Speaker 1: Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2: Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from iHeartRadio, your weekly
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Speaker 2: here's your host, Paul Chargia.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the first of our off season editions, a
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Weekly. Yes, Scott Fish, it sounds weird to
Speaker 1: talk about offseason when you know we've still got a
Speaker 1: regular season week to go. He's got the regular NFL playoffs.
Speaker 1: But yeah, but the two hour version is done.
Speaker 3: It's done. It's done. I like the short shows. They're fun,
Speaker 3: They're feeling a little more relaxed. There's a lot more
Speaker 3: grambling to make sure we get everything every single player covered. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Do you think listeners appreciate us that we have to
Speaker 1: jam the you know, like fifteen games into two hours
Speaker 1: with plus commercials.
Speaker 3: I think they do, just because I think they'd like
Speaker 3: that we touch on every player, Like how many shows
Speaker 3: touch on every single player except for ours, Like, it's
Speaker 3: not a common thing.
Speaker 1: It's there's there's a lot of there's a lot of
Speaker 1: work to it, which I don't mind setting aside. After
Speaker 1: having done it for this one because the fantasy playoffs
Speaker 1: are coming and fantasy play a football super fun it is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we love fantasy football in the playoffs, I want to
Speaker 1: talk about some different formats. So by doing that now
Speaker 1: people have got this next coming whole week to get
Speaker 1: leagues together full figure out how you want to play. Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: And before we get to that, I want to talk
Speaker 1: about some of the unlikely league winning players from this
Speaker 1: past cycle of you know, so basically weeks fourteen, fifteen,
Speaker 1: sixteen seventeen in here, right, So I want to talk
Speaker 1: talk about some of that and tell me if you
Speaker 1: think these guys are going to have sustained value. Like
Speaker 1: last year, cam Akers sure rocked the Fantasy playoffs, but
Speaker 1: they thought he would have sustained value. But two weeks into,
Speaker 1: two weeks into it, it was one week into it,
Speaker 1: it was clear that Kyrien Williams. Williams is gonna be
Speaker 1: the guy with the rams, and he ultimately, of course
Speaker 1: got cut traded. Yep, yeah, whatever.
Speaker 3: And historically we've been there's been two sides to this
Speaker 3: coin throughout We've had the Tim high Towers and the
Speaker 3: Ron Daines, but we've also had the Jimmy Grahams and
Speaker 3: the Arian Fosters that went on to be really good
Speaker 3: after that. So I'm gonna hit you, Jerry Johnson.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hit you with a few different players, and
Speaker 1: tell me if you think this is flash in the
Speaker 1: pan or sustained fantasy value. Begin at the quarterback position,
Speaker 1: and this one, this one is a little thirty. Joe
Speaker 1: Flacco elite, so.
Speaker 3: So elite, such a franchise quarterback. He's being rested week eighteen.
Speaker 1: How about that?
Speaker 3: He went from couch to be rested for the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Unbelievable, right, you.
Speaker 3: Starting to get rest the other night while he was
Speaker 3: on the bench there, so far ahead.
Speaker 1: Okay, So I think he's in the league next year.
Speaker 3: I think I think he's not just in the league.
Speaker 3: I I think his role is likely either a backup
Speaker 3: for a rookie or starting the season while a rookie
Speaker 3: prepares underneath him.
Speaker 1: That could somewhere, Yeah, that could be a perfect spot, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it probably wouldn't be a rookie that goes at the
Speaker 1: top of the draft. Now, those guys wanted everything, right, and.
Speaker 3: The fan bases, the GMS, they all want him to
Speaker 3: start right, right, there's not as much projects next year.
Speaker 3: I feel like the top four or so are not
Speaker 3: really as project d.
Speaker 1: They say that bo Nicks is a project that could
Speaker 1: still go like late first round.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I haven't started that whole process.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well I'm not a big personally, but well there's
Speaker 3: a lot of people that aren't.
Speaker 1: I know, ye four will be helping himself a lot.
Speaker 3: He'll be good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm excited to talk to him about that. So
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco sustained fantasy value. We think next year too.
Speaker 3: I think it's more probably start of the season and
Speaker 3: he might tail off.
Speaker 1: He's he'll be thirty nine percentage chance. Joe Flacco is
Speaker 1: the starter for the Browns.
Speaker 3: They have a lot of money investing in that position,
Speaker 3: and then they don't have outs for like another two
Speaker 3: years or whatever.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: I would give it like ten percent fifteen percent. But man,
Speaker 3: if if he leads a run here, maybe he maybe
Speaker 3: he wins the super Bowl and retires. Honestly, if he
Speaker 3: leads a run, I think it's really low. I think
Speaker 3: it's like ten percent for the Browns.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go forty. Wow, that's I also think the Browns.
