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I used to tilt on Sundays so hard.

I remember ten or so years ago staring at the live scoring for my head-to-head matchup in my biggest home league and agonizing every point swing.

If I lost, it would ruin my day. I’d sulk around the house, get an awful case of the Sunday scaries, and rage-eat some greasy takeout. I had so much emotionally invested in those matchups.

I’ve gotten better about it over the years, though. Part of it comes from the reps. Once you move past managing a single team and have thousands of lineups and drafts and bets under your belt, you naturally become more desensitized to individual outcomes.

This is a welcomed self-preservation instinct because otherwise you’d literally go crazy if you intensely engaged with every single thing you speculated on.

That doesn’t mean a seasoned fantasy player never tilts, though—it just happens less frequently compared to someone who directs all of their energy to a single sweat.

Last year I made some tweaks to my content to help reduce my tilt and it had a positive impact on my mood throughout the entire season.

And this year, I luck-boxed my way into a new Sunday routine that has reduced my tilt even more...

For most of the 2023 season, April was a fairly immobile infant who was still taking multiple naps a day. This made it easy to squeeze in 7-hours of commercial free football on a Sunday, even if some of it was on the go during an afternoon stroller walk.

But now that April is nearly two and hyper-mobile, it’s no longer in the cards for me to sit around and watch football all day.

This initially bummed it out. Getting to watch 7-hours of commercial free football (Scott Hanson makes me say the full thing every time) was a fun way to cap off a week spent analyzing, writing, and talking about fantasy football.

With April’s toddler schedule, though, my Sunday afternoon routine had to change. I’m still able to watch most of the 1pm games while she’s taking her afternoon nap, but then it’s time for us to get out of the house or we’ll all go stir crazy (the real Witching Hour).

I’ve been taking her to the playground on Sunday afternoons, and essentially not sweating the late games.

It’s impossible not to refresh the scores—I’m not a complete robot—but this extra bit of distance from the action has put me in a legitimately better mood every Sunday evening compared to when I’d watch every last drip of RedZone down to the final TD montage.

And because I’m working all of Sunday am—writing the Fantasy Life newsletter, hosting the DFS cram show, and finalizing lineups/drafts—I’ve also decided to squeeze in a workout while watching the 1pm games.

To make this easier, I moved an old TV that I wasn’t using from my office into the garage gym, so now I can watch multi-view NFL action while working out. It’s quickly become another one of my favorite “habit stacks”—similar to dangling the sauna as a post-exercise reward. Working out feels far less like a chore when you have Hanson unloading a dopamine clip on you.

Don’t get me wrong—if I could still watch 7-hours of commercial free football guilt-free and with a happy family I would do it—but the end result of tilting less, squeezing in a workout, and not being as grumpy on Sundays after bricking out in DFS has been a very nice silver lining.

💎 Week 4 hidden gems (5 DFS sleepers & 3 draft angles). We got five Week 4 sleepers (one at each position + a bonus) to scroll down for in your DFS contests on Underdog and DraftKings, plus a breakdown of my winning lineup from last week. Check it out on the Deposit Kingdom channel.

🏆Fantasy Life roundup. Five newsletters and the Week 4 DFS awards (steam chasing and another fun vomit stack).

🤯 Week 4 DFS Strategy & Top GPP Plays w/ JMToWin. A marquee game to load up on.

⏰ Week 4 Battle Royale Strategy, Sleepers & Pick ‘Ems. A comprehensive stroll through the Week 4 Underdog slate, including small-field contest strategy (Deposit Kingdom league) and 12-person drafts (Dawg Bowl). We also went overboard on the Pick ‘Ems (links below).

💪The Swolecast: Week 4 DFS first look. The one where we forecast a cyclone.

☣Who Should We Get To Sponsor LOLZ? Slide into the DMs.

🚢 Pick 'Em Smash Night & Terrible Takes w/ Adam Aizer. A fun ShipCast.

📈 Week 3 Usage Trends, Buy Lows, & Week 4 DFS Plays - Stat Chasing.

🥶 Week 3 Victory Laps & Chiefs Panic - ADP Chasing. Davis is fed up with Andy and Mahomes.

☕ A Battle Royale Baby Bink (Week 3 DFS Recap). Bricked on DraftKings last week, but shipped a single entry contest on Underdog.

I’ve been building a ton of Pick ‘Em entries across the different shows, so figured I’d round some of them up here for easy clicking:

Deposit Kingdom:

Off & On The Clock:

Make sure to take advantage of the boosts and other specials in the lobby if you’re tailing.

2 shows on tap this weekend, both available for Youtube members.

Maybe I’ll even read off the tight ends in a French accent again.

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