WEBVTT - Playoff Formats 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:04.160 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of I Heart Radio. 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:09.640 Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from my Heart Radio, 0:00:09.920 --> 0:00:14.320 your weekly source for the nation's best fantasy football advice, speculation, 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:18.040 and whatever stupid stuff they decided to drop into the show. Now, 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:24.040 here's your host, Paul. Welcome to our first off season edition, 0:00:24.760 --> 0:00:27.800 Fantasy Football Weekly. I'm Paul Charchi and co host today 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:31.960 Brian Johnson. It's uh, it feels weird talking about the 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:37.040 off season wins Week eighteen, but it's the fantasy off season. 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:39.800 What a week it has been. It really has um 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:43.880 as of this morning, Friday morning, all excellent news on tomorrow, Hamlin, 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:48.120 and that it looks like, you know, optimistically, everything's gonna 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:50.680 work out great. Yeah, he supposedly was on like a 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:54.320 zoom call with the team. Yeah, of course that's a 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:56.840 private manner, but I think everyone would love to see 0:00:56.880 --> 0:00:59.840 that video at some point because yeah, for sure that 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:03.200 a great, pretty heartwarming stuff there really is. And um, 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:07.240 from from his standpoint, it really it could not have 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:10.080 worked out any better. I think, as horrific as the 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:12.440 whole thing. And it's in totality, you know, it sure 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:14.119 looks like at the end of the day, there's no 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:17.080 reason to think that he will not come out of 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:19.600 this in in in great shape, And whether or not 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:23.720 that means an NFL career does not matter to me 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:26.479 at all whatsoever. Um. You know, it may turn out 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:29.680 that whatever, you know, whatever condition he had, may prevent 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:32.200 him from ever playing the NFL again, But who cares. 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:35.080 You know, you know you're gonna be alive, and you 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:37.680 know gonna gonna have a you know, presumably a great 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:39.640 rest of his life. And I don't want to speculate 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:42.959 that he's gonna play again, but I there is a chance, 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:47.000 just based on Chris Pronger, the hockey player, he got 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:49.520 hit in the chest with a like a slapshot or 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:52.240 something in the same essentially the same thing happened. You 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:55.280 wanted to cardiac cardiac arrest. But uh, he went on 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:59.000 to play like twelve years after that. So hopefully hopefully 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:01.320 can play again for sure. Uh. Over the course of 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:04.720 the show, we're gonna talk about how commissioners and leagues 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:08.000 should deal with the Bills, Bengal situation, and resolving your 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:10.639 championship from last week. There's still some leagues out there 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:12.840 that are unsettled. We'll give you some broad based advice 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:15.360 on that. Um, we're gonna talk about how to play 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:19.760 in the playoffs. We love fantasy football in the NFL 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:23.440 playoffs super fun. You get to try do things we'll 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:25.400 give you. We'll talk about how we like to play 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:28.639 UM and how to disperse players for that. And then 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:30.000 at the end of the show, I want to talk 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:33.160 about some of your prefer DFS angles for Week A team. Yeah, 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:36.600 it's probably one of the better weeks to play DFS 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:39.400 if you're one of the trick you right, if you're brave. 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:41.919 There's there's a lot of people that just opt out 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:44.440 of Week eighteen or make bad angles on Week A 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:48.680 team just because they assume big game players are gonna 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:50.920 play when they're not. And I we'll talk about the 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:53.639 teams you should really be focusing on, and probably those 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:55.560 teams you should be fading. And then but then some 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:58.360 guys chasing some incentives in But yeah, we'll get to 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:00.080 that in a little bit. Sounds good. Let's start with 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:03.919 commissioners and leagues that still have a Week seventeen championship 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:07.240 to figure out. Uh. The advice that I've been giving people, 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:11.800 Brian is first and foremost for commissioners, ask your first 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:14.600 and second place teams to work it out among themselves. Really, 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:16.520 we don't want to make you into the bad guy. 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:20.240 And my goal is to not have the commissioner have 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:24.040 to make a call between who wins and who loses. 