It’s Monday morning. You walk out your front door, hop into your car (or onto your bike, the subway, electric scooter, horse, etc.) and head to work. As you exit the elevator and enter your floor, you pass numerous cubicles, arrive at yours, set your bag down, take a seat, and fire up your laptop. It’s the same laptop you received when you were on-boarded five years ago, and you’ve been bugging IT to replace it for the past year. “Budget constraints”, you’ve been told, “but we’re working on it…soon”. You pull out your phone while waiting for her to boot and look at your fantasy football results from yesterday…for the tenth time this morning. And so the week begins.
This scenario should somehow apply to some of you, because according to the FSTA (Fantasy Sports Trade Association), over 56 million people in the US and Canada played fantasy sports in 2015. I do recognize that a number of these participants play Daily Fantasy Sports (also known as DFS) and that for the sake of clarity, in this post I am only referring to “traditional” fantasy sports. The type where you typically have a league of 10-14 teams (could also be less or more), each managed by your friends, colleagues or other random participants. You draft your team at the beginning of the season, and you compete head-to-head against your league-mates for the entire season. This type of fantasy sports has been around for over 30 years.
Recent headlines about fantasy sports (aside from the DFS “legality” dilemma) have been directed at their nuisance in the workplace. According to some sources (Google it), fantasy football “cost” companies around $16 billion in 2015. But let’s take a closer look at that number with some “quick and dirty”, back-of-the-envelope math: According to FSTA, almost 70% of fantasy players are employed full-time, so let’s assume about 40 million of the 56 million are in the workforce; the “cost” comes out to about $400 per fantasy-sports-playing employee, per annum. There are about 20 working days per month and the football season lasts roughly four months; so employees are “wasting” around $5 per day on fantasy sports (presumably researching and/or trash-talking to friends). For most working professionals, what does that translate to in terms of time? Less than 10-15 minutes? Some of us consume more than $5 worth of company-sponsored donuts and coffee every day, and spend 15 minutes or longer doing so. There must be some value found in this $5.
You see, for those of us who have played fantasy sports, we understand that it’s about more than competition, winning prize money (note: you don’t need to play for money!) or trash talking to league-mates. It’s about camaraderie, the thrill of negotiation, more diligent research than we ever attempted in college and finding pleasure in an otherwise meaningless activity. Can’t this somehow be applied to the workplace?
Think of the copious amount of money your company has spent on team-building activities, negotiation classes or other training sessions geared at performance enhancement in the workplace. When you’re selected for training, you’re thrilled to get out of the office (or at least out of your cube and into a conference room) and to learn something new! And make no mistake; the quality of the sessions is often great. But the reality is, not enough time is actually spent over the course of two or three days, nor is the emotional impact great enough, to create a meaningful enough experience that will leave a lasting effect.
Now imagine playing fantasy football with a group of colleagues at work 0ver a period of four months. Perhaps your boss is even the one that sets it up! Think of the bond you’ll create through friendly competition, discussing matchups, participating in friendly trash-talk and learning to negotiate through trades with your colleagues. You could learn more about each other during this time than even the most effective team-building training might provide; and you’ll now have something in common whereas before it’s entirely possible you did not. You may even get to know your colleagues!
At the end of four months, you’ll come back from holiday vacation in January and may be slightly depressed that it’s all ended. But you realize that through this experience, you can now chat with more confidence and candor to your colleagues. Your team is more efficient because you all know how to negotiate and compromise with one another. And you’re applying research techniques you’ve learned from fantasy football to your real job.
Is this all a stretch? Maybe. But I can’t help but think that for the daily cost of a Mocha Choca Latte, this could be achieved.
Perhaps one Monday you’ll arrive at work, open your mails and see you’ve received something from your boss. It’s a GIF image of Antonio Brown summersaulting into the end zone for a touchdown…the score that propelled her to the championship; and knocked you out of the playoffs. You may initially feel salty, but you know that somehow you’ve won; because you now share that with her, and with your team.
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