Speaker 1: I think the Browns are gonna make waves in the
Speaker 1: playoffs a lot of the moment.
Speaker 3: I don't think any team wants to play the Browns
Speaker 3: right now. I want to offense is humming and the
Speaker 3: defense has been awesome all year. No one wants to
Speaker 3: play that.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. In reality, they should be like the number two
Speaker 1: seed behind Baltimore. If you're just doing like strength Strengthen
Speaker 1: Team ANFC, they'd be the two seed.
Speaker 3: College Football playoffs style just will rank you and then
Speaker 3: you seeded there all.
Speaker 1: Right, flash in the pan for the fantasy playoffs or
Speaker 1: sustained value for Jordan.
Speaker 3: Love, sustained value. His entire team is young. You saw
Speaker 3: them gel better and better together as the season went on,
Speaker 3: like they started the season rough his first season starting,
Speaker 3: and there were flashes of good. Now those flashes are
Speaker 3: becoming more and more frequent each game instead of just
Speaker 3: here and there. And the whole team is just young,
Speaker 3: so much, so much athletic young wide receiver talent on
Speaker 3: that team. I like the future of where that's going.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's progressed incredibly well. I don't think any of
Speaker 1: us saw he could have predicted that he'd be way
Speaker 1: better in the second half than he was in the
Speaker 1: first half. It looks like a different guy. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: first half guy was so inconsistent. He's so scattered, shot,
Speaker 1: bad decision making.
Speaker 3: He led the league for a while in off target
Speaker 3: throws and not so much of it. He's gonna be
Speaker 3: like a four thousand plus thirty touchdown guy.
Speaker 1: This year's amazing. Yeah, it's amazing. Baker Mayfield. Yes, what
Speaker 1: do you think of him as a playoff flash in
Speaker 1: the pan or sustained fantasy value?
Speaker 3: Do I know Dave Canallis is not going to get
Speaker 3: a head coaching job. He probably He was the OC
Speaker 3: for Gino Smith winning Comeback Player of the Year last year,
Speaker 3: and then Gino Smith tailed off and then yes, there
Speaker 3: were injuries. This year goes down to Tampa Mayfield.
Speaker 1: It's the best year of his career, absolutelistically.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I don't know what they have to invest in
Speaker 3: the quarterback position, so I could see him being a
Speaker 3: starter next year, probably more of a super flex guy.
Speaker 3: I don't I don't know that it's a flash in
Speaker 3: the pan. He'll be serviceable. I don't think he's going
Speaker 3: to be, you know, a superstart, though. I think this
Speaker 3: plus Mike Evans and Chris Godwin are both three agents.
Speaker 3: If he's saying that's.
Speaker 1: That's a huge vest, just a huge factor. Yeah, I'd
Speaker 1: reup Evans before I would Godwin. Yep, that's just me. Uh,
Speaker 1: this one's pretty straightforward. Brize Hall powered teams through the
Speaker 1: fantasy playoffs. Obviously, he's headed for a first round draft
Speaker 1: pick next year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's RB. Probably probably RB one or two, depending
Speaker 3: on who you ask. I've seen people talk, yeah, one,
Speaker 3: two or three, but probably one or two.
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey's gonna be going.
Speaker 3: Yep. People, people are gonna hamper on. Oh he got
Speaker 3: hurt again at the end of the year and he's,
Speaker 3: you know, twenty eight years old. People are gonna do that,
Speaker 3: which is fair. They're gonna, you know fair. There will
Speaker 3: be people who have haul one.
Speaker 1: Kyron Williams also obvious. I think he will also be
Speaker 1: a first rounder.
Speaker 3: He's still twenty three, like he's young.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's And the way the utilization by the RAMS
Speaker 1: was so absurdly high, I.
Speaker 3: Mean, exactly unbelievable. When he finds his guy, he's he goes.
Speaker 1: James Connor has been fantastic down the shis, including the
Speaker 1: one handed catch for the touchdown last week.
Speaker 3: It doesn't either matchup proof like he put last last
Speaker 3: week was not a good.
Speaker 1: Matchup the Eagles.
Speaker 3: I mean the Eagles have tailed off defensively lately. But
Speaker 3: like he's he's busted two really good, really tough matchups
Speaker 3: in the last five weeks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, San Francisco, I think as well. Yeah, wide receiver
Speaker 1: George Pickens out of the blue helped him part because
Speaker 1: Mason rudolph'sid yeah flash in the pan or sustained fantasy value.
Speaker 3: Well, I believe Deontay Johnson's a free agent after the year,
Speaker 3: which that could make a make a factor. I'm not
Speaker 3: one hundred percent positive I think he is, though, Uh,
Speaker 3: I think that he will still be something, but he's
Speaker 3: going to be tricky to predict sometimes. They really need
Speaker 3: to fortify that quarterback position to make me feel better
Speaker 3: about George Pickens. But you know me, like it's insane talent.
