Daily Fantasy, Daily Life: Volume XVIII - Time Management Skills
I’m writing this Wednesday morning, and I have things to do. Like, a ton of things to do. You want a list? I’m giving you a list. Buckle up.
My job at SportsHandle and USBets, then my side gig writing a column for my local newspaper, and I’m doing a four-hour radio show tomorrow night. Oh, and the college class I teach meets this afternoon. I have to let a roofer into the local swim club, I have to take my puppy to the vet, I have to go to the dentist to replace a crown that was just put in yesterday.
I’m not done.
I have to take kids to school, help around the house, all that husband-y stuff. Plus – duh – build my MLB lineups and NBA lineups, while keeping track of the sickening amount of money I have floating around the NFL Draft Thursday night.
Still going.
Friday night, I have to drive two hours back and forth for a fundraiser for one of my kid’s schools. Saturday, my daughter has a soccer game and my son has lacrosse practice. Saturday night, I have to drive three hours back and forth for my friend’s 50th birthday party (I’m old, shut up). Sunday I have to wake up at 7 a.m. to take my son to an all-day lacrosse tournament.
Mind you, this is just the scheduled activities. There is a 100% chance there will be more heaped on my plate. To be clear, I’m not complaining, just spitting facts.
And yet, despite everything listed above – TL;DR version: “I’ve got a ton of crap to do” – I find my brain is locked in on one solitary item, and that is …
… do I eat the chalk on New Orleans Breakers wide receiver Jonathan Adams?
The DraftKings algorithm has him priced at $3.8K, and he should easily be, at minimum, $8.5K. He’s the obvious number one, on what appears to be the best team in the USFL, he was banged up in Week 1 and still saw four targets – and that was a game where the team didn’t even run an offensive play in the first quarter.
Last week, he went 5-92 on nine targets and touchdown regression is going to hit and he’s got what seems to be the best quarterback in the league in Kyle Sloter throwing to him and his aDOT is right where you love to see it.
He should be 100% owned, and I think I’m going to eat the chalk and go over the field, but …
… but this is the USFL, and what do we really know? Would it shock if he went 3-25 this week? Or if the Breakers fell on their face? And really, what’s his ownership going to be?
Probably at least 50%, right? A fade is clearly in order, and I can play his teammate, Taywan Taylor at $4.2K, gain massive leverage on the field and then “count de monet” Sunday night.
But …
But Adams looked frickin’ awesome last week. Did you see this catch?
Forget 5-92; this guy has 8-150-2 potential. That’s it. Decision made. I’m going all-in.
Well, maybe. Gah, I wish this game was the last game on the slate so I could late-swap, but no, it’s the second game, first game is Tampa Bay against Houston, and after last week’s clunker, you can be sure the Bandits are going to be low-owned across the board.
Definitely building a few onslaughts there. And that Pittsburgh-Michigan game looks fugly, but that’s the definition of a low-owned game stack, plus Sunday Night Football! Stars! Generals! Bryan Scott winging the ball all over the field! And he’ll probably be low-owned compared to Sloter.
Need that Stars injury report, though, as the wide receiver room is more banged up than Joe Namath the night he tried to kiss Suzy Kolber.
So yes. I have four jobs, three kids, two dogs, one wife, a plethora of appointments and engagements, and yet 91% of my active brain is rolling around in the depths of a spring football league that has been live for 12 days.
Seems healthy, right? I mean, I’m fine with it. No reason for alarm.