Because for me I guess it's almost like failure...like a "back to the drawing board" kind of mentality...a lot of what having less than 10 people join/follow/etc anything says is that your product/service/what you're doing isn't worth a damned...and that factors into it.
The NASCAR contest had more people last year than this year, and had more people 2 years ago than last year. My football contests have wained in participation since I first ran them, including a no-run last year because there were maybe a handful of people again that wanted to play. I'm going to advertise more this year, try to "drum up business" the best I know how, and we'll see what happens, but regardless of how good I think my ideas/contests are, it doesn't mean **** if nobody plays/wants to play them...and that's when the "is it really worth it?" sets in. My rankings are something that I do that I really don't care if any other people look at/like/etc...it's a different mindset when you're creating a game for the masses to play.
I think the interesting thing about AOD will be to see if you can run a fantasy baseball game like this, because when it boils down to it...will the game be strategic, or will it be pure luck...and if it is luck, how do you go from making it from luck to strategy...is it possible? I guess from my thought process and from the amount of people that have read and moved on is that it is/will be more of a crapshoot than an actual "legit" fantasy contest. I'd love to see how it pans out..I've pressed and organized more for this this year, and arguably I could have done better, but I fully intend to run this this season with whatever the final number is, and honestly, I'd like you to be one of them.