Speaker 3: I love the talent.
Speaker 1: The talent is there. I believe they. I believe the
Speaker 1: Steelers who are gonna pick it right roughly, like as
Speaker 1: it stands right now, they're sitting a pick like seventeen
Speaker 1: eighteen something like that, So they're not going to be
Speaker 1: in a spot to go get a young rookie.
Speaker 3: This is a landing.
Speaker 1: This is no, it is. This is a landing spot
Speaker 1: well for Joe Flacco, Russell Wilson, Kirk Cousins, potentially as
Speaker 1: a dark horse Baker Mayfield. Look if they just put
Speaker 1: if they just put NFL average quarterbacking on that team,
Speaker 1: suddenly the Steelers are very playoff relevant yep, which they're
Speaker 1: not right now with Mason Rudolph.
Speaker 3: In my opinion, Tomlin refuses to lose more than a games.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 1: It's so good for him. I think this one's obvious too.
Speaker 1: But as a fantasy playoff factor. DeMarcus Robinson out of
Speaker 1: the blue, Yeah, touchdowns and I believe four five games.
Speaker 3: Actually I think it was five year old.
Speaker 1: Then he missed one, right, Okay, maybe that was it.
Speaker 1: Four to the last five, five to last something like that.
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Robinson sustained fantasy value for twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, he's going to be open a lot with
Speaker 3: Pooka and Cooper around.
Speaker 1: There, assuming he's back with the Rams.
Speaker 3: I think it's gonna be I think it's going to
Speaker 3: be sustained value. He should be on rosters. But also
Speaker 3: it's gonna be pretty hid and miss. He's always had decent,
Speaker 3: decent like games, even back to Kansas City and what
Speaker 3: like Bears or whatever. It was like he has he
Speaker 3: has his moments.
Speaker 1: When he first popped up getting reps with the rams A,
Speaker 1: I was like, is it that DeMarcus Robinson exactly? Still
Speaker 1: talking about the same DeMarcus Robinson. Yeah, unbelievable. There's a
Speaker 1: late late career resurgence. What is it like year nine
Speaker 1: or something?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think he's put himself into the conversation.
Speaker 3: He'll be drafted, you know, late rounds of drafts and
Speaker 3: hope it works out.
Speaker 1: Again, there's a chance, Cooper Cup maybe this is the
Speaker 1: beginning of the end for a player who's whatever seven
Speaker 1: years in the league.
Speaker 3: Yep, for him, it's possible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's possible.
Speaker 3: He's the good thing he is is they're oute running,
Speaker 3: but he probably doesn't have the quick titch twitch is
Speaker 3: probably going away.
Speaker 1: It might be it might be David and Joku surging
Speaker 1: with Joe Flacco.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what do you think?
Speaker 1: Did he finally turn the corner? We've been waiting because
Speaker 1: he's had he's been the athletic specimen all this time,
Speaker 1: but he could never give you consistent, reliable production until
Speaker 1: Joe Blacco showed up.
Speaker 3: I will I will say he had three or four
Speaker 3: good weeks before Flacco got there. He just went nuclear
Speaker 3: when Flakka got there. Yeah, this this might be the resurgence.
Speaker 3: This might be one of those classic He couldn't do
Speaker 3: it in the schemes, their systems, their quarterbacks, and then
Speaker 3: in the past and they he finally got a got
Speaker 3: a you know, a situation that could feed him. I
Speaker 3: think there are a lot of question marks for that
Speaker 3: offense for for next year. You know, is Nick Chubb
Speaker 3: gonna come back? Are they going to run the ball
Speaker 3: more if he does? Is Joe Flakko gonna be there?
Speaker 3: If Watson can't run that? Like, I think there are
Speaker 3: a lot of question marks. But yeah, I'll be taking
Speaker 3: I'll be rolling the dice on him. I think he
Speaker 3: looks awesome. I think I think Stefanski'd be dumb not
Speaker 3: to keep feeding what he saw this year into next year.
Speaker 1: I'm with you on that. And you know, we don't
Speaker 1: know that Stefanski had always been sort of a run
Speaker 1: first guy. He was in Minnesota with Adrian Peterson, you know,
Speaker 1: when they was there. Then he rolls into Cleveland. He's
Speaker 1: got Nick Chubb.
Speaker 3: YEP.
Speaker 1: I kind of think that Stefanski might not be as
Speaker 1: run heavy now that we've seen what we've done with Flacco.
Speaker 1: He's throwing Flacco's arm out of personnel right Yeah, where
Speaker 1: he just goes to where his personnel leads him.
