WEBVTT - Playoff fantasy football 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:04.040 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of I Heart Radio. 0:00:06.160 --> 0:00:09.520 Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from I Heart Radio, 0:00:09.800 --> 0:00:14.200 your weekly source for the nation's best fantasy football advice, speculation, 0:00:14.360 --> 0:00:17.200 and whatever stupid stuff they decided to drop into the show. 0:00:17.680 --> 0:00:23.320 Now here's your host. Welcome to the first offseason edition 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:27.360 of Fantasy Football Weekly for the year twenty twenty two. 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:31.680 I am Paul Charchy in my coast today, Matt Harrison, Hey, charge, Hi, 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:35.000 it's weird to change the format up, isn't it. It's 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:37.200 it's weird to do the show from your kitchen, Yes, 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:40.839 but I don't mind it. We've been in the studio 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:45.160 for a year. It's uh, it is different, but it's 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:48.600 a little relaxing not to be breaking down sixteen games. 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:52.760 So you and I have been in the fantasy world 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:56.440 for a while now, and uh, I always found out 0:00:56.520 --> 0:01:01.440 that like two weeks after like football completely done every year, 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:03.840 I would get sick because it was just like the 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:05.960 high end, the rush of like going and going and 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:08.760 going in the holidays and Christmas and New Year's and 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:11.040 all that stuff, and then the playoffs hit and at 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:12.560 you know, at League Safe, we did all of our 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:15.520 allocations and stuff and all the busy season there and 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:18.240 then just collapse. Then you just collapse for like for 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:22.520 like three or four days, just die. So common thing. 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:24.560 I'm trying to stay healthy right now. That's right, We're 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:27.280 doing the show while you're healthy. I like that as well. 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:31.160 You should. The purpose of this particular fantasy football weekly, 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:32.720 and we'll will come to you every week during the 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:36.839 off season is to get you ready for playoff fantasy 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:41.720 football and we're gonna talk about different ways to play strategies. 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:45.280 And one of the biggest things for me, Matt, is 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:49.559 this is the training ground for new rules, new concepts, 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:51.600 and things you've always did that maybe your league has 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:55.559 been debating trying, but you're not sure you wanted to try. Yeah, 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:58.880 things that you can do like in in in season 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:01.840 and a league, like scoring changes and rosters and that 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:04.320 kind of thing. Yeah, those those things definitely make sense. 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:05.920 An auction used to be you know, for a long 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:08.160 time when talked before everybody's auction you we're like, hey, 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:11.160 if nothing else, just try the auction for your playoffs. 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:13.519 That's a great idea and then you'll know how to 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:15.600 run an auction and if you like the concept for 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:18.160 your regular season. Now Unfortunately, there's not a lot of 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:23.079 services out there that provide a good playoff fantasy football platform. 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:27.160 So on the auction side, you'd have to do those live, 0:02:27.600 --> 0:02:29.680 I think, because I don't think that there's a service 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:33.440 out there right now do it over Zoom? I think, yeah, 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:36.160 maybe it might be. It might be a little tricky, 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:38.400 but uh yeah, if you had an auctioneer, if you 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:40.680 had one person who is sort of a dedicated auctioneer 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:44.040 to just sort of track right, and if you did 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:45.880 it over zoom, you could use like you know, like 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:47.640 in a real auction, people hold up the sign with 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:50.560 their number on it, right, they could do that. Gosh, 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:52.320 if you have a bad connection at your house and 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:56.880 you're buffering though, just frozen. But no, it would be 0:02:56.880 --> 0:03:01.120 a problem. How about this idea for Zoom. It's effectively 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:06.799 a zoom blind auction. Okay, everybody, everybody shows up with 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:09.400 a white board. Yes, I already know where you're going 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:12.079 with that. But if the player comes up right, so 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:15.240 and you get one bit it's Jonathan Taylor's you write 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:17.880 down one number, and everybody shows their number at the 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:22.760 same time, and you pay. The high person pays there 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:25.280 whatever they wrote down, or if you want to be 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:29.760 easier on them one dollar more than the next niest person. 