{"id":460,"date":"2006-09-14T15:49:14","date_gmt":"2006-09-14T22:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/?p=460"},"modified":"2006-09-14T15:49:14","modified_gmt":"2006-09-14T22:49:14","slug":"where-fantasy-meets-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/14\/where-fantasy-meets-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Fantasy Meets Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"

CNBC is reporting that office fantasy football leagues, being made up of employees from different levels of the org chart (from entry level employees to senior level management), create an interaction that may not happen throughout the typical work day. In fact, they may help you get a raise. Okay, its dubious but still, anything to validate my office league. Please note however that not only is my supervisor in my league but I’ve already repeatedly insulted her team so maybe I’ve shot myself in the foot here…
\nFantasy football could help you get a raise:<\/strong> Author offers tips on using the game to climb the corporate ladder by Darren Rovell
\nUpdated: 11:39 a.m. ET July 31, 2006
\nNEW YORK – It\u2019s that time of year again. Fantasy football junkies absorbing all the information they can, crunching numbers, predicting breakout performances, and agonizing over whom to draft as quarterback, Peyton Manning or Tom Brady.
\nBut did you ever think that your office league could ever lead to a promotion?
\n\u201cThese office leagues, they are made up of employees of different level of the org charts from entry level employees to senior level management,” said Michale Henby, author of a book on fastasy football. “And it creates an interaction that may not happen throughout the typical work day.”
\nHenby\u2019s book shows fantasy players how to use the game to their advantage.
\n\u201cA conversation will last longer when fantasy football is involved,” he said. “Especially when it\u2019s involved with two people who are in the same office, who are in the same league.”
\nHenby\u2019s work features a fantasy football conversation topic schedule broken down by a month. It also emphasizes the importance of seeding the league with upper management. Henby thinks he\u2019s on to something, but others are cautious to endorse his idea.
\n\u201cI\u2019ll be honest, I would be leery of going to the CEO of my company and saying \u2018Listen, our draft is at 3:00 on Tuesday. I scheduled it right before the meeting at 3:30. Would you like to be in it? It will be fun. It will be a great waster of time for all of us,'” said Will Leitch, editor-in-chief of Deadspin.com.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s sad to take that little time when your brain gets to check out from work for a little while to work on fantasy football and to maneuver in, \u2018Okay, I have to make a bad trade with the CEO, but maybe I can screw over the underling, so I look better if I still have the CEO win,'” said Leitch.
\nHenby actually covers that. Making a lopsided trade is the first deadly sin of fantasy football networking.
\n\u201cOne should not do anything unethical while they are playing fantasy football,” said Henby. “If they do that, it could be perceived as a character flaw, which could then compromise future networking relationships.”
\nWith the average fantasy player being classified as a 39-year-old male who makes $75,000, Henby has many potential customers.
\n\u201cIt sounds like a good idea, but if that\u2019s what we\u2019re coming to, where fantasy football is being used as a corporate networking tool, then maybe fantasy football has gotten too big,” said Leitch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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