American Eagle wrote:If people show up and say, "Yes, I will join the pool! Thank you for keeping the entrance few so small!", then you will have proved your point.
No, because that is
NOT the point!
This is driving me insane, someone
please help me figure out why this is apparently so impossible to understand.
Posts like that, and
American Eagle wrote:Seriously, bookworm, $10? A guy from 1946 called. He wants his pocket change back.
EK wrote:Because $50 is SO MUCH MONEY? o_O
show a persistent misunderstanding of the situation. The focus is stuck on the money, which is entirely inconsequential. The point is to keep a second chance within your reach through the season. The eventual payout amount is irrelevant, the point is that it pays you
something, preventing the season from being a frustrating total loss.
The reason a lower fee is needed for that is because the reason a second chance opportunity is desirable for the Weekly Pool is that if you consistently lose really close weeks you not only lose a gradually larger sum of money, but as the season goes on the possibility of turning the big picture around becomes zero. The entire thing, all your effort, becomes an absolutely complete loss, all for
nothing.
With a Cumulative Pool, as has been explained multiple times, it keeps you in the running despite close losses so your big picture remains intact and you have the chance to still get
some reward for your deserving efforts, which the Weekly Pool harshly negates. Yes it can be seen as merely a consolation prize if that’s how you’re looking at it, but that’s also the point! It’s
supposed to be a consolation prize, it’s consolation for your frustration! Having a large fee in order to have a larger payout is a completely different idea, because if you don’t win it you lose that larger amount, which is just a repeat of what happened in the Weekly Pool, which is exactly what the Cumulative Pool is set up to counter.
American Eagle wrote:So far, just about all your players are planning to play in the mega pool, too.
Again, beside the point.
I will most likely enter the Adrenaline Rush Pool! That’s why there are the two, so people can choose.
If they have limited funds and/or only desire a safe gamble, they go for the Weekly Pool/Cumulative Pool combo so they have the regular chance each week and that safety net overall so they don’t have to suffer the frustration of an extremely good, yet just not good enough season resulting in everything being for naught.
If they have more funds and/or enough confidence in their prediction abilities to not care about knowing they have that second tally keeping their back, either because they are so rich it won’t matter whether they lose it all, or because they’re just focused on the gamble and could shrug off close losses as ‘the way it goes’ then they go all in because all they need is big risk vs. big reward.
Either choice is great! But they’re the result of two different agendas. That’s why I couldn’t just change my pool, it had to be a new one. I was never against the idea of a high stakes pool, only the idea of changing my pool to be that. The reason being that is not the purpose of my pool, it would actually completely defeat the purpose, thus making the suggestion something that would never happen, thus my continual rejection. That’s all.
Maybe the reason I’m the only one that gets it is because I’ve lived it. That could be it.
One season I did really great in my real life pool. I mean really great, my predictions were spot on. I had victory by all rights. But I didn’t get it.
Four times I tied in predictions with various people, and each time I lost on the tie breaker, meaning I got nothing. Imagine how crushing that is. I never liked the tiebreaker, it’s completely different than the rest of the pool. The point is to pick winners, I did that fine, but when it comes down to victory you have to guess points now? There’s no way to do that accurately. I did what I was supposed to do perfectly, and four times got nothing for it because the criteria changed.
If I had entered the cumulative pool that year, I would have won. All those ties, they would have put me ahead because they were with different people. So really, I was winning. I was always at the top, my picks were superb, but I got nothing to show for it because the weekly tallies tied. The cumulative tallies would have added, I would have got something for my efforts. And I would have deserved it. But all I got was heartbreaking frustration because I did outstandingly, but it got me absolutely nothing.
That is what the Cumulative Pool is about.