HO Newsletter - Beginning of S23

[Memento Mori]

Wasn’t particularly bothered about the PT changes when the newsletter was posted but after reading the responses I don’t think this was the right move. If the goal of PTs is to keep people engaged then trivia should’ve gone/been reduced, not weekly predictions.

Last season I would make my picks for Monday’s games, check how I did in Tuesday’s claim post and add it to my update, make my picks for Wednesday’s games, check how I did in Thursday’s claim post and add it to my update, make my picks for Friday’s games and then add the TPE to my update post the following update. As well as getting me on the site more often, weekly predictions had me paying more attention to the league and more attention to teams that weren’t mine.

My approach to trivia would be: trivia thread gets posted, I wait for someone else to supply the answers, I send the answers and then wait often a week or two for a post in the claim thread.

Trivia gets people on the site less, doesn’t provide the same level of engagement with the sims, and takes the PPT a long time to grade. This last point is more subjective, but I also find trivia much less fun. Predictions have you watching sims (fun) to see how you did, and the unknown of how much TPE you’ll get is fun too. Trivia has a few people in the league share the answers across every locker room, and when submitting your answers you know exactly how much TPE you’re going to get.

Echoing the point that I hope predictions return at trivia’s expense.