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:32.679 That would be fun, wouldn't it. Yeah, I think we 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:34.480 should try that. I think I will try it. Let's 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:37.640 do that. Okay, I'll be in a league with you. Then. God, um, 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:39.160 I've already got one of the person who wants to 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:40.600 be in a playoff league. So yeah, well, and it 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:42.400 wouldn't be hard to but you don't have you don't 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:45.240 have somebody who wants to be in a white board auction. 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:47.840 But you have to. That's going to be the rule 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:51.160 of the rule on this if you have to, actually 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:54.920 don't need an auctioneer for that one. You don't need that, correct, 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:56.960 and everybody can just throw it a different guy and 0:03:57.040 --> 0:03:59.200 you put up your I love it. I think I 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:03.280 think there's something to this. It'd be really fun. Yeah. Um, 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:06.960 all right, so try new things, uh, new scoring systems, 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:11.240 new rules, new ideas, whatever you've got. Okay, how do you, 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:16.640 Matt create your cheat sheet or player projections? So regardless 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:18.640 of how you're playing, you want to have the player 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:20.600 who's going to play the most games and score the 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:24.040 most points. Well, I'm glad you said projection because I 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:26.280 think that's kind of how you have to play this 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:29.479 is you have to project what the total points for 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:31.720 the player will be over the course of the playoffs. 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:34.719 If you're going to take a player from the Eagles, 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:38.600 for instance, like Jalen Hurts, he's probably only gonna play 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:41.240 one game, Whereas if you're taking a player from the Packers, 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:43.680 they might get you know, a home win in there 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:47.080 there first divisional game, so they might get too if 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:48.680 they make it the Super Bowl, they might get three. 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:52.120 But if you take Tom Brady for instance, he's gonna 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:54.080 have a wild card game and they could make the 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:56.560 run again and he could get four. So four is 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:58.760 the ultimate is the is the gold mine is And 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:00.920 not every year in fact, man of years, most years 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:04.240 no team plays four games. But when you can get 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:07.640 a team to play four games, that is a huge advantage. 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:10.039 Well and now with only one team getting to buy 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:13.720 in the NFL, you're probably going to get one team 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:17.800 that gets four games in just about every year. So um, 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:19.680 I was trying to look at the scoring system when 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:22.600 I do it, and look at the scoring system and 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:25.719 see what that player would average in that scoring system. 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:28.880 If it's you know, fifteen point three average points in 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:31.880 that scoring system. You can kind of bank that, and 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:36.440 if you're really really smart, you can start looking at 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:40.560 defensive matchups that they might get on the horizon. Tennessee 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:42.839 is gonna play the lowest seed in the a f 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:45.479 C in all likelihood, since they'll probably get the one seed. 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:48.960 So you could see, well, Derrick Henry is going to 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:52.640 go up against maybe the Raiders terrible run defense, or 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:55.479 the or the Chargers terrible run defensive. Either of those 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:58.360 teams win a wild card game. So that makes you know, 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:00.960 a running back like that even more interesting. Well, you're 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:03.080 you're touching on the main thing that I do is 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:08.520 I actually map out they the full playoff brackets and 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:09.880 who I think is going to win, and I do 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:13.640 it two different times. So I will I'll I'll map 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:16.160 it all out, and I will do a very chalky 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:20.800 one that's mostly the favorites winning, although it's you know, 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:23.520 sometimes the seeds don't necessarily equate to the favorites. That's 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:26.040 true because the wild card team could be better, a 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:28.960 better visional team. And then I'll do one that's like 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:32.080 what I my opinion on who I think is gonna win, 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:33.760 which is never the chalk. And you know that you 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:35.960 know it's not always the same. So then I just 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:38.719 then I blend those two together, the chalk version and 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:42.200 the charge version, and I estimate how many games everybody's 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:44.960 going to play, so that I can say, Okay, I 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:47.159 think Jonathan Taylor is going to play two or three 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:49.360 games or two and a half games, and that really 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:52.440 drives my player projections for the playoffs. Yeah, and remember, 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:55.560 home field advantage is never meant less in the National 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:57.880 Football League than it has the last two years. It's 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:00.760 almost a five record for home teams and away teams. 