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Speaker 1: Now here's your host. Welcome to the first offseason edition
Speaker 1: of Fantasy Football Weekly for the year twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: I am Paul Charchy in my coast today, Matt Harrison, Hey, charge, Hi,
Speaker 1: it's weird to change the format up, isn't it. It's
Speaker 1: it's weird to do the show from your kitchen, Yes,
Speaker 1: but I don't mind it. We've been in the studio
Speaker 1: for a year. It's uh, it is different, but it's
Speaker 1: a little relaxing not to be breaking down sixteen games.
Speaker 1: So you and I have been in the fantasy world
Speaker 1: for a while now, and uh, I always found out
Speaker 1: that like two weeks after like football completely done every year,
Speaker 1: I would get sick because it was just like the
Speaker 1: high end, the rush of like going and going and
Speaker 1: going in the holidays and Christmas and New Year's and
Speaker 1: all that stuff, and then the playoffs hit and at
Speaker 1: you know, at League Safe, we did all of our
Speaker 1: allocations and stuff and all the busy season there and
Speaker 1: then just collapse. Then you just collapse for like for
Speaker 1: like three or four days, just die. So common thing.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to stay healthy right now. That's right, We're
Speaker 1: doing the show while you're healthy. I like that as well.
Speaker 1: You should. The purpose of this particular fantasy football weekly,
Speaker 1: and we'll will come to you every week during the
Speaker 1: off season is to get you ready for playoff fantasy
Speaker 1: football and we're gonna talk about different ways to play strategies.
Speaker 1: And one of the biggest things for me, Matt, is
Speaker 1: this is the training ground for new rules, new concepts,
Speaker 1: and things you've always did that maybe your league has
Speaker 1: been debating trying, but you're not sure you wanted to try. Yeah,
Speaker 1: things that you can do like in in in season
Speaker 1: and a league, like scoring changes and rosters and that
Speaker 1: kind of thing. Yeah, those those things definitely make sense.
Speaker 1: An auction used to be you know, for a long
Speaker 1: time when talked before everybody's auction you we're like, hey,
Speaker 1: if nothing else, just try the auction for your playoffs.
Speaker 1: That's a great idea and then you'll know how to
Speaker 1: run an auction and if you like the concept for
Speaker 1: your regular season. Now Unfortunately, there's not a lot of
Speaker 1: services out there that provide a good playoff fantasy football platform.
Speaker 1: So on the auction side, you'd have to do those live,
Speaker 1: I think, because I don't think that there's a service
Speaker 1: out there right now do it over Zoom? I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe it might be. It might be a little tricky,
Speaker 1: but uh yeah, if you had an auctioneer, if you
Speaker 1: had one person who is sort of a dedicated auctioneer
Speaker 1: to just sort of track right, and if you did
Speaker 1: it over zoom, you could use like you know, like
Speaker 1: in a real auction, people hold up the sign with
Speaker 1: their number on it, right, they could do that. Gosh,
Speaker 1: if you have a bad connection at your house and
Speaker 1: you're buffering though, just frozen. But no, it would be
Speaker 1: a problem. How about this idea for Zoom. It's effectively
Speaker 1: a zoom blind auction. Okay, everybody, everybody shows up with
Speaker 1: a white board. Yes, I already know where you're going
Speaker 1: with that. But if the player comes up right, so
Speaker 1: and you get one bit it's Jonathan Taylor's you write
Speaker 1: down one number, and everybody shows their number at the
Speaker 1: same time, and you pay. The high person pays there
Speaker 1: whatever they wrote down, or if you want to be
Speaker 1: easier on them one dollar more than the next niest person.
Speaker 1: That would be fun, wouldn't it. Yeah, I think we
Speaker 1: should try that. I think I will try it. Let's
Speaker 1: do that. Okay, I'll be in a league with you. Then. God, um,
Speaker 1: I've already got one of the person who wants to
Speaker 1: be in a playoff league. So yeah, well, and it
Speaker 1: wouldn't be hard to but you don't have you don't
Speaker 1: have somebody who wants to be in a white board auction.
