Six Must-Reads For Fantasy Football Fans
You can never learn too much when it comes to Fantasy Football. Here are a few books to crack open between games and trades to master the psychology of fantasy domination and hear from the guys who are already killing it.
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Getting In The Fantasy Mindset
By: C.D. Carter | @CDCarter13
“Examines the lessons Wall Street and poker have to offer those looking to exploit the daily fantasy sports marketplace. From using contrarianism as a tool of domination, to employing Warren Buffett’s keys to investment, to learning how to control tilt, this book includes interviews from poker pros and high-stakes daily fantasy gamers who have learned the keys to consistent winning. Carter’s How To Think follow-up delves into controversial questions about the role of process and results in daily fantasy, along with the role of intuition in the DFS landscape. Carter includes the tools, sites, and services he has used to gain an edge and exploit inefficiencies in the daily fantasy market.”
Fantasy Football The Next Level: How to Build a Championship Team Every Season
By: David Dorey | @DMDorey
“Fantasy Football: The Next Level goes beyond stats and projections to teach readers a proven approach to drafting and managing a team that succeeds — in any league. Dorey’s wealth of tips, tools and techniques — based on two decades of fantasy football expertise — will help experienced players and newcomers alike win their championships every season.”
The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing
By: Michael Mauboussin | @mjmauboussin
“In most domains of life, skill and luck seem hopelessly entangled. Different levels of skill and varying degrees of good and bad luck are the realities that shape our lives — yet few of us are adept at accurately distinguishing between the two. In this provocative book, Michael Mauboussin helps to untangle these intricate strands to offer the structure needed to analyze the relative importance of skill and luck. He offers concrete suggestions for making these insights work to your advantage. The Success Equation helps us move toward this goal by: Establishing a foundation so we better understand skill and luck, and can pinpoint where each is most relevant. Helping us develop the analytical tools necessary to understand skill and luck. Offering concrete suggestions about how to take these findings and put them to work. Showcasing Mauboussin’s trademark wit, insight, and analytical genius, The Success Equation is a must-read for anyone seeking to make better decisions — in business and in life.”
Fantasy Football for Smart People: The Hidden Psychology of Winning DFS
By Jonathan Bales | @BalesFootball
“The Hidden Psychology of Winning DFS takes a two-pronged approach to turning you into a better daily fantasy football player. In the first section, you’ll learn how various cognitive biases can shape your beliefs. Why do DFS players overvalue recent performance, overestimate their ability to make accurate predictions, and deal so poorly with risk and uncertainty? More important, how can you benefit from their mistakes? The second section takes a data-driven look at both daily fantasy football tournament ownership and value. Which metrics predict not only which players perform well, but which ones will be popular in tournaments? How much do the Vegas lines matter, when should you value recent production, and how can you find both undervalued and under-owned players at each position? You’ll learn specific instructions on how to exploit inefficiencies in others’ lineups to give you a leg up on the field. ”
Get Inside The Fantasy Experience
By: Matthew Berry | @MatthewBerryTMR
“As the Senior Fantasy Sports Analyst for ESPN, Matthew Berry is on the front lines of what has grown from a niche subculture into a national pastime. In Fantasy Life, Berry celebrates every aspect of the fantasy sports world. Brilliant trash talk. Unbelievable trophies. Insane draft day locations. Shake-your-head-in-disbelief punishments. Ingenious attempts at cheating. And surprisingly uplifting stories that remind us why we play these games in the first place.”
Fantasy Man: A Former NFL Player’s Descent into the Brutality of Fantasy Football
By: Nate Jackson | @NathanSerious
“In Slow Getting Up — hailed by Rolling Stone as “the best football memoir of all time” — Nate Jackson told his story face down on the field. Now, in Fantasy Man, he’s flat on his back. Six years have passed since the former Denver Broncos tight end wore a helmet, and every day he drifts further from the NFL Guy, the sanctioned-violence guy, the psychopath who ran head first into other psychos for money. But Nate hasn’t quite left the game. Bed-ridden by a recent surgery to remove bone fragments in his ankle, he’s trying to defend his title in one of the millions of leagues captivating America through modern fantasy football, the interactive human poker game started by rotisserie leagues, boosted by ESPN and Yahoo!, and now elevated to that rarefied world of vaguely-legal Internet gambling by FanDuel and DraftKings.com.”
The Fantasy Life app is the best sports community app to talk fantasy football, basketball, baseball, hockey, soccer, WWE, MMA, Nascar, golf, eSports, or anything else you would hear about at a sports bar. Find or post funny memes, polls, GIFs, or join chats about your teams. Matthew Berry (ESPN, The Talented Mr. Roto), the face of fantasy football co-founded the app as a place for fans to chat about sports, get fantasy advice, or find sleepers for your team. Find Matthew on the app @matthewberry
Download the iPhone or Android app at fantasylifeapp.com. Also available in the App Store and Google Play.
