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Speaker 1: thirty four. This is the b F Apps. He is
Speaker 1: Frank Stample. I am a gran sauceman, gay top it man.
Speaker 1: A happy hump day to you. But what are you
Speaker 1: wearing today? What do you think I have? There are
Speaker 1: a lot of thoughts going through my mind right now. Positive.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize until right this second. I saw a
Speaker 1: clip from the NBA Fantasy Twitter earlier today and I
Speaker 1: thought to myself, what is Greg Waring? And now I
Speaker 1: just wondered aloud what you are wearing? Are positive? Thoughts? No,
Speaker 1: I don't know, man compliments earlier. So I bote this
Speaker 1: like two or three years ago. Right, I went to the
Speaker 1: the north stroom. This is cool, right, this is a
Speaker 1: cool thing because it's a sports jacket. It's also like
Speaker 1: a sweatshirt. I see that, right, It's like this, the
Speaker 1: hoodie meets the blazer, right, so it's almost like an
Speaker 1: AJ style stuff of the here, right, but like whoa
Speaker 1: who he meets the blazer, and it's like I wasn't
Speaker 1: sure what the weather was. I wasn't sure like the
Speaker 1: shirt would like not be good for TV. Okay, that's
Speaker 1: like the checks and stuff. But I thought like this
Speaker 1: look was kind of cool, so I decided to wear it.
Speaker 1: All right, It's it's trying. It's different for sure. Look,
Speaker 1: I've never seen anything like that that looks a little
Speaker 1: bit better. I think it looks better. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: when you zip it up, it looks a little bit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it looks like you're just wearing a hoodie under a blazer.
Speaker 1: So now, because when it's not, I've just left really
Speaker 1: confused trying to figure out what's going on there. You know, Look,
Speaker 1: you plan to wear that on the MG thing that yet?
Speaker 1: Because you please do? Okay, I'm gonna wear it there.
Speaker 1: They tell me take it off, I'll say it off.
Speaker 1: You know what I want to see. I want to
Speaker 1: see how they respond to you. Don't you don't like it?
Speaker 1: What you're saying I didn't say that. Great, you don't
Speaker 1: like it. It's different. They're to be different, and that
Speaker 1: is John I've done today. Joan, you're always very honest
Speaker 1: with Michael. What do you think here? I actually like it.
Speaker 1: I like it. Yeah, it's pretty cool. I wasn't expecting
Speaker 1: that I would tell him, honestly, I know you before.
Speaker 1: What does that mean? All right? So there you go.
Speaker 1: All it looks a little big. That's what I said. Yea,
Speaker 1: fs yesterday I complimented, you know, you lost about twenty
Speaker 1: pounds in here. Enough of my weight. Let's go and
Speaker 1: talk to some NBA and some all the whole other
Speaker 1: stuff going on in the world. This is the news update.
Speaker 1: Thank you, grag Off. John Watt with your BFF ports
Speaker 1: Grid news of the Corona virus update. The Warriors will
Speaker 1: play the Brooklyn Nets on Thursday in San Francisco without
Speaker 1: fans in attendance. This after the governor issued an order
Speaker 1: for San Francisco to follow crowds one thousand or less,
Speaker 1: but the NBA and the San Francisco Warriors have elected
Speaker 1: to play tomorrow night's game against the Brooklyn Nets with
Speaker 1: no fans inside the Chase Center. Of the team announced
Speaker 1: on Wednesday. Some news in Major League Baseball concerning the coronavirus.
Speaker 1: The Mariners will not play any home games in a
Speaker 1: month of March. They had been scheduled to play the
Speaker 1: Texas Rangers from March twenty six through the twenty nine,
Speaker 1: so that is now out nowhere yet on when they
Speaker 1: were resumed play in Seattle. Four the Mariners. Let's head
Speaker 1: over to College Basketball Conference tournament action at the half
Speaker 1: Big Sky Round one. Southern Utah a two point lead
Speaker 1: over Idaho. Southern Utah nine and a half point favorites
Speaker 1: right now. That is a live update on the Fangal
Speaker 1: sports book one twenty four and a half Your total
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Speaker 1: your total, and a plethora of games later on today
Speaker 1: and tonight, thirty four games in total. In college basketball.
Speaker 1: Some news was out of the NBA that we did
Speaker 1: not get to that is Ben Simmons has been ruled
Speaker 1: out for an additional three more weeks. He will not
Speaker 1: play for the Philadelphia seventies sixers, and that's at least
Speaker 1: with a back injury, so stay tuned on that. And
Speaker 1: Rashad Jones has been cut by the Miami Dolphins and
Speaker 1: safety had been with the Dolphins for the previous four seasons.
Speaker 1: That is your BFFs Sports grade news update. Not back
Speaker 1: to Craig, Greg and Frank Frank take it away to
Speaker 1: the Fantasy BFFs. No joke, This is all Greg Susan
Speaker 1: has been doing throughout the course of the news update.
Speaker 1: The guy's walking around, He's trying to figure out should
Speaker 1: he zip it up? Should he tuck his shirt in?
Speaker 1: And now he's turned into Alex Rodriguez. He is just
Speaker 1: looking at himself, very very close to the reflection there.
Speaker 1: But speaking of Greg Sussman, he got I had a
Speaker 1: chance to talk with Drew dink Meyer earlier today from
Speaker 1: Daily Rohado dot com to figure out who they should
Speaker 1: get in their DFS lineup tonight with no Chris has Porzingis,
Speaker 1: and Drew dink Meyer had this to say about Maxi
Speaker 1: Kleiber we went on a power forward. Now Christops Porzingki
Speaker 1: is what questionable in a second backs back later this season, Um,
Speaker 1: but we don't know yet. Maxie clever, he's really good
Speaker 1: with Kate's on out there taking that shot. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: sort of the key here. Power forwards a tricky spot.
Speaker 1: But if Christops Porzingis Um, who didn't play particularly well
Speaker 1: last night on the front end of the back to back,
Speaker 1: is unavailable tonight, which has been the case throughout most
Speaker 1: of the season, we kind of expect Maxi Kleiber would
Speaker 1: step into a ton of minutes and he'd be well
Speaker 1: under priced for a pretty favorable matchup. So you've gotta
Speaker 1: pay attention to the news on this one. But obviously,
Speaker 1: if you're looking for other more stable options, you can
Speaker 1: go up in pricing to John Collins are a bad
Speaker 1: auto bio guys like that that you know are are
Speaker 1: likely to play tonight and kind of guarantee those big roles.
