Yo yo! I bring you an early evening post to give you something extra to make your Monday Night Football game just a smidge better. First up, links:
- Those of you relying upon one of the Cleveland backs Harrison and Jennings will be interested to know that Cribbs might very well join the backfield - see the details on FFToolbox.com.
- Rotoworld's Week 14 Eyebrow Raisers highlights some of the big winners and losers in yesterday's games from a fantasy standpoint. Or for more detail on the top 5 games of the week, see Beyond the Box Score.
- NFL.com has their waiver wire article up - Foster, Ganther will be hot names on fantasy Week 15 waiver wire.
- If you'd like to be in the running for a $50 gift card from Buffalo Wild Wings (I'll find out soon if we won last week!), post a comment on my BWW post for today and if I have the most comments during the week, one of the commenters will win that gift card!
- Always a good read from Yahoo's Roto Arcade - 7-on-7: The Colts will delay their phased withdrawal has lots of good tidbits and injury updates.
At one time or another, I bet everyone has wondered whether we should root for a fantasy player who is going up against our “real” NFL team. I think it all boils down to a simple question: does it feel better when my fantasy football team wins, or when my favorite NFL team wins?
My interest in this question goes beyond simply curiosity – in addition to being a die-hard sports fan, I’m a professor who is conducting research on this issue. If you’re interested in taking part in the study (a fun study, I think, that asks about the things we like to talk about in our free time), please visit the link below. The survey itself is quite short and should only take about 5-10 minutes to complete. I’ll be happy to share the results once the data have been collected and analyzed. I know that 99% of the time people ignore stuff like this, so all I ask is that you click on the link and at least take a look at the first few questions. If it’s not your cup of tea, feel free to bail out.
Your responses to the survey will be completely anonymous. As you’ll see, I don’t ask for your name, your forum/member/guest name, or anything else that might allow me to identify you. If you have a few minutes, I would greatly appreciate it if you could help out a fellow fantasy player and football fan. If you have any questions, please feel free to email me: research at nsc.nevada.edu.You can find the survey here: www.surveymonkey.com/s/W982CGM
3 comments:
I did the survey, will you link to them when it is complete? The one positive I take from not making playoffs in FF is that I can go back to enjoying games like I did before I played. I'm still alive in both of my leagues, it'll have to wait.
Thanks As Always,
Kevin
Regarding the survey, www.fantasy-football-first.com asked a simple question poll last month. What is more important to you? Your fantasy team making the playoffs or your favorite team making the playoffs. Shockingly, the majority so far has said their fantasy team making the playoffs. You can go to the poll at www.fantasy-football-first.com/?p=1225 .
I'm not surprised a majority of people are more interested in their fantasy teams than their real world home team - there are a lot of crappy teams out there. Folks in Cleveland, Oakland, Detroit, St. Louis, and KC have a legit reason not to be emotionally invested in their team. And since so many people are in cash leagues, they have a financial interest in their fantasy team winning.
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