Speaker 1: But you have to. That's going to be the rule
Speaker 1: of the rule on this if you have to, actually
Speaker 1: don't need an auctioneer for that one. You don't need that, correct,
Speaker 1: and everybody can just throw it a different guy and
Speaker 1: you put up your I love it. I think I
Speaker 1: think there's something to this. It'd be really fun. Yeah. Um,
Speaker 1: all right, so try new things, uh, new scoring systems,
Speaker 1: new rules, new ideas, whatever you've got. Okay, how do you,
Speaker 1: Matt create your cheat sheet or player projections? So regardless
Speaker 1: of how you're playing, you want to have the player
Speaker 1: who's going to play the most games and score the
Speaker 1: most points. Well, I'm glad you said projection because I
Speaker 1: think that's kind of how you have to play this
Speaker 1: is you have to project what the total points for
Speaker 1: the player will be over the course of the playoffs.
Speaker 1: If you're going to take a player from the Eagles,
Speaker 1: for instance, like Jalen Hurts, he's probably only gonna play
Speaker 1: one game, Whereas if you're taking a player from the Packers,
Speaker 1: they might get you know, a home win in there
Speaker 1: there first divisional game, so they might get too if
Speaker 1: they make it the Super Bowl, they might get three.
Speaker 1: But if you take Tom Brady for instance, he's gonna
Speaker 1: have a wild card game and they could make the
Speaker 1: run again and he could get four. So four is
Speaker 1: the ultimate is the is the gold mine is And
Speaker 1: not every year in fact, man of years, most years
Speaker 1: no team plays four games. But when you can get
Speaker 1: a team to play four games, that is a huge advantage.
Speaker 1: Well and now with only one team getting to buy
Speaker 1: in the NFL, you're probably going to get one team
Speaker 1: that gets four games in just about every year. So um,
Speaker 1: I was trying to look at the scoring system when
Speaker 1: I do it, and look at the scoring system and
Speaker 1: see what that player would average in that scoring system.
Speaker 1: If it's you know, fifteen point three average points in
Speaker 1: that scoring system. You can kind of bank that, and
Speaker 1: if you're really really smart, you can start looking at
Speaker 1: defensive matchups that they might get on the horizon. Tennessee
Speaker 1: is gonna play the lowest seed in the a f
Speaker 1: C in all likelihood, since they'll probably get the one seed.
Speaker 1: So you could see, well, Derrick Henry is going to
Speaker 1: go up against maybe the Raiders terrible run defense, or
Speaker 1: the or the Chargers terrible run defensive. Either of those
Speaker 1: teams win a wild card game. So that makes you know,
Speaker 1: a running back like that even more interesting. Well, you're
Speaker 1: you're touching on the main thing that I do is
Speaker 1: I actually map out they the full playoff brackets and
Speaker 1: who I think is going to win, and I do
Speaker 1: it two different times. So I will I'll I'll map
Speaker 1: it all out, and I will do a very chalky
Speaker 1: one that's mostly the favorites winning, although it's you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes the seeds don't necessarily equate to the favorites. That's
Speaker 1: true because the wild card team could be better, a
Speaker 1: better visional team. And then I'll do one that's like
Speaker 1: what I my opinion on who I think is gonna win,
Speaker 1: which is never the chalk. And you know that you
Speaker 1: know it's not always the same. So then I just
Speaker 1: then I blend those two together, the chalk version and
Speaker 1: the charge version, and I estimate how many games everybody's
Speaker 1: going to play, so that I can say, Okay, I
Speaker 1: think Jonathan Taylor is going to play two or three
Speaker 1: games or two and a half games, and that really
Speaker 1: drives my player projections for the playoffs. Yeah, and remember,
Speaker 1: home field advantage is never meant less in the National
Speaker 1: Football League than it has the last two years. It's
Speaker 1: almost a five record for home teams and away teams.