Speaker 1: But if Porzingis does, to say it, Maxi Kleiber would
Speaker 1: be one of the best values on the slate. Maxi
Speaker 1: Kleiba Cliba, he is a good value on the slate tonight.
Speaker 1: Um christas person is officially ruled out now we know.
Speaker 1: We'll see about Luka done. As you were talking about downstairs, Frankie,
Speaker 1: neither of them playing back to backs, really, they kind
Speaker 1: of alternate which game in the back to back they play.
Speaker 1: We'll played heavy minutes last night. Yeah, they're both over
Speaker 1: thirty five minutes last night. We'll see if there's any
Speaker 1: news on Luca Donte. Heading up to tonight's NBA DFF slate,
Speaker 1: make sure you are glued to the screen at Daily
Speaker 1: Rodos so that you can get all those updates there
Speaker 1: as well. But KP already ruled out, which means Maxi
Speaker 1: cleber At is one of the better values tonight. All right,
Speaker 1: on the program today, we're gonna give you some auction
Speaker 1: draft strategies. We are preparing for our auction tomorrow, frank
Speaker 1: which is no longer live. It is now at seven
Speaker 1: pm Eastern Time online. Yes, because obviously everything that's going
Speaker 1: on with the coronavirus tout Wars live events was we're
Speaker 1: canceled this weekend as well. Uh and rightfully so, right
Speaker 1: like people need to take the proper precautions. And this
Speaker 1: is bigger than Fantasy Baseball obviously, Greg, and you know
Speaker 1: I kicked off the week on Monday Fantasy Sports Today
Speaker 1: to only everyone how much this is one of my
Speaker 1: favorite weeks of the year in terms of fantasy baseball drafting.
Speaker 1: I got a ton of auctions and drafts this week.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow night we have one together Greg. Saturday, I'm in
Speaker 1: the NFBC Main Event. Sunday NFBC Main Event, and Sunday
Speaker 1: I also have the Tout Wars head to Head points
Speaker 1: auction as well. So I've got four either drafts or
Speaker 1: auctions over the next four days here. Um, and look,
Speaker 1: it's a bummer. I understand that. But you know, obviously
Speaker 1: this is uh, this superseeds Fantasy baseball, and I think
Speaker 1: that the right decisions have been made. Greg h I see, yes,
Speaker 1: Greg's not buying in. He still wants to do live auctions.
Speaker 1: And you want to live auction, I do. I get it.
Speaker 1: Look I wanted to, but the only live auction of
Speaker 1: the year, Frank, I don't do it live auction. Fantasy football.
Speaker 1: You have to realize some people, you know, they take
Speaker 1: care of the elderly, They have families, they have kids.
Speaker 1: You and I, I mean, we don't have kids. We don't,
Speaker 1: you know, take care of the elderly, so that we
Speaker 1: know that's for sure. You know, Greg back in back
Speaker 1: in Maryland, you know, fear the turtle's right. You know
Speaker 1: where that's saying came from. You know. Actually that's a
Speaker 1: story for another day. Um. We mentioned the coronavirus affecting
Speaker 1: r Dress, so we're gonna talk about that a little bit.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about the coronavirus in a larger scale.
Speaker 1: The Golden State Warriors are playing a game without fans
Speaker 1: tomorrow night against the Brooklyn Nets. The Seattle Mariners, if
Speaker 1: they play in March, will not be playing in the
Speaker 1: city of Seattle, as all large gatherings are being um
Speaker 1: disavowed by j Innsley, Governor of Washington. In Dayton, Ohio,
Speaker 1: where the First four is supposed to take place, there
Speaker 1: are no fans allowed those games. Either will see for
Speaker 1: the rest of the tournament, for the rest of March
Speaker 1: madness how that goes, at least up until the Sweet
Speaker 1: six team. Frankie, do you believe the MLB season will
Speaker 1: start on time? I think that it's in serious question
Speaker 1: right now, obviously with everything that's going on, and you
Speaker 1: see teams that are already coming out and you know,
Speaker 1: kind of tackling this before it becomes even an even
Speaker 1: bigger thing obviously here. So um, I would be surprised Greg,
Speaker 1: if it actually does start on time. I think that
Speaker 1: we are going to get some kind of delay, uh,
Speaker 1: in terms of the MLB season, which is unfortunate. Look,
Speaker 1: you know, we're doing all this fantasy baseball prep and
Speaker 1: we're here every single day doing our position previews, talking auctions,
Speaker 1: and we're all very excited about the baseball season. But again,
Speaker 1: this is something that's bigger than baseball. It's bigger than
Speaker 1: fantasy baseball as well. Uh. So, yes, I do think
Speaker 1: that we could be looking at a potential delayed start
Speaker 1: to the MLB season, And I think that, you know,
Speaker 1: there's an there's a chance that we could be looking
Speaker 1: at maybe a suspension of the NBA season as well.
Speaker 1: I know that that's something that they're talking about right now.
Speaker 1: They're having meetings today and tomorrow with the NBA owners,
Speaker 1: gms as well, trying to figure out what to do
Speaker 1: in terms of this crisis. So um, I think that,
Speaker 1: you know, all these things are are warranted, and yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a good chance that the MLB season might start,
Speaker 1: might not start on time. Greg no question about it. Uh.
Speaker 1: With the NDB, it with the NBA being uh. He
Speaker 1: talks about potentially being suspended um MLB not starting on time.
Speaker 1: As a realist of possibility, I think that for sure
Speaker 1: at the end of March, you're not gonna see fans.
Speaker 1: I think we all have no idea what's gonna happen
Speaker 1: with the coronavirus. It's it's simply not clear. But I
Speaker 1: think you're looking through the end of March. If not later,
Speaker 1: you're not going to be able to have large gatherries.
Speaker 1: We can't teach treat this as business as usual. Yes
Speaker 1: with our draft, like to me, like fifteen guys in
Speaker 1: our room, like or girls, fifteen people in the room
Speaker 1: is fine. Seventy thousand fans from March madness, that's an issue.
Speaker 1: Twenty five thousand fans of March Madness is an issue
Speaker 1: for fans in Seattle. Is an issue a lot different
Speaker 1: than ten people around the room. It's not even just
Speaker 1: us we're concerned about. It's other people around us cashing
Speaker 1: a virus that we may not even know we have.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of scary stuff with coronavirus, and precautions
Speaker 1: do need to be taking one of those precautions. As
Speaker 1: we said, our live draft or live auction being canceled.
