What Every Entrepreneur Can Learn from Fantasy Football

John Boitnott
5 min readSep 12, 2024

Your experience as a startup founder or executive often comes down to how well you plan and the strategic decisions you make in an unpredictable world. If you’ve participated in a fantasy football league — you may have noticed how similar it can be at times to running a business. You’re always analyzing statistics, trying to predict outcomes, and keeping your eye on market trends or consumer behavior. Both founders and fantasy footballers can tell you about the unforeseen obstacles they encounter as they strategize, or the dynamic shifts in the competition they evaluate and deal with.

Despite any obvious differences, the strategies and lessons from fantasy football can resonate deeply with entrepreneurs, especially as we come back around to football season again. There’s a lot to learn about adaptability, community-building, and the relentless pursuit of victory. From embracing uncertainty to leveraging data wisely, you can gain insights to thrive in an ever-evolving business landscape. Here are some of the key things any founder can learn from fantasy football.

You can’t predict what happens on gameday

In fantasy football doing your homework and analyzing can lay a foundation for decision making. When it comes to game day anything can happen. Likewise, entrepreneurs…

--

--