Fantasy Football and the Referee Lockout

Devin recently posted on the referee lockout in the NFL and the costs — both real and financial.

Sarah Wenger from MBAOnline.com sent along a great infographic about Fantasy Football that I feel could help out the NFL.

Created by: MBAOnline.com

As Sarah shows, Fantasy Football can be a very costly endeavor. If the NFL could somehow tap into the cost of it, it could easily afford to pay its refs for a very long time. So there you go NFL, get to it!

One Response to "Fantasy Football and the Referee Lockout"

Shawn Ryan says:

September 24, 2012 at 6:07 pm

This is why I don’t like infographics. Basically this graphic is over simplistic in presenting its argument which is composed of about a sentence worth of non sequiturs.

The argument is essentially this:
If you had to pay employed people that choose to play fantasy football the national average wage for doing so, you could pay the refs for a long time with an equivalent amount of money.

It’s patently ridiculous.

Also, the conclusion that lost productivity equals x * y does not follow from the premises that x people who work play fantasy football, and that those people spend on average y hours doing it. You can’t just slap a QED on that, much more work needs to be shown.

Finally, I don’t really trust the numbers, and since sources go uncited, I have no way of vetting them.

This medium is just awful.

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