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Want to celebrate a fantasy championship this season? Check your biases at the door. (Photo by Adam Bow/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
If you’re reading this, you’re likely playoff-bound for Week 15. Congratulations. All season long we’ve been working on how to appropriately react to recent performances, not letting common cognitive biases trip us up on our way to this championship run. This week I’ll run through some common scenarios that cause people to exit the playoffs sooner than necessary. Avoid these mistakes, and with the normal amount of luck that’s required this time of year, you’ll be celebrating more than the holidays in three weeks.
Don’t take your foot off the gas
For some of us, it’s been an exhausting season. We’ve constantly negotiated injuries, made carefully considered waiver claims and trade offers, and studied stats until our eyes bled. Just making it into the playoffs feels like winning. Perhaps you’re tired of working so hard — and/or your partner is tired of you obsessing! — so you just let fate take over your fantasy team and let the chips fall where they may.
And with the holidays around the corner, it’s easy to lose focus of which NFL teams are tanking and who’s giving their late-round rookies a chance to play down the stretch. Injury impacts are there, but you’re no longer scouring X (Twitter) for player updates or stalking beat reporters to get the latest hint of what might happen in Week 15.
You’ve gone lazy. Taking time away from fantasy football work might be fine if your team is really coasting and it might be what you need to do to take care of yourself and your loved ones. But it usually spells trouble for fantasy managers who want the trophy. Making the playoffs is an accomplishment, but not the one you want to think about all offseason. You need to dig deep and come up with three more weeks of effort to give yourself a shot at winning it all.
Study your opponent(s)
It’s easy to fall into the trap…
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Publish date : 2023-12-12 17:37:00
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