Fantasy sports stories are like dreams: Everybody wants to talk about their own, and nobody wants to hear anyone else’s. Why is this so? We love hearing most stories, even when they ostensibly have nothing to do with us. Dreams, though, are so idiosyncratic that another person rarely finds anything of interest. Fantasy stories, too, vibrate distinctly. You and I may both own Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald, but the surrounding circumstances—how the rest of our rosters did, how our opponents did, how recently we broke up with our girlfriends—are invariably so divergent that they dissolve any solidarity we might otherwise share.1
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