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Cake day: October 18th, 2023

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  • It’s chaos theory, the ability to manage the unmanageable better than others. Comments have mentioned poker which perfectly example this.

    You have to play your personal lineup choice, which within itself carries choices based on projection/probability, matchups, bench options, the weather, as well as other factors.

    You have to play other managers, think not just weekly matchups but the whole league, think waiver wire, trades, well times blocks.

    You have to battle yourself in terms of deciding if you’re playing for now vs later, it’s a marathon after all. Do I sacrifice a risky lineup this week for a possible better lineup later? Does this bye week warrant a trade? Do I drop a lotto ticket now for a streaming flex?

    You have to battle the unforeseen, the unpredictable. Did your 2nd pick tear his ACL? Do I even want his handcuff? Did Antonio Brown just take his jersey off and walk off the field? Did my player just get arrested for murder|manslaughter|Domestic Abuse? Did that player just die on the field?!

    And at the end of the day, it’s Any Given Sunday. Any team can beat any other team, in any type of gamescript. The ball is the shape of a lemon, for goodness sake…it takes one bad bounce and the game changes on a dime.

    You just have to manage the unmanageable better than about a dozen guys.