game winning streak to get back in the hunt.

 

[Calvitron Johnson]

I don't watch the games, so it doesn't bother me...

I spent considerable time and effort building my mancave which consists of a single plasma TV surrounded by four 27 inch standard TVs so I could "enjoy" the football season...instead I spend most of my Sunday screaming at Brad Childress.

SWEET setup. Soon I will have that same look. How many sat dishes are required? Each TV needs a receiver, correct? Do you put single games on the 4 outside TV's and the 8 game mix on the middle?

 

[Jayrod]

This is currently something I'm dealing with. My wife told me last night that she hates fantasy football. I think it has more to do with the amount of time I spend online during the week, then my attitude/time on Sunday's.

But still, I've noticed myself get way too into my teams performances. A couple of weeks ago, I was in an irate mood from Sunday until Monday when I almost lost to a kid with a learning disability in my dynasty league who started Rod Smith. I needed Witten and Folk to outscore MBIII (which they did) or else I would have lost. My wife and kid just steered away from me all night and Monday until after the Mon Night game. I realized then that I had a problem.

Now have I done anything about this problem? Well, lets just say that I have more work to do than I can get done today, but I'm currently in here responding to this thread. I'm just out of control .

 

[Calvitron Johnson]

Favre to Jennings the second time:

Me coming out of my chair with F-yeah, F-yeah, that's right, game over biatches. Wife opens door to her (small LR), that's right I built her a small, living room to sit in for 5 months of the year, 'Are you winning'?

 

[Jackal King]

My dog now runs everytime he hears the name Najeh Davenport.

 

[Two Deep]

Favre to Jennings the second time:Me coming out of my chair with F-yeah, F-yeah, that's right, game over biatches. Wife opens door to her (small LR), that's right I built her a small, living room to sit in for 5 months of the year, 'Are you winning'?

I know who you are.......

 

[dirtyhalos]

this is a great topic, i find myself right in the middle of this very issue this year......

so far, the family is winning and i may end up taking a big step back in next couple years

 

[Two Deep]

this is a great topic, i find myself right in the middle of this very issue this year......so far, the family is winning and i may end up taking a big step back in next couple years

Don't cave dirtyaholes. Incorporate them onto your team, make them assistant coaches.

 

[Filthy]

I've lost three times so far this year and consequently the dog has 3 broken legs. Teach it for telling me to draft Gore at 1.5 then MJD with my second round pick.

 

[King of the Wolfies]

I get extremely frustrated after losing week after week when I'm a top 4 team for the week and overall the top team.

 

[DolphinsPhan]

I played against ADP yesterday. Wife almost kicked me out of the house

 

[mad sweeney]

Not this year for sure. just getting hammered by bad matchups. I'm #1 or 2 in points in a few leagues and have one of the fewest points against and I am out of the playoffs in both right now. Can't really let it get to me. I take Seahawks and Chargers losses much much worse. Add in an LA Kings and Sun Devil's loss and this was a terrible sports weekend for me, even though I won 3 and possibly 4 ff games. I'd trade 4 ff losses per week for a Hawks win any time.

 

[Morton Muffley]

I don't watch the games, so it doesn't bother me...

I spent considerable time and effort building my mancave which consists of a single plasma TV surrounded by four 27 inch standard TVs so I could "enjoy" the football season...instead I spend most of my Sunday screaming at Brad Childress.

SWEET setup. Soon I will have that same look. How many sat dishes are required? Each TV needs a receiver, correct? Do you put single games on the 4 outside TV's and the 8 game mix on the middle?

It is indeed very sweet. I have a single dish that can handle up to eight converter boxes. I have five converter boxes in my home: four in the mancave and one in my family room which I slave to a TV in the mancave. Each box costs me $5 per month and I reallly only use all 5 TVs for Sunday football, though there ae other times when I'll have 2 or 3 TVs on at once. I watch single games on all the TVs as that is more than enough to keep me busy. Sound is up on the main and off on all others and I never adjust sound on the secondary TVs - there's no need. I keep channel surfing on the main TV to an absolute minimum - usually just swithching from a non-competitive game to a lcompetitive one as the early games are winding down.Lastly, the room is awesome and I get high praise from any men who see/hear about it, but on the occassions that my wife will have people over for a girls night (tupperware, book club, etc.). Most of these women will display a visible disgust at seeing the five TVs on one wall. My wife actually gets a kick out of their reactions as she uses it as a barometer to determine which women she can/can't be friends with (because they take themselves WAY too seriously).Lastly, you should have seen the look on the guy at Wal-Mart when I asked him how many 27-inch TVs fit on a pallet (4)..."I'll take a pallet then." I said...and off we went to my truck with a pallet of 27 inch TVs.

 

[xenith]

this is a great topic, i find myself right in the middle of this very issue this year......so far, the family is winning and i may end up taking a big step back in next couple years

... Incorporate them onto your team, make them assistant coaches.