Speaker 3: Which is a mark of a good coach.
Speaker 1: Juwan Johnson flashed in the pan or has he turned
Speaker 1: the corner? Saints tight end man.
Speaker 3: He's had a lot going for him in in in
Speaker 3: terms of uh injuries on the field and playing from behind.
Speaker 3: And yeah, I don't know. I will say every year
Speaker 3: the beat reporters are like this, Juwan Johnson kid is
Speaker 3: great in camp and stuff, and it's never really panned out.
Speaker 3: Maybe he has. I mean, he's gonna probably be rang
Speaker 3: to tight end sixteen again, and you know, he probably
Speaker 3: won't get drafted, but it's possible.
Speaker 1: Let's go to playoffs some of the playoff formats. First
Speaker 1: of all, I want to give a shout out to
Speaker 1: my friends at my fantasy league. We know the people there,
Speaker 1: We love the people at my fantasy league. It is
Speaker 1: a little bit like guillotine leagues. It's a kind of
Speaker 1: a family run family business, right, and they are free
Speaker 1: to use in the playoffs. So if you want to,
Speaker 1: and they can because my fantasy league is so flexible,
Speaker 1: it can do so many things. Yeah, almost, no matter
Speaker 1: what oddball scoring system you might want to try in
Speaker 1: the playoffs, my fantasy league can do it. You could try.
Speaker 1: God bless you. If you do it, let me know
Speaker 1: how it goes. A guillotine league in the playoffs is
Speaker 1: a little bit tricky, although I want to try it,
Speaker 1: and yeah, I just got to figure out how to
Speaker 1: do it, what's the right number of people, how to
Speaker 1: chop and stuff like that. But also broadly, before we
Speaker 1: start talking some specifics for playoff leagues that you could form,
Speaker 1: this is the perfect chance to test drive any rules
Speaker 1: and changes you want to make sure. Maybe you want
Speaker 1: to change your scoring system, right, maybe you want to
Speaker 1: give points for first downs, whatever, Right, this is your
Speaker 1: chance to do it on a small scale. See how
Speaker 1: you like that change? Yeah, then you can apply it
Speaker 1: to your your full season.
Speaker 3: I like that idea.
Speaker 1: So if you're going to give people one and you
Speaker 1: you know, like the scott Fishbowls, you've always got unique
Speaker 1: scoring tweaks and roster tweaks. If you're going to give
Speaker 1: people one playoff tweak to make, so it's just sample
Speaker 1: see if you like it. And you know you've got
Speaker 1: all of this fish Bowl experience with all the different
Speaker 1: scoring systems. What do you think?
Speaker 3: I think the most obvious one is probably something that's
Speaker 3: really becoming common, but we have a pretty you know,
Speaker 3: general audience, pretty wide audience. I think the most the
Speaker 3: most obvious one is just super flex. Yeah, I think
Speaker 3: the most obviously if you're not playing super flex in
Speaker 3: the regular season because you're worried about the quarterback depth
Speaker 3: or you've played one QB for so long. In the playoffs,
Speaker 3: playoff leagues are generally smaller. They're generally like six teams
Speaker 3: or whatever. There's twelve quarterbacks or fourteen quarterbacks. Now play
Speaker 3: with two of them. Try try that out first. Other
Speaker 3: things that make it fun are you know, first downs
Speaker 3: are big, big bonuses for things because you're watching every
Speaker 3: game and when one of those big plays happened, you're
Speaker 3: doubly excited because you're actually what you're Sometimes when you
Speaker 3: play fantasy, you don't you're not watching every game, so
Speaker 3: you don't see those things happen in the playoffs, you are,
Speaker 3: so it's game. See, it's a little more fun when
Speaker 3: it happens. But super flex is the one that just strikes.
Speaker 3: Super flex or more flexes are the ones that make sense.
Speaker 1: To me speaking of is just quick aside when we
Speaker 1: get to do that on this format of the show,
Speaker 1: which I love. Yes, the Texans play too bad real quick.
Speaker 1: That's right, you've worked that matchup. This is going to
Speaker 1: be the first time all year most of the US
Speaker 1: has had a chance to see c J. Stroud. The
Speaker 1: Texans have played nothing but noon starts the higher year.
Speaker 3: I didn't realize until now, I've seen a lot of strouds.
Speaker 1: You know, if you didn't have NFL ticket, you all
Speaker 1: you were seeing were highlights. He's so good. And most
Speaker 1: of the country they know he's good because the stats
Speaker 1: are good whatever, But they they don't know, and they
Speaker 1: don't see it firsthand. They're not seeing him play in
Speaker 1: and playout. CJ. Stroud's great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I wish they got to see him with Tank
Speaker 3: Dell too, and No Brown is you know, we'll see
Speaker 3: if he's healthy enough for the playoffs.
