Do you enjoy Draftageddon content? (Poll)
In a previous thread Seth said that users on this site who dislike DRAFTAGEDDON are the (vocal) minority. I would like to see if this is true. Click the link provided below to add your say in the matter.
http://www.strawpoll.me/13406167
but fair.
It seems like you guys enjoy it, so that makes it fun for me to read. I don't try to keep up with the cumulative teams. I just read each piece as though it were by itself. I don't care about the destination, just the journey.
The people have spoken...and it appears a lot of people care just enough to take a poll but then are ambivalent about the point of the survey.
Meh = Not enjoy
You're splitting the No vote, Santa!
Helps me understand who is projected to be good / relevant in the Big 10
The site is free. Its revenue comes from ad space and clicks. You need content to drive both. We need Brian and Co to make money.
I don't love the feature myself but it's a great way to volumize content during the summer.
I just think summer content is always going to be kind of drab. I guess Brian could try a special teams UFR or something, but if none of the sports are mid-season and there aren't recruits committing every day, there's not a lot to report upon.
I never read those posts.
I think I speak for everyone here when I say MOAR BBQ!
I will just say this - I don't care if they do it. It doesn't bother me whatsoever. If they want to do it, so be it. I'm sure it's fun for them. That said, I don't ever read it simply because it does not interest me.
Also, I suppose the Draftageddon thing is more informative/entertaining than apparel threads.
Fortunately, I am preoccupied by the Tour de France this month.
I glance through the names in the first round, then ignore all remaining rounds altogether. Just too much childish banter and inside jokes that the authors think is cute (I guess). Of course, that's true with most of the main page content. About the only thing there I really regularly pay attention to are the official "Hello" posts.
I love it. Some of the best jokes are hidden in there plus I learn a little bit about some of the other teams in the conference. At some point I'll get sick of it, but the first few ones I love because there's nothing else going on during this time of the year.
I have no idea what it is, and don't really feel the need to figure it out. So, I vote no.
Meh. I don't really care. Sometimes I read sometimes I don't.
Not really.
But this is Brian's site and we don't pay for the content. So if Draftageddon is the cost... so be it.
I find the discussion about this topic to be very tiresome. How hard is it to not click on the article?
Clicks on article.
It's fresh content, it's amusing, and I think it helps to get some perspective on where other teams are in the conference. I love football content, and this is football content. The offseason is long, and full of terrors, and this helps to give me just a hit of football to get me through. Shit on it all you want I guess, but there is some good stuff in those articles.
"fresh" "amusing" and "content" are all debateable.
"some good stuff" with a heavy emphasis on some, is really the best description.
I wouldn't mind if there just wasn't so damn much of it. It's like you give me a handful of Tootsie Rolls when I haven't had any candy in a month. And I eat them, and they're okay I guess. But then you're like "Oh, so you like Tootsie Rolls, eh?" and just keep bringing me piles and piles of Tootsie Rolls, when I know you've got a couple Snickers bars in the pantry. And then your buddy comes in and yells at me for whining about free Tootsie Rolls if I say "gee, these Tootsie Rolls are okay I guess, but you've already given me way more than I need, could I maybe get a Snickers bar?"
Thanks for the thread and poll, Santa. I cringed yesterday when I saw this year's first installment of Geddon-whatever-it-is. I've really come to dread it. I gather that it's not a real fantasy league and the mods are using it as a vehicle to preview players, but the format does put me off; I've never been in a fantasy league and don't understand them.
Yeah, yeah, I hear the defenders saying just don't click on it. Trust me, I never have, but it takes up so much space and seems to drag on and on. I love this site, but I really dislike this feature. I think that opinion is as valid anyone who likes it, and I appreciate the chance to express it. I'm just sorry to see that so many people voted that they do like it.
Dont read it, dont care. I just skip over it. I really dont feel strongly one way or the other if they publish it. I voted meh. It does tend to drag on too long.
I love the research & analysis that goes into Draftgeddon. . .
I don't think it's presented as constructively as it could be.
Instead of creating throwaway fantasy teams, give us a better opponent preview!
I don't give a crap how Saquon Barkley MIGHT play with Nick Bosa, explain to me why PJ Fleck is going to do so much better managing East Dakota's QBs.
I guess you guys do use that info at preview time, but switch them; give us a 500 word Draftgeddon and a 5000 word preview, not the other way around.
Can we have a referendum on Alex Cook articles next?
Draftageddon is to Football Content as Cook Articles are to Basketball Content
It's not an issue that either exists, it's easy enough to scroll past them, would just prefer content that is enjoyable to read.
i can take it or leave it
...so far the likes are narrowly beating the dislikes.
I can just skip over it, so it isn't really a big deal to me, though if asked I'd suggest scrapping it. It's boring.
I skim the first couple installments, and then ignore it completely. Maybe I read the wrap up at the end.
The content-to-schtick ratio is just way too low. It's like 500 words of interesting data and 5000 words of in-jokes and random banter that's amusing for maybe five minutes once, not weekly for the whole summer. And you have to endure the crap to get the content!
Why not just do the whole thing, and then show each writers "team" with a sentence or two on each player? Then we've got all the content in a format that is actually comprehendable, the writers get to have their fun draft, everyone wins. You can release the 12 hour extended director's cut as a diary.
but I don't get why anybody would spend two minutes on any fantasy sports.