Larejo is a mid-stakes tournament mastermind who specializes in outmaneuvering 150-max players with a small number of entries
Based on some commentary I’ve seen in Discord over the past few weeks, I feel it’s appropriate now in Week 6 to drop a reminder for anybody new here, as to how to use and leverage this article. Willing to Lose came into existence on OWS four seasons ago to complement the content you read on The Scroll. Every article on OWS has a purpose, and before you get to this article in this space, it’s by design that you’ve already established a strong feel for where to place your money this weekend. That’s what all the preceding content is for (and if you don’t feel this way, scroll back up!).
By the time you drop into my hands here in WTL, my job is to get you to think about a path (or three) that you may have not considered yet. However, as time has progressed, I am learning how scary it can be to publish this article and then read some of Hilow and JM’s stuff and realize we’re all on similar trajectories! But I digress. When JM decided to trust me to write this every week, it was with a simple goal in mind: to provide low-owned paths to upside that could take down large-field GPPs. I wanted to reiterate this because I want you to know where I am coming from each week. I don’t play a ton of volume on a given weekend, but I do try to build consistently in my own way. Sometimes that requires being stubborn, sometimes naive, and sometimes ignorant. My commitment to my rosters is to build with confidence and build my way. I don’t care if there are 1,000,000 entries in a given tournament because I know that if I am thinking for myself (rightly after reading the NFL Edge, listening to pods, etc.) so my lineups are almost always going to be unique. I implore you to do the same. We want you to read everything on OWS every week. Full stop. It would be wonderful if you did that. But it’s with the intent of taking ALL the information you just absorbed, and then for YOU to go off and build what YOU think a tournament-winning lineup will look like. And WTL should be about 5% of that total information. Now let’s jump into that special 5%…
