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Every Shark has a weakness.. (1 Viewer)

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Tillmanisahero

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Every shark has a weakness. No matter how you prepare we all make mistakes.

Share your past or present weakness.

example: I have a tendency to focus on my "sleepers" and can sometimes over look guys I don't like but maybe have more potential than my "guys".

 
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Missing out on a player when having the opportunity to grab him because he didn't represent good "value" at the spot you could have had him.

 
Easy, I tend to "fall in love" with certain players and try to acquire them even if it may not be the best move for my team.

 
Tillmanisahero said:
Every shark has a weakness. No matter how you prepare we all make mistakes.Share your past or present weakness.
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Offering fair trades from the get go. It seems that owners always want to counter. So it's best to offer low then counter to what you wanted in the first place. I never had the patience for that dance. To me fair is fair. As long as I get what I'm looking for it doesn't matter to me.
 
gianmarco said:
Missing out on a player when having the opportunity to grab him because he didn't represent good "value" at the spot you could have had him.
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Me too. I need to remind myself to get the players I want instead of getting a roster full of "best buys" relative to their ADP or ranking.
 
Deciding before going into the draft that I won't pick any New Orleans players because there are so many homers in my league that they don't represent good value. Yeah, that worked out well with Colston and Brees last year. :confused:

 
play dynasty so I would say holding onto a player to long and not being patient with young players

 
obxlegends said:
Tillmanisahero said:
Every shark has a weakness. No matter how you prepare we all make mistakes.Share your past or present weakness.
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Offering fair trades from the get go. It seems that owners always want to counter. So it's best to offer low then counter to what you wanted in the first place. I never had the patience for that dance. To me fair is fair. As long as I get what I'm looking for it doesn't matter to me.
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Do the guys in your league always seem to think you're screwing them over? Mine seem to think I know something and the only reason I'd make a trade is to screw them over. I've never screwed anyone in a trade before. It's always a situation of me having a lot of depth and would rather trade 2 running backs or wide receivers for 1 stud to go with my other stud.
 
Trading, I have a hard time deciding if the trade is an even trade and have a hard time putting a trade together to make an offer. Thats why most of my posts are about trades and not FA pickup or starting lineups.

 
My weakness is a foolish one. I have a hard time drafting a thug or loser or someone else who I personally despise even though that person may help my team. Such players in the past have included Vick, R. Moss, and TO. If there is someone else of relatively equal value, I will pass on the players who I personally despise.

 
One mistake I make (and I'm guessing many others on this board make as well) is reading a lot of information on players that has minor impact on their actual overall fantasy value. We tend to think having a lot of information at your disposal leads to better decision making, but studies have shown that giving people (even people with a lot of experience in a particular field) a lot of info can actually produce poorer decision making on their part because they tend to give too much weight to more minor pieces of information and therefore minimize more important pieces of information. While the individual impact of each piece of information may be small, the cumulative decision-making effects can be pronounced with a lot of individual pieces of data.

 
KCC said:
One mistake I make (and I'm guessing many others on this board make as well) is reading a lot of information on players that has minor impact on their actual overall fantasy value. We tend to think having a lot of information at your disposal leads to better decision making, but studies have shown that giving people (even people with a lot of experience in a particular field) a lot of info can actually produce poorer decision making on their part because they tend to give too much weight to more minor pieces of information and therefore minimize more important pieces of information. While the individual impact of each piece of information may be small, the cumulative decision-making effects can be pronounced with a lot of individual pieces of data.
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Like trying to decide on who to keep between LJ and Addai? Analyzing both situations to where you have so much information you are confident that no matter what you do you will choose the wrong guy? Yeah, I'm having a breakdown right now on this decision. :kicksrock:
 
Double_J said:
KCC said:
One mistake I make (and I'm guessing many others on this board make as well) is reading a lot of information on players that has minor impact on their actual overall fantasy value. We tend to think having a lot of information at your disposal leads to better decision making, but studies have shown that giving people (even people with a lot of experience in a particular field) a lot of info can actually produce poorer decision making on their part because they tend to give too much weight to more minor pieces of information and therefore minimize more important pieces of information. While the individual impact of each piece of information may be small, the cumulative decision-making effects can be pronounced with a lot of individual pieces of data.
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Like trying to decide on who to keep between LJ and Addai? Analyzing both situations to where you have so much information you are confident that no matter what you do you will choose the wrong guy? Yeah, I'm having a breakdown right now on this decision. :kicksrock:
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:football: Absolutely, Double_J. FWIW, I think any of us fellow fantasy-junkies have been in a similar situation - thinking if you only looked at some more obscure statistics or less-publicized information the decision (who to keep, who to drop, who to rank higher, etc.) would be clearer, when we may really just be shooting ourselves in the foot. Good luck with your choice - i hope it's a "win-win" decision.
 
I don't consider myself a shark but I tend to stick to my pre-draft plan too much. Even though I draft well I leave some good value for others in the mid rounds. Learn as you go I guess.

 
my biggest weakness is I always drop players after week 1 and 2 who I was very high on when I drafted them cause they did not play well in the first few weeks. Then they end up having top 10-15 years.

 
I have a consistent weakness. I am very often reluctant to believe in an until then unknown player that has emerged with a series of solid games. I constantly figure, in my mind, that they just hit a few good games and will revert to the mean.

