2024 College Basketball Power Rankings (Dec. 16)
Mike Randle
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In 2019, I entered my first Main Event. I had not played a ton of NFBC prior, just three Draft Champions Leagues. However, I had been very successful in home and online leagues, so I felt ready to make the jump to the high-stakes world.
Spoiler Alert: I was not.
I was excited to draft and knew I wanted a team with high upside. No one drafts a team in a league with an overall contest wanting just to win their league. They want to win the overall. I thought the way to do that was with high-risk, high-reward players, so I loaded up on rookies and injured players projected to return in May. If my team could survive until then, I would have a great shot at winning the overall.
Another Spoiler Alert: My team did not survive.
After that debacle, I would have another bad year in 2022, which forced me to reevaluate my process. I did in-depth breakdowns of all my teams to see where I was going wrong. By comparing the results from each team, I drew certain conclusions. One was that I had been making a logical fallacy about risk. The corrections I’ve made have been very profitable, allowing me to cash in both of my high-stakes leagues in 2023 and two of my three in 2024.
Fantasy baseball has risks involved — some of which cannot and should not be avoided. My problem was not that I took those risks, but how I took them. Below, I will discuss my thoughts on what kind of risks are in the game and how I approach them now.
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