It's a huge edge that you get to see everyone's Thursday picks when the other contestants don't. For instance Ravensfan played the dud in McCoy(as did you) so all you'd have to do is match his stud play(Thomas) and try to outscore his QB and TE play, in this case he played Brissett and Dickson where you went with Goff and Doyle.
You know this when you sign up, and you have to trust the person that's running it. If you make a person's Thursday's picks available to everyone, that person is at a disadvantage compared to everyone else.
I have access to the spread sheet since week 3, and I don't look at it save to make sure my picks are right and then to see if everybody picked so I can post the plays here when asked to
I really couldn't care less what everybody else picked, I'm just trying to score 50 points and survive while trying to save some studs for future periods. Trying to get cute would only fuck me up