Speaker 1: We're gonna say how that change our strategy and some
Speaker 1: other strategies for you during auction drafts when we come
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Speaker 1: Frank Stafford, Greg Frankie, we what are our plans for
Speaker 1: the live auction? Was the ring that that was easy
Speaker 1: button and when we get players hit him with it.
Speaker 1: We can't do that anymore. We cannot. So they're talking
Speaker 1: about setting up like a vibe, But what if we
Speaker 1: What if we Greg shot a video of ourselves pressing
Speaker 1: the button and sent it to Ian Con after we
Speaker 1: outdoule him for a player. All in on that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we should be doing that on that. The problem is
Speaker 1: like the idea of this like Google, of of skyping,
Speaker 1: or do we have a Google hang out? We got
Speaker 1: everyone's gonna be on their computers trying to draft in
Speaker 1: a love of draft. You're not gonna be talking to
Speaker 1: each other. What I mean you and I could do
Speaker 1: the two of us, Yes, really that would be your
Speaker 1: job obviously. What does that mean, like you being the
Speaker 1: person like interacting with these people? No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: that's never my job. No, no, I I draft press.
Speaker 1: All right, So then there's gonna be no interaction because
Speaker 1: I'm the one who's submitting the players. But you're like
Speaker 1: the one that's friends with these people, right, I'd like
Speaker 1: to think, So I'm not right, right, we don't have
Speaker 1: to interact with anybody, because I would also like to
Speaker 1: be keeping track of the players that we win much
Speaker 1: salary Latin? No no, no, you know, no, no, we
Speaker 1: can't have you do that. Not that jacket. So now
Speaker 1: what I won't wear the jackets tomorrow? So what's what
Speaker 1: My job in the auction normally is to raise my
Speaker 1: hand and say a number. That's usually my role. I
Speaker 1: will say this, The CBS Draft auction room works very well.
Speaker 1: I have used it before. It's fine. I've used it before.
Speaker 1: I understanding Greg have used it before. Nothing beats being
Speaker 1: there live in person. I'm just out. I decided to
Speaker 1: hang out with some people. Look, I told you, this
Speaker 1: is one of my favorite nights of the year. Sam.
Speaker 1: Is this auction together and we can still do it together?
Speaker 1: I expect, not with everybody else. I expect we will
Speaker 1: do it together. I mean to be pretty hard to
Speaker 1: do an auction as teammates, not together. I feel like
Speaker 1: we've done it before. No, we've done snake drafts like
Speaker 1: face timing done. I feel like I've done an auction
Speaker 1: with my old roommate, not next to him, like we
Speaker 1: skiped each other. I'm not a fan of that. Okay,
Speaker 1: so we will do it next to each other. Now.
Speaker 1: First of all, we're gonna do at a bar, and
Speaker 1: now I feel like I don't even know that as
Speaker 1: the case looks like you might just have to make
Speaker 1: his pass and have us over. Greg, We'll make it.
Speaker 1: You can for him tonight, Oh well, making up for
Speaker 1: everyone left overs. I don't mind leftovers. You don't my leftovers.
Speaker 1: We left overs. Maybe that's the case. We will I
Speaker 1: don't know. Yeah, we'll figure it out. A bunch of
Speaker 1: I behaviors. Don't like those. I can get behind that
Speaker 1: you have a bunch of them. Sure you're interested. I
Speaker 1: think I'm more of a truly fan at wake Claws
Speaker 1: and the House that I mean. I'm not gonna be picky.
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you, do you think Do you think
Speaker 1: that's what's gonna happen? Usually come over. We're gonna go
Speaker 1: to a bar. No, I don't know, we go to
Speaker 1: a bar. It's fine, assuming something is open, and it'll
Speaker 1: be open. It'll be open, and we gotta have to
Speaker 1: find someone that has appropriate WiFi. We're gonna space, right, Greg,
Speaker 1: he's gotta be able to like wave his arms around
Speaker 1: when he's betting on a player now in an online
Speaker 1: auction ross and I'll get to like real strategy in
Speaker 1: a moment. The question we have to ask who's the bidder?
Speaker 1: Assume it's me because I was always my job. Right,
Speaker 1: You're the bitter man. You've always been the bitter I
Speaker 1: cannot take that role away from you. Now. I want
Speaker 1: to make sure you have maybe I'll get like a
Speaker 1: sneaky like click in there somewhere. Yeah, you're the guy.
Speaker 1: I will keep tracking the stats, the roster and how
Speaker 1: much money we have left. The math guy. Yes, you're
Speaker 1: the bidding guy. You're the better. I love being the better.
Speaker 1: Wait why did you make a face when you said
Speaker 1: I was the math Are you a math guy? Yeah? Okay,
Speaker 1: once more than English guy. Oh yeah, okay, so then
Speaker 1: the math over English for sure, the entire course of mine.
Speaker 1: So you are the math guy, I'm the better. Yes.
Speaker 1: How does the strategy change online auction versus in person auction?
Speaker 1: In an all serious question, Um, that's a fair question.
Speaker 1: I mean I don't think I don't think things changed
Speaker 1: that much obviously, like being able to read the room changes,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm honestly I'll be slee you know, we're
Speaker 1: all online at that point. You can't really see people's
Speaker 1: reactions sometimes, like do people have a good poker face
Speaker 1: when they get into the bidding. Are they actually part
Speaker 1: of the bidding or they're just trying to bid you off?
Speaker 1: I mean, that's those are things that the human interaction,
Speaker 1: that element of it, you know, being live in person
Speaker 1: with other people, you know, that obviously is taken away
Speaker 1: while you're looking at that point is digital numbers Greg
Speaker 1: and people. You know, you're seeing numbers climb, climb, climb,
Speaker 1: but you can't tell how serious people really are at
Speaker 1: that point. So I will say this, In an a
Speaker 1: live auction format, you're seeing like who's getting involved little
Speaker 1: bit more, not so much when they're just pressing a
Speaker 1: button and you're like, oh whatever, Like are you paying
Speaker 1: attention that Adam Rownas is jumping in on every bid?
Speaker 1: Not a surprise? I mentioned him conor earlier. That was better.
