Sometimes, you have to zig when everyone zags. That’s my big takeaway from Week 1 of the NFL preseason.
The problem is you can just never know when you should zig when everybody else zags. That’s the tricky part. In Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, the theme is how do some people seem to make the right decisions, specifically when they’re given limited time and limited information. How we process information in our lives, without thinking, helps some to be decisive, gifted decision makers—while some are consistently incompetent.
Is that what makes some people good fantasy players, year in and year out? We can only absorb so much news and information about football and we rely on the snap judgments and opinions of ourselves and others in the media and fantasy community to create some kind of mental tapestry of the game. Which we use to take stock of the full picture. A seemingly infinite number of data points all coming together. And here is another weekend and another opportunity to add to that knowledge, another batch of data points to help you play fantasy football—to think without thinking.