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:31.120 And if we have found overwhelmingly the teams that were 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:32.880 in the finals have have been able to work it 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:35.680 out themselves in an equitable fashion, and that's the best thing. 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:39.640 And we we should preface this with that we're talking 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:44.280 solely private leagues, home league, you call him. Any contest 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:47.480 operator out there, they had to make the tough choice 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:50.080 to just not count, like they can't go to projected 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:52.920 points or we're not talking about No, we're not talking 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:58.560 about home friends and family leagues. Yes, yea um, and 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:00.480 so but then if your first since I could place 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:03.560 teams can't work it out, now it's back on you, 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:05.920 commissioner to have to make some kind of ruling. This 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:08.920 is not ideal. I know there's some commissioners that that 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:11.480 really think they've they dig the power trip of being 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:15.400 the commissioner and they want to own this decision. But again, 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:18.440 this is not the this is not the best spot 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:20.920 for this. The worst thing I think any commissioner can 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:24.839 do is use any form of past performance because you 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:27.720 are picking a winner. Yeah, and that's I don't think 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:30.960 that's ever. That's not a healthy position to put yourself 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:33.840 in his commissioner and put the loser in because at 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:36.080 that point, you know, we've seen people recommend things like, well, 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:40.480 I'm taking the average of the players performances over the 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:43.880 month of December because that's more recent, and I'm averaging 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:46.680 those and I'm applying him to the week seventeen. I'm like, jeez, 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:49.400 this is you are putting yourself in a position to 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:52.480 to pick winners and that is not good. And projected 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:55.000 points to kind of falls in that bucket. I think 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:59.840 those aren't real their projections and yep, and even PA 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:02.919 points projected points, they're all based, you know, on the 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:07.560 average performance. But most of the times the players have 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:09.720 spike weeks, so you can't you know, one week they 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:13.200 have thirty points and then the two. So yeah, I'm 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:15.080 not a fan of either of those routes. Really, I'll 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:18.280 say this, if one of the two teams was highly 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:20.880 likely to win, you know, if this if they played 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:22.440 the game a hundred times and this one team was 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:25.719 gonna win the time, then I would probably just go ahead. 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:27.760 And you know, again, if I'm a commissioner who has 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:30.159 to make the call and one of them is overwhelmingly favorite, 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:32.120 then I would just pick that person. We're in an 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:34.600 Empire league together and I was in the third place game, 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:38.640 not playing you, and I've had like a chance to win, 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:41.640 And I talked to the other manager her and I said, hey, 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:44.440 if he was a little closer, I would totally split 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:46.479 this with you. And he was he was like, he 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:48.080 was sotly. Finally he's like, yeah, you you were gonna 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:50.320 beat me, so like really cool. And another league, I 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:52.760 was in third place game it would have come down 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:54.840 to the wire probably and I said, I was like, 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:56.800 let's split it, and he said, I'm fine with that. 0:05:56.800 --> 0:05:58.440 We were gonna play Week eight team, but we were 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:01.280 kind of like, we're kind of tired of season, but 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:05.680 third place, So yeah, that's that's definitely a good alternative. Now, 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:08.040 if the outcome is in doubt and your commissioner has 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:11.280 to make a ruling, um, your ruling can be I'm 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:13.200 splitting the pot. I'm just not getting in the You 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:15.000 guys are splitting the pot. You two couldn't come up 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:16.760 with a solution. But I'm doing it for you. I'm 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:19.720 splitting the pot. Totally valid to do that as a commissioner, 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:25.000 and in just in terms of like emotionally setting you know, 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:27.279 putting out, putting yourself in a position to be the 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:30.599 bad person, that's a very safe way to go. Just 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:33.640 you know, Brian, you're gonna split the pot with Fish. 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:36.000 You two guys. You know, I'm sorry that it worked 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:38.440 out this way, but you know that's it. That's my ruling. 