Our annual exercise going week by week through each team’s schedule to project all 32 final records.
If you’ve ever played The Sims, you know the feeling: laboring over the completely virtual existence of computer people and computer houses and computer jobs. In the moment, waiting for a copy of the SimCity Times to see what employment opportunities were available in the virtual computer newspaper felt more important than some of the tasks and relationships happening in the real world of the 12-year-old at the controls.
There’s a disappointingly unexplainable feeling that comes years later when realizing that the stress was entirely unnecessary because this wasn’t a real world.