Speaker 1: So these are all good playoff teams, right, Good teams
Speaker 1: are traveling into these home stadiums. It's not necessarily the
Speaker 1: one seed, the two seed, the three seed are going
Speaker 1: to automatically move. Well, some listeners right now we're saying, okay,
Speaker 1: that's fine last year with no fans in the stands. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's almost the same record this year. Well, not in
Speaker 1: the playoffs, you just mean NFL season. It's just about
Speaker 1: home and away teams. Interesting, Okay, I did not know that. Okay,
Speaker 1: So now let's talk about some of the formats and
Speaker 1: styles from playoff fantasy football. Um, how many of them
Speaker 1: involved white boards? Tragically, not. But you know, if you
Speaker 1: give me enough time, I'll come up with this. Well,
Speaker 1: we're probably gonna come your standard league that we're going
Speaker 1: to talk about here. We could do that with a whiteboard.
Speaker 1: Well we could do the whiteboard auction style that. Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: But first we need to take a break, so we'll
Speaker 1: be back in just a moment. Here, we'll put in
Speaker 1: We'll get a quick break, and then let's talk about
Speaker 1: four different ways you can play playoff fantasy football. Welcome
Speaker 1: back Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Charchi and Matt Harrison with you.
Speaker 1: You can follow Matt at Explosive Output on Twitter Shock Fantasy.
Speaker 1: Do you we have a Shock Fantasy playoff cheat sheet? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I will put those up early next week once the
Speaker 1: playoff field is sinalized and standing, and I'll be going
Speaker 1: through a couple of different formations, just like like you
Speaker 1: said I was. I was wearing my air Bear T
Speaker 1: T shirt a couple of days ago at that I
Speaker 1: got you got yours on black, I got mine on blue.
Speaker 1: I think that I think the blue is the way
Speaker 1: I got a few different colors. All right, let's talk
Speaker 1: about formats for the playoffs, and I want to start
Speaker 1: here I'm gonna go first because I have the I
Speaker 1: have like the standard way to play on my side
Speaker 1: of the ledger, what I think is the stand way
Speaker 1: to play. So there's four teen NFL teams in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: so I like playing with exactly seven teams in the league.
Speaker 1: And that means because that gives everybody two team quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: two team kickers, and two team defenses. And I do,
Speaker 1: I do think you should play with kicker and defense
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. You know, the pool is so much
Speaker 1: smaller right that here I I whereas I don't generally
Speaker 1: like to play with kicker and defense, I'll I don't
Speaker 1: mind it, but I don't know some people hate it anyway.
Speaker 1: So everybody gets two team quarterbacks, two team kickers, to
Speaker 1: team defense. I play with four running backs, four wide receivers,
Speaker 1: two tight ends, and those are rigid you have to have.
Speaker 1: It's not it's not no I'm gonna go for six
Speaker 1: running backs and three wide receivers. Nope, exactly that number.
Speaker 1: And it ends up making the scarcer positions like running
Speaker 1: back a little more valuable because somebody's got a roster
Speaker 1: for and the next you know, before long, somebody's rostering
Speaker 1: you know Khalil Herbert. Well, it's a bad example of
Speaker 1: Kali ground Yeah, the ground bear. He's not he's talking
Speaker 1: about it in the playoffs unfortunately. Bad example. Yeah. But
Speaker 1: but like Miles Sanders and Boston Scott and all those
Speaker 1: backup Eagles running back they'll be in. They'll be in. Now.
Speaker 1: There's no moves, there's no bench, there's no trades. Everybody's
Speaker 1: a starter, and you're just playing it out and use
Speaker 1: score points for as long as your guys are live,
Speaker 1: that's it. And when and when your guys are eliminated,
Speaker 1: they score zero, they score zero obviously. That's it. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's very very straightforward. It feels like regular fantasy football,
Speaker 1: except there's no start bench. Um, you hold a draft
Speaker 1: much like you do or an auction much like you
Speaker 1: do uh in a regular league. And that's it. So
Speaker 1: that's my that's my standard fantasy league. I've been running
Speaker 1: this playoff league for twenty years. That's that's your standard.
