Last year USA Today published an article stating that fantasy sports leagues cost employers 1.1 billion dollars a week in lost productivity. According to their findings, 37 million people spend an average of 50 minutes a week at work managing their fantasy teams.
Granted, if not spent on fantasy leagues this 50 minutes of weekly non-productive work time would probably be spent spacing out or shopping on Ebay or something else other than actual work. Still, it is pretty awe inspiring and satisfying to be able to say that fantasy sports are solely responsible for 1.1 billion dollars a week not being raked in by greedy corporations.
To each of us that are not rich CEO's or political leaders or other people with power the man is the establishment of power and money that rules over our lives. It can include corporations, the government, the police, etc. It's not so much a person or persons as it is the invisible hand that pulls our strings.
However, you can fight back! You can sign up in a fantasy sports league today. Think of it as enlisting in the army. An army that is geeky, obsessive and anti-establishment though.
If beating your friends in fantasy competition because you obsess over sports statistics and have no life doesn't give you enough satisfaction then just think of your fantasy sports league as a way of sticking it to the man. Because of you some CEO somewhere can't afford that gazillionth vacation home in the Hamptons.
2 comments:
Nice blog. Seems like I never find the time to invest in fantasy teams. Once my team gets off to a bad start I lose all interest in it.
I guess I should learn to be more patient and make more transactions.
Yeah, fantasy teams can be a lot of work. The payoff (i.e. bragging rights) probably isn't worth the time that one has to invest in it.
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