The Reid Option: Week 7
Each week, Sammy Reid will break down each position in detail, pinpointing his favorite plays at various salary ranges. Who should we be focusing our core on this week? Read below to find out!
Week 7
We’ve all got stresses at work. When I’m at the poker table, it comes when someone makes a big raise and puts me to a tough decision. In fantasy, it comes in the hours before lock when I’m entering contests, fine-tuning my lineups, double-checking all my seasonal teams, tinkering with my spread picks – all while locking in sports-betting action. And at my day job (as an account manager for a pharmaceutical company), my biggest stress is when my boss does field rides with me, like he did this week. For two straight nine-hour days, he rolled around with me to all my accounts … looking, watching, judging.
It’s the worst. All day I have to make sure I always do and say the right things, all while making deathly sure I don’t do anything that’s non-compliant. Then afterwards, I get a corporate report about the field ride, grading all my competencies.
Gag me with a damn ladle.
The good part is that it forces me to do my job right. I have to plan out every call to the last detail, meet all of my daily goals, and follow our selling framework model perfectly. Basically, the things I should be doing all the time anyway. The better you plan and the better you practice, the better you perform.
We had a pretty big DFS stress last week as well. Last Sunday was the first Sunday where there was significant last-minute news that changed the DFS landscape. Dalvin Cook was ruled out and highly questionable guys like Paul Richardson and Isaiah Crowell ended up suiting up. An hour before lock, my plans were thrown into chaos and I was scrambling, completely up in the air with my cash game lineup.
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