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:04.320 So these are all good playoff teams, right, Good teams 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:08.000 are traveling into these home stadiums. It's not necessarily the 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:09.840 one seed, the two seed, the three seed are going 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:13.320 to automatically move. Well, some listeners right now we're saying, okay, 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:16.200 that's fine last year with no fans in the stands. Yeah, 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:18.880 it's almost the same record this year. Well, not in 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:26.760 the playoffs, you just mean NFL season. It's just about 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:30.800 home and away teams. Interesting, Okay, I did not know that. Okay, 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:33.160 So now let's talk about some of the formats and 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:37.880 styles from playoff fantasy football. Um, how many of them 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:42.480 involved white boards? Tragically, not. But you know, if you 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:44.160 give me enough time, I'll come up with this. Well, 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:46.840 we're probably gonna come your standard league that we're going 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:49.280 to talk about here. We could do that with a whiteboard. 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:52.600 Well we could do the whiteboard auction style that. Yeah, absolutely, 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:56.000 But first we need to take a break, so we'll 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:58.640 be back in just a moment. Here, we'll put in 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:00.760 We'll get a quick break, and then let's talk about 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:15.760 four different ways you can play playoff fantasy football. Welcome 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:18.560 back Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Charchi and Matt Harrison with you. 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:22.600 You can follow Matt at Explosive Output on Twitter Shock Fantasy. 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:26.320 Do you we have a Shock Fantasy playoff cheat sheet? Yeah? 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:29.040 I will put those up early next week once the 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:31.920 playoff field is sinalized and standing, and I'll be going 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:34.600 through a couple of different formations, just like like you 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:37.760 said I was. I was wearing my air Bear T 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:39.520 T shirt a couple of days ago at that I 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:43.360 got you got yours on black, I got mine on blue. 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:44.800 I think that I think the blue is the way 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:49.319 I got a few different colors. All right, let's talk 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:53.160 about formats for the playoffs, and I want to start 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:55.840 here I'm gonna go first because I have the I 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:58.280 have like the standard way to play on my side 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:00.280 of the ledger, what I think is the stand way 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:03.480 to play. So there's four teen NFL teams in the playoffs, 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:07.360 so I like playing with exactly seven teams in the league. 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:11.760 And that means because that gives everybody two team quarterbacks, 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:15.360 two team kickers, and two team defenses. And I do, 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:17.120 I do think you should play with kicker and defense 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:19.199 in the playoffs. You know, the pool is so much 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:22.320 smaller right that here I I whereas I don't generally 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:24.240 like to play with kicker and defense, I'll I don't 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:26.559 mind it, but I don't know some people hate it anyway. 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:30.360 So everybody gets two team quarterbacks, two team kickers, to 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:33.679 team defense. I play with four running backs, four wide receivers, 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:39.480 two tight ends, and those are rigid you have to have. 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:41.840 It's not it's not no I'm gonna go for six 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:46.040 running backs and three wide receivers. Nope, exactly that number. 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:50.319 And it ends up making the scarcer positions like running 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:52.760 back a little more valuable because somebody's got a roster 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:56.760 for and the next you know, before long, somebody's rostering 0:09:56.960 --> 0:09:59.160 you know Khalil Herbert. Well, it's a bad example of 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:03.319 Kali ground Yeah, the ground bear. He's not he's talking 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:07.160 about it in the playoffs unfortunately. Bad example. Yeah. But 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:10.680 but like Miles Sanders and Boston Scott and all those 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:13.800 backup Eagles running back they'll be in. They'll be in. Now. 