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:41.680 And then the other is I think the final scenario 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:44.720 that you could use, but I really don't like it. 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:47.080 As you again, you can't use pass performance, but if 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:49.640 you want to play out week eighteen you could. I 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:51.880 don't like it. Many good players are not going to play, 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:54.640 so I really don't recommend it. But that's so that's 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:57.320 the that's the scenario again. Ideally, the first and second 0:06:57.320 --> 0:07:00.680 place teams working out among themselves. If they can't, the commissioner, 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:02.839 you gotta get involved. If one team was highly likely 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:04.960 to win, make that team the winner. If the outcome 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:06.919 was in doubt, I'd split the pot. And if you 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:09.520 still can't do that, then I would play out Week teens. 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:12.440 One other option I've heard, which I don't love, but 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:14.720 I like it better than the past performance of their 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:18.680 projected points is you can swap in your highest scoring 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:22.480 bench players that could fill you know, oh yeah from 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:29.560 last week best effective approach. Yeah, I had. I had 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:32.320 one league, my Whiskey League, my coveted Whiskey League, which 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:35.200 I love. It's it's run by Scott Steve's aban in 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:40.240 in Milwaukee, and uh and Washington and um. It came 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:42.080 down to me and versus one other guy and again 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:45.480 the so Guillotine League. All seventeen losers sent a bottle 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:47.480 of whiskey into the winner. And I'm in the finals. 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:51.160 I'm up by two points heading into Monday night. I 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:55.880 have Jamaar Chase, but he had Josh Allen Tee Higgins, 0:07:57.280 --> 0:08:01.800 So I conceded. I didn't want to um, but there 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:04.520 wasn't a very very you know, the only scenario really 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:08.280 were Jamaar Chase was gonna outscore Josh Allen and tie Higgins. 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:11.120 Either te Higgins was gonna have to get iced for 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:14.640 the whole game or get hurt. Well, you know, Josh Allen, 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:16.760 he kind of tweaked his knee a little bit. It 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:19.119 did a little bit. I mean, you're still gonna play. 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:21.680 But yeah, I think you deserve at least a couple 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:23.960 of bottles out of that. I'm hoping. I'm hoping the 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:29.280 winner sees it that way. He's Josh and listening. Okay, 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:32.880 let's talk about planning and playing in the playoffs. Yeah, Brian, 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:37.120 perfect time first, the perfect time to test drive any 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:42.439 scoring system changes you're contemplating. Its particularly scoring system. Uh, 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:44.800 there's so many other weird things about the way that 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:46.720 you play in the playoffs that a lot of the 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:48.800 other things that you might be contemplating you can't do. 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:52.400 But if you've always wanted to try tight end point 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:54.920 and a half PPR, if you want you whatever, whatever, 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:57.040 whatever you're thinking about, this is a there's a good 0:08:57.040 --> 0:09:00.040 opportunity to test drive it. We encourage you to to, 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:03.160 uh to try. Yeah, And if you still use kickers 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:05.320 and defense in your league, this is the perfect time 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:07.480 to not do it and see how when you do 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:12.080 do it in the playoffs. Absolutely, absolutely, all right, here's 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:13.440 how I would set it up, and that's how I 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:16.920 do set it up. So, first, your playoff league should 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:19.800 have seven teams, and that's because there are fourteen teams 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:22.600 that get into the NFL playoffs, So you want seven 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:26.800 teams participating in it because that way everybody gets two 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:31.280 and exactly to team quarterbacks, team kickers, and team defense. 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:34.199 If you want to use, it's the perfect time, everect 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:36.640 time to use that. I'll defer to you. I guess fine, 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:40.600 but yeah, totally seven seven. You can go less two, 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:43.400 but seven max, Yeah, seven, seven. I think seven is 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:48.360 perfect because it forces people into really undesirable teams. And 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:52.240 you know, everybody's gonna have two quarterbacks, so who's gonna 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:54.800 get that last team that nobody wants? And you know, 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:57.240 I love it. I think seven is the perfect number. 