What's Normal? - Do you play Fantasy Football? (1 Viewer)

[DocHolliday]

After 20 years of FF, I quit my hometown redraft league last year. It was great a decision and I didn’t miss it at all. It was one less thing to try to cram into a busy life. I was losing interest in the NFL and FF felt more like a chore than fun for the last few years. I haven’t watched an entire NFL game in years and don’t see that changing anytime soon.

 

[Joe Bryant]

The "don't have time" part is interesting to me. For folks that don't have time, how much time were you actually spending on fantasy football? Tons of leagues are almost entirely social things. The football is almost (or definitely) secondary in some leagues and it's a way to connect with friends. Modern day platforms like sleeper make drafting a team so easy. And managing each week can be as simple as 5 minutes worth of following what the platform suggests.

In other words, it's pretty easy to play with almost no time in the actual mechanics of the league if you want it that way. And you get the benefit of being part of the league.

I'm interested in the time element.

Or I should say I'm interested in the why people stop playing part of the question.

 

[Joe Bryant]

And to be more clear, I'm not trying to convince anyone to play. LOL.

We have lots of those.

I'm genuinely curious in why people don't play.

 

[waiver wire]

i went from watching every sport in the 90's & 00's and participating or running baseball, hockey and football fantasy leagues.
I slowly stopped watching different sport leagues for different reasons and stopped baseball and hockey fantasy leagues.
I am now only in 2 ff leagues and maybe watch 1 or 2 games a year.

 

[urbanhack]

It's competitive and financial related for most as well as the fun/social part. If I'm in..i'm trying to win. The extra time needs to be spent because everyone has access to the same information for the most part. If you want to win, you need to dig deeper and that takes time. IMO.

 

[Desert_Power]

The "don't have time" part is interesting to me. For folks that don't have time, how much time were you actually spending on fantasy football? Tons of leagues are almost entirely social things. The football is almost (or definitely) secondary in some leagues and it's a way to connect with friends. Modern day platforms like sleeper make drafting a team so easy. And managing each week can be as simple as 5 minutes worth of following what the platform suggests.

In other words, it's pretty easy to play with almost no time in the actual mechanics of the league if you want it that way. And you get the benefit of being part of the league.

I'm interested in the time element.

Or I should say I'm interested in the why people stop playing part of the question.

I think the timing aspect that annoys me are the late inactives or oddly spaced games like a random London at 9AM. People get burned by not setting a lineup.

It's an interesting dynamic too because it is one of the big reasons I am not super interested in going to 1PM games in person. What if I have to yank someone out of my lineups? What if I should put someone in?

Probably a lot worse if you don't follow the overall NFL stuff that closely.

That's one reason I am looking to do more best ball than anything.

 

[Dezbelief]

It's competitive and financial related for most as well as the fun/social part. If I'm in..i'm trying to win. The extra time needs to be spent because everyone has access to the same information for the most part. If you want to win, you need to dig deeper and that takes time. IMO.

This 100%

Last year my first year of no leagues in 15 years. I do not miss putting in waivers at all.

 

[snellman]

I agree with the post above about the number of games outside of the normal time frame. It used to be you had Sunday morning, afternoon, night and Monday night games. Now you get Thursday, Saturday (later in the season) in addition to the Sunday games. It was when the every week Thursday games started that I started to tone back. I still play in my 2 local leagues, but it is more for the comradery than the games. DFS also shifted me away and more to the DFS side.

 

[belljr]

Thursday games still suck

 

[FairWarning]

I’m on the fence myself, and I have played for 35 years. I will still play FD and DK lineups, but the time element is a thing. It was much simpler when there were Sunday/Monday games. Now we have to keep track of midweek games and the odd Friday night game or last years Wednesday game. I can’t even make it to my draft, someone drafts for me every year.