And yes, I really am motivated on a very personal level. Heading into his Week 17 championship, longtime reader Suminder Puri had a sit/start dilemma: Cooper Kupp, Brandin Cooks, or Jauan Jennings. Suminder knew how important this decision was -- that it's "going to make or break" his title changes.
I recommended Kupp, who flopped. Cooks did better. Jennings did much better. I *felt* the miss. Making the wrong call matters to me, just like making the *right* call matters. This site isn't just about dispensing opinions. It's about investing in your success. Genuine, personal investments with a thousand of you or more each year. Because dispensing opinions without any thought of the consequences -- how it impacts each of you -- wouldn't leave room for self-reflection and improvement.
Sustained improvement . . . that's always been a key to FF4W. And it's why I spend each offseason updating spreadsheets and refining probabilities for players' future production. It's why I adamantly pushed against drafting overall-1 ADP Christian McCaffrey, not because of a hunch or even conventional wisdom, but because I found that 92% of 27+ year-olds coming off 400+ touch campaigns regressed statistically the following year -- often significantly. For similar reasons, it's why I'll urge you not to draft presumptive 2025 RB1 Saquon Barkley.
Congratulations to all of you winners. A special congratulations to the divisional winners in this year's Premier Fantasy Football League: Robbie Lange, David Bennett, Matt Weavil, Jeff Matson, Anthony Waddle, Robert Caggiano, Jack Snay, Jimmy Overholt, Jimmy Zeleniak, J.J. Mosher, Evan Ekblaw, and Terry Snyder. And a huge congratulations to (again) Jimmy Zeleniak for winning the PFFL Championship after scoring more regular-season points than any of the other 167 managers, and then scoring the most fantasy-playoff points. Simply brilliant.
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