0:09:57.240 --> 0:10:00.120 But Okay, you're right, you can play with less for 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:03.720 those and then because again, because there's four teen teams left, 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:08.560 I'd use exactly fourteen roster spots, Brian, So that would 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:14.480 be we We already mentioned the two team kickers, the 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:18.600 two team quarterbacks, the two team defense. That's six or fourteen, 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:21.800 three running backs, three receivers, a tight end, and reflex 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:26.920 that brings you a fourteen fourteen roster spots fourteen NFL teams. 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:29.920 Now that's gonna open up a few things. I'm talking 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:33.280 about a second, Uh, there's no bench. Everybody scores so 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:36.720 no bench, no bench start, it's everybody place. The playoffs, 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:38.880 you don't even have many that many guys going, and 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:40.920 due to Bie weeks and stuff, you know, like the 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:43.840 Eagles aren't gonna go. Uh, there are no transactions to 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:46.720 be made. Your draft is the final thing. No transactions 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:50.840 the key to winning in the playoffs. You want to 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:52.959 identify teams that are gonna play three or four games. 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:56.480 That's the single biggest thing is who's gonna Who's gonna 0:10:56.960 --> 0:11:00.960 which which teams like San Francisco. You think San Francisco 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:03.840 could easily make a run everyone whatever, whether the ninth 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:08.760 strate and the most sorry, most desirable is the teams 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:11.280 that can make a run. But also I don't have 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:13.960 a buy in San Francisco that the perfect for that, 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:16.080 right and it looks like Buffalo is shaping up to 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:20.080 be that team right now. Uh in Kansas City probably 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:22.679 will be the one seed Buffalo. You know, you could 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:24.240 get four games out of Buffalo, you can get four 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:26.440 games out of San Francisco. That puts a huge premium 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:41.000 on those players for sure. All Right, and then the 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:42.840 last thing I want to mention from just a strategy 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:45.640 standpoint is as you're as you're holding your draft, your auction. 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:47.400 We're gonna talk about how to disperse players. In a 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:53.680 second quarterbacks, kickers and defenses in real in regular season 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:57.320 fantasy especially, kickers and defense are not very important. Here 0:11:57.400 --> 0:12:01.040 they are because the reason and they're not important in 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:03.800 the in the regular season is they're all about the same, 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:06.280 they don't They all score about the same and everyone 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:08.520 has and everyone has on it. But in the playoffs, 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:11.439 when your kicker gets knocked out, Dang, there's eleven points 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:14.720 I'm not getting every week. Even dang there's two points. 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:19.280 I'm not getting every point every Kickers and defenses have 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:23.880 way more importance in the playoffs, like for the good teams. 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:28.160 You'll see those guys going before, like you know, Travis e. 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:30.560 T N assuming that the Jaguars and the playoffs, like 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:35.000 I'd rather have the Bills defense, yes, which makes it 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:37.200 really fun. It's another part of the playoffs. Okay, yeah, 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:39.760 I'm I'm wormed back up to kickers and defense and 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:42.720 proud of you, proud of you. So now the question 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:44.360 is how to disperse the players. Of course, you can 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:47.240 just have a draft. That's easy, but what are some 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:50.920 other things you could do? Obviously, the auction. I love, 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:55.400 we love auctions. UM auctions have some limitations this time here. 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:58.200 I don't think like you can use the ESPN auction 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:00.680 engine or the Yahoo auction engine for the playoffs. But 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:04.080 maybe you can. I'm not sure about that. So mostly 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:07.720 it might just be getting everybody together in one place, 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:11.120 one time. It could be getting everybody together on his zoom. Yeah, 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:13.480 and Matt had his white board idea to tell people 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:17.000 about it. I think I got I haven't done this 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:19.080 yet with him. I think it's a really good idea. 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:20.599 But yeah, you'll have a white board. It could just 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:21.640 be a piece of paper. You don't have to have 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:24.160 a white board. But you know, player makes it easier. 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:29.560 It does. The player goes up you know whoever Patrick Mahomes. 