quote:Originally posted by SNAKE:
quote:Originally posted by renman:
Your thoughts? 3) FF is, and always has been, approximately 60% skill and 40% luck and that opinion is held by SNAKE whether his teams are faring well, badly or mediocrely...this year is extraordinary so the luck % is expotentially higher, more like 65-70%...
[/QUOTE]Since this is your opinion, and the chance of injury (as said by you) even weighs the scales MORE in the favor of luck, wouldn't you agree by your statement that fantasy football (in your eyes) is a 50/50 proposition going into each and every year????
Now since it is virtually a "coin flip" WHY Snake would you subject yourself to the HOURS of lost work, time with family, and consistent abuse for something that you have a 50/50 shot in winning???? I mean are you the type of person who would walk into a casino and throw down $1,300 on black or red on the roulette wheel? Based on your statement, that is pretty much what you are doing here.
Seems to me you would be MUCH better off throwing $1,300 (plus WCOFF's $1,900) down on a team on any given weekend (as you have shown some success with that). It would be an intense 3 hours, but it would be over and you wouldn't have to go through all the negatives listed above.
Add that you have yet to turn a profit in the NFFC since it's inception between the NFFC and WCOFF, have EASILY lost over $6,000 (satellites included), this seems like a no-brainer?
Truly not trying to start anything, but if you TRULY believe there is that much luck involved, why continue to play? Don't you agree?
[/QUOTE]Interesting thoughts Billy, but I wonder how many fantasy games would be in business if the requirement of "profit" determined whether people played or not. And I would also question what you mean by profit. The vast majority of people in any of these high stakes games has not turned a "profit" and there wouldn't be a game if that was necessary.
Let's start with profit. You haven't made a profit if you win more than you paid to enter. How many hours did someone spend preparing for the season, mock drafting, reading, working on stuff during the season and yes, spending time on the message board? What else could you have done with all those hours? For most people they would make far more money working at their job, a far more certain source of income and, I would have to imagine for most people playing games with this entry fee, a better hourly rate. I have yet to meet someone that has "professional fantasy football player" listed as their occupation.
Being that the number of people who can possibly win anything in a league is so limited you really should be glad making a profit isn't why most people play.
So why do people play? Yes, the possibility of people winning certainly draws them to the game. But you better hope it's more than money that keeps them here. I would say for most people it's as much about fun, competition, value for the money they are spending as anything else. Where else can you have this much fun for this much money over a several month period? Sure it's more fun when you win, but you better hope it's about more than that. Because very few people make a true profit.