Best advice there folks!! My wife and I share the above team I described, and we each have a team in our other league. She is often worse than I am!! Note this week was pretty calm, we had to play each other in that 2nd league. She's in last, I'm tied for 1st, so even she was not wanting to win too much. Oh, and it was our anniversery weekend, so we were mindful to keep FF out of the way this weekend!!

 

[DoubleG]

If I am at home I can get a little grumpy on a bad week.

I have two friends that have not spoke to each other in 6 years over a botched FF trade.

That is just sad. Seriously.

 

[Angry Beavers]

Of course, How can you not be competitive and NEED to win, and be bummed when your team puts up a stinker...

 

[beto]

I'm in 5 leagues, but winning or losing in 1 particular league sets me off. Especially if I didn't start the right guy and lost because of it. Bad beats don't bother me as much as my own mistakes. I can do the same thing in other leagues and it doesn't bother me nearly as much.

 

[Morton Muffley]

Good stuff guys. Thx.

Xenith- that's tough...I feel for you as I have suffered as well, but nothing like that

Calvitron - good thinking on the small LR...congrats on the win

Jackal and Filthy - I've alerted the ASPCA

Dolphins - Sorry, but I have ADP and was screaming at Childress for having Taylor running inside the five in a 14-14 game. After Taylor fumbled my wife sent my 8 year old son down to "talk me down"

 

[th3f00l]

I work sundays but we have a tv in the kitchen. When service starts the and the wait staff comes in I hear them murmering how my fantasy league was doing... As of lately they just steer clear... 2 wins this season... thank you jackson and benson for the season and driver and plaxeco for last week. Thank you my opponent with adp this week, don't eat here if you own that player

 

[posty]

LOL @ getting all pissy over a game that is 100% luck anyway...

 

[3C's]

Happy when I win. No biggie when I lose. But it does affect my mood more when I'm going against my longtime friends in my main league.

 

[Da Guru]

If I am at home I can get a little grumpy on a bad week.

I have two friends that have not spoke to each other in 6 years over a botched FF trade.

That is just sad. Seriously.

It started out as the trade being the issue, then it kind of snowballed and got agly. They had issues in the past.

 

[dirtyhalos]

this is a great topic, i find myself right in the middle of this very issue this year......so far, the family is winning and i may end up taking a big step back in next couple years

... Incorporate them onto your team, make them assistant coaches.

Best advice there folks!! My wife and I share the above team I described, and we each have a team in our other league. She is often worse than I am!! Note this week was pretty calm, we had to play each other in that 2nd league. She's in last, I'm tied for 1st, so even she was not wanting to win too much. Oh, and it was our anniversery weekend, so we were mindful to keep FF out of the way this weekend!!

this is good advice, if your family has any interest at all in it, but i would think thats the minority case.....for me its more cutting back on the amount of leagues im in and cutting down the time spent online, the problem for me has become that the more i am online doing fantasy stuff (trading, research, etc), the more i become friends with people on the internet and my commitments to people/leagues online has grown, and at some point i need to just cut back so i can spend time on my REAL LIFE.....lol, dont get me wrong, i enjoy fantasy football in general, and the best part is meeting some cool people, but when you find yourself going straight to the computer when you get home to pick up trade talks or to check scores, or when you wake up monday morning pissed off as all hell and in a bad mood all day because you took calvin at 1.01 over adp some 5 months ago, you kind of need to re-evaluate your priorities.

 

[DoubleG]

LOL @ getting all pissy over a game that is 100% 97% luck anyway...

FYP.That 3% is HUGE!!

 

[Ted Lange as your Bartender]

When you bench Peterson for Kevin Jones and lose by 10, yeah, you get kind of pissed at the world for a little while.

 

[⚡DEADHEAD⚡]

It does affect my mood but only in the college-buddies league. So much so that I'm considering retiring and just playing "anonymous" leagues. And I've won the league 2 out of the last 3 years.

But now my wife is getting into it bigtime. She likes the FF rivalries I've made over the years. You should have seen her root for Addai to score on that dump-off yesterday.

 

[Winning IS Everything]

this is a great topic, i find myself right in the middle of this very issue this year......so far, the family is winning and i may end up taking a big step back in next couple years

Don't cave dirtyaholes. Incorporate them onto your team, make them assistant coaches.

This is exactly what I have done. My wife hates football, but she enjoys my asking her opinion on who to start and why. We get a good laugh about it and keep her up to date how the choices fared. Needless to say she still says she hates football, but she seems to enjoy the Sunday morning lineup decisions.

 

[ceo3west]

My GF tells me it's meaningless & ridiculous, then she goes back to reading her People Magazine.

