Turning Down The Tilt

In this week's P.O. Box:

I used to tilt on Sundays so hard.

I remember ten or so years ago staring at the live scoring for my head-to-head matchup in my biggest home league and agonizing every point swing.

If I lost, it would ruin my day. I’d sulk around the house, get an awful case of the Sunday scaries, and rage-eat some greasy takeout. I had so much emotionally invested in those matchups.

I’ve gotten better about it over the years, though. Part of it comes from the reps. Once you move past managing a single team and have thousands of lineups and drafts and bets under your belt, you naturally become more desensitized to individual outcomes.

This is a welcomed self-preservation instinct because otherwise you’d literally go crazy if you intensely engaged with every single thing you speculated on.

That doesn’t mean a seasoned fantasy player never tilts, though—it just happens less frequently compared to someone who directs all of their energy to a single sweat.

Last year I made some tweaks to my content to help reduce my tilt and it had a positive impact on my mood throughout the entire season.

And this year, I luck-boxed my way into a new Sunday routine that has reduced my tilt even more...