That is something I wrote down in the beginning of the story so its funny you mentioned it.
I play better because the story makes me think my situation over and over again, thus improving the performance. Also find mi self submitting the .2H file multiple times every single turn. And, if writing a long and deep AAR you want to play better to be able to have even moar fun. It would be dissapointing to play poorly after contributing so much time on wirting AAR.
The answer is Y E S with double caps!!!11
On the other hand, I am very bad a player by default so "playing better" is a matter of perspective