Fantasy Football Musings

This was a crazy experience today.... This morning I started my day listening to The Fantasy Footballers DFS podcast, but when I got to work I had only listened to about half of the pod. Throughout the day I had some down time and a random thought.... Joe Mixon. Joe Mixon is as cold as ice, but the afore mentioned podcast provided a tip for DFS: don't be afraid to play cold players. Naturally they are contrarian plays because of recency bias, but after looking at a few things, I believe this has the potential to be a week winner, especially in GPPs. As my day ends I hop back in my car and the bluetooth picks up my phone and the podcast right where I left off. Then Mike Wright (the Fantasy Hitman) brings up the very possibility of Joe Mixon being a play to consider. Even though it's kinda gut-wrenching given what we have seen out of Cincinnati so far this season, it's an intriguing thought. Really? Joe Mixon? The Bengals look like an absolute dumpster fire with a terri...

Andy Stanley once said, "Experience doesn't make you wiser. Rather it is evaluated experience that makes you wiser." These sound like wise words for anyone doing anything worthwhile. We that love fantasy football, especially daily fantasy sports, should heed this advice and evaluate our roster choices each and every week. So in this "What Did I Learn?" series I plan to share with you my "hindsight is 20/20" view of one of the lineups from the week. Here we see my lineup for week two in one of the smaller GPP contests. I pulled it up next to the winning lineup for sake of comparison. To get top money I would have needed about 50 more points. Let's dig in and see where I went wrong. Running Back Selections Like many choices we make in life, these choices seemed right at the time. Unfortunately, two of the three choices just didn't pan out. Ty Montgomery  Ty Montgomery was a popular choice on just about every podcast last week incl...