Introduction

In the summer of 2024, I sat down to construct a course on our biases as fantasy sports players and how these biases can be detrimental to our play. If we could recognize that these biases exist, we could make our decision making process more constructive and based on objective realities instead of purely subjective ones.

The previous course covers the following topics:

• How does bias control our mind and decision-making process
• The specific types of bias that we encounter most frequently in the DFS or fantasy world (I identified eight types of bias and each has multiple sub-categories)
• How to create initial thoughts for a DFS slate that is largely free from bias
• The fantasy football industry is full of bias at every level, and unless you are creating lineups in a solitary bubble, you will need to recognize these biases. This section helps to identify the specific types of bias and examples from fantasy football to highlight how DFS players are affected.
• We next explored how to build lineups free from bias
• We talked briefly about the specific biases that exist early on in the season to help give readers a solid start to the season.

The stress of gameday (lineup lock) presents different biases that we must recognize in order to be successful. In part 2 of this course, the goal is to target those biases that we carry into the new season. It is an expansion on the prior course’s “Early Season Biases” chapter and is meant to help players ramp up for the season while recognizing that the ramp-up exposes fantasy football enthusiasts to the most biased information we come into contact with at any point in the season. It is actually the most important time to be concerned with the biases presented to us. Let’s dig in!

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