Speaker 1: But he's not playing this week. But they need him.
Speaker 1: If I think the Texans are going to win here,
Speaker 1: they're going to get into the playoffs. I think they're
Speaker 1: gonna be a sneaky, tough team.
Speaker 3: Now they'll be. They'll be a tougher out. They've they've
Speaker 3: fought hard with and you know, late last second beat
Speaker 3: some good teams.
Speaker 1: Yeah, their run defense has gotten way way better, and
Speaker 1: that's their pass defense has got all kinds of injury issues.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it's.
Speaker 1: Here's how I play fantasy in the playoffs. Okay, this
Speaker 1: is this is the charge league. Because there are seven
Speaker 1: of sorry, because there are fourteen teams in the NFL playoffs.
Speaker 1: I play with a league of seven.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: That means everybody gets two team quarterbacks yep, two team kickers,
Speaker 1: two team defense, and I do play with the kicker and
Speaker 1: defense in the playoffs. I think most people do.
Speaker 3: Most people do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I want it here. Then we have exactly
Speaker 1: fourteen roster spots. We have the two team quarterback, kicker
Speaker 1: and defense that I mentioned for running backs, for receivers,
Speaker 1: two tight ends. No bench. Everybody starts every week. That
Speaker 1: you know, everybody starts every week, you know, to make
Speaker 1: any bench starts, which I love, I just draft my
Speaker 1: team and don't have to worry about one bench and
Speaker 1: who I'm starting. I like the no maintenance part of
Speaker 1: it after I've been doing maintenance for all year long.
Speaker 1: Just enjoy it, Yeah, just enjoy it. Yeah, keep the
Speaker 1: team you drafted, score all the points your guys give you.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 3: Yep, that's pretty straightforward. Yep, that's yeah. That's one of
Speaker 3: the more common ones.
Speaker 1: Do you, I think it force?
Speaker 3: Do you just do a draft for a fourteen round draft? Yep?
Speaker 1: Fourteen round drafts?
Speaker 3: Okay, there's there's two versions of that very thing. The
Speaker 3: one is the just draft fourteen you know, seven players each,
Speaker 3: fourteen players each. The second version is you have to
Speaker 3: pick one player from each team.
Speaker 1: Yeah. A lot of the you have to pick one
Speaker 1: player from each team.
Speaker 3: It's it's a little more stressful, either you know, on
Speaker 3: the draft or the selecting or if you're yeah or whatever,
Speaker 3: But yeah, I like yours better.
Speaker 1: So for the leagues where you have you can pick
Speaker 1: one player per team, yes, how chalky do you go?
Speaker 1: As an example, it's the Ravens. Yeah, just taking Lamar Jackson?
Speaker 1: Or do you try to pivot to somebody that gives
Speaker 1: you some upside right, but not everybody else is going
Speaker 1: to have right, because if you go nothing but chalk,
Speaker 1: yeah right, Christian McCaffrey, right, then you go Eagles, Jalen Hurts. Right.
Speaker 1: If you take the most obvious player from each team,
Speaker 1: you've got a very chalk lineup that's gonna match a
Speaker 1: lot of other people and try to deviate some Yeah.
Speaker 3: Mind you, the type of league we're talking about does
Speaker 3: isn't capped at seven people? Yours sounds like a draft,
Speaker 3: and it's a little This is more. You can have
Speaker 3: multiple people because you can all have the same players.
Speaker 1: You could have one hundred. You could have one hundred
Speaker 1: people in that league.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly. I don't I I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 3: It depends on how many teams are in it. But
Speaker 3: I I feel like I just go with what I
Speaker 3: feel is best. Honestly. I think the first thing you
Speaker 3: do with a situation like that is you do out
Speaker 3: the bracket and you see how many games you think
Speaker 3: each team is gonna play, which is huge, and the
Speaker 3: probabilities of that, yes, and then and then you take
Speaker 3: players according to that.
Speaker 1: So I do I I don't think. I don't think
Speaker 1: I'm giving anything away here. I do two brackets for
Speaker 1: the I do two brackets for the NFC, two for
Speaker 1: the AFC. One is a probability one like if this
Speaker 1: plays mostly to form, here's how it's gonna show. And
Speaker 1: then I like che exactly ch and charts and then
Speaker 1: so then I and then I average that. And so
Speaker 1: if I think the Texans could win a game, right,
Speaker 1: that's got to be in the chart side. That's not
Speaker 1: going to be the chalk side, right, Yeah, but I
Speaker 1: you know, but they might, so yeah, that's I do
Speaker 1: the same thing.
