Lame bet.
I value my team far higher than your team. I wouldn't sell my team for $5,000 if somebody offered to paypal me right now. I don't believe there is a person in the GLB world that values their team at the level that I value my own team based upon the amount of time and work that I've put into this team and my perception of the value of a dollar.
Look at it this way, if Bort told me right now that I could paypal him $50 to have your team erased, I would probably do it. I think that if your team was replaced in the Pros with a higher leveled team, say the champs of Canada Pro, then it would only increase my potential competition for a championship, so it wouldn't be an issue of me buying out the competition, but $50 would be worth it to me to see your team erased. In other words, having the highest penalty available of erasing your team has about a $50 value in my mind. Would I pay $75 for that or $100, no way. So if there is a $50 value in my view of what is worth to me to do that, then you can use that as a baseline for something less significant like renaming one single player or your team name.
Now going back to my team. If somebody pulled a suitcase right now in front of me with 5 grand in it to take my team away from me, there is no way in heck I would sell for such a trivial amount of money compared to how much I choose to invest my time and energy into this game. So, using that as a reference point for how much I value my team compared to my value of doing something detrimental to your team, it's not even close in proportion to downgrade your team in comparison to me downgrading my team.
So the bet just doesn't compute on my end. Now if you said you wanted to bet 50 bucks to my 50 bucks or whatever, that's an equal proportion of money win or lose. But to risk something of my team against your team is an astronomical disproportion to anything I would be interested in. I'm not afraid of the concept of a death match in theory, but it would have to be scaled to something that would make sense for me to want to be a part of. Obviously you wouldn't do this, but if you said I had to retire my QB in exchange for you retiring your team ownership, well that would be something I could easily live with.
Either way, we have a lot of time before the game is played, so if you want to get creative with some sort of bet, I'm all for it, but you have to consider that I value my franchise at an exorbitant amount compared to the average GLB user, and I don't make bets that don't offer a fair price gained for the price given up. Come up with something more unique that we could bet or more even-leveled and I'll take your bet.
I value my team far higher than your team. I wouldn't sell my team for $5,000 if somebody offered to paypal me right now. I don't believe there is a person in the GLB world that values their team at the level that I value my own team based upon the amount of time and work that I've put into this team and my perception of the value of a dollar.
Look at it this way, if Bort told me right now that I could paypal him $50 to have your team erased, I would probably do it. I think that if your team was replaced in the Pros with a higher leveled team, say the champs of Canada Pro, then it would only increase my potential competition for a championship, so it wouldn't be an issue of me buying out the competition, but $50 would be worth it to me to see your team erased. In other words, having the highest penalty available of erasing your team has about a $50 value in my mind. Would I pay $75 for that or $100, no way. So if there is a $50 value in my view of what is worth to me to do that, then you can use that as a baseline for something less significant like renaming one single player or your team name.
Now going back to my team. If somebody pulled a suitcase right now in front of me with 5 grand in it to take my team away from me, there is no way in heck I would sell for such a trivial amount of money compared to how much I choose to invest my time and energy into this game. So, using that as a reference point for how much I value my team compared to my value of doing something detrimental to your team, it's not even close in proportion to downgrade your team in comparison to me downgrading my team.
So the bet just doesn't compute on my end. Now if you said you wanted to bet 50 bucks to my 50 bucks or whatever, that's an equal proportion of money win or lose. But to risk something of my team against your team is an astronomical disproportion to anything I would be interested in. I'm not afraid of the concept of a death match in theory, but it would have to be scaled to something that would make sense for me to want to be a part of. Obviously you wouldn't do this, but if you said I had to retire my QB in exchange for you retiring your team ownership, well that would be something I could easily live with.
Either way, we have a lot of time before the game is played, so if you want to get creative with some sort of bet, I'm all for it, but you have to consider that I value my franchise at an exorbitant amount compared to the average GLB user, and I don't make bets that don't offer a fair price gained for the price given up. Come up with something more unique that we could bet or more even-leveled and I'll take your bet.
Last edited Aug 18, 2008 23:28:02
