It's time to call it.
My short post from the preseason still pretty much applies. I just don't have the time to do this anymore, at least at the high level required. My jobs basically require me to be absent for days at a time, at in a sport like this, you really can't take a day off of following the sport. The data analysis required to do this is simply beyond my capability.
I tried and stopped a few times in January and February to catch up. The thing is, you just can't catch up here or there. It needs to be everywhere. Because projections have to account for everyone. One team's standing is always influence by every other team around it. Because of this, I just don't have to time to fully catch up at any point. And I can't follow the sport day-by-day right now.
I'm glad bracketology has evolved to the point where the work needed to do it properly is beyond my capability. That shows that people actually care about this, and care about proper data analysis in general. I leave this hobby to the professionals and the aspiring professionals, as this no longer belongs to the amateurs.
I won't rule out un-retirement, but it'll take a wildly different life circumstance than what I'm facing right now, and I don't want to imagine what that change would actually look like.
So go forth all aspiring bracketologists. Keep fighting the good fight.