I believe in the proven players and am skeptical of the waiver wire guys. And I do the same for rookies. I NEVER draft rookies, and the few that do blow up during the season, I'm always skeptical of them too.

I do this every year and it kills me. Last year, it was Maurice Jones Drew and Marques Colston. And probably several other examples.

I hate when I do this, but I do it every year.

 
1. Leaving players in my lineup that shouldn't be there (ex. starting Randy Moss after 4 horrible weeks in a row)

2. Homerism (over paying from my favorite team's players)

 
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I will sometimes disregard players because of the team they play on. All the while knowing that every player has value regardless if they are on a crappy team or a great team..

 
always starting the wrong WR's

QBBC i nail those

RBBC i usually do just fine

WRBC i start the wrong ones all the time

i've studied all the opposing teams defense strength and weaknesses, etc and still get burned

i guess that's why i tend to draft stud WR before veryone else so i don't have to play WRBC

 
MillenniuM Presents: Frank Black said:
My weakness is a foolish one. I have a hard time drafting a thug or loser or someone else who I personally despise even though that person may help my team. Such players in the past have included Vick, R. Moss, and TO. If there is someone else of relatively equal value, I will pass on the players who I personally despise.
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I do that one too.
 
jon007 said:
I don't consider myself a shark but I tend to stick to my pre-draft plan too much. Even though I draft well I leave some good value for others in the mid rounds. Learn as you go I guess.
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To solve that problem, let the draft flow modify your draft plan. Sticking to a draft plan verbatim regardless of the draft flow is not a good thing grasshopper.
 
Liking young players too much, at the expense of vets. I have a tendency to draft rookies and 2nd year players a year before they become valuable fantasy players. That may be ok in a dynasty or deep keeper leagues, but it doesn't help in redraft leagues.

 
My biggest problem is that I undervalue the temporarily injured or under-performing players, or the players I got for free off waivers. Now this helps when I move quickly to trade a player, moving a week ahead of the trend, but absolutely kills me when it is a one week injury.

Last season I tried to trade Steve Smith for Deangelo Williams, the week after D-Will had a great week and while Smith was "injured" (hamstring). Luckily that owner thinks I am a shark and wouldn't trade. But, I did end up trading Colston and Jennings to another team that was at the bottom of the rankings, for his first round draft pick. He finished the year winning the league championship. (As an aside, I did finally get D-Will by coughing up the #1, #6 and #7 rookie draft picks in 2007 for Fitzgerald and D-Will).

 
I am too loyal to late fliers I draft that I end up missing out on solid early WW pickups. That and I must keep swimming or else I'll stop breathing.

 
Not going after the "guppiest" owners in my league. Sometimes I just can't bring myself to trade with them, but that doesn't stop others from doing so.

 
Drafting a QB 1 TOO late, and drafting a QB2 too late. i keep going after those underrated QB'sset for a breakout year that never live up to expectations: Delhomme & Leftwitch for example.

 
Drafting a QB 1 TOO late, and drafting a QB2 too late. i keep going after those underrated QB'sset for a breakout year that never live up to expectations: Delhomme & Leftwitch for example.

 
I have way too many to list...

- I over-value my own players in trade talks. I don't know if it's a lack of confidence in making a borderline deal, or just a twisted form of homer-ism, but I'm a pain in the ### to deal with. Yes, sometimes it helps me make a great trade, but more often than not it just annoys everyone.

- I'm too "loyal" to guys I've had in the past in keeper or redraft leagues. I want to get the old band back together instead of just picking the best guys

- I'm afraid of cold weather teams, especially for kickers and passing games

- Like others here, I wait too long on QB1 and get burned most years

- If I have a pick near (but not at) the end of a round in a serpentine draft, I always convince myself that the guy I really want will fall a few more picks and I can get hin om the way back and look even smarter. This inevitably costs me at least one guy I really want every year.

 
over-analysing who to start....ex. week 15 last year I put in Reggie Bush for MJD. Drew was questionable. Bush did nothing and MJD went off like a madman....I lost that playoff game by 2 points.

 
I will drown if I stop swimming.

Also, if someone punches me in the gills it hurts real bad and I'll just move on to weaker prey. Thankfully, I usually manage to eat people long before they get around to punching me in the gills.

 
First: Girls.

Second: Stinkin' Detroit. Every year they seem to do something to get me excited from a fantasy football standpont, and every year they crush my team. Curse Detroti! Curse them!!

 
I think the Draft Dominator helps out tremendously during the draft of "remembering guys who were overlooked" but I have occasionally jumped on a TE too early. Jason Witten in 2005 (6th round - uggh), Todd Heap in 2006 (5.1 uggh), etc.

My weakness during the season is to spend WAAAYYY too much time scouring the reports and free agents and game day chatter than I should. It rarely works out to my benefit to make last minute pick-ups and lineup changes when the time could better be spent playing golf.

:shrug:

 
Not making enough trade offers:

In my dynasty league, when I was in the rebuilding phase, I used to make tons of offers just to see what might stick. I was known as the the crazy offer owner. I would then start getting off the wall offers back, so I backed off. Mine were never as bad as these though. Like I said, some did stick, and I made my team better.

Now I don't do it as much...and I think I am losing out on potential players in my league. Some of the trades that have happen this year, I know I could have offered better if I had just thrown it out there. My team is getting older and needs an influx by trading.

 
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