Speaker 3: Perfect example is like probably a lot of people, a
Speaker 3: lot of people and probably analysts think Eagles are going
Speaker 3: to win a couple of games, but the way they're
Speaker 3: playing are now.
Speaker 1: Who knows, like even they still could though. That's the
Speaker 1: fun thing. So here's I'll tell you a little bit
Speaker 1: about how I for again, when you can just when
Speaker 1: you can pick a player from every team, which many
Speaker 1: leagues do, I start a tight end because I need
Speaker 1: I want Sam Laporta, and I'm willing to give up
Speaker 1: David Montgomery, Jamiir Gibbs, Jared Goff. I'm on Rossaint Brown
Speaker 1: because if I don't take Sam Laporta, my drop off.
Speaker 1: I need two tight ends, right, so I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: Laporta for one one maybe Kelsey maybe not right, you
Speaker 1: know that's not obvious anymore. Then you know, then I
Speaker 1: can start filling out. Then I stay, Then I can
Speaker 1: start filling out the rest of my positions. Because it's
Speaker 1: so hard to get a tight end.
Speaker 3: Ye yeah, I think. I think that's right. And on
Speaker 3: the on the flip side of it, in fantasy playoffs,
Speaker 3: it's so easy to keep a quarterback.
Speaker 1: It is, isn't it.
Speaker 3: It feels like the teams that make the playoffs they're
Speaker 3: mostly good quarterback teams.
Speaker 1: I agree. You and I have talked about this on
Speaker 1: many past Fantasy football weeklies. Don't neglect the kicker in
Speaker 1: the team defense we do in regular fantasy football because
Speaker 1: especially kickers, because all the kickers score points. But when
Speaker 1: you don't have yours, when you get knocked out, you
Speaker 1: take the Houston kicker and they get knocked out in
Speaker 1: Week one, you got a problem because your opponents are
Speaker 1: all scoring points. Their kickers are scoring points, and you
Speaker 1: don't have one.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, and kickers more than defenses and SFB the last
Speaker 3: two years is have had kickers, and you will see
Speaker 3: this when you look at the best ball scoring versus
Speaker 3: the non best ball scoring of those same teams. The
Speaker 3: floor on kickers is wonderful. So you want as many
Speaker 3: games for that kicker as you can get.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure? For sure. What do you think about
Speaker 1: regular season leagues where they continue they continue it into
Speaker 1: the playoffs. I got a few of these on Twitter,
Speaker 1: including from a semi witty band who says that that's
Speaker 1: how they resolve their regular season league. And you just
Speaker 1: need to figure out, Scott Fish. You got to build
Speaker 1: a roster around which teams you think you're going to
Speaker 1: make the NFL playoffs?
Speaker 3: Yep, I have, I have, I know people that play
Speaker 3: in this. There's actually and I wish I could remember
Speaker 3: who it is. There's a there's an analyst in our
Speaker 3: industry that's specially well known and that's the only way
Speaker 3: he likes to play. That's what his homely does. That
Speaker 3: he loves that, And I can't do it. I want
Speaker 3: my season to be done and then this is my
Speaker 3: relax and just to enjoy a little bit last ditch
Speaker 3: of fantasy. Honestly, but it's fine.
Speaker 1: But what I do, what you like about it is
Speaker 1: only fourteen of thirty two teams get in.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you can't know. I mean you want to,
Speaker 3: you may you have a three percent chance of having
Speaker 3: Justin Jefferson.
Speaker 1: You do right now? Yeah. I just I feel like
Speaker 1: it's adding adding a lot of variables in some luck
Speaker 1: into an already difficult.
Speaker 3: Fan and already yeah, exactly my opinion. I'm not into it.
Speaker 3: But if you enjoy it, I don't. I say this
Speaker 3: all the time. I don't. I'm team no league shaming.
Speaker 3: If it's for you and your people, good.
Speaker 1: I agree, I don't. I'm not gonna say you're doing
Speaker 1: it wrong because I just want you to go have fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1: Ted Phillips from Twitter says that NFL dot COM's got
Speaker 1: a good system where you can pick a new roster
Speaker 1: every week, but your points double, triple, quadruple if you
Speaker 1: keep the same player from your previous week.
Speaker 3: Yep. There are a couple of those that have fun
Speaker 3: multipliers where you can replace your players or you just
Speaker 3: keep them. Those are definitely fun. There are a couple
Speaker 3: sites that you can set those up for free or
Speaker 3: for money or whatever.
Speaker 1: On Twitter, Doug Keating and Maris Sullivan uh said, create
Speaker 1: a roster then once you've selected those players, you can't
Speaker 1: use those players in any following week yep. So you
Speaker 1: gotta fire out when you're gonna use them, and you
Speaker 1: have to. Then you have to create a new roster
Speaker 1: every subsequent round of the playoffs yep, not using any
Speaker 1: of the players you've used a per previous yep.
