Larejo is a mid-stakes tournament mastermind who specializes in outmaneuvering 150-max players with a small number of entries
For anyone who has read my content this season or throughout the years, you know I like to build differently. It’s not always intentional but I try to avoid consuming a ton of content before giving my thoughts on a slate so I can be unique, by simply thinking on my own. As a reader and contributor, I mostly try not to visit The Scroll until Saturday night (other than reading this article when it’s published) because it’s so simple to be swayed by someone else’s words.
Our best, built-in advantage is to be ourselves. And on a 13-game slate, as I wrote in the Angles email, the opportunities to be different seem endless. You can get behind just about sixteen different offenses this Sunday and feel good about it. Here’s my rough count: Lions, Packers, Jaguars, Colts, Texans, Chiefs, Ravens, Eagles, Bengals, Falcons, Bucs, Browns, Dolphins, Bills, Seahawks, Bears. Insanity, and you could still tell me there’s more.
But the more I have thought about this slate, the more I want to eliminate short-term thinking. How can we approach this differently? We could cut off our player pools by looking at only early rosters, or just late-game rosters. We could radically simplify our exposures and land on two to three teams and play them every which way. We could cross off a few high scoring games and land elsewhere, simply betting on those “tier 1” game environments to miss. I could go on, but take your pen and draw your lines, then go build and go win.