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:32.599 Everyone has twenty seconds to write down a number and 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:34.839 then you all flip flip up your white bar and 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:37.880 whoever is the camera and then but what happens if 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:42.960 there's a tie? Uh you left it tweet? I think 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:45.160 a tie. I think if you and I both flip 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:47.520 up fourteen, Patrick Mahomes, that we both have a fourteen 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:49.960 written down, everybody else is out, then you and I 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:52.400 have to write a new number. That's at least fourteen 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:56.200 well probably or at least fifteen probably right, Like like, 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:58.560 if I'm willing to I only want to go one 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:00.480 more dollar, but you're willing to go to more than 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:05.160 you'll you'll ultimately win. Patrick Um. So there's the the 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:08.200 white Board Zoom Auction League, which I think makes a 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:11.240 lot of sense. The other thing you can do we 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:16.600 mentioned there's exactly fourteen roster spots. Everybody just picks one 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:20.640 player from each NFL team, fill your anybody you want. 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:24.120 So then the question is do you get do you 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:26.800 go with the chalk like, okay, so I can I'm 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:30.360 allowed one forty niner? Do I take Christian McCaffrey. With 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:33.960 that kind of setting, I like where you you do 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:35.840 it every you can also do it every week. You 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:39.400 pick it, you know, set a lineup. But you can 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:42.280 only use a player once. So if I use McCaffrey 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:43.960 in the wild guard around, I can I can't use 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:47.200 them again for the rest of the the rest of 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:50.560 the playoffs. Yeah, that's more work than I'm usually willing 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:52.960 to do. I just say, you know, draft everybody you 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:54.920 know to give you one player from every team, and 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:57.040 that scales infinitely. You can you can have any number 0:14:57.040 --> 0:14:59.280 of teams if you do that right. If I say 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:01.720 I don't need to just have seven teams in my 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:03.840 playoff league, I can have as many as I want 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:06.800 to have a thousand teams. Knowing that with all the 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:09.120 variations of play, if I said, give me one player 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:12.400 from fourteen different teams, enough people not everybody, you know, 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:14.320 Christian McAffrey, some people are gonna be like, I'm going 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:17.280 George Kemmel. Some people are gonna go, I'm going Niners defense, 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:21.400 which would be totally, totally cool. Niners defense is awesome 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:24.720 and they could play four games. We're talking about how great, 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:26.840 how much of an advantage it is to have a defense. 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:29.480 So there's so many different strategies and ways you can 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:31.720 go that way. Yeah, you certainly want to go contrarian, 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:35.480 uh at some positions, because yeah, most people will probably 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:39.440 pick Christian McCaffrey from Most people are gonna pick probably 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:43.760 Travis Kelsey, yeah, from the Chiefs for their tight end. 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:46.760 But yeah, it's a swing for the Fences movie. Yeah, 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:49.200 if the Chiefs get knocked out and you just pick 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:52.760 Travis Kelsey or Patrick Mahomes or some other people, most 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:54.480 other people in your league have and you didn't and 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:57.680 then you're you're you're in a good spot. Correct, correct, 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:02.600 So um, that's the that's that's how you disperse players 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:04.080 is really up to and you can have a lot 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:05.600 of fun with that. Most people will still just do 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:08.200 a draft, but um, yeah, I love the I love 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:10.280 the playoff leaks. And regardless of how you if you 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:13.440 just do a regular draft or a regular auction, um 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:17.640 you in my mind and this this is the best 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:19.680 ball strategy to I play a lot of best ball 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:23.880 playoff leagues. You want to kind of not go all in, 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:28.480 but go hard on a team that's all based off 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:30.720 who who's available with your first pick, say you know 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:35.280 it's like first overall pick, I get Josh Allen, almost 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:42.320 ignore the ADP and just go grab Gabe Davis. Over leagues, 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:44.400 you do have to do some stacking in the playoffs 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:47.080 and just hope that team does play three and four games. Yeah, 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:49.280 and then if I'm heavy on the bills with the 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:51.160 Chiefs or an a f C team, I'm trying to 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:53.960 fill my other roster spots with NFC guys because you 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:57.760 don't want to be eliminating your own players from the 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:01.320 same conference. So a definitely a high level strategy you 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:02.840 want to keep in mind and think it all depends 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:04.760 on how many teams are in and in a seven 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:08.600 team league, I don't do that because it's too easy 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:10.240 to get beat out. And I'm just having run these 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:12.840 for twenty five years, I've found that the best the 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:16.720 approach that wins the most the people who I diversify. 