Fantasy Hype Train vol. II: Hopping the Rails

Self-attribution bias theorizes that, if a single person experiences success, it was by their own doing, while setbacks or failures come about due to others or circumstances or anything BUT that given person's actions. It leads to people erroneously trusting in their own decisions and ideas without...

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Fantasy Hype Train, vol. I: Drink the Kool-Aid

Training camp: where sanity and restraint go to die. Player reports flood in, dripping with optimism and hyperbole. We've all heard the beats before; "Player X looks better than anyone I've seen step onto this field EVER," "His catch radius is the size of the Voyager 2 spacecraft," "If Rice and Sanders...

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Five Nuggets of Wisdom to Keep in Mind at Your First Draft

Congratulations to you, new fantasy footballer, on prancing over the metaphorical Rubicon and joining our collective degeneracy! I welcome you with open arms and a somewhat less-than-appropriate erection, assuredly a natural result of my excitement. Entering this world of statistics, names, procedure, and strategy can seem daunting, but push your fears into that dark corner of your brain filled with...

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