Speaker 1: And I have a standard fantasy league that I've been
Speaker 1: running for about eight or nine years now. Um And
Speaker 1: and if anybody wants to play, follow Shock Fantasy on
Speaker 1: Twitter and I'll probably put out the link and open
Speaker 1: it up to some invitations for people to play. But
Speaker 1: this is more of a contest game. It doesn't limit
Speaker 1: it to seven teams, and it's more of a DFS
Speaker 1: style game where you have a salary cap on each player.
Speaker 1: I set the salary cap for each player. Uh, you
Speaker 1: pick your team for the whole playoffs. It is rigid
Speaker 1: roster construction, just like your league. But every team in
Speaker 1: the league has a shot at every player. Every team
Speaker 1: could roster Cooper Cup, every team could roster Tom Brady
Speaker 1: if they wanted to. So um, But just like yours,
Speaker 1: no moves. When you lose your players, they get a
Speaker 1: zero for the rest of the playoffs. And in my league,
Speaker 1: I believe we allow you to enter up to three times,
Speaker 1: so you can you can take three shots. Do you
Speaker 1: think that Kansas City and Green Bay meeting the Super Bowl?
Speaker 1: You might want to stack a whole bunch of Chiefs
Speaker 1: and Packers and put those together. Do you think it's
Speaker 1: a Tampa Buffalo Super Bowl? Oh, you could get a
Speaker 1: lot of points out of that by getting four games
Speaker 1: out of each of those teams if that works. So,
Speaker 1: how many people can play in this unlimited number? Right?
Speaker 1: Or unlimited? I think I set my maximum on I
Speaker 1: run it through my NCY league, and I set my maximum.
Speaker 1: I believe at either one or two hundred teams. The
Speaker 1: last couple of years, we've gotten teams for the most part,
Speaker 1: So if you're when you're competing, it's that many players.
Speaker 1: Let's talk strategy for just a menia. Sure, I have
Speaker 1: founded my small league with seven teams. The team's almost
Speaker 1: always that do best are the ones who diversify across
Speaker 1: a lot of different the players across a lot of
Speaker 1: different NFL teams. Um, so you don't get shut out fast.
Speaker 1: And all you need is you know, you get three
Speaker 1: or four guys so the Super Bowl and you've got
Speaker 1: a chance. From what we've seen out of the winners
Speaker 1: in the past few years, it's been dual team stacks.
Speaker 1: It's been in a stack in the NFC and and
Speaker 1: and that kind of works. But how you diversify is
Speaker 1: you take the weird guy that maybe is a little
Speaker 1: higher price than the other or you you you you
Speaker 1: diversify the same way you're doing a DFS game. Find
Speaker 1: a guy that's going to have a low ownership percentage
Speaker 1: and you try to attack that player and put that
Speaker 1: one your roster alright, And in that format I can pick,
Speaker 1: it's still salary captive, it's some way, so I'm still
Speaker 1: going to have to do some some juggling. Yep. So
Speaker 1: you can't just pick, you know, the best player from
Speaker 1: every team across the board. It just won't allow you.
