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If you sign them up for soccer, you might want to steer them clear of playing goalie.

Above is the first OneSeason television commercial that many users have already reported seeing! We are running this ad in various markets around the country on stations like ESPN, Fox Sports and the NFL Network. We will continue to try different times and networks to dial in our marketing efforts.

The video below is in low definition due to bandwidth limitations by youtube. For best viewing please click on the “HQ” button on the player below; this will give you a better idea of how it actually looks on TV.

Here is the fan commercial made by OSN member Phillyfan from a few months ago for kicks!

After a fairly long absence of useless, hilarious, tabloid news I am back and ready to go. Shawn Johnson, most widely recognized as an Olympic Champion for Team USA has had a rough couple of weeks. Currently she is a participant on ABC’s Dancing With the Stars, something she might soon regret. Last week there was some hella crazy guy trying to break onto the set to catch a glimpse of her. The man was arrested and later they found two guns, zip ties, rope, a map, and duct tape in his car; standard kidnapping materials. Now she has this perv she dances with every week trying to bone her on television! (If you haven’t noticed, take a look at the dude’s happy place). I usually don’t have any pity for celebrities cause for the most part they get what they deserve, but I kind of feel for this girl, all she gets are creeps trying to kidnap her and dude’s with tiny dicks.

Very Special Episode Tonight

Great information from a ‘tech’ guy about yesterday’s Deron bug. Yes of course OneSeason tests their changes, but you can never predict what happens when it goes live! Kudos to OneSeason for finding and squashing that bug as quick as they did!

I  manage an IT department for a pretty large outfit.

With that said, I’m not sure what testing mechanisms OneSeason uses to assimilate live trading and a live IPO request, but I’m sure they have something.

In my datacenter, we have a test environment that mimics our production environment (for you techies out there - our test systems are virtual running on VMware ESX Linux). We will constantly run application and server changes in the test environment. Most of the time, if a test runs clean, it will be fine when we flip the switch and go live in production. But, there has been that rare occasion when although test went fine, live production had a problem and the entire IT staff had to scramble. There are some variables that you just can’t account for.

I’m certainly giving OneSeason a mulligan here. Sure, it was frustrating, but being in their shoes a few times I know it’s not a pretty picture when you have a system bug.

Good Insight, Thanks Leprechaun!

Welcome to the first, and probably only, special MythBusters OneSeasonNation edition.  Tonight, I will attempt to debunk the myth of buying into a loser you are holding in an attempt to “lower your cost per share.”

All to often on the Nation forums I hear people talking about their investments in an, economically speaking, backwards thought process. members are displaying what I feel is a widespread fundamentally flawed strategy of trading on oneseason.  Rylin34 made a post today and scratched the surface of my point, but even he doesn’t go far enough in my opinion.

Rylin34:  “It has been said time and time again, but the only reason you sell at a loss is because there is a better opportunity to regain money or you think prices are going lower (rebuy once you think the prices have bottomed).  Selling for a loss permanently locks in that loss and that money is gone forever, unless either option is available in my point above. Losers buy high and sell low.  Patience is the key right now.”

Maybe it has been said time and time again, but I feel people continue to ignore it and refer to lowering their cost per share as if it is the best strategy, when 9 times out of 10, its not.  Just look at what Rylin said… “the only reason you sell at a loss is because there is a better opportunity to regain money or you think prices are going lower (rebuy once you think the prices have bottomed).”… So essentially, the “only reason” to sell at a loss is when any other investment would be a better one.  Or in other words, you should be buying the best possible investment, regardless of what you currently own.  DUH!

As simple and obvious as that sounds, the very idea of buying in order to lower your cost per share goes against this and yet I see people saying that is exactly what they are doing all the time.  Color me confused.

Let me introduce you to a couple terms… first, sunk cost: In economics and business decision-making, a sunk cost is a cost that can not be recovered once it has been incurred.  Next, variable cost: costs that will change depending on a proposed course of action.

In microeconomic theory, only variable costs are relevant to making a decision

What does this all mean for OS… When you spend 10 dollars on an SOI, it is gone, the only value you ever have after that is the current price at which you could sell your shares.  That 10 dollars is a sunk cost… Too often people get emotionally attached to their sportfolios, refusing to sell while in the red (saying things like, I’ll sell as soon as I break even on my investment), when in truth, what you spent on the SOI should have no barring on what you do in the future.

What you should be looking at is your variable costs.  2 days later that 10 dollar SOI you bought is worth 5 dollars (and for arguments sake, say there is a sell order out there for 5 dollars), so what do you really have?  You have 5 dollars in value, plain and simple… You do not have 10 dollars, you threw that away days ago with a bad investment, so rather than be stubborn (I see the word “patient” often incorrectly used in its place) about it and refuse to sell until your positive, why not make the best of a bad situation?  Right at that moment you should be weighing all the possible places you could invest that 5 dollars…

If you believe the market is going to go down and there is not a safe bet to make money, then you should sell your share and wait.  Why watch your remaining 5 dollars dwindle down to 2.50 before going back up, when you could sell now and buy back later… If you believe ANY OTHER investment is a better one at that moment, then selling your current SOI and buying the better one should be your next course of action.  From an emotional standpoint it may be hard to sell in the red, but if you can make more money on another player, you are only hurting yourself and compounding a mistake by holding… If you believe your current SOI is the best investment in the market, then you should continue to invest in that SOI.  But keep in mind why you are doing it, not because you want to make that money back, but rather because you actually feel it is the best investment.