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:17.520 There's no moves, there's no bench, there's no trades. Everybody's 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:19.480 a starter, and you're just playing it out and use 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:21.720 score points for as long as your guys are live, 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:24.439 that's it. And when and when your guys are eliminated, 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:28.160 they score zero, they score zero obviously. That's it. I mean, 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:32.040 it's it's very very straightforward. It feels like regular fantasy football, 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:35.520 except there's no start bench. Um, you hold a draft 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:37.240 much like you do or an auction much like you 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:40.760 do uh in a regular league. And that's it. So 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:43.440 that's my that's my standard fantasy league. I've been running 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:46.280 this playoff league for twenty years. That's that's your standard. 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:48.320 And I have a standard fantasy league that I've been 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:51.240 running for about eight or nine years now. Um And 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:54.640 and if anybody wants to play, follow Shock Fantasy on 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:57.880 Twitter and I'll probably put out the link and open 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:00.200 it up to some invitations for people to play. But 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:03.160 this is more of a contest game. It doesn't limit 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:06.319 it to seven teams, and it's more of a DFS 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:10.959 style game where you have a salary cap on each player. 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:13.360 I set the salary cap for each player. Uh, you 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:15.520 pick your team for the whole playoffs. It is rigid 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:19.080 roster construction, just like your league. But every team in 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:21.120 the league has a shot at every player. Every team 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:24.400 could roster Cooper Cup, every team could roster Tom Brady 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:27.600 if they wanted to. So um, But just like yours, 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:29.439 no moves. When you lose your players, they get a 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:32.080 zero for the rest of the playoffs. And in my league, 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:35.040 I believe we allow you to enter up to three times, 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:37.480 so you can you can take three shots. Do you 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:40.679 think that Kansas City and Green Bay meeting the Super Bowl? 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:42.760 You might want to stack a whole bunch of Chiefs 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:45.280 and Packers and put those together. Do you think it's 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:48.319 a Tampa Buffalo Super Bowl? Oh, you could get a 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:50.800 lot of points out of that by getting four games 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:52.600 out of each of those teams if that works. So, 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:55.000 how many people can play in this unlimited number? Right? 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:58.959 Or unlimited? I think I set my maximum on I 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:02.199 run it through my NCY league, and I set my maximum. 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:05.680 I believe at either one or two hundred teams. The 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:09.520 last couple of years, we've gotten teams for the most part, 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:12.800 So if you're when you're competing, it's that many players. 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:15.400 Let's talk strategy for just a menia. Sure, I have 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:18.800 founded my small league with seven teams. The team's almost 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:22.560 always that do best are the ones who diversify across 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:24.920 a lot of different the players across a lot of 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:28.640 different NFL teams. Um, so you don't get shut out fast. 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:30.400 And all you need is you know, you get three 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:31.880 or four guys so the Super Bowl and you've got 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:34.320 a chance. From what we've seen out of the winners 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:37.440 in the past few years, it's been dual team stacks. 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:41.720 It's been in a stack in the NFC and and 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:45.200 and that kind of works. But how you diversify is 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:48.880 you take the weird guy that maybe is a little 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:52.160 higher price than the other or you you you you 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:54.920 diversify the same way you're doing a DFS game. Find 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:57.280 a guy that's going to have a low ownership percentage 0:12:57.559 --> 0:12:59.760 and you try to attack that player and put that 0:12:59.840 --> 0:13:03.160 one your roster alright, And in that format I can pick, 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:06.680 it's still salary captive, it's some way, so I'm still 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:09.360 going to have to do some some juggling. Yep. So 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:12.200 you can't just pick, you know, the best player from 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:15.480 every team across the board. It just won't allow you. 