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

[Joe Bryant]

Whenever anyone says, "I don't have the time" they really mean, "I don't have the desire to prioritize this with my time." And it wasn't just the total amount of time you'd put in during the week, but how often you'd have to think about it, even if for only a few minutes at a time. Waiver wire deadlines, Thursday night games, Saturday games, etc. All requiring attention when other aspects of life as you get older demand more attention and priorities change.

Yes. Everyone has time.

No. They don't.

Yes. They do.

How one prioritizes their time and what they choose to spend it on is the question.

It's what @jhib says above, "Whenever anyone says, "I don't have the time" they really mean, "I don't have the desire to prioritize this with my time.""

This. I take pride in my lawn. I generally mow every 4 days or so. Friends laugh at me saying they just have time. I say we all have the exact same amount of time, we just prioritize things differently.

Yes.

 

[Joe Bryant]

And I don't mean to argue semantics there @shuke

I understand what you mean. Lots of people are busy and it's not a priority to make time. Some are so busy with critical stuff, they couldn't make the time even if they wanted.

But I often hear people talk about "I don't have time to _________". And in reality, they do have time for other things, they just put them at a higher priority.

 

[shuke]

Whenever anyone says, "I don't have the time" they really mean, "I don't have the desire to prioritize this with my time." And it wasn't just the total amount of time you'd put in during the week, but how often you'd have to think about it, even if for only a few minutes at a time. Waiver wire deadlines, Thursday night games, Saturday games, etc. All requiring attention when other aspects of life as you get older demand more attention and priorities change.

Yes. Everyone has time.

No. They don't.

Yes. They do.

How one prioritizes their time and what they choose to spend it on is the question.

It's what @jhib says above, "Whenever anyone says, "I don't have the time" they really mean, "I don't have the desire to prioritize this with my time.""

Kind of a weird semantics game we're playing here, to prove that everyone has time for everything. Which isn't possible.

 

[Ministry of Pain]

I quit years ago after playing for years because it became a drudgery. I don't want to know who the 50th ranked rb is by week 10 because one of my starters is injured and I hate that knowing which kicker might have a better shot on rainy turf when my kicker is on a bye will affect my mood for at least a week. Trades are rarely accomplished in redraft once the tipping point of the season hits and if someone has the lucky coin, Tomlinson/Faulk/Manning, well then might as well pack it in five or so weeks early. I'd rather watch some live games with my NFL team competing and perhaps a highlight matchup or two than care about StinkyBait43 and his potential for 17 points on Monday night beating my lineup. Life is better this way.

I understand this POV and sometimes question all of it myself
But it's filled up the last 25 years of drudgery being a Miami Dolphins fan

I like your post Dutch and I also feel like I remember you as an active Shark Pool poster back 15-20 years ago

 

[Gally]

I am in multiple leagues and each one serves a little bit different of a purpose:

• Long Time League (league started in 1985): This league is with my oldest friends. We still have about 60-70% of the original owners and the draft is great (could be better if more people participated in person) and we typically get a poker game going after the draft and just sit around remembering all our good times over the years.
• Dynasty League (a buddy and I created the league in 2005): This has everything. Salary cap, contracts, IDP, punters. It's really the only league I prepare for as it is the most complicated. I draft all the other leagues off memory from getting ready for this league each year.
• Father/Son League (started in 2014): My son wanted to have his own team (he was 9) and own league so we got a bunch of his buddies and dads together to have a cheap ($20), simple league to introduce the kids to the game and have some comradery. League is still going but only has 3 or 4 of the original kids still left in it. It's interesting because I have three generations in the league as my dad has a team, I have a team, and my son has a team.
• Zealots League (dynasty free league): I joined a few years ago and use it as a test league for values and other stuff. It has IDP so I can use it for valuations for my main league and it's kind of like a farm team.
• Varying League (assorted): I have joined various leagues over the years. Work league from my old work, a buddy had a guy drop out of a league so I joined that one for a few years. Thinks like that. Sometimes I have this league sometimes I don't. Just depends on what's happening around draft time and if something pops up. Typically just have one of these leagues a year or none. But generally only one of this type.

All told I probably spend a couple hours a day looking/thinking/reading about FF in prep for these leagues. I enjoy it and have fun. I have been doing it for long enough that I have my routine and it works. I have found that over the years with the vast amount of info now readily available it has turned FF into essentially a luck based proposition. There is no real advantages to be had because Joe Schmo can auto draft or pull some cheatsheet off FBG's and do just fine. There are no sleepers anymore. It all comes down to schedule luck and injury luck with maybe 2-3% skill of research and finding gems (which still need to stay injury free and get lucky with the schedule to win). About the closest thing to back in the day (1980's) where research mattered is on the IDP side because that hasn't quite gone mainstream enough so you can do research and figure out no name guys to give you advantages. Can't do that with offense any more.

It's still fun and a great excuse to communicate with long time friends and talk some smack and get bragging rights. I also highly recommend sharing a team with a buddy. It leads to great conversations and forces you to reach out more often than you would otherwise just to talk even if you are using FF as the excuse to call.

 

[Gottabesweet]

Reduced season long leagues: I’m in one in person draft and one dynasty with deep rosters so not much maintaining.

I do play a lot more types of DFS now.