The unconscious tendency for a guilty or otherwise culpable individual to offer unsolicited excuses, explanations or clarifications out of interrogative context.
If someone explicitly states, "I'm perfectly normal" when there has been no preceding accusation to the contrary--that's an example of Unprovoked Denial...kinda like "No Collusion" or "No Obstruction".
1. Select a player (real or fantasy) during a sports draft to spite or anger one or more of your opponents because they had intended to select him/her.
2. Select a player (real or fantasy) during a sport draft to put one or more of your opponents at a strategic disadvantage.
1. Billy hate drafted Chad OchoCinco because he knew Sam had wanted him since he is from Cincinnati. Billy already had plenty of players to fill that position but wanted to make sure Sam didn't get him.
2. Billy hate drafted Peyton Manning because he was the only good quarterback left and he knew Sam had been planning on drafting him.