Derick*
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Nor should you be.
I know. That's what I said.
Just because you win an argument does not mean you'll win a series.
I know. But the fact is aggravating because it makes losing seem arbitrary and leaves open the possibility that it was.
Bugg built a strong team. Your first unit was awesome, but your lower units left much to be desired and featured too many reaches for lesser modern players. It was your first draft and you probably learned a ton about older players throughout the process. You acquitted yourself quite well, but you lost to a guy who slipped a couple of semi-abusive trades under the radar and built himself a very top-heavy team. Come back next year and I'm sure you'll do better.
I'm not denying that there were legitimate reasons to vote against my team. I'm saying that it's discouraging that people vote by them without bringing them up in the thread for my to at least have a chance to argue, one reason being that it leaves open the possibility that the reasons were illegitimate.
I don't think I'll come back next year. It was interesting to try once to see what it's like, but now that I have I won't be able to invest the time when I know that at the end it could be for naught because of any unknown person's arbitrary whim.
I don't mean this to try to delegitimatize my loss somehow or say that my loss was unfair. I just mean that, to me, the way the game works makes losing unsatisfying in a way it wouldn't be if the reasons one won or loss felt more objective.