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Originally Posted by Nittany Dodgers
I was in a money league for 15+ years, and the fun of playing for money didn't match for me the fun of playing for pride and trying to build something.
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This suggests it has to be one or the other and I disagree with that. All those years we played in the PFFL, we were only doing it for the money? You could have fooled me. If so, then it's the worst job I've ever had. Even when I won it, my hourly wage must have been about a nickel per hour spent working on my team. We did it for the fun and pride of building. The money was just a nice little bonus for the successful ones. Back then (pre-Internet), the winnings probably all went for Cliff Carpentier books and the cost of FF magazines, anyway!
That said, I'm in. I like the opt-in and opt-out possibilities, so you can stay out when you're in the rebuilding mode. Count me in.
Also, through 15 years of having played in 4 pay leagues, the only time the money ever caused any friction was back when we were kids, with crap jobs, and $100 (unusual range of the first place winnings) was actually significant money to us. Since age 22, I've never seen it cause any friction whatsoever. It's hard for me to imagine that someone could put this many hours into something based on pride and then somehow get really bent out of shape over $50.
My 2cents