Speaker 1: Um you know that people you can mentioned, Um yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you're you're noticing like who's active in the
Speaker 1: room right, like who's jumping in on every bid? Who's
Speaker 1: really sitting it out and kind of taking it all in?
Speaker 1: You didn't do that anymore online another strategy you're able
Speaker 1: to see everyone's team all the time. Like yes, you
Speaker 1: could do that in a live in a live auction
Speaker 1: if you took time to do it. But now it's
Speaker 1: all in there, all the interface for you. Good, so
Speaker 1: you know what people, what positions, people need, how much money.
Speaker 1: They might be easier to look it up right, Like
Speaker 1: if you're getting into a bidding war with somebody over
Speaker 1: an outfielder, and you look at their team and realize, well,
Speaker 1: this person already has three four outfielders desperately, I don't
Speaker 1: really need this player. Now. I know some people use
Speaker 1: software to do all of this, anyway, we didn't. We
Speaker 1: did not know well, I would keep track of our players,
Speaker 1: not everyone else's, right, of course, Now it's all done
Speaker 1: for us, which is kind of nice. So I think
Speaker 1: that's certainly part of it. I think we should with
Speaker 1: mos el sticks, right, I love Mozar ele sticks. This
Speaker 1: guy loves fresh months. Is not fresh months. I understand that,
Speaker 1: but I mean basically anything I've ever seen you eat Greg,
Speaker 1: from salad to sandwich, there's fresh months involved. All right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not sorry. It's the first thing that you throw up.
Speaker 1: It's gotta be mos roll six. I mean, that wasn't
Speaker 1: the first thing I threw up. I was in there.
Speaker 1: We'll say this. So we're talking about coronavirus and things
Speaker 1: getting canceled. So w W isn x T everyone is
Speaker 1: to Night's taking a place from the performance center without
Speaker 1: not in the full cell arena. M what are they
Speaker 1: gonna do for WrestleMania? Gregg that is a gigantic question
Speaker 1: that want to answer featuring Rob Gronkowski. Probably are you
Speaker 1: hyped about that now? Doran here he said earlier on
Speaker 1: f SC that you were going to break up the
Speaker 1: pom Pomps. That's how excited you were for Rob Gronkowski.
Speaker 1: You didn't care any less. Right, let's talk more strategy
Speaker 1: for the auction, necessarily our strategy, but strategy and generally
Speaker 1: can talk on our strategy. I don't care. But as
Speaker 1: with the more auctions that I have done, I have learned,
Speaker 1: I think, and you can correct me. We gotta aggressive early,
Speaker 1: early in the tears, early with the players because as
Speaker 1: players dwindle, as you are in search of that better deal,
Speaker 1: he usually gets worse. We were discussing pictures that we
Speaker 1: liked in certain tears or players we like in certain tiers,
Speaker 1: and we're like, hey, let's just get the first one
Speaker 1: with the assumption it doesn't always work like this, with
Speaker 1: the assumption that the next guy is going to be higher.
Speaker 1: Do you agree with that as an overarching strategy? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that makes a ton of sense. And we
Speaker 1: have mentioned that before as well in previous years when
Speaker 1: doing our auction strategy shows and I think, look, you
Speaker 1: tear out your players. I think that's the best way
Speaker 1: to go into your auction. You have a whole set
Speaker 1: of rankings, and you basically make groups of these rankings
Speaker 1: called tears, where you have similar projection, similar expectations for
Speaker 1: players within that tier. Obviously, a new tier starts when
Speaker 1: you see the the projection downgrading. Right, So for example,
Speaker 1: like Fernando Tatis and Trevor Story and Francisco Lindor and
Speaker 1: that whole group of short stops that's tier. The first
Speaker 1: five or six shortstops tier break, and then you look
Speaker 1: at the guys who go in like the second third
Speaker 1: round ridge with what with Clabor Torres, I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's not me, Labor Torres, and how your biders like.
Speaker 1: That's the difference in tiers that we're talking about. And
Speaker 1: what we're saying is if there's a player that's thrown
Speaker 1: out in that tier that you want or you want
Speaker 1: to be involved in that tier of players, then you
Speaker 1: should be aggressive in the first player that's thrown out there.
Speaker 1: Greg So, I think another example, a perfect example is
Speaker 1: Derrett Cohler Jacob Degraham. Right, if you want one of
Speaker 1: those starting pitchers the elite aces that are probably gonna
Speaker 1: run you dollars in fifteen team auction. Whoever is thrown
Speaker 1: out first between those two, you are more aggressive on
Speaker 1: that player because after Jacob Degram, one of those guys
Speaker 1: de Gram or Cole goes, you can almost guarantee the
Speaker 1: other one is going to go for more money. Greg
Speaker 1: probably probably so and not that's not guaranteed, but probably
Speaker 1: almost almost guaranteed. So that's why I'm I kind of
Speaker 1: with the first picture that we get, I wanted to
Speaker 1: throw in somebody that's kind of under them and be like,
Speaker 1: and if we do that first and all right, well
Speaker 1: there's four more aces people go out and get you.
Speaker 1: We're gonna deal maybe yeah. And look, it doesn't have
Speaker 1: to be just a tier of two players. It could
Speaker 1: be that whole group that's going in the fourth round
Speaker 1: totally more in Chris Paddock, Noah sender Guard, you can
Speaker 1: put that Granky in that mix as well. Clayton Kershaw,
Speaker 1: Clayton Kershaw. It's you know, once those names start to
Speaker 1: get brought up, that's a group of maybe I don't know,
Speaker 1: seven eight starting pitchers that you have in one tier.
Speaker 1: Jump in on the first or second name in that tier.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's the you know, the one that you want
Speaker 1: boast obviously, but jump in early on that bidding because
Speaker 1: more than likely once you dwindle down towards the end
Speaker 1: of that tier, Greg, And we see this time and
Speaker 1: time again. I've seen it plenty of times where a
Speaker 1: player goes for five, six, seven more dollars than they
Speaker 1: should because they're the last player in that tier, and
Speaker 1: everybody else realizes that they are also the last player
Speaker 1: in that tier. So a lot of it is based
Speaker 1: on your rankings and how you tear out the players.
Speaker 1: But I agree that you know, if someone gets thrown
Speaker 1: out early and you want that player, you should be
Speaker 1: aggressive of early in your auctions. I'm all about being
Speaker 1: aggressive early in an auction, like I said, because that's
Speaker 1: where the best deals can be found. But how do
Speaker 1: you know how much you should be spending on these players?