Everyone’s opinion on what is the best investment differs (it is what makes the market great), so while others may not agree with you, at least you are using sound business decision making… It’s when people blindly disregard logic and continue to buy more of a losing stock so that they can lower their price per share that they get in trouble.  Is it really doing you any good to spend 100 bucks to lower your price per share on an SOI closer to its actual price, when you could have spent that money on a different SOI?  Unless you truly believe the first one is the best investment on the market, its not… It may seem like you are making progress, because your price per share has dropped to 6 dollars instead of 10, but you are chasing a meaningless figure.  All that matters is how much you think you can make with the money you currently have.  If I project Arod, whom I own at a loss, to gain 10% the next month while I project Pujols, who I don’t own, to gain 15% in the next month, you tell me who i should spend that 100 dollars on.  It seems silly to buy Arod to lower my price per share, when i could own Pujols and make more money.  “Selling at a loss” to pickup Pujols is not a stupid thing because that term is deceiving.  You have already incurred the loss, it is sunk, there is nothing you can do about it.  By not making the economically sound decision going forward, that is the stupid thing to do…

I’ll leave you with this… lowering your price per share should not be a motive for buying more SOI’s (which by reading many of our post, seems like it is), it should only be the result of making the correct business decision.  I hope that going forward people will start to understand the faulty logic behind these common practices…

I welcome your comments and discussion on this topic! ~Bill2451

But priceless nonetheless. Thanks to Inthegame22 for the hilarious commercial. Maybe Durex would like to sponsor OSN-TV?

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Another great addition to the OSN GEAR section! I am very excited about this one, because it is the first item I had an idea on, and Art2Shirt hopped on it, and made it happen for the Nation! These are the rubber/silicone wristband that you see many NBA players wearing, and that were made popular by the yellow Livestrong bracelets that were very popular years ago. Except this time, they are OneSeason Nation! They are available to purchase, OR if you win a caption contest, you can get one free. I will be buying some for prizes for the different contests we do. We only ordered 100 at first from the manufacturer, and if you guys like them, and want to get more, the more we buy, the bigger the discount gets. Have fun with these! They are a great way to show some pride, start conversation about OneSeason, or just rock it. They are very slick looking! They will be the most inexpensive things in the OSN GEAR store and great for snagging to give away as prizes if you, yourself want to make a contest. Thanks again for Dean over at Art2Shirt for going outside the box and making this happen for the OSN!

Anyone who knows Chuck knows that he is a mutant with numbers. Can can analyze the crap out of anything. He has several very useful posts analyzing many different aspects of the market, and each individual SOI. I thought I would post his graph on Market Cap, since inception, along with some commentary. Mike Sroka talked about Price Discovery, often, during the crash of the Yahoo Factor. I think this graph shows that the market has indeed adjusted itself accordingly, and Price Discovery has been established. GREAT job ChuckDiesel!

Deron Williams was released today, and this time the question was loaded, but the answer wasn’t coded the right way. 10.8 was the correct answer to the question, yet the site wouldn’t accept it, and would accept odd ball answers. It was fixed quickly, and OneSeason started accepting the IPO Requests. Great Job to OneSeason for finding the bug, and fixing it quickly. We are getting closer an closer to this new IPO request feature being solid, and moving on to the next phases of development! Watch for more redesigns and the Ghostbusters to be called on the Ghost Orders in the coming months.

Personally, I’m glad we are building the site an testing stuff like this now, and not when there are 100,000 users on the site!

Update! OSN Contributor and OSN-TV digital short producer Tomarken has info straight from OneSeason on today’s issue.
“There was a slight and equal delay for all users as to the acceptance of the correct answer.

Best Regards,
The OneSeason Team!”

Our 3rd installment of a large scale poker tournament is tonight on our official OneSeason poker room. The buy in is $10+$1. There will be bounties galore! 6:30PM PST is the start time. Don’t be late! You can’t get into the tournament after it starts!

Did you guys know you could dress up your individual profile in the OSN forums? You can add photo albums, and all that good stuff. The forums are very complex, and we have barely scratched the surface of what this ferrari of message boards can do. It is like our own private MySpace or Facebook.

See what Deano did here with his profile.
http://oneseasonnation.com/forum/member.php?u=465

I am going to give everyone the month of april to pimp their profiles.

ANNOUNCING THE OSN PIMP YOUR PROFILE CONTEST!

You have 1 month. April to dress up your profile, add photo albums, have some fun. On May 1st, myself and your judges. (OSN moderators) will review all the entries. The top 3 will win prizes.

1st Place-Customized OSN Jersey
2nd Place- New WHITE for summer OSN Tshirt
3rd Place- OSN Koozie

If you already have any of these items, and you win, you can opt for the equivalent credit in Art2Shirt.net.

This contest is sponsored by Bullpup.

Have some fun with this one! Be sure to tell new users about it. Cheating and shady tactics will not only be tolerated, but they will be graded for effectiveness as well.

If you have question on how to do it, ask Deano, he figured it out pretty nicely!

have fun with this one OSN!

Clearly a Kick-Ass Sponsor

Congrats to Wonderv23 for his winning caption from last week! And congratulations are also in order for Chicago Bear fans (including Mike Sroka) on having a douchebag for a quarterback!

Here is this weeks photo. Have some fun, beat the caption. Win some money! Have a great week everyone!

Hey Steve, this fat guys hair is soft...hee hee. :hiccup:

60 Topics, 60 Minutes, 60 shots of beer. OS Community’s first Drinking Game for the dudes who sit around on the weekends getting blasted by their computers. Let us know if you match the guys shot for shot for 60 minutes! Join the Power Hour Posse!

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