Last post here forever. I promise.
The issue is that the only reason it ever got brought up in the first place was a misunderstanding. The two people consistently making brackets this season have Syracuse seeded 3rd based on objective data. Those same two people think Syracuse is either the 5th or 6th best team based on their subjective opinion. Stevens and I are not the committee, but if we were/we are representative of the actual committee, it is not in Syracuse's interests for this to be a subjectively chosen and seeded bracket, period.
The issue is that we established: 1) there was a misunderstanding, 2) my subjective opinion of Syracuse was only ever brought up because this misunderstanding 3) I do not want to discuss my subjective evaluation of teams any further because it is irrelevant. I said both parts of this multiple times. 4) Jeremy does not actually care what I think subjectively of Syracuse (said as much), because as I said it's irrelevant, 5) despite my continued pleas to let's move on, I am still being asked who I could possibly think is subjectively better than Syracuse besides Notre Dame, despite that this absolutely does not matter to the topic of this thread. (I am no one special, and it is outside my realm of expertise)
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I don't really care whether Jeremy or anyone else is appreciative of my work or not. I am proud of my bracket work, and that's what matters to me. I do it for myself, because in theory I "like" doing them.
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I have been putting probably 30-50 hours per week into watching games, doing evaluations, making brackets, discussing, answering questions since February. I do this in my free time. No one has ever or likely will ever pay me a dollar for doing this, and I do not want them to.
I started doing this years ago because I wanted to do it, see if I could apply the stuff that I had learned in college to this, and then it eventually turned into I wanted to see how good I could get at doing this stuff. "Maybe one day, I could be the best at this stuff, who knows?" I thought.
I am tired. I am really, really tired. I have been tired for 2+ weeks now in a way that I have not been since college. No matter how long I sleep at night, I have been waking up just absolutely out of gas the next day. This evening should have been a quiet one ahead of the busiest four days of the season. I barely ate dinner tonight because of what was going on here. I am still dealing with this now. At some point, I have to do what is best for myself/my health and withdraw from here. This is not the right environment for me to be having these discussions in. There is a place for everything. This is not that place.
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If anyone thinks my brackets are useful, you know where to find them. And I'm glad they are helpful to you. If you have questions, we can maybe discuss those in the appropriate place.
If anyone thinks my brackets aren't worthy of being something to even use as toilet paper, sorry you feel that way and for wasting a little bit of your time that you spent looking at it, but maybe it will give you a nice clean wipe the next time you go.
