In our current world, stocks are largely based on confidence. We see the way things behave and perform and use stocks to quantify our trust in the performance of a company or organization. We see this idea applied socially colloquially when we discuss the "stocks" or really the level of trust we have in individuals or organizations, such as an NFL team or a popular figure. This idea really disintegrates when it comes to our simulation. If there is absolutely anything that I have learned over the course of participating in this league, it's that putting and kind of stock into any team or player in the ISFL or DSFL can and will only lead to total and utter disappointment, if not one season, than most definitely the next. The random, bizarre, and convoluted nature of DDSPF decrees it must be so. The nosedive into full blown Hindenburg-ing of Tatsu Nakamura and the Orange County Otters is just the latest of many truly disappointing showings of bad luck. Off of an awards-worthy season for Nakamura and a second consecutive season at the lead in the conference, both have found themselves truly and utterly fucked. Nakamura's 4.4 ypc average has dropped to 3.6 ypc, while his per-game average has also dropped from ~90 yards per game to just 72. Meanwhile, the team has fallen well short of their 5-1 start in S23, winning only 2 games in that same span while also dropping from first or second in 6 different categories to only two, and those two (pass defense and yards allowed) are more a result of getting absolutely thrashed in their losses and having an impotent redzone offense throughout the season thus far. Anyways, I guess OCO is a perfect buy low/sell high candidate, at least I can hope so against a simulation that's only mission is to destroy all hope and joy.
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