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Protecting me from myself

by Derek Ambrosino
October 14, 2009



Derek Ambrosino aspires to one day, like Dan Quisenberry, find a delivery in his flaw, you can send him questions, comments, or suggestions at digglahhh AT yahoo DOT com.

Comments

Andrew said...

Good piece. I actually have the same weakness - sometimes being too conservative in drafts/auctions.

Posted 10/14  at  11:19 AM
Derek Ambrosino said...

Didn’t find a totally seemless way to weave this into the piece, but relating to conservatism…

Some people are of the mindset that either you win or lose; second place is the same as last. I don’t adopt this philosophy at all (even ignoring the fact that some leagues pay out top 2, or 3 finishers. I draft a team to contend; and my teams almost always do.

I guess this is something of an underlying question people need to ask themselves before assembling a team. Am I going for highest risk, highest reward, or do I just want to ensure I’m in a position to compete, and then try to tinker myself to a championship.

I think those of us who are squarely in the strive to contend class a susceptible to overindulge in conservatism.

By the way, you can probably tell a whole lot about how somebody plays fantasy baseball by watching them play poker. That might be a great idea for an article, especially if we have any really serious card players on staff here.

Posted 10/14  at  02:06 PM
Andrew said...

“By the way, you can probably tell a whole lot about how somebody plays fantasy baseball by watching them play poker.”

Wow, now that I think about it, that statement holds pretty true for my leaguemates. Pretty clever.

Posted 10/14  at  02:40 PM
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