I have heard people complaining that One Season is not advertising and they won’t till everything is ready.  It does not make sense to advertise when the site is not ready.  If you want One Season to grow than i challenge you to go out and tell people about One Season, but make sure to let them know the site is still in development and they can come to OSN for help.  I know some members have already done some of their own advertising but there are other ways…

As i said some members have done their own online advertising but there are other ways also.

Have friends join to play Fantasy Tycoon.

Hand out cards with info about One Season at card shows, on your college campus or your local sports bar.

Add One Season as your friend on Facebook, Myspace and/or Twitter.

Talk about it on any forums or blogs you use.

One Season is going to make it and the only thing that complaining and quiting does is make it more difficult and take longer.  So why not help.  If you have any other ideas on how to get the word out leave a comment.  Together we can help One Season.

Here is an article from Chuck Diesel, which offers some compelling reasons that the market is actually healthy, and gives a nice tall glass of STFU to the people who are constantly whining, complaining, and bitching about volume. Especially the ones who do it in a sarcastic manner, and thus continue proving they know NOTHING about this market. Enjoy this, and think about it. Maybe those who are preaching volume to the masses will realize how stupid they sound. The key is how much money is being put into buying players, not which players. If people are only buying expensive SOIs, and laying off the cheap stuff, that might be an indicator of buying patterns.

~ChuckDiesel

Volume is a nice term to describe market activity when talking about the real market, but we are at a point now where the use of the term is misleading. Three big winners this week were GTZY, DRNT and PPRC, each of whom has a tiny amount of SOI’s outstanding compared to YAOM. The real market has thousands upon thousands of companies to balance this kind of discrepancy out, be we don’t.

I would recommend using total money spent in the market as a barometer. Multiply volume * average price for each player and add it up. Here’s what I get when I do that:

Week Ending, Money Moved (in thousands), Market Cap (in thousands)
_10/3/2008_____$261.2________$613_
10/10/2008_____$130.6________$303_
10/17/2008_____$358.2______$1,079_
10/24/2008___$1,973.1_____$10,437_
10/31/2008___$1,429.4______$8,628_
_11/7/2008_____$633.9______$5,268_
11/14/2008_____$259.1______$3,550_
11/21/2008_____$159.3______$2,617_
11/28/2008______$52.4______$1,929_
12/5/2008_______$77.4______$1,140_
12/12/2008______$65.6________$801_
12/19/2008______$92.1________$690_
12/26/2008______$13.6________$528_
__1/2/2009_______$8.9________$420_
__1/9/2009_____$119.2________$898_
_1/16/2009_____$368.4______$1,224_
_1/23/2009_____$178.3______$1,248_
_1/30/2009______$88.1________$968_
__2/6/2009______$71.8______$1,109_
__2/13/2009_____$73.2______$1,073_


So, we HAVE, in fact, seen a slight uptick in activity this week, albeit still at a relatively low level. I just think this metric is much more meaningful than volume,at this point (on a side note, we had 16875 shares moved this week compared to 17543 last week). Keep in mind also that this week we had just one IPO (DRNT) compared to two the previous week (BIGB & DIRK).

Lots of talk in the forums about cancelling IPO timestamps that are more than a couple minutes old. I am not, and here is why. We know that one of the things OneSeason uses to determine the maximum percentage that someone can get of an IPO is off of participation on that IPO. The market conditions are also a factor. The more people who are in the IPO, the more people who will get shares. The fewer people on the list, the higher the percentage of the shares someone can get will be. Don’t ever just assume that you are out of the game on an IPO. The longer the line, the more interest that is shown, the lower the % of shares one person can get, and there will be more total numbers of people who get the IPO.

Have you checked your account today? Odds are your account has doubled. With the combinations of reverse splits, the Boston Metro article, and an apparently glitch in the $2500 max deposit per year rule…the market is ablaze today. We’ve seen the market cap double! The forums are on FIRE today with tips, tricks, strategies, and everything else you might need to help capitalize in the current market conditions. We hope you were able to take advantage of this nice upswing!