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:20.560 So yeah, all right, let's talk. Um let's talk through 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:23.639 a week a teen DFS options. Brian, You've done a 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:26.320 bunch of work here, Um I have. I've got some 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:28.480 of the team motivations in front of me, but you've 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:31.719 put specific You've put some specific work into some advice 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:34.800 for people. It's it's kind of high level stuff too. 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:37.439 I mean in Week eighteen DFS, which used to be 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:40.000 Week seventeen, in terms of the last week, it's it's 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:44.480 really more about motivation than the matchup. And uh so 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:48.439 we're gonna talk most sites. The main slate is just 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:52.560 the early afternoon, late afternoon games on Sunday. So unfortunately 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:57.439 this weekend that's going to remove motivated teams. Uh Kansas 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:00.680 City in the city Tennessee, Jacksonville on set matter day. 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:05.280 Green Bay is on Sunday night playing Detroit who could 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:09.040 be or not. Detroit's gonna go at green Bay hard. 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:11.359 And I think Dan Campbell's gonna play the win no 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:14.359 matter what. Definitely, uh. And you know, talking to Chad 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:17.600 Greenway today, he felt like team's gonna team would be 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:21.399 Lions will be trickier if they've been eliminated, because he 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:23.520 thinks they'll be looser, they'll be more willing to take 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:27.440 chances gamble um. He thinks they're they're more dangerous team 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:30.280 if the Lions have actually been eliminated, which could make 0:18:30.320 --> 0:18:32.199 some sense. You know, there's not exactly a lot of 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:35.520 playoff pedigree and what would effectively be a playoff game 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:38.320 for the Lions. Outside of Jared Goff, I can see 0:18:38.359 --> 0:18:40.000 them being a little bit tight in a game that 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:42.159 means this much. You know, the Lions haven't played a 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:45.560 meaningful final week of the season game in I don't know, 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:49.639 twenty years. I wholeheartedly agree with that, Like, if they 0:18:49.720 --> 0:18:55.640 got nothing to lose, yeah, and green Bay's got everything 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:56.920 on the line at that point, I mean they do 0:18:57.080 --> 0:19:00.080 either way, but yeah, I'm with you there. Um it 0:19:00.560 --> 0:19:03.920 back to the main slate on Sunday. Not a ton 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:06.240 of teams that are gonna be motivated. But you certainly 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:10.600 want to be targeting well now, but we we basically 0:19:10.600 --> 0:19:15.479 know how the Cincinnati Buffalo situation is playing out or 0:19:15.520 --> 0:19:19.679 how they won't resume the game. Cincinnati Buffalo are motivated, 0:19:20.119 --> 0:19:23.360 as are their opponents. Uh, the Ravens playing the Bengals. 0:19:23.520 --> 0:19:25.960 Ravens are highly motivated for this game. They've got many 0:19:25.960 --> 0:19:29.320 playoffs scenarios that unfrill with wins here and New England 0:19:29.400 --> 0:19:33.440 and playing Buffalo, they win, has to win eligible. Yes, 0:19:33.680 --> 0:19:37.760 Miami needs to beat the Jets, they'll make the playoffs. Pittsburgh, Uh, 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:41.120 well motivated as well against Cleveland. So those are teams 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:44.359 you want to target. Seattle certainly, and all these teams 0:19:44.560 --> 0:19:47.000 mentioned so far are in the one o'clock window, one 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:52.800 eastern window. UM Philly playing an unmotivated Giants team, even 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:56.119 though the Giants have said they're gonna they're not playing, 0:19:56.119 --> 0:19:59.560 they're started. If the Giants play their starters at all, 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:01.679 of some steak. If they play their starters more than 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:06.000 a series or two, it's a mistake. Now, so the 0:20:06.040 --> 0:20:09.119 Philly Philly is going to beat the Giants. I mean 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:11.639 that you Philly is going to beat them. So so 0:20:11.920 --> 0:20:16.200 Dallas and San Francisco will still have something to play 0:20:16.200 --> 0:20:18.120 for that they'll both be playing for the two seed. 0:20:18.160 --> 0:20:21.159 But there's gonna be a little scoreboard watching there. They 0:20:21.200 --> 0:20:24.760 both play in the late afternoon. If Dallas and San 0:20:24.800 --> 0:20:29.040 Francisco's winning, Yeah, but I'm saying that so Dallas can 0:20:29.040 --> 0:20:31.119 get the two seeds, you know, like they have to 0:20:31.119 --> 0:20:34.080 get loss. They have to get a Philly loss, which 0:20:34.119 --> 0:20:37.640 isn't gonna happen. So yeah, it means Dallas not gonna 0:20:37.640 --> 0:20:41.480 be too motivated. So Off is not going to be motivated. 0:20:41.600 --> 0:20:44.159 And you know, of course all these unnotivated teams and 0:20:44.160 --> 0:20:45.840 the teams that are well out of the playoffs, Yeah, 0:20:45.840 --> 0:20:47.879 they're gonna want to take a look at guys. But 0:20:48.800 --> 0:20:51.920 you're really playing with fire, trying to guess how much 0:20:52.000 --> 0:20:54.960 usage of player is gonna get, like especially the star 0:20:55.040 --> 0:20:58.040 players on a bad team. What's what's what's the point 0:20:58.200 --> 0:21:01.080 in that? But I have identify I Well, I wanted 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:03.280