ArmchairGM Users Need to Know More About Sports!
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by user Alex Holowczak
As some of you can't have failed to notice, I've been writing a load of previews for squads at the Cricket World Cup. Spent hours on them all. You can imagine my disappointment when on some of them the only voter was me and maybe one or two other people. Yet, an article about the Dodgers first baseman, previewing one position, quickly got more votes than my articles.
Now, I'm not complaining about this - it's understandable. But I do think that ArmchairGM users should become more open to other sports, outside their country. If this site wants to become the world leader in this sort of thing, then it needs to embrace articles from other sports from outside of the USA. At the moment, in my opinion, you need to know about American sports to be a user of this site, if not, you won't have anything to contribute.
We've been treated to articles about cricket from a few users, who have soon moved on, e.g. Fahadisawahoo, and recently there has been another. They aren't going to keep coming back here if their articles aren't getting votes. There are so many articles about US Sports that to use this site, a British user will take one look and say, "Oh, this is for American sports" and click back, never to return. Now, I may be wrong, but I think we want the articles about cricket, snooker, rugby etc. even though you might not directly want to know about it. For instance, we get Watford reports quite often now, which is a great thing, but nobody votes for what are good quality reports.
BigPPup will vouch that rugby articles on here that can be quite well written don't get many votes, mainly because nobody knows anything about rugby (compared to the NFL, for example).
So, my challenge for you all is to get to learn a sport you don't know. Be it Rugby, Cricket, Formula One, Aussie Rules Football, the football the world likes, Gaelic Football, Hurling, anything! Just take a look at a specialist site for each, like Cricinfo, or World Snooker etc. and see what you can gather from that. You'll be amazed how much stuff goes on that you don't know about, mainly because I can't cover everything!
So ArmchairGM users, go out and take a look at a sport you've never heard off - and see what you can learn. There are a lot of great people doing great things that I think you'll benefit from knowing about.
Maybe you can write articles about what you've learned about each sport too, so other users can benefit from your experience. If Davis21wylie wrote about snooker, or BigPPup wrote about cricket (for example), I'm sure you might be more interested in it!
