FANALYTICS: When fantasy baseball went dark, part 2
Aug 14 2014
Read part 1: The Golden Age of Fantasy Baseball
People often ask me, "what was the worst projection you ever made?" Was it the breakouts of Brad Fullmer and Todd Richie? Was it the regressions of Albert Pujols and Mike Trout?
Not even close. The worst projection I ever made was on Friday, August 5, 1994 when I told my wife, "the players will never go out" and then proceeded to quit my full-time job as Director of Marketing at a Boston-area publishing company. I became an immediate entrepreneur in an industry that disappeared a week later.
It all ended up okay, but the survival of the Baseball Forecaster product line over the next year was touch and go. Here is how it looked through the pages of the monthly newsletter.
August 1994
Almost!
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