Speaker 1: So understood, alright. My second of two formats for the
Speaker 1: playoffs is a four man roster. You're big into the
Speaker 1: number four teams, that's why. And you get exactly one
Speaker 1: player from each team, and you have to fill out
Speaker 1: another rigid roster of two quarterbacks, three running backs, three receivers,
Speaker 1: two tight ends, too, defenses, two kickers, and you get
Speaker 1: one player from each team anybody want, anybody you want? Simple, simple, right,
Speaker 1: kind of like my game, but no salary, just a
Speaker 1: limit on which team you're getting. You get one guy
Speaker 1: from each team. That's it, so you can't stack. And
Speaker 1: then the process becomes a little more interesting because everybody's
Speaker 1: so many people are gonna have Davante Adams. Are you
Speaker 1: gonna pivot to Marcus Velda Scantley is going to be
Speaker 1: your packer, right, just to give you some diversification, and
Speaker 1: looking at like the tight end position, how many people
Speaker 1: are gonna have Travis Kelsey in there a lot and
Speaker 1: a lot, and if George Kittle makes the playoffs with
Speaker 1: the Niners, a lot of George Kittles. So it'll be
Speaker 1: interesting to see how people diversify there. Do you want
Speaker 1: to take Mahomes instead? Do you want to take Tyreek
Speaker 1: Hill instead? Do you want to get wacky and take
Speaker 1: Darryl Williams who could be in line for an absolutely
Speaker 1: awesome playoff run here? It is possible, actually yes, I mean,
Speaker 1: if you know, we don't know what we think. Clyde
Speaker 1: Edwards Alaire maybe available, but honestly, he he never really
Speaker 1: got back the big top workload that I thought he
Speaker 1: would get back after he came back from this previous injury.
Speaker 1: I remember last year at this time, we were all
Speaker 1: trying to decide Ronald Jones or Leonard four Net for
Speaker 1: the playoffs, and I was on the wrong side. Fournet
Speaker 1: got no runing, nothing all regular season, nothing, and then
Speaker 1: went berserk. Yeah, alright, So that's my second one fourteen
Speaker 1: fourteen man roster. Because there's fourteen teams, pick one guy
Speaker 1: and from each team and fill out two quarterbacks, through
Speaker 1: running backs to receivers, two tight ends, two kickers to defense,
Speaker 1: your fourth and your second of two playoff formats. Matt, Well,
Speaker 1: mine's kind of similar to yours, um, and this is
Speaker 1: a playoff hold him game. And actually the nff c
Speaker 1: UH National Fantasy Football Championship they run a really cool one.
Speaker 1: Uh here's how there's works, and you can set up
Speaker 1: your own similar to this if you want to on
Speaker 1: my fantasy league right now. And I'm not affiliated with
Speaker 1: my fantasy league anyway, but they have free playoff uh
Speaker 1: fantasy football available for we like the guys behind and
Speaker 1: we do like we do like Mike and Tony and yeah,
Speaker 1: so the NFC, their format is a hold him game,
Speaker 1: and so it's a little bit different. You have two
Speaker 1: quarter backs, three running backs for wide receivers or tight ends,
Speaker 1: so four receivers, one flex, a kicker, and a defense.
Speaker 1: And in the first round of the playoffs, just like yours,
Speaker 1: you can only have one player from each team, but
Speaker 1: only in the first round. In the first round, it's
Speaker 1: a twelve man roster and you can only have one
Speaker 1: player from each team, so you'll leave well, well, there's
Speaker 1: two teams that are they are on by in the
Speaker 1: first round. You could leave those on by, but have
Speaker 1: my only chance to get a packer. But wait, there's more.
Speaker 1: If you hold a player from your wild card round
Speaker 1: on your roster and keep them on your roster, their
Speaker 1: multiplier goes up from one to two, goes from one
Speaker 1: to two. So so if you get Aaron Rodgers and
Speaker 1: just let him sit in week one for now, I
Speaker 1: get double points and get double points, triple points, a
Speaker 1: week three, tuple points. So in the divisional round, the
Speaker 1: second round, you can have up to two players from
Speaker 1: each team on your roster. How do I add somebody later?
Speaker 1: You get to you get to go in and manually
Speaker 1: change your roster every week on the site. But I
Speaker 1: have to, Okay, can I Can I make any roster
Speaker 1: I want? You can make any roster you want, Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, even in week even in the second round.
Speaker 1: So I can make any roster, you can change it.
