…@NFLFantasy #PPR Matchup failure, that is.
Let me preface this by saying that immediately after drafting my team, a manic flurry of clicks & non-favorable sighs – I measured my lineup for week 0 & beyond in terms of likelihood to win the playoffs. And I came in last (discussed in a previous post).
My win/loss season ratio prediction ala @NFLFantasy was terrible (regular season = 6wins:8losses. (Ouch)…Luckily, I troll the waiver wire and pluck unknowns before they become titans (Kareem Hunt, Alvin Kamara to name a few from this season), or slot in weekly bosses before the mainstream agree they should be added to some Deep Sleeper Waiver Report. It is what has propelled me since Year 1. It is what I am most proud about in terms of my algorithms fantasy predictions. And emotion aside, statistically, after 4 years of training, I can attest to it’s success in terms of accurate machine predictability season after season, week after week.
Because of this trolling, I am now projected to be #1 again in the League with either a 10:4 or 9:5 ratio.
Why that is important is I lost 4 games in a row and forgot this little fact above. I mean I was undefeated for the first 5 weeks. So, having 4 straight back to back losses hurt and I went underground to lick my wounds. Until I was reminded that I was always going to have a minimum of 4 losses . And even if they were back-to-back, perhaps. they are now out of the way (unless the 9:5 ratio comes true). In either case, I am slotted to take back my #1 league bragging rites as we move into playoffs. 
So, what I learned from my momentary lapse of positive model juju is that when I ignore the facts and outcomes of my model, no one wins. I embrace those losses because they were always part of my 2017 Fantasy Football predestination.
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