FANALYTICS: Mistakes were made... maybe

Patrick Davitt and Todd Zola had an interesting discussion a few weeks ago on Baseball HQ Radio. They were talking about what it means to be a fantasy baseball expert and Patrick suggested that experts often don't follow their own advice.

It's true, for a variety of reasons. But I think, at its core, it's simply human nature. We might have all the best information and research results in the world, but no matter how hard we try to avoid it, everyone has internal biases.

For some guys it's the home team. For others, it's young players. For me, it's often a selectively long memory. "Once a player displays a skill, he owns it" didn't come from nowhere. It came from those players who put up exemplary numbers in a former life and my dogged...

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