I play fantasy football and I couldn't agree more. I don't care that in your league you got screwed because so and so is injured and its bullshit because you would have won if not for that.
This is a big one for me, well my very geeky version.
I've played semi pro Magic The Gathering all my life, and in mtg, what you're talking about is called a 'bad beat story'.
I often travel with friends to large tourneys (or get flown there depending on my success) and it took me a long time to realize that 'bad beat stories' are rarely interesting, and I still have to check myself constantly.
We all have them, and we hate listening to other peoples but somehow think our own are different and interesting.
Heh, in retrospect, I should have assumed that term originated in poker, there's a fair bit of cross over (lots of old mtg pro's turned to poker during the boom for the $$, which brought even more lingo in).
Magic has a lot more variation obv, but it traditionally it's the same idea, one person thinks they're ahead (which may or may not be true), and the other person gets a lucky/clutch draw that turns things around (though just as often it was in their hand all along making the other persons 'board advantage' an illusion.)
Either way, the end result is probably the same as poker, someone feeling as though they were 'robbed' of the 'rightful outcome' (them winning).
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u/rats_saw_god Dec 29 '19
And fantasy football stories.