Larejo is a mid-stakes tournament mastermind who specializes in outmaneuvering 150-max players with a small number of entries
I have no business being a content writer in the DFS space. I’ve said this to JM, RotoMaven, and others before, but every time I sit down to write for this amazing site, I smile. I smile because I understand how and why I am being trusted to publish my thoughts, but in a sense, each week I feel like I have something to prove. The funny thing is that before I signed on to become a contributor here, I only had one path to ever writing for a fantasy sports site. That narrow path was to write Willing to Lose.
JM is an incredible person, entrepreneur, and thinker, but his authenticity is why I was drawn to his work years ago. I’m in awe of the team that has come together here over the years. It is a real tribute to how this site has grown and the team shines in every way because contributors get to be themselves on a daily basis. I don’t know about you, but I cherish the fact that I can read and listen to thoughts every week that have little to no bias in them. In fact, in my biased opinion, OWS gives you some of the most natural content of any site in the industry. And before I started contributing here four years ago, the only strong request I had was that the article I would write would have to be around the concept of “building the right lineups, 5% of the time.”
All of this is to say that I have played, and will play, fantasy sports probably for the majority of my life. I likely won’t play DFS for a large portion of my life, however. But while I do, part of my weekly process is always going to be identifying where and when to take a chance on building rosters that will be unique in their own way, leveraged throughout, and reflect my own thinking. They are rosters that will almost always be wrong, but as long as I keep showing up, changing a bit each week and season, and learning along the way, a life-changing win can always happen. So as I sit to write this article, this week, I am reminded of my why. My why is that my brain would be going through this type of thinking anyway, so I may as well put pen to paper island hoping it makes some sense. The real beauty of this privilege is that in some weeks, like here in Week 14, the ‘willing to lose’ plays become so obvious that this article writes itself.