Speaker 1: But if you change anything, that guy's restarting at one
Speaker 1: x yep. So, for instance, let's say you had I'm
Speaker 1: trying to think of a guy who's going to play
Speaker 1: in the first round for sure, Uh, Dallas, Dallas Collas Cowboys, Dallas,
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys or Dallas. Let's see if Dallas Goddard in
Speaker 1: the first round, they win, they move on to the
Speaker 1: second round. If you keep Dallas Goddard in that spot
Speaker 1: in the divisional round, he gets two times the point,
Speaker 1: which I would want. If Dallas Goddard gets hurt and
Speaker 1: Philly moves on, you'd probably want to replace him, so
Speaker 1: you'd get a new tight end and that guy would
Speaker 1: be at only one X. So when you get to
Speaker 1: the third round, the conference championship round, some of those
Speaker 1: players can be up to three X and you can
Speaker 1: now have three players from each team on your roster
Speaker 1: to fill out the twelve man roster. And then when
Speaker 1: you get to the Super Bowl, you can have four
Speaker 1: players from each team, so your roster is paired down
Speaker 1: to eight. So your your roster requirements aren't as rigid
Speaker 1: in Super Bowl week, but but you can have you know,
Speaker 1: the four X multiplier on on a couple of different players.
Speaker 1: I like the The reason I like this format is
Speaker 1: you get the feeling you could have a thrilling come
Speaker 1: from behind. You know, you're in the middle of the
Speaker 1: pack going into the super Bowl, and then here comes
Speaker 1: your three and four X guys that have big games
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl, and you come back to the Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I think the key in that one is too
Speaker 1: forecast who might be the best player on a team
Speaker 1: that can play four games, who's the best fantasy player
Speaker 1: on a team that could play four and then you
Speaker 1: want to get them in your lineups. Week one will
Speaker 1: help you project which players will do well in the
Speaker 1: first round of the playoffs next week when some matchups. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll know the matchups, will break them down. Sim start,
Speaker 1: We're gonna break them down. F FW. Stuff we're gonna do.
Speaker 1: We're going to brief versions. We're not doing full versions.
Speaker 1: It's too long, it's too much. But we'll do is
Speaker 1: I know, I know, we'll do the fast versions of
Speaker 1: those games. Um and and it'll be fun. Yeah, looking
Speaker 1: forward to the playoffs. The great thing about working in
Speaker 1: our business in the in the real football playoffs is
Speaker 1: for the most part, we're not working those games, and
Speaker 1: I just enjoy them. It'll be great. I I absolutely
Speaker 1: adore the divisional round of the playoffs. Like, that's my
Speaker 1: favorite week of the year. You get the two on Saturday,
Speaker 1: you get the two on Sunday. If you don't have
Speaker 1: anything going on, you can just PLoP yourself down on
Speaker 1: the couch order of pizza and have a six pack
Speaker 1: next to you and just watch these awesome games between
Speaker 1: awesome teams every time. The wild card round doesn't often
Speaker 1: give you the best matchups, but the divisional round it's
Speaker 1: usually the cream of the crop in that round and
Speaker 1: you get four great games. Yeah that's um, those are
Speaker 1: those games are a ton of fun. The have a
Speaker 1: strong bend towards going too. Not that we can bet
Speaker 1: here in Minnesota, but if I were to, we can
Speaker 1: drive to we can drive to Iowa. Bet the the
Speaker 1: wild The teams that win in that wild card round
Speaker 1: but beat bad teams flop the next week. So like
Speaker 1: I think, the Eagles are an easy out. So you know,
Speaker 1: whoever gets the Eagles in round one is going to
Speaker 1: easily advance to round two and then I go against
Speaker 1: that team. That makes sense. Yeah, we'll see. Uh. Thank
Speaker 1: you for listening. Yeah, thanks Matt, Yeah, thank you for listening.
Speaker 1: She showed up and you listened and you talked. Thank
Speaker 1: you for everybody else who has listened. We'll be back
Speaker 1: next week to break down playoff games fantasy style and
Speaker 1: help give some guidance for those that are playing in
Speaker 1: a variety of different formats. We'll talk to you then, everybody,
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