Larejo is a mid-stakes tournament mastermind who specializes in outmaneuvering 150-max players with a small number of entries
Brothers and sisters, this is the most important Willing to Lose you’ll read this season. We have a slate that is prime for exploitation, prime for zagging, and prime for leveraging the chalk. As you’re navigating The Scroll and other content this week, think about how deep into the season we are now. The way that Week 15 sets up is a great example of what overthinking looks like. When overthinking is prominent, I hope you’ll realize how popular contrarian/leveraged articles can be this week. I don’t know if what will follow here will end up being accurate in terms of predictions, but I can guarantee that if you get through The Scroll this week and align your thinking to the thinking of some of our wondrous contributors, you will conquer this slate. None of us know how this slate will turn out, but this is precisely the type of slate OWS should be able to take advantage of.
I won’t belabor this point but I do want to emphasize that Sunday night hindsight is going to look so obvious this week. The Oracle includes a section titled, “That was so obvious how did I not see it?” and there are going to be some hits in that section this week. I want to predict that our hindsight will be strong because we’re probably going to see things like:
I’m bringing up these examples because, at least based on early ownership, these obvious spots aren’t looking so obvious in projections (mostly due to salary constraints). Onward we go, let’s rip through some of these and instead of limiting to three strategies that could be incorporated into one lineup, I’ll have a few situations to land on that could be played together, separate, or something in between…