Speaker 1: How to break it down right? Because with pitching and hitting,
Speaker 1: it's just different than football, where it's like you're just
Speaker 1: trying to get as many points. There's pitching categories and
Speaker 1: there's hitting categories, and they don't we intersect here. So
Speaker 1: if your budget is two hundred and sixty dollars, right,
Speaker 1: that's the standard, which is the standard normally in the
Speaker 1: fantasy baseball sixties. I don't know football two hundred, make
Speaker 1: it two? Well, it's there's you start what three players? Right? Right?
Speaker 1: So to sixty divided by three is exactly eleven point
Speaker 1: three dollars. Great, So I don't know how they came
Speaker 1: up with that eleven dollars and thirty cents fantastic per players. Stupid,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know how they came up with
Speaker 1: to sixty. I don't have the answer. Right, that's the standard, right,
Speaker 1: it is the standard. So how do we know how
Speaker 1: to allocate that? What is the idea behind it? So?
Speaker 1: I think most people kind of subscribe to sixty five, right,
Speaker 1: that seems like the standard along with two and sixty
Speaker 1: dollars of your budget. The standard is that you should
Speaker 1: spend around sixty five percent of that budget on your
Speaker 1: hitting and thirty five percent of that budget on your pitching.
Speaker 1: I don't I think that you have to subscribe to
Speaker 1: that theory, but you probably in all likelihood should not
Speaker 1: be spending much more than like forty maybe max on
Speaker 1: your pitching. Grade. All right, we'll have more auction draft strategy,
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Speaker 1: New York City today. Frankie inside New York City today. Now,
Speaker 1: last year you were very interested in was why did
Speaker 1: you accentuate that twice, Greig, because yesterday we were in here.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, that is a fact. We were in New Jersey.
Speaker 1: So last year you're all that position scarce today and
Speaker 1: you used your auction budget to make sure that certain
Speaker 1: positions were filled. Do you still feel the same way
Speaker 1: in regards to your strategy here? No, not necessarily In
Speaker 1: terms of positions, Greg, I have grown I have evolved
Speaker 1: as a fantasy baseball player. We're no longer looking at
Speaker 1: position scarcity, Greg, we are looking at category scarcity. And
Speaker 1: you know, Greg amidst forming our plan, which everybody should
Speaker 1: form a plan when it comes to the auction. You
Speaker 1: don't have to that's another topic. You don't have to
Speaker 1: be too rigid, And yes, we can talk about this, Greg,
Speaker 1: but I think that you should go into your auction
Speaker 1: with an idea at least of players that you want
Speaker 1: to target and how you're going to accumulate these stats.
Speaker 1: I don't think that you can just go into your auction,
Speaker 1: especially in Rhodo and head to head points, it's much easier.
Speaker 1: You just need to get players that score the most points,
Speaker 1: and you probably just want to target pitching mostly more
Speaker 1: than anything else. But in terms of Rhodo, in an auction,
Speaker 1: I think you have to go in with a plan.
Speaker 1: You have to figure out, all right, well, I've got
Speaker 1: to come out of this draft with a hundred stolen basis,
Speaker 1: a hundred projected stolen basis, how am I finding those
Speaker 1: hundred stolen bases? And you kind of have to build
Speaker 1: your auction plan around that, around what stats you need, Greg,
Speaker 1: so again, like you know, Stulem bay is, everyone's gonna
Speaker 1: talk about this year saves as well. You know, two
Speaker 1: of the harder categories to come by batting average. Uh,
Speaker 1: And I think that you know, last year, I was
Speaker 1: hell bent on getting outfielders, and I think this year
Speaker 1: most people, and rightfully so, should be hell bent on
Speaker 1: finding speed. You don't need to win every category, especially
Speaker 1: in a standalone league without an overall Greg. You just
Speaker 1: have to be adequate. You have to be in the
Speaker 1: middle of the pack when it comes to stolen bases,
Speaker 1: so you probably need at least eighty two if we're
Speaker 1: being honest in a fifteen team league, and I think
Speaker 1: before the draft Greg, before the auction. Rather, you have
Speaker 1: to have a plan of how you are going to
Speaker 1: rack up those stats. And because midway through Greg, if
Speaker 1: you realize, oh, I've already filled eighty percent of my
Speaker 1: roster spots and I have thirty stolen bases, at that point,
Speaker 1: you're left scrambling and then you're gonna wind up with
Speaker 1: someone like Malex Smith, and you don't really want to
Speaker 1: be in that position. That's the reason why I say
Speaker 1: you do have to somewhat pre plan what you want
Speaker 1: to do and how you're going to find those stats
Speaker 1: within the auction? Well, is it pre planning or is
Speaker 1: it rigidly planning? And that's where I wanted to get
Speaker 1: into nast because Right and I, quite frankly have two
Speaker 1: different philosophies when it comes to this. Frank is an
Speaker 1: uber planner about everything. He wants to plan out every number,
Speaker 1: every price that it would cost, every value, every price range.
Speaker 1: I usually between like you write basically right down your
Speaker 1: paces that you want to spend. But I have an
Speaker 1: idea in my head. Right, for example, just throw a
Speaker 1: name out there, say it's got Cary twelve bucks. I
Speaker 1: know that there's a chance we can win for ten,
Speaker 1: and I know that there's a chance we might have
Speaker 1: to go to fourteen to get him. Like that, that
Speaker 1: is in the back of my mind. So for me,
Speaker 1: I knew it pretty I try to plan differently, where
Speaker 1: like all right, where he just doesn't plan. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: that's absolutely not the case. For every auction I've ever had,
Speaker 1: I've always planned all right, So you should help me out,
Speaker 1: you should help me plan. The problem is when I
Speaker 1: try to plan my way, you go like, I look
Speaker 1: at it completely differently, that's the issue. Okay, Now this
Speaker 1: is actually a good point something, Yes, get into it,
Speaker 1: thank you. So the way I plan is almost by
Speaker 1: position and how much money you want to send her position. So,
Speaker 1: for instance, catchers we've talked about on the show, I'll
Speaker 1: reveal us that I don't care. We want to spend
Speaker 1: no more than ten dollars. This is like, look, if
Speaker 1: somebody wants to bit us up on Austin romand Greg whatever,
Speaker 1: they can have it. So the point is, so I
Speaker 1: want to spend no more than ten dollars on our
Speaker 1: two catchers, and this is how I would build every position. Now,
Speaker 1: I want to spend no more than x on every position.
