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Quick remedy FSU: Not saying this is the absolute case but sometimes when our teams are struggling and yet we feel we know a lot about football it starts to churn our stomachs some. I tend to call up Phil Helmuth's line in poker which is "If there wasn't luck involved I would win every time." Here is what I would do if I were you...sometimes you need to just be a fan. WHoever your favorite team is, you need to just root for them. This weekend I have a lot of bad match ups and rather than sit around getting sick about it or running to the computer to check every 5 minutes how my team is doing, I am simply going to be a fan on Sunday...an NFL fan. We have a rare treat in the New England Dallas game on SUnday and I think everyone should try and watch that game and just be an NFL fan. I find when I simply take a weekend off or dial it down a few, tends to get me over those humps.
Excellent post. Yes, sometimes you just need to be a football fan, not an FF fan.
well I have 6 team, some are going good and some are bad. I started being an NFL fan again about 3 years ago. I am a Cowboy fan and I got away from watching them(have ST from DTV) every week because I was flipping around to watch my FF players. NE/Dall will be a great game, even if you are not a fan of either.
my leagues are the same, average teams. it is a coin flip each week on who will win
I was gonna say MoP has the exact cure for recuperation, but IDK how you can say you're a fan of a team and gotten away from watching them. Maybe something in football in general for you is waning?Yes, the premier RBs aren't producing this year, but does that make FF any less exciting? NO, it just shows that those who drafted the most complete teams are rising to the top. Maybe more things than normal have gone awry this year, but is that a reason to disregard FF? In my mind, it interests me more.
I'm 4-1 now and have a number of guys on byes this week (Parker, Wayne etc.) I'll probably lose this week, if I win, bonus, if not I've been expecting it.I will most likely get out on sunday afternoon and do other stuff then come back and watch the Dallas game. It will seem strange to wonder how my team is doing, rather than knowing, but I think I'll enjoy that game more.I'm disinterested by week 2 now..I've been in 3 leagues since 1990, and have always enjoyed it..but I'm starting to get the `John Madden` syndrome when he retired as a coach due to burnout.., I'm burned out on FF..If we spent as much time investing wisely and watching the stock market , as much we do with FF, we'd all be millionaires.my problem is that I'm doing FF research in March, when free agency begins..Then I watch the NFL draft, then its waiting for June 1st cuts, then the opening of camp, preseason, etc..by the time week 1 comes around, I've already lost interest. Maybe I just need to not think about football until the final week in August, just before the FF drafts..
This was probably the first year (Ive been doing FF since about '96) that I didn't really look into things until about 1-2 weeks into August. At that point, I consumed myself with all the info I could, but it was nice not thinking about FF or the NFL as much during the summer and then going full throttle when it basically all begins. I'm in Steelers preseason mode before FF, but once that starts, FF interest isn't hard to incur
This almost did me in a couple years ago. Now during the offseason Im on break too. August 1st is when I start my research and not a minute before. Worked like a charm...Also, MoP's post was great. Sometimes I used to get so wrapped up in FF I didnt even know who won most of the real NFL games! (until I thought it would have an impact on the way my FF players are playing so I stopped to check). Now, I dont zap between all games or rush to my computer every few minutes. I pick the best game to watch and look forward to the gamebreaks. I check my FF score at the end of the game.
I'm as interested as ever in football/fantasy football, but I've had several friends make the same comments as Tanner. My theory on this is that the NFL is becoming far and away America's sport. Where baseball and basketball and hockey used to get a lot more attention it seemed, they are far inferior in terms of pure coverage by channels like ESPN. Think about it, heading into the NFL draft, there was as much draft coverage as there was for March Madness, and the NBA. NFL Live airs all offseason long because ESPN realizes that all the other sports arent as good as football and all the coverage may be causing some fans/FF GMs to get a little burned out. If I was still in college I'd research this more heavily and make it my senior thesis.
i think I became a big FF fan than a NFL fan
this could be my problem. I play in 4 dynasty leagues. I follow FF 9/10 months out of the year. waiting till about July could be the way to go. maybe I am just burned out with FF because I follow it almost year around.
It is not because all my teams are bad, I have teams that are competitive. I should make a run at the playoffs/SB in 3 of my 6 leagues.
Very
Im currently 0-5, my team has had lots of injuries. I actually love football more than ever.
Injuries have made me have to up my game that much more w/ waiver wire transactions and trades. Even if my team finishes 0-14 I love this game. You have to realize that a lot of FF is luck. Enjoy the game.
I have always done only one league (13years), next year Im going to do the NFFC and my local league. I think some people may get burned out by doing too many leagues.nope, its just you. you're getting old
For me, that's making this season more interesting. There's no sense of inevitably that the team with Faulk/Holmes/LT/LJ is an 80% lock to make the fantasy super bowl and the rest of the teams are playing for a slim shot at upsetting that team. With the lack of studs and the number of injuries, there's never been a season when foresight and roster management has been more important. That keeps my interest piqued this year.
Exactly.
excellent point . . .If you have less interest then in years past your team probably stinks and your record probably does the same.If you were 5-0 right now (like I am in one league) I HIGHLY doubt you'd have made this post.HTH.
I've been losing interest the past couple of years and especially this year too.I can't believe I'm 0-5 with this team Top scorer in my league.....but still can't catch a break b/c I keep playing the High Scorer EACH WEEK.
I see this thread every year. Like any relationship/involvement in life, it ebbs and flows. I don't always have that infatuation feeling for my wife. However, I still love her and appreciate being married. I know what you mean about not always being interested. Personally, I just go with the flow until that desire kicks in. I know it will happen each year...I'm just not sure when.
Yeah, this head-to-head scoring system introduce a lot of luck into your record. The team below in my signature is 2-3 but only 2nd place in total points scored in the league this year. (15 points behind the first place team). Luckily it's a league where the wild card goes to the team with the most # of points and not the team with the best record that didn't win their divison. Meanwhile I have another team that's 5-0 because I happen to draw crappy opponents a couple of weeks and scrapping by.Then again, if there wasn't so much luck involved, pretty soon the bad players would lose interest, like in any other forms of gambling.
Last year, I had a similar feeling. Busy at work, newborn at home... I had "hit the wall".Luckily, I didn't quit altogether. Instead, I stepped down as commissioner in one league, and dropped from six teams down to just two, both with local friends. Jettisoning the anonymous Internet leagues, made things much more manageable... and fun again. For 2007, I even resumed my commissioner duties.Life is good.