Speaker 3: So we'll talk about this one for a second, because
Speaker 3: this is one of the more common ones. This is
Speaker 3: my favorite one. It's cold. It's called a one and done.
Speaker 3: It's generally a shorter roster, like it's a five person
Speaker 3: five for six player rosters.
Speaker 1: Super short.
Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, it's usually it's usually a shorter roster because
Speaker 3: you know, you can't use a player twice in there,
Speaker 3: right four rounds?
Speaker 1: So is it all flex? Is it every position flex?
Speaker 3: You can do it however you want. I will start
Speaker 3: off by my Scott Fish Playoff League. The SFPL is
Speaker 3: gonna go into its ninth year this year, and we
Speaker 3: do six players. It's quarterback, running back, wide receiver, tight end,
Speaker 3: two flex. Okay, so it's pretty it's pretty simple that way. Uh,
Speaker 3: this is I'm just gonna plug this, but this this
Speaker 3: year and last year we're doing it for Fantasy Cares.
Speaker 3: We're gonna have like Scott fish Bowl spots. We're gonna
Speaker 3: have signed jerseys. We're gonna have like autograph signed jerseys
Speaker 3: for prizes and stuff.
Speaker 1: Sorry. So wait, I can play playoff fantasy through the
Speaker 1: Scott fish Bowl and Fantasy Care.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I did not know that I need to know
Speaker 1: these things. Yeah, So where where would I go if
Speaker 1: I want to do that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll have it on my Twitter at Scott fish
Speaker 3: twenty four. I'll have it on the fantasycares dot org site,
Speaker 3: probably the fish Bowl site as well. But I'll launch
Speaker 3: that this weekend start taking sign ups. But each year
Speaker 3: we get you know, three to between three hundred and
Speaker 3: six hundred people playing. Wow, but it's just gonna be
Speaker 3: all for charity. But yeah, what it is is it's
Speaker 3: a one and done. You You you pick a five
Speaker 3: or six player lineup each week, but you can't use
Speaker 3: them again. So if you use C. J. Stroud week
Speaker 3: one and they win, you can't use again. So you
Speaker 3: want to pick losers. You want to pick good players
Speaker 3: on bad teams that are gonna lose. So it's a
Speaker 3: completely opposite strategy of some of those other ones.
Speaker 1: That's very interesting. All right? Does it cost anything to
Speaker 1: play this? You are here for We're here for charity, right,
Speaker 1: all right? So I don't think you should have any
Speaker 1: qualms about asking people to pay to play.
Speaker 3: No, I honestly don't know what the I can't remember
Speaker 3: if it's a suggested donation or if it's a thank
Speaker 3: you where like the first five hundred people to donate
Speaker 3: get in or something. I'll have to check off to
Speaker 3: check what our rules are on that. But yes, there
Speaker 3: is a donation, you know, a donation to be made
Speaker 3: and you play in the league, and all right, we'll
Speaker 3: give away jerseys SFB spots.
Speaker 1: Should I go to Fantasycars dot org as my launching
Speaker 1: point for this or just follow you on Twitter and
Speaker 1: see where you link me on Twitter?
Speaker 3: Definitely will do it. I will try to get it
Speaker 3: up on Fantasy or cares dot org as quick as
Speaker 3: I can when it launches this weekend.
Speaker 1: Got it? Okay, let's see Twitter at Adam Eberhart. Thank you, Adam.
Speaker 1: Ten participants each drafts one player from each of the
Speaker 1: playoff teams, so a roster of fourteen no position limits.
Speaker 1: A person could draft fourteen kickers if they wanted to.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 1: Total points, that's it. You can no positional restrictions whatsoever.
Speaker 3: Yep, yep. And it's best ball. Well, it's obviously best
Speaker 3: all times. But I love My favorite thing about those
Speaker 3: is because you pick them, you know, you just pick
Speaker 3: them or draft them whatever, and you're done. You can
Speaker 3: just enjoy it. Just like there are versions of that
Speaker 3: very same thing where if your player gets knocked out,
Speaker 3: you can pick up a new player the next week
Speaker 3: to fill that spot. Those are fun too, They're just
Speaker 3: they're just kind of like in season management. Those like
Speaker 3: I want to relax in my playoffs a little bit
Speaker 3: more than that, I hear you.
Speaker 1: Do you have any other styles of play that we
Speaker 1: should talk about.
Speaker 3: No, Honestly, I think we get on I think we
Speaker 3: actually hit on all of the big ones, like just
Speaker 3: in our natural fluid conversation. Yes, yes, I think we
Speaker 3: got about a minute left if we want to work
Speaker 3: in another quick matchup. I'm just kidding. That's the second
Speaker 3: time I made that joke that too many.