Speaker 1: This is the idea. And of course you can break
Speaker 1: your own rules and then have to adjust the prices.
Speaker 1: But to me, it's the prices, and then I've picked
Speaker 1: the players that fall into those price ranges. So you
Speaker 1: mentioned Austin room. Mine of Austin room. If we spend
Speaker 1: nine dollars on our first catcher, whomever that may be,
Speaker 1: and also the room he goes for two dollars, we're
Speaker 1: not getting. And that's not that we can't. That's not
Speaker 1: a great example because it's one dollar more but the
Speaker 1: idea is that you will stick to your budget in
Speaker 1: that like the players players in my head don't matter
Speaker 1: as much as the prices. Like I'm not going in
Speaker 1: like here, I got this player, then this player, than
Speaker 1: this player, than this player. I'm going and said, hey,
Speaker 1: I got thirty bucks to spend a third base, let's
Speaker 1: find the third Basically that comes closer to this. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying I won't go to thirty one or thirty
Speaker 1: two hoping that I can get, but I am saying
Speaker 1: I won't go thirty five year that's too much for
Speaker 1: me to spend. And because we've talked so much about
Speaker 1: players and we are so well research, like you go
Speaker 1: into an auction like, yeah, I have my color coded sheet.
Speaker 1: Everybody knows this, but like in my head, like I
Speaker 1: know this back in front, I could go out even
Speaker 1: the draft without this. And he's like, all right, I
Speaker 1: know the guys. I know you can do even better
Speaker 1: than I can. I know I don't have to go
Speaker 1: into a draft with internet at this point, because you
Speaker 1: know who you like going into a draft. Whoever, we said,
Speaker 1: oh we go, we'll add to a bar with the
Speaker 1: Hooters many years ago to do a draft the Internet sucked,
Speaker 1: so I was like, all right, let's I mean, the
Speaker 1: wings are terrible. It was an awful situation. Woters does
Speaker 1: not make good food disgusting. So I guess we're not
Speaker 1: going to Hooters tomorrow. Imagine that's really want to go out. Um,
Speaker 1: I mean that's how But anyway, we don't need the Internet.
Speaker 1: Like we're good enough in our heads, not good enough
Speaker 1: as a game player, but like smart enough, like we
Speaker 1: we know what we're clearly not good enough. I don't
Speaker 1: know that we finished higher than like eighth place in
Speaker 1: his tenth place in this league. So the point being,
Speaker 1: that's how I like to build a roster instead a draft,
Speaker 1: like here's how much I want to spend. Let's come
Speaker 1: as closer doing that as possible, and then ad just
Speaker 1: the numbers throughout the draft. Frank, you look at it
Speaker 1: entirely differently than me. I wouldn't say entirely, because I
Speaker 1: think that your your head is right, Greig. The problem
Speaker 1: is that you have to figure out beforehand the players
Speaker 1: that you like first, because you can't just say I
Speaker 1: want to spend X amount of money at this position.
Speaker 1: Why I think you have to figure out the player
Speaker 1: that you like first and then fit the money to
Speaker 1: that and then move on for there. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: it more after the break. Yeah, I think phrase plans
Speaker 1: just way too rigid. We'll speak about this in a moment.
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Speaker 1: And and you, Frank, of course, I mean it's I
Speaker 1: mean I didn't include myself in that because it's it's
Speaker 1: quite easy to do that. As we said, let's take
Speaker 1: it back here now. As we said going in the break,
Speaker 1: Frank and I have two different um mindsets. Greg. The
Speaker 1: problem with your mindset, certainly mind is wrong. That's not
Speaker 1: very nice. Well, you're wrong, you're and I'll tell you
Speaker 1: why you're wrong right now. Why wouldn't you match the
Speaker 1: price that you want to pay per position to the
Speaker 1: players that you like, because if you just automatically and
Speaker 1: this is what I didn't understand the other day when
Speaker 1: you were telling me he's like, well, let's figure out
Speaker 1: how much we want to spend at each position. The
Speaker 1: problem there is what happens if you just randomly pigeonhole
Speaker 1: yourself too, Oh well, I want to spend ten dollars
Speaker 1: at second base. That completely put you out of the
Speaker 1: running of Azzi Albi's if that's someone that you want.
Speaker 1: I think, first and foremost, you have to figure out
Speaker 1: the players you want most at each position, and then
Speaker 1: you have to match up the salary to that. And
Speaker 1: then at the end of your prep, if the money
Speaker 1: doesn't add up, or you realize throughout the course of it, like,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm spending too much at each position, then
Speaker 1: you have to find another player within a different tier
Speaker 1: of cost that you do like. Because you're not gonna
Speaker 1: be able to have a twenty plus player at every
Speaker 1: single position, you have to figure out where you want
Speaker 1: to pay down at certain spots. The problem is, Greg,
Speaker 1: I think the way that you're trying to plan this
Speaker 1: is you have to figure out the players that you
Speaker 1: like most. You have to figure out the targets that
Speaker 1: you want on your team first and foremost, and you
Speaker 1: match the salary at the position you want to spend.
Speaker 1: Agree I agree to a certain respect in that, yes,
Speaker 1: if you put ten dollars or second base, he can't
Speaker 1: get ausilitis. But again, like I was mentioning, you know
Speaker 1: the guys that you like, right, like it's in your head.
Speaker 1: You know the guys that you like in general, but
Speaker 1: you might not know how much they cost in terms
Speaker 1: of auction value until you look it up. But I
Speaker 1: don't want to be so rigid, Like what you do
Speaker 1: is you write down one or two players. What if
Speaker 1: you don't get one of the two players, and then
Speaker 1: everything act that you know? I mean, I think you
Speaker 1: have to have backup plans in place. Great, but like
Speaker 1: you're gonna have a plan, backup plan, backup ban black,
Speaker 1: backup plan. I'm not gonna do that. I'm like, all right,
Speaker 1: I gotta range you. This is how much money If
Speaker 1: I think third base is where I want to spend
Speaker 1: up because I really like the guys the third base,
Speaker 1: which I will know going into the draft, that's what
Speaker 1: I'll spend up one and if for whatever reason, at
Speaker 1: third base, I'm gonna put the list now. If at
Speaker 1: third base, for whatever reason, Vladimir Guerrero Junior is going
Speaker 1: for way less. But it was part of the plan.
