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In Fantasy Football, The Line Between Being Over-Reactive And Under-Reactive Is Fine And Ill-Defined.

A Player's Sudden And Sometimes Inexplicable Spike In Opportunity And/Or Production Can Stir Hysteria Among Fantasy Managers Who Feel Pressure To Act And Act Now -- To Use A Waiver Priority Or Blow Their Free Agent Budget On A Guy Who Looked So Damn Good On Sunday Afternoon (Or Sunday Night, If You, Like Me, Wait All Day For Sunday Night).

We Have Precious Little Time For Under-Reaction. Ours Is A Short Season. This Isn't Baseball Or Basketball; We Don't Have Endless, Meaningless Regular Season Games With Which To Work. We Deal In Small Sample Sizes, Doing The Best We Can With A Range Of Metrics That Might Show Us Who On The Waiver Wire Can Propel Us To Fantasy Glory, Or Something Like It. Over-Reaction Is Natural Though. We Like What We See And We Want What We Want.

Overcoming These Biases And Finding The Magical Middle Ground Between Over-And-Under Reaction Is The Key To Working The Wire With Sobriety, With A Clear Head Free From The Sort Of Lizard Brain Nonsense That So Often Gets Us Into Trouble. We're Emotional Creatures Who Let Fear And Anger And Anxiety Guide Us. Keep This In Mind As You Make Early-Season Roster Moves, Especially After A Start To The Season That Leaves Your Molars Grinding At Night. There Ends Your Therapy Session.

I'll Do My Best To Use This Space As A Kind Of Tempering Environment For One-Week Reactions, Balancing Fantasy Managers' Short-Term Needs With Long-Term Outlooks For Players Who Are Simply Not Rostered In Enough Leagues. Tempering Doesn't Come Natural For Me, Someone Whose Overactive Imagination Can Generate A Hundred Scenarios Of A Player's Immediate Future Based On His Usage, His Team, And His Upcoming Matchups.

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Below Are My Week 3 Waiver Pickups. I've Included Whether These Players Should Be Acquired In Smaller Or Larger Leagues, And What Kind Of Rosters Would Be Good (Or Bad) Fits For These Waiver Wire Options.

Quarterback Marcus Mariota (ATL)Rostership: 33 Percent

Mariota Shouldn't Be Mistaken For A Plugged-In Weekly Starter In 12-Team Formats. In Ten Teamers That Start One Quarterback, He Shouldn't Be Rostered.