Oops yeah I did know that. Congrats btw

Thank you.

Your happiness spreadsheet seemed incomplete since it didn't account for all of the possible permutations for your other 15 favorite NFL teams.

It's just old school vs new school. Fantasy football is here to stay and it is a profitable business and traditionalists don't like it.

This post just shows that you only care because it's the NFL. You believe you cannot be a casual fan of the NFL. It probably makes your head asplode that I'm a super casual fan of college football. I'll pick a good team and like them. Oregon has been good for awhile, so it's not like I'm flip flopping every year. There's only a handful of teams I actively root against, so anyone else is pretty much fair game.

Here's an idea, if there weren't casual fans, sports leagues wouldn't survive. You're lucky that more people decide to be casual fans of football than any other sport. I'm not so lucky that the NHL has the least amount of casual fans and is locked out yet again.

Ah, so becoming a lawyer means you regress back to the mentality of a 12-year-old. Good to know.


Anybody who realizes the economics of sports should recognize the importance of the casual fan to a professional league. All the corporations buying suites are a good example of a casual fan. WNBA fans are mostly casual fans (lol WNBA obv).

im pulling for another DOUG MARTIN rape game.

pretty shocking that he is such an incredible football player since he in college he only played at a level equivalent to a midsized texas high school conference right

glad i used my knowledge and grabbed him in the 4th round!

Green Bay is on a bye this week.

F*** the SEC bias

Oh we get to talk about real sports again?

What SEC bias are you referring to?

**** the Notre Dame bias.

The Bama-Oregon matchup probably just died. Even though I hate both programs, I wanted to see it. Definitely don't want to see Notre Dame in the title game.

oregon ksu could be fun

Yeah it could. I just think that, regardless of the vulnerability Bama showed the past two weeks, they're going to own the **** out of the Sugar Bowl or whatever. Would definitely rather see Oregon-Bama and KSU-Notre Dame.

I hope USC ****s up Notre Dame so that we don't have to watch a ****ty natty game with them in it.

Oregon/KSU is the best situation I see for now.

KSU and ND both gonna pick up a loss, Bama gets back in after curbstomping UGA.

There's only one loss that ND can pick up; the USC game. While I give USC a decent shot in that game, ND is fully capable of beating them.

(ND does play Wake Forest also, but we can safely ignore that.)

Glad Jimmy Graham scored 2x, but need Falcons to RIIIIISE UP!

Also so sick for Gonzo to get his 100th TD

LKJ, all trolling aside, do you bet sports? Hypothetically (if the answer is yes), do you view the sports bet vs. fan loyalty debate to be similar to the fantasy player vs. fan loyalty debate? Like, would you avoid betting games if you also had an emotional interest?

I don't bet sports often. Once in a while. Most often is just like nominal amounts, betting lunch with someone or something, and usually that's a homer bet on my team where I don't worry much about being -EV.

Anyway, I would sometimes abstain from overlapping bets with emotionally-invested games just because I question how truly objective I can be about them.

But if I felt that I was being objective, I'm fine with the overlap. I could bet against my team and then root as hard as ever for my team (and thus for myself to lose the bet) with no issue. I only root for my bets if I wouldn't otherwise care.

So you'd bet against your team (if you felt you could be objective), and then root hard for them and not think about the bet at all?

fwiw I bet against UGA (w/ a spread) more than I bet for them, so I'm legitimately curious.

I don't know about think about it, I mean the knowledge would be in my head so who knows when it would cross my mind, but certainly it wouldn't reduce my desire to see my team win.

To this end, I couldn't bet life-changing money against my team or anything since that probably would **** with my ability to dismiss the bet from my feelings. So size would be an issue at some point I suppose, but again I just don't do a ton of betting sports, so huge bets aren't even something I do on any game.

Basically though...

Serious bettors: should bet like robots and not have any emotional investment in any individual result, same as a single hand in poker. It should be no problem for a professional sports bettor to make his biggest bet of the week against his own team and then to proceed to hope like hell for it to lose.

Recreational bettors: should either stick to bet amounts that don't sway their rooting interest or should stick to betting games that don't conflict with their IRL interests anyway.

lol'd at this

/15yearold

I agree with you wrt serious bettors vs recreational bettors. I def fall into the 2nd category. UGA just never covers point spreads against crap teams and is generally overrated pre-season. Betting tiny amounts against them covering against, say, Buffalo, is essentially a freeroll b/c they'll win the game 99.9% of the time, and they won't cover the points probably 70% of the time, but if they do and I lose my small bet, at least they whooped the **** out of somebody.

****, I'm about to lose one FF matchup by 0.1 pt b/c Arian Foster lost 3 yards in that last little bull**** drive.

Good. That should leave your mood 100% unaffected.

I didn't have an emotional interest in the game. By LKJ rules, I'm allowed to care.