*The Case for Bringing Back Weekly Predictions

[Memento Mori]

How are predictions fun OR engaging tbh? dont get me wrong I would love to have them back bc i like them better than writing an actual PT, but they are afwul. my favorite part of being HO was getting the average of predcitions because they were so bothersome to keep up with. Heck i just realized if there was a week one prediction thread i didnt do it lol. its just a mess

Trivia: once a week someone puts the answers in your team's LR, you copy and paste them, hit submit. You know as soon as you hit submit that you've earned 4 TPE. You come back 1-2 weeks later and claim it from the claim thread.

Predictions: Happens three times a week, so you go to the forum for this PT three times as much (which is the literal part of the engagement point). It's possible to copy, and lots of people do. But you don't know the correct answer beforehand, which leads to discussion among the league on discord about who will win that week's matchups or you thinking about it, or visiting the index/TPE tracker to try and get a read on which team is better. Your performance depends on the outcome of the simmed games, giving you an additional reason to watch the sims and another reason to pay attention to games your team isn't playing in. Will have a positive effect on the number of people watching and commenting on the stream and some people will talk about the outcome of their predictions on discord afterwards.

Even if you don't personally like them they undoubtedly increase the amount of time users are spending on the site, which is good for the league, and other people do find the nature of them fun.