Sup,
For those of you unaware, we are currently right in the middle of the NFL season, this ending Week 11. This also means we are on the back half of the more important season, that being the fantasy football season. There has been a debate across the country as to the pros and cons of this great hobby of sports fans and coworkers across the land. The biggest factor being pressed against the great novelty that is 'fantasy' (this ranges in everything from hockey to golf to stock car racing) sports detract greatly from a given business' productivity. Instead of getting a leg ahead in a day's work, the fantasy football partaker is squandering precious minutes (or even hours) scouting players, checking and rechecking stats and talking trash to his fellow league members. This and the moral dejection of any type of gambling whatsoever are the main complaints against fantasy sports.
What the debate is leaving out I find is the sheer depression a failing fantasy league can bring upon a participant. Like any sport, fantasy leagues have winners and losers. In a given fantasy football season, a player has 15-17 opportunities to win or lose. In a league where trash talk and competitiveness are at a peak (I am assuming because the participants have no other outlet for physical altercations within their office lifestyle), a losing record can be a real downer. When you come in on Monday morning and find that you have lost your matchup another week in a row, it can put a damper on the rest of the day/week/goddammit make it end!
If you cannot tell, I am speaking from experience. I am currently active (or inactive, depending on your definition) in 2 fantasy football leagues. I am in last place in both. This is far different from last year, in which I was my 1 league's champion (I currently have a trophy to remind me of this win, which I will be soon passing down to this year's champion). I am on a 4 loss and 2 loss streak in the respective leagues. It is horrid. The pain, the agony, the embarassment. It is incredibly sad that I am even writing about this, but it is a reality; an unseen consequence of the all hailed fantasy league. I'll be strong, accept my losses, and start prepping for next year's draft.
It's bad enough the work week starts on Monday, but a losing season only makes those steps into the office in the morning that much harder. I wonder if there is a correlation between fantasy football status and productivity. I would think leaders are happier and more productive while the laggers are unhappy and wasting time trying to make their team better. Somehow this could be used as a tool to improve offices as a whole. Now I'm not advising to rig leagues, but maybe an unproductive person could be given a great fantasy team? Just an idea...
So anyways, this year I will be sign up for FSA or Fantasy sports anonymous, to deal with my grief of yielding such horrible results. You know what? That's too much work, I'm just gonna sit here at my desk, mope, talk more trash about my rebound for next year and sulk in my dismal Monday anger/sadness.
PS, it's also raining out.
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