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A Decade Ago I Started Mocking “Devy” Drafts – Here’s How 2017 Went

Devy League:
A Fantasy League Where You Draft "Developmental/Devy" Players, i.e. players that are not yet declared for the NFL Draft

If you want to go back to beyond “a decade ago” – see here for the 2012 opening piece.

So as to keep the quality of content high, I’m going to hold 2018+ until next offseason. So we will probably be back before The Winds of Winter.

To bring everyone up to speed…

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Check Out My (Board Game) Collection: 17 Years Into The Hobby

If you’re used to seeing only Fantasy Football posts on the blog, your confusion is understandable. “My friend Jackson Warfield” has joined me to expand on one of my other major hobbies.

Editor’s Note: If you’re used to seeing only Fantasy Football posts on the blog, your confusion is understandable. “My friend Jackson Warfield” has joined me to expand on one of my other major hobbies.

No better way to start writing about board games than to talk about the wellspring from which my game nights flow.

I’ve seen a number of different formats for Check Out My Collection (COMC) posts on Reddit. This one won’t follow any of them – though I’ll eventually put it on Reddit. I’m going to go “shelf by shelf” through all the wall-cardboard I’ve amassed at this point in my gaming career.

I know what you’re thinking – 17 years? Long time, what’s up with that?

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In One Game, Ja’Marr Chase Became The 6th Best Fantasy Asset of 2021 – Fantasy Games Won (FGW) Season Recap

What is FGW? Check it out here:
https://byroncobalt.com/2021/09/19/introducing-the-fantasy-game-wins-fgw-fantasy-football-player-scoring-system/

I realized this week that “Fantasy Games Won”, as I conceived it, is really a regular season metric. The original logic for coming up with it went like this:

  1. Points are an incomplete measure of fantasy success, because not all points are scored have an equal impact on your chances of winning. What matters is your chances of winning.
  2. You can calculate the impact a player has on your chances of winning games, and track that across a full season instead.

I was missing the logical conclusion to this train of thought:

Regular season wins only matter insofar as they increase your chances of winning a championship.

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I’ve decided I’m going to do stuff in public now…

You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.

Carl Jung

I’ve spent a lot of time and effort in my life working on projects and analyses that I never intended to share with anyone else.

I’ve been creating sports “simulation” leagues, primarily in Microsoft Excel, since about age 13. These are leagues with imaginary teams, imaginary players, sometimes invented sports, and relatively simple algorithms for determining the results of “games”. Running season-after-season of simulations created a “world” with its own history of champions, great players, memorable “games”, and more. I did this simply because I like creating these worlds and hitting a fast-forward button that didn’t for the real life sports I loved to follow.

Could others have enjoyed following these “worlds” if I had shared them?

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