 

[Squinting Cyclops]

I spread it out (by being in 5 leagues) so I can get a win in at least 1 league every week

4 pay leagues and 1 free league : all the pay leagues are $50 or less buy in

to offset the "shaft" factor (2nd highest scorer of the week gets a loss when he plays the high scorer of the week) one of my leagues is doubleheaders and victory points awarded in tiers each week for the highest scores

in 2 of the other leagues 8 of 10 teams makes the playoffs so you are basically in it all year

the one pay league that I am in is the one that makes me mad....4 out of 10 teams make the playoffs so I am uptight any time a get a loss there (currently I have the most total points yet my record is 4-5 after this week)

in the free league 8 out of 12 teams make the playoffs and that one is free so no anxiety with that one either

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I do feel guilty for the time I spend engrossed in FFL, my wife is usually pretty good about it though.

 

[Calvitron Johnson]

It is indeed very sweet. I have a single dish that can handle up to eight converter boxes. I have five converter boxes in my home: four in the mancave and one in my family room which I slave to a TV in the mancave. Each box costs me $5 per month

On the dish, so it has 8 coax cables attached to it? Standard dish? or the one that faces due south? That one won't work for me as the trees are in the way to the south. I thought the most feeds out of a dish was 3.

 

[Trap Play]

My GF tells me it's meaningless & ridiculous, then she goes back to reading her People Magazine.

 

[Morton Muffley]

It is indeed very sweet. I have a single dish that can handle up to eight converter boxes. I have five converter boxes in my home: four in the mancave and one in my family room which I slave to a TV in the mancave. Each box costs me $5 per month

On the dish, so it has 8 coax cables attached to it? Standard dish? or the one that faces due south? That one won't work for me as the trees are in the way to the south. I thought the most feeds out of a dish was 3.

I previously had a dish that could feed up to 4 different converter boxes, but then wanted to add a fifth and sixth as well as HD programming, so upgraded to what I believe is an oval dish. I believe this can handle eight, but I may be mistaken. They put the dish right where the old one was (facing due South). Hope that helps.

 

[jbalicki10]

LOL @ getting all pissy over a game that is 100% luck anyway...

Yeah, I have the top scoring team in the league and also the most points scored against. I am 5-4. It really is being lucky. The skill portion is about 30 percent and since I have the highest scoring team I have that covered. It could have been a worse season if my skill wasn't up to par. You just have to remind yourself that its at least 70 percent luck... I'd rather be lucky than good myself...

 

[NoFBinLA]

I get frustrated for a bit, sometimes a tad down - then I get over it.

So sure, it affects my mood somewhat - but over a very short period of time.

 

[fsufan]

LOL @ getting all pissy over a game that is 100% luck anyway...

some of these guys need help, seriously

 

[fsufan]

I don't watch the games, so it doesn't bother me...

I spent considerable time and effort building my mancave which consists of a single plasma TV surrounded by four 27 inch standard TVs so I could "enjoy" the football season...instead I spend most of my Sunday screaming at Brad Childress.

i have a 65" HD big screen and 32" LCD next to it, both are hooked up to their own DTV receiver and I have the ST. and my lap top next to me. I love the NFL, FF just makes it more enjoyable

 

[Chicago Hooligan]

Good thread, some serious lolz in here.

A loss in my money league irritates me for 20 minutes. But then again, I've been to the playoffs 5 straight times and some owners have never made it, so it's hard to get too upset.

My other 2 leagues are just for variety, I try to win but don't care much about week-to-week results.

A Packers loss still makes me kinda cranky on the day of. Nowhere near how I used to get in high school, but they hardly ever lost back then.

 

[MCguidance]

As I sit here, I wonder if FBG ever thought of keeping a counter or some other device for tracking time spent on this site. Much like Xbox or Play Station has to track amount of hours spent gaming. I think it would be both impressive and depressive.

 

[moose162]

It used to. And then I grew up and realized I was attaching my sentiments to statistics compiled by grown men.

 

[moderated]

The key is low expectations.

I've been the worse team in my league for years so losing is expected. When i get that one or two wins on the year it's a pleasant surprise, but in a sense i take pride in being the worst team so losing feels good as well.

 

[NJ OAK]

I am the most miserable person to be around if my team is losing on Sunday. My wife has developed a hatred for Sundays. Pretty selfish of me, but I just can't help it. More than anything in the world, I hate to lose, no matter what the competition. After this week, ironically, I am seriously considering not playing again. I debated all Sunday morning whether or not to pick-up Detroit D and start them. I decided against it. Stuck with Jax. Bad idea. I would have won, but now am 4-5. As a result, I couldn't even enjoy the Colt-Pat game and, even more amazingly, couldn't enjoy the beating my Cowboys put on the Iggles just because I knew I would have won if only I trusted my gut. Pathetic. The lows are so deep and the highs are never satisfying enough. That is a problem.

 

[OU#1]

Wow if you answered Immensly you really need to take a break from FF. It's suppost to be fun for gods sake.

 

[TxBuckeye]

It affects me much more than I like. I actually gave it up for 4 or 5 years so I could go back to enjoying football. First year back in one small league and already regretting the decision to join.