Final FC Post

How did you end up? What did you learn from this game? What would you change in how it works?

I ended up way worse then I could have predicted on this Fantasy Congress Team. I am currently in 26th place out of 40, and therefore am in the lower half of the team. If I were to do this all over again, I would prepare many many weeks in advance and do a very detailed study of all the senate and house members that I am considering to draft. However, what this game has taught me is that not even that would guarantee that my team would perform well because you are playing with actual people, and no matter what, you can never really predict how people are going to act or how many bills they are going to pass. This game really shows that politics is a constantly varying rollercoaster and that we have to be really up to date on our knowledge of congress and current issues to try and predict what legislation will and will not be passed. If I were to play this game perfectly, I would observe congress, its members and the current issues on the floor months before the draft up until the day of the draft and try to find a pattern and observe how different members are reacting to different bills. Then the week of the draft, I would study the issues and bills that are going to be presented in the near future and draft my players accordingly. For example, if during my months I observed that Feinstein always sponsors Health care bills, and I see that health care bills are being brought to the congress table, I would draft Feinstein because based on past performance, she would probably pass the legislation. All in all, this game taught me a lot, and most of all it taught me how unpredictable congress and its member can really be.