Speaker 1: He wasn't one of the names we wrote down we had.
Speaker 1: We planned instead to go up to Manny Machado and
Speaker 1: a guy we've talked a lot of that here. Right,
Speaker 1: let's say many Machado's not off the board yet in
Speaker 1: the auction, but Vladimer Guerrero is going for five dollars
Speaker 1: less than we think he should go that we have
Speaker 1: allocated at that spot. We both like Vladimir Guarrero. I
Speaker 1: know that we pounced right there. I don't have a
Speaker 1: problem with that. And and where that can come in
Speaker 1: is greg you can have two different plans set up
Speaker 1: where all right, if if things work out the way
Speaker 1: I think they are, then I'm probably gonna spend down
Speaker 1: at second base. Right, you can have that idea, But
Speaker 1: then you can also have all right, well, you know,
Speaker 1: if I do get of VLADIMC. Guarrero Jr. Here and
Speaker 1: I do have extra money to spend. Let's say I
Speaker 1: planned on spending you know, seven or eight dollars at
Speaker 1: second base, and you get Vladim mcgaro. Then you can
Speaker 1: know in the back of your mind, now I have
Speaker 1: money to spend for a second basement. So you can
Speaker 1: have those and the only way I think that you
Speaker 1: could be fully prepared for that is if you kind
Speaker 1: of have that plan set in place, so as you
Speaker 1: kind of have backup plans as well. And that's where
Speaker 1: we disagree. Like I think that you can and you
Speaker 1: can have those at East. I mean, it's not a
Speaker 1: problem if you write down all right at second Baseman,
Speaker 1: I eiven either want you know, a fifteen dollar details
Speaker 1: on le Mayhew or I want um five dollars sees
Speaker 1: are Hernandez if I spend up somewhere else. I don't
Speaker 1: know that I have to get five dollars sees are
Speaker 1: Hernandez if I get Vladim mcguarrero Junior rather than Manny Machado.
Speaker 1: That I know, I have a little bit more money
Speaker 1: to spend than I could go up to d J
Speaker 1: LEA Mayhew. And you can kind of have that mindset
Speaker 1: ready to go beforehand. And that all comes with planning
Speaker 1: out your aesome. So I I agree, right, I agree,
Speaker 1: like that should be the plan, but it means we
Speaker 1: have more work to do. I don't. I don't agree
Speaker 1: with that. We have discussed this auction for weeks. At
Speaker 1: this point. We keep saying we gotta plan it out.
Speaker 1: We gotta plant it out. What are we been doing
Speaker 1: even the last month, we've been planning it out. But
Speaker 1: here's the problem, Greg, and maybe this is ultimately what
Speaker 1: you're trying to the point that you're trying to get to,
Speaker 1: is that we have players that we know that we
Speaker 1: really like. What if we get praised out on those players?
Speaker 1: But that's why you have to have backups. We're gonna have.
Speaker 1: We're obviously gonna have backups. We obviously well obviously pivot,
Speaker 1: but you have to have, in my opinion, Gred, you
Speaker 1: have to have, especially if you're playing Rhodo, you have
Speaker 1: to have backup plans in place for similar categories because
Speaker 1: you have to know where you're getting your stats from
Speaker 1: before you enter the auction. And I think this is
Speaker 1: a good point that frame brings up because it's different
Speaker 1: than football, right where it's not you just I mean football,
Speaker 1: you're just trying to get points. Like maybe it means
Speaker 1: the same thing within position, you know, like oh, I
Speaker 1: have to get a wide receiver one, but like say,
Speaker 1: oh I plan on getting Michael Brentley as my outfitler three.
Speaker 1: You know he's gonna give me a two nine plus
Speaker 1: batting air and your backup plan is all right, Well,
Speaker 1: if I missed out on Michael Brantley, I'll get Brian
Speaker 1: Reynolds because I think he can offer a similar skill set.
Speaker 1: That's what we're talking about. But you have to have
Speaker 1: that plan in place, because as of right now, I'm
Speaker 1: looking at our plan and we have no it's not
Speaker 1: it's not just no speed. I thought I kind of
Speaker 1: figured out that problem the other day. Um, but like
Speaker 1: we have a lot of just one player written down
Speaker 1: at each position, so we kind of have to figure
Speaker 1: out our figure out our backup plans. For me, I
Speaker 1: go back to what our plan was for pitching and listen,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk about it on the acts. We've talked
Speaker 1: about it a lot like do we pay up for
Speaker 1: Garrett Cole and Jacob Degram? Where do we other people
Speaker 1: have the same exact r they're trying to figure out
Speaker 1: right now. That's why I'm bringing up, so do we
Speaker 1: pay up for Jacob de Gram or Garrett Cole or
Speaker 1: go somewhere a little bit lower? And to me, my
Speaker 1: answer in that we see with the prices, we see
Speaker 1: with the prices for all these guys, if all of
Speaker 1: a sudden. Max Scherzer, who you know, we haven't heard
Speaker 1: any negative thing on in twenty four hours. If it's
Speaker 1: kind of scared me, I don't know. Maybe Max is
Speaker 1: a great example. Steven Strasburg is better example because he's
Speaker 1: healthy right now. Put that guy in a bubble the
Speaker 1: way that people are falling right now. So Steven Strasburg,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, he's like thirty three dollars. We
Speaker 1: gotta be able to be like, look at each other
Speaker 1: and be like, we're in. That's it, we're in. Let's
Speaker 1: do it. Even though he's not written down. He's not
Speaker 1: going to be written down, and then their entire your
Speaker 1: plan changes because we do like Stephen Strasburg. The problem
Speaker 1: with just the problem with just price and for four
Speaker 1: sea the sake of price price, you have to like
Speaker 1: the player too, because you don't want to get stuck.
Speaker 1: You don't want to bid on Steven Strossberg just because
Speaker 1: say he's going for thirty three and you have him
Speaker 1: for as a you know, whatever program you use wherever
Speaker 1: you get your your auction prices from my head and
Speaker 1: they had and they and that tells you Steven Strossberg,
Speaker 1: I know for a fact is a thirty five dollar player,
Speaker 1: and he's going for two cheap right now. But if
Speaker 1: you don't actually like Strassburg for this upcoming season, or
Speaker 1: if you have any sliver of doubt, do not price
Speaker 1: and force just for the sake of I think, no question,
Speaker 1: you don't price and force just the price and force
Speaker 1: because he obviously, especially when you've already spent a lot
Speaker 1: of money, you don't just do that and be like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, now I oh well, I got Garrick
Speaker 1: collin Strasburg. There goes seventy five dollars on my budget.