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:19.440 So understood, alright. My second of two formats for the 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:27.079 playoffs is a four man roster. You're big into the 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:31.240 number four teams, that's why. And you get exactly one 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:33.959 player from each team, and you have to fill out 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:37.520 another rigid roster of two quarterbacks, three running backs, three receivers, 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:41.040 two tight ends, too, defenses, two kickers, and you get 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:46.400 one player from each team anybody want, anybody you want? Simple, simple, right, 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:49.680 kind of like my game, but no salary, just a 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:52.040 limit on which team you're getting. You get one guy 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:55.200 from each team. That's it, so you can't stack. And 0:13:55.240 --> 0:14:00.679 then the process becomes a little more interesting because everybody's 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:04.120 so many people are gonna have Davante Adams. Are you 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:08.839 gonna pivot to Marcus Velda Scantley is going to be 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:12.120 your packer, right, just to give you some diversification, and 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:14.439 looking at like the tight end position, how many people 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:17.360 are gonna have Travis Kelsey in there a lot and 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:19.680 a lot, and if George Kittle makes the playoffs with 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:22.600 the Niners, a lot of George Kittles. So it'll be 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:25.360 interesting to see how people diversify there. Do you want 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:27.440 to take Mahomes instead? Do you want to take Tyreek 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:29.400 Hill instead? Do you want to get wacky and take 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:32.400 Darryl Williams who could be in line for an absolutely 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:35.880 awesome playoff run here? It is possible, actually yes, I mean, 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:39.000 if you know, we don't know what we think. Clyde 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:43.160 Edwards Alaire maybe available, but honestly, he he never really 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:45.440 got back the big top workload that I thought he 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:48.320 would get back after he came back from this previous injury. 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:50.240 I remember last year at this time, we were all 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:53.400 trying to decide Ronald Jones or Leonard four Net for 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:57.840 the playoffs, and I was on the wrong side. Fournet 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:04.040 got no runing, nothing all regular season, nothing, and then 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:08.920 went berserk. Yeah, alright, So that's my second one fourteen 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:12.880 fourteen man roster. Because there's fourteen teams, pick one guy 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:16.280 and from each team and fill out two quarterbacks, through 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:19.000 running backs to receivers, two tight ends, two kickers to defense, 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:24.400 your fourth and your second of two playoff formats. Matt, Well, 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:26.760 mine's kind of similar to yours, um, and this is 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:30.440 a playoff hold him game. And actually the nff c 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:34.160 UH National Fantasy Football Championship they run a really cool one. 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:36.840 Uh here's how there's works, and you can set up 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:39.040 your own similar to this if you want to on 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:42.640 my fantasy league right now. And I'm not affiliated with 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:46.680 my fantasy league anyway, but they have free playoff uh 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:49.840 fantasy football available for we like the guys behind and 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:53.200 we do like we do like Mike and Tony and yeah, 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:57.960 so the NFC, their format is a hold him game, 0:15:58.040 --> 0:15:59.720 and so it's a little bit different. You have two 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:04.080 quarter backs, three running backs for wide receivers or tight ends, 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:07.840 so four receivers, one flex, a kicker, and a defense. 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:10.440 And in the first round of the playoffs, just like yours, 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:13.760 you can only have one player from each team, but 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:15.560 only in the first round. In the first round, it's 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:17.760 a twelve man roster and you can only have one 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:21.080 player from each team, so you'll leave well, well, there's 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:22.440 two teams that are they are on by in the 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:26.360 first round. You could leave those on by, but have 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:29.760 my only chance to get a packer. But wait, there's more. 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:34.600 If you hold a player from your wild card round 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:39.160 on your roster and keep them on your roster, their 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:43.000 multiplier goes up from one to two, goes from one 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:46.600 to two. So so if you get Aaron Rodgers and 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:48.200 just let him sit in week one for now, I 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:51.040 get double points and get double points, triple points, a 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:55.880 week three, tuple points. So in the divisional round, the 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:59.280 second round, you can have up to two players from 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:02.240 each team on your roster. How do I add somebody later? 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:04.280 You get to you get to go in and manually 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:07.919 change your roster every week on the site. But I 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:10.280 have to, Okay, can I Can I make any roster 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:12.480 I want? You can make any roster you want, Okay, 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:14.440 all right, even in week even in the second round. 