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It's still three weeks away from draft week and my brain is already full. Not that it takes much, what with all that important minutia about Gilligan's Island permanently stored up there for reasons unknown.
But I've already reached a saturation point in my fantasy football "studies." Now when I scour fantasy football Web sites, I look for information that I haven't yet seen, but most of that stuff is ultimately a non-factor in who I plan on drafting or bidding on. And yet I still keep searching for that elusive piece of training camp fodder that will give me that slight insight that will prevent me from making a mistake in the 8th round of the draft.
But at some point, too much information is just that -- too much.
When it's crunch time and the clock is ticking on my pick, all the information I have gleaned the past few weeks will come to the fore, and at that point I have to decide whether it truly matters that this guy's Mom died over the summer and if it will have a negative impact on his fantasy season.
So I'm trying to let go -- let go of the little tidbits of information that only get in the way when trying to make a pick under pressure; let go of the need to check Web sites 10 times a day to see if anything new has happened at any of the 32 NFL training camps; let go of the obsession.
There. I've let it go....I just need to check this one site first.
PJ Slinger has been a fantasy football addict since 1992 and for five years wrote a fantasy football column for The Capital Times that was nationally syndicated.