Speaker 1: That's totally different than what I'm saying. But for a
Speaker 1: first starter, if all of a sudden, Steven Strasburg there
Speaker 1: a thirty three and in your mine and in my
Speaker 1: mind what it's worth he's going for in the NFPC. Really, Greg,
Speaker 1: I brought this up to you. Ain't Bieber is going
Speaker 1: for thirteen dollars less than guys than de Gram and
Speaker 1: Cole Poling Right now? Well, that's that's you problem, is it?
Speaker 1: I think Shane Bieber is better throw you problem? Why
Speaker 1: is that? Because we're in a draft together? Oh well,
Speaker 1: then we're not getting either one of those guys. Hey,
Speaker 1: Jack Clarity, don't like him either. So I like Bieber,
Speaker 1: you like Strasburg, And I don't know. Do you like
Speaker 1: Jack Clarity yea, j Clarity. I just I don't buy
Speaker 1: into the second half as much you do buy in
Speaker 1: the second half. Another players like who full season, No,
Speaker 1: he was bad in the second half, Greg, he was
Speaker 1: get in the first half. That example. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you notice that I've remained consistent for a lot of
Speaker 1: these guys that just kind of broke out in the
Speaker 1: second half, like you Darvish, I'm not really on Darvish either,
Speaker 1: and maybe that's maybe you know, that's a problem with
Speaker 1: my mindset right now. But I don't like to just
Speaker 1: forget what happened in the first half, right Like Jack
Speaker 1: Fierty is probably gonna still be really good. Ramirez I
Speaker 1: do like. But the thing is he has a track record, Greg,
Speaker 1: that shows that what he has done in the what
Speaker 1: he did last year in the second half, Josie Ramirez
Speaker 1: is something he has done in the past. Jack Flaherty,
Speaker 1: what he did in the second half is something he
Speaker 1: has never done before at the major league. That is true,
Speaker 1: and he like had this. There are reasons to doubt it, though,
Speaker 1: like is the fastball as good as it was in
Speaker 1: the second half last year? Like is his command nearly
Speaker 1: as good as it was? Or did he just really
Speaker 1: run into a hot streak in terms of his command?
Speaker 1: I mean I I just personally have doubts and he
Speaker 1: could probably still pitch like a mid three z R
Speaker 1: A and be fine, But I don't think that's worth
Speaker 1: a second round pick or thirty three dollars right now,
Speaker 1: which is his auction price rather Strassburg. Sure, I would
Speaker 1: rather Shane Bieber at Jospery is the cheapest of these guys, Yes,
Speaker 1: and also the most injury prone. That's sure. Then that
Speaker 1: right now he's healthy though now now, but that guy
Speaker 1: in the bubble right now he is, he is healthy.
Speaker 1: So there you go, like two different minds and say
Speaker 1: they think ultimately you're right when it comes to the categories,
Speaker 1: like you don't hear that often like if we don't
Speaker 1: get speed, if our top outfielder, for instance, we think
Speaker 1: there's a really great price on j. D. Martinez a
Speaker 1: good example, we both like j D. Martinez, know you're
Speaker 1: right on him, and like we're just like, wow, this
Speaker 1: price is awesome. And that wasn't part of the plan
Speaker 1: he goes for like twenty eight dollars. Let's say, like,
Speaker 1: let's do it. We're in and our other our top
Speaker 1: outfield in our heads or someone with speed. We gotta
Speaker 1: have a backup to that. We have to have a
Speaker 1: plan in place. And I don't even mean just for
Speaker 1: j D. Martinez. I mean for anybody like j D Martinez,
Speaker 1: anybody that we do feel that one Soto, right, Bryce
Speaker 1: Harbor six a couple of basis, But any of these
Speaker 1: guys that we were going to plan on our top
Speaker 1: outfielder spending some money or top of anything, spending some
Speaker 1: money that wasn't that was not part of the plan.
Speaker 1: We gotta be able to pivot somewhere a little bit later. Amost.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, Greg, you almost have to make like
Speaker 1: a tree, yes, and you have to figure out it's
Speaker 1: like a chart, really right, Yeah, And and you have
Speaker 1: to get yourself at the outfield position. If I wind
Speaker 1: up getting Starling Marte, then I know that I could
Speaker 1: get Marcella, I can get this outfielder who doesn't necessarily
Speaker 1: give me speed, or I can get this power hitting outfielder,
Speaker 1: I get this bad batting average outfielder. But then you
Speaker 1: also have to have the other side of it, where
Speaker 1: all right, if I get j D. Martinez and he's
Speaker 1: the outfielder that I spend up on most for and
Speaker 1: where am I going to get my soul and basis from?
Speaker 1: I have to figure out, all right, well am I
Speaker 1: gonna if I do get j D? Does that mean
Speaker 1: I've been on two of Oscar Mercado, Iron Buxton, Um
Speaker 1: Scott Kingery. You know, players like that are gonna give
Speaker 1: you maybe stolen basis this season. You almost have to create,
Speaker 1: you know, like you said, a flow chart or like
Speaker 1: a tree. And it goes back to what I said, Greg,
Speaker 1: It's like you you have to have a plan for
Speaker 1: everything that you're going to do within the auction, even
Speaker 1: if you want to. You have to know that if
Speaker 1: if a player that you do like is going for
Speaker 1: cheaper than they should, that yes, you can bid on
Speaker 1: that player, but what is the cause and effect there?
Speaker 1: You know, as a result of paying down from Machado
Speaker 1: to Vladi mcgarrero Jr. Then all right, how how where
Speaker 1: else am I gonna pay up for? At Now? You
Speaker 1: have to have that almost in the back of your
Speaker 1: mind beforehand going into the auction, because I think if
Speaker 1: you just go in there, especially in Rodo again, and
Speaker 1: you just sorry, I'm gonna get as many players as
Speaker 1: I like. I know that I like Reese Hoskins this year,
Speaker 1: Nelson Cruz uh and I like Maguela and du Har,
Speaker 1: and I like J. D. Martinez. That's fine, those are
Speaker 1: all great players. But at the end of the auction,
Speaker 1: you're gonna look down and you're gonna say, huh, I
Speaker 1: have home runs for days, I have no