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:16.760 So I can make any roster, you can change it. 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:19.600 But if you change anything, that guy's restarting at one 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:23.040 x yep. So, for instance, let's say you had I'm 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:24.600 trying to think of a guy who's going to play 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:30.480 in the first round for sure, Uh, Dallas, Dallas Collas Cowboys, Dallas, 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:33.040 Dallas Cowboys or Dallas. Let's see if Dallas Goddard in 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:35.480 the first round, they win, they move on to the 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:39.359 second round. If you keep Dallas Goddard in that spot 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:41.680 in the divisional round, he gets two times the point, 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:44.720 which I would want. If Dallas Goddard gets hurt and 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:48.480 Philly moves on, you'd probably want to replace him, so 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:50.320 you'd get a new tight end and that guy would 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:52.760 be at only one X. So when you get to 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:55.560 the third round, the conference championship round, some of those 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:57.320 players can be up to three X and you can 0:17:57.359 --> 0:17:59.920 now have three players from each team on your roster 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:02.360 to fill out the twelve man roster. And then when 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:04.280 you get to the Super Bowl, you can have four 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:06.880 players from each team, so your roster is paired down 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:10.800 to eight. So your your roster requirements aren't as rigid 0:18:10.920 --> 0:18:13.600 in Super Bowl week, but but you can have you know, 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:16.520 the four X multiplier on on a couple of different players. 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:19.359 I like the The reason I like this format is 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:22.000 you get the feeling you could have a thrilling come 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:25.040 from behind. You know, you're in the middle of the 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:27.720 pack going into the super Bowl, and then here comes 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:30.359 your three and four X guys that have big games 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:32.560 in the Super Bowl, and you come back to the Yeah, 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:35.880 so I think the key in that one is too 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:40.400 forecast who might be the best player on a team 0:18:40.480 --> 0:18:44.399 that can play four games, who's the best fantasy player 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:46.520 on a team that could play four and then you 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:49.760 want to get them in your lineups. Week one will 0:18:49.800 --> 0:18:54.119 help you project which players will do well in the 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:57.160 first round of the playoffs next week when some matchups. Yeah, 0:18:57.200 --> 0:19:00.320 we'll know the matchups, will break them down. Sim start, 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:03.280 We're gonna break them down. F FW. Stuff we're gonna do. 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:07.119 We're going to brief versions. We're not doing full versions. 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:11.760 It's too long, it's too much. But we'll do is 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:14.919 I know, I know, we'll do the fast versions of 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:18.960 those games. Um and and it'll be fun. Yeah, looking 0:19:19.040 --> 0:19:20.919 forward to the playoffs. The great thing about working in 0:19:20.960 --> 0:19:23.280 our business in the in the real football playoffs is 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:26.040 for the most part, we're not working those games, and 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:29.880 I just enjoy them. It'll be great. I I absolutely 0:19:30.040 --> 0:19:32.959 adore the divisional round of the playoffs. Like, that's my 0:19:33.040 --> 0:19:35.400 favorite week of the year. You get the two on Saturday, 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:37.199 you get the two on Sunday. If you don't have 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:40.159 anything going on, you can just PLoP yourself down on 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:43.160 the couch order of pizza and have a six pack 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:46.280 next to you and just watch these awesome games between 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:49.200 awesome teams every time. The wild card round doesn't often 0:19:49.200 --> 0:19:52.080 give you the best matchups, but the divisional round it's 0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:54.159 usually the cream of the crop in that round and 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:57.720 you get four great games. Yeah that's um, those are 0:19:57.760 --> 0:20:00.240 those games are a ton of fun. The have a 0:20:00.280 --> 0:20:05.920 strong bend towards going too. Not that we can bet 0:20:05.960 --> 0:20:09.080 here in Minnesota, but if I were to, we can 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:12.359 drive to we can drive to Iowa. Bet the the 0:20:13.119 --> 0:20:15.600 wild The teams that win in that wild card round 0:20:15.840 --> 0:20:19.240 but beat bad teams flop the next week. So like 0:20:19.240 --> 0:20:21.720 I think, the Eagles are an easy out. So you know, 0:20:21.760 --> 0:20:24.119 whoever gets the Eagles in round one is going to 0:20:24.160 --> 0:20:26.680 easily advance to round two and then I go against 0:20:26.680 --> 0:20:30.760 that team. That makes sense. Yeah, we'll see. Uh. Thank 0:20:30.800 --> 0:20:35.840 you for listening. Yeah, thanks Matt, Yeah, thank you for listening. 0:20:36.400 --> 0:20:39.320 She showed up and you listened and you talked. Thank 0:20:39.320 --> 0:20:41.280 you for everybody else who has listened. We'll be back 0:20:41.320 --> 0:20:43.880 next week to break down playoff games fantasy style and 0:20:44.080 --> 0:20:45.800 help give some guidance for those that are playing in 0:20:45.800 --> 0:20:48.320 a variety of different formats. 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