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Just like that, we’re on to the fantasy football playoffs. One day, we have plenty of time to manage our roster, absorb a loss or two, and the next, we are right in the pressure cooker of fantasy sports. People respond very differently to high-pressure situations.
Some of us are calm and collected, maybe more so than under ‘normal’ circumstances, rationally getting the things done that need to get done. Others become almost deterministically detached from the outcome, taking no action at all. Still others of us will panic, like a proverbial chicken with its head cut off, doing a lot of stuff, but without a clear or logical plan.
In addition to our innate personalities, our decisions around the fantasy playoffs can be drowning in bias. A cognitive bias is any deviation from a rationale and logical judgment. Though they get a lot of bad press, biases aren’t all negative. Some serve us extremely well, allowing us to make very accurate first impressions or to trust that events that have occurred repeatedly or recently are likely to continue. It’s the ones that lead us to falsely inflate the importance of certain kinds of data, while ignoring others, that can get us in a bad spot. Many biases exist simply to protect our fragile egos, which is not going to help us to win fantasy championships, just to justify our losses.
In this week’s edition of Fact or Fluke, we’ll go over some of the decisions you’ll have to make over these next three weeks and how to avoid succumbing to cognitive bias. As with so many things in life, knowledge is power. Just knowing when and how you’re most likely to unwittingly make a biased decision can help you prevent it. Whether you’re on bye this week or facing an uphill battle after just sneaking into the playoffs, we’ve got some advice for you!
Channel the personality of the calm and collected manager.
Avoid adding and dropping and re-adding free agents all week like the panicked, headless chicken. But also, don’t just…
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Author : Yahoo Sports
Publish date : 2024-12-10 15:39:00
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