My subjective impression had been that I was having an off year in fantasy/simulation baseball leagues, yet through Sunday, August 3:
$ 1st of 14
* 1st of 6
2nd of 12
2nd of 10
!# 5th of 10
!# 6th of 12
! 10th of 14
$- entry fee and cash prizes
! - entry fee but no cash prizes
*- "suck league" (the object is for your players to play badly)
# - Scoresheet baseball
So I'm fine except in the "sunk cost" leagues. My previous assertion that it was a down year is sort of irrational given that I should care about the league with a prize fund a good deal more than the leagues where despite having spent money to be there I have no money riding.
Then again maybe it's not that irrational - if I were apathetic to how I did in those leagues then what would be the point of the money outlay?
[Both of the Scoresheet leagues happen to be three-way ties (at 55 wins, 57 losses) but that doesn't affect the analysis much.]
Posted by Matt Bruce at August 4, 2008 05:58 PM