You know when you're faced with a choice and your gut tells you something, but then your mind starts to overthink your choice and you end up going a different direction?
Well it happened to me this weekend and boy did it hurt.
I'm in a College Bowl Game Pick'em league where just 3 weeks ago I went through and selected my winner for all of the bowl games and ranked them by the number of points I wanted my choice to be counted for. So, naturally not having followed much of college football this year, I was at a steep disadvantage.
I threw in my $20, I rolled the dice and selected the teams I wanted and hit save.
I really didn't look at it much for the first two weeks as I saw myself at the bottom of the group and I was going to get dead last.
But then, my friends, then - I checked to see just HOW dead last I was. It turns out I wasn't.
I was approaching the top of the league, fast.
I started to really look at the guesses I'd made and realized I "mistakenly" chose Arkansas State to beat Ball State, and all the signs were pointing me to change my choices. So, learning at this point that I could still edit my pick, I changed it to Ball State winning.
Smugly I sat atop the league, getting my Beyonce on.
Then, Sunday when the game was on and Arkansas State was up by 6 points, I stopped everything I was doing and watched the entire fourth quarter. The game kept getting interesting but the wind stayed in Arkansas State's favor. I looked at the rest of the league and only one other person chose Arkansas State, but they only had 2 points on the line.... I had 31 HUGE points on the line.
Disappointing play after disappointing play led to a Ball State loss (23-20), and to cap it all off it ended with a blocked kick for that extra 3 to tie it. Ughhhh. I still sit in first place and am guaranteed top 3, but NOT CHANGING my mind would have given me a secured victory and a profit of $130.
Mind, you suck.
