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- The Best Kind Of Sweat
In this week's P.O. Box:
Another big Sunday
Stream roundup & Pick ‘Ems
On Tap: DFS After Dark & Week 10 DFS Cram
The best kind of sweat is having any sweat at all, but I’ve been extremely fortunate this past year to experience a few different types of sweats.
The most agonizing version is the one where your team is on fire early and has soared to the top of the leaderboards.
You then get to spend the rest of the slate in a constant state of panic and fear, hoping for some kind of force majeure event that would immediately halt the games and pay out the standings as is.
This dynamic is exactly what I experienced last year when I had my first really big day on Underdog with two teams finishing in the Top 10 of the Week 9 Battle Royale contest.
The issue, though, was that those teams were originally in 1st and 4th.
I was grappling with the psychological effect of loss aversion in real time—the pain of watching first slip away was way more dominant than the excitement of winning $10,000.
I mentioned in that piece that if the order of the games had been flipped and my teams were charging late as opposed to holding late, I would have been “bouncing off the walls” with excitement.
Well, exactly one year later in Week 9 of the 2024 season, I got the best version of a sweat—a sweat you never saw coming…
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