This is supposed to be the most exciting day for the league and its members. But, and I don't know how or why the juice is gone (although I can speculate), fewer and fewer members have shown up for the auction. We have dwindled in number of members too, but when the auction starts, there has been at least one other person doing it live with me.
I actually left work early for this. What I mean is that I usually clear the deck, aka make sure there is no work that is supposed to be done before the new day left over to the new day. It was doubly important last/Wednesday night because I go from The Third Department to The Fourth Department today/Thursday, so I would literally be leaving any stuff I was supposed to do to someone else. I hate when I have to do stuff that should have been done the day before, and so I do my best not to do it to anyone else. Last/Wednesday night was an exception because hey, I've got my fantasy football auction!
I needed to take a crap after I punch out, then I miss my turn and have to take the long way to the library. I have maybe two minutes to get into the library, swipe a guest pass, login, get to Yahoo! Fantasy Sports, log in there, then enter the auction. It in fact already started with the first player, Ja'Marr Chase, having been nominated and on his way to one of my competitors. I was about to apologize for being late until I saw that all of the icons next to all the other teams in the league were represented by the dueling circular arrows. That means that they're not online and that the computer/algorithm is conducting the auction for that manager.
Everyone except me had that icon. No one was at the auction except for me.
Looking on the bright side, I had budgeted 90 minutes to go through the auction, but it was over in 35. On the down side ... well, no one gives a damn about this league anymore. And we play for money! It's gotten so bad that there are people who have rolling winnings and debts to the league stretching back years. I (as the commissioner) haven't sent the other managers their winnings because the other managers haven't asked for them. In turn, I haven't asked people to settle up what they owe because ... well, I'm a toothless commissioner. And so we just ... play, sorta. Year after year, and although I love that we have been doing this for at least a decade, the lack of enthusiasm for our league, crystallized by everyone else no-showing for the auction ... ngl, it hurts a bit.
I think we'll just auto-pick from now on.
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