Daily Fantasy, Daily Life: Volume X - Take This DFS Personality Quiz!
The single biggest decision point in DFS is a deceptively difficult one: Are you a cash game player or a tournament player?
Rarely do you meet the animal who can do both successfully. It’s truly two different games.
Of course, we’ve all questioned what we are at times. To wit: If you’re a cash player on a heater, you immediately start wondering if perhaps you’re missing out on big GPP paydays.
Conversely, if you’re on a losing streak in the GPP world, the lure of cash games – where you only need to beat out (more or less) half the field to (more or less) double your money – becomes awfully appealing.
So which are you? Are you a cash game grinder or a GPP bro?
If you’re not sure, I’ve taken the liberty of utilizing my Psych 101 class from 1992 and putting together this handy-dandy DFS personality quiz. Think carefully, mark your answers down on a separate sheet of paper, and remember: This is scientifically sound.
1) Presume you’re walking through a forest and stumble upon an angry bear. Do you:
A) Calmly weigh your options before deciding on the best course of action.
B) Try and quickly find the best solution and then act.
C) Literally just start throwing rocks and sticks at it while screaming about variance.
2) How do you like your pizza?
A) Plain.
B) Maybe some pepperoni.
C) The works, and you’ll start eating it as soon as it comes out of the oven knowing full well you’re going to burn the roof of your mouth to the point you might need medical attention.
3) When shopping for a new pair of jeans, do you:
A) Buy the same pair you bought last time.
B) Go to a few stores and try on a few pairs.
C) Walk into the mall, scream “Wear whatever you want!” and grab the first pair you see without even bothering to check the size.
4) You just met a woman at a friend’s party and you think you might be romantically interested in her. Do you:
A) Ask for her phone number, wait three days, and then ask her out for a cup of coffee in a well-lit restaurant at 11 a.m. on a Wednesday?
B) Ask her for her phone number and then ask her out to dinner for the following Saturday night?
C) Ask her to marry you immediately.
5) Your boss has asked you to work through the weekend. Do you:
A) Say “yes,” and put your best foot forward.
B) Say “yes,” but realize it’s probably time to seek new employment.
C) Tell your wife (who you just met last week) that “we’re moving to Bali, pack your bags.”
6) A friend of a friend of a friend tells you to invest $5,000 in a digital cartoon picture of a disinterested monkey. Do you:
A) Smile politely and instead invest your cash in a 10-year CD.
B) Smile politely and do your due diligence before deciding what to do.
C) Buy three disinterested monkeys, dedicate your Twitter account to it, start a podcast, mock your friends who can’t fathom why anyone would want a digital picture of a disinterested monkey, change your license plate to read ETH4EVA.
7) If DFS didn’t exist, how would you spend the hours instead?
A) Reading.
B) Reading, mostly.
C) Telling the world about my collection of disinterested monkeys.
8) A friend has asked you to help him move. Do you:
A) Buy a 12-pack of Miller Lite on your way over.
B) Buy a case of Miller Lite on your way over.
C) Hire two high school kids for $100 each to help your friend move, as you’d much rather spend the day in Bali with your new wife while discussing the merits of buying a fourth disinterested monkey. And when your friend texts you, “what the (bleep), dude?” you respond with “Sorry man, it was the +EV move.”
9) When you were a child, you wanted to grow up to be a:
A) Civil servant.
B) Baseball player.
C) Sam Hinkie.
10) Solve for X: 5x=100:
A) Twenty.
B) Twenty.
C) It’s 20, but that’s going to be chalk, so let’s go with 18.
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Scoring:
Add five points for each “A” answer, zero points for each “B” answer, and subtract five points for each “C” answer.
If you scored 40 and above: Cash games are your bread and butter. Good luck on the grind.
If you scored between zero and 40: Feel free to dabble in GPP life.
If you scored below zero: You’re a tourney player. Support groups meet in the church basement every other Tuesday. The coffee is terrible.
Player Image Credit: Imagn