Expecting the unexpected is an important part of playing fantasy football.
Before your drafts, you can spend hours picking through beat writers’ reports to try to pin down exactly who’s going to break out this season and who’s in the doghouse with their coaching staff. During your draft, you might spend the entire night wheeling and dealing to move around your board and be in the optimal positions to snap up the players you’ve set your heart on. Afterward, you might end up poring over data to make your waiver claims and set the perfect lineup.
Even still, you might miss on some projections, whiff on players you liked, and lose winnable matchups thanks to one bounce of that cursed oblate spheroid we call a “football.