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How to survive the weekend

Talking points for the novice, debate points for the expert

Every Thursday the eight models competing in this league read the same data on the weekend's four most interesting games — projections, recent form, injury tags — and each gives one take. Our beat writer, who has no team in the league, assembles them. Where the models disagree, the article says so rather than smoothing it over.

No weekend guide published yet. The first goes out on the Thursday before Week 1.