Speaker 1: Is the teams that play in Week eighteen. We already
Speaker 1: said earlier we we're not here to shame your league.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I just are they doing it wrong? And
Speaker 3: the idea, because so look at the starting quarterbacks playing
Speaker 3: this week.
Speaker 1: No kidding, there are six teams, six good teams that
Speaker 1: aren't playing their starters that we know of, and maybe
Speaker 1: more like the Lions could tap out, you know, they
Speaker 1: might play their starters only briefly. I just feel like.
Speaker 3: That that's that's the biggest that's honestly the worst bugaboo
Speaker 3: of it is. It's not the teams that are benching,
Speaker 3: like we see a lot of teams benching their quarterbacks. Lacko,
Speaker 3: a lot of teams benching their quarterbacks. We're going to
Speaker 3: see a crazy amount of backup quarterbacks. It's the teams
Speaker 3: that will start out and then be like it's not
Speaker 3: worth it anymore, that's right, So you start their player.
Speaker 1: Because they're starting Jared Goff starting. Yeah, but little did
Speaker 1: you know it was going to be for two series,
Speaker 1: just to you know, stay warm.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Aman Ross slightly tweaks his ankle exactly, taking no chances. Yes,
Speaker 3: you get no points out of him. Yeah, that's the
Speaker 3: worst part about playing Week eight.
Speaker 1: I just feel like, you know, you've worked for seventeen
Speaker 1: weeks and you're not crowning the right team because just
Speaker 1: too many good players aren't playing in Week eighteen.
Speaker 3: The fantasy already has a very large element of luck
Speaker 3: you don't want to add. Yeah, like this is a
Speaker 3: large amount of luck added to week eighteen.
Speaker 1: It really is which players are in and out and
Speaker 1: you can't know, No, you can't know.
Speaker 3: You can't prepare for it either because most leagues and trading,
Speaker 3: you know, even most I mean.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like the leagues or whatever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but most leagues you can't trade and fix for that, right, so.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, I'll just note this as we're at the
Speaker 1: at the bitter end of this episode. One of my
Speaker 1: Empire leagues, yes, the Oritten. In fact, not only that,
Speaker 1: this is the first Empire league in the world.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 1: The pot now, it's like a decade old pot now
Speaker 1: is sitting at like twelve thousand dollars Jesus, as we've
Speaker 1: been pouring into it waiting for one team to win
Speaker 1: it in back to back years.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 1: Well we had a guy who'ld won it last year,
Speaker 1: got into the championship for boy playing against our mutual
Speaker 1: friend Christian Peterson for the twelve thousand dollars. Because if
Speaker 1: he goes back to back, it's gonna pay it out
Speaker 1: it came down to like a four point game and
Speaker 1: he lost.
Speaker 3: Did Christian say, hey, let's chop the pot.
Speaker 1: Can't. Fortunately, can't do that because he didn't get the pot.
Speaker 1: But it, uh, it's saved. I had banked, I had,
Speaker 1: I had bottomed out. I had four first round picks
Speaker 1: coming into this draft. If the Umpire league had lost
Speaker 1: as them, send it four first round picks.
Speaker 3: To pull my hair out, man, I can't. I can't
Speaker 3: wait till the day that.
Speaker 1: Ends the Empire League.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just gonna be a fun Holy crap. I
Speaker 3: can't believe this. This league just paid out one hundred
Speaker 3: and fourteen.
Speaker 1: Dollars in yeah, in your twenty forty.
Speaker 3: I know how much it goes up per year, but
Speaker 3: that that would be a lot of this.
Speaker 1: I've heard of variations of Empire leagues where they've set
Speaker 1: it up that like, af ten years, if nobody's gone
Speaker 1: back to back, it's the first team to win two. Okay,
Speaker 1: but you could you know, I could see that just
Speaker 1: it doesn't have to be consecutive. It's just give us
Speaker 1: your second win.
Speaker 3: Yep. I used to do not Empire but progressive pots,
Speaker 3: where it was win two within three years and two
Speaker 3: within five years.
Speaker 1: So yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3: That's the easy way to try.
Speaker 1: Way to do it, and all right, thanks Scott. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's fun getting to our off season shows. Yes, we'll
Speaker 1: get to just be so much more.
Speaker 3: Free and do whatever we It's fun, just great, it's fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks for listening, everybody. We'll be back next week.
Speaker 1: We'll be previewing playoff games next week. Yes, unbelievable that
Speaker 1: it's already there.
Speaker 3: It's awesome.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't wait. Talk to you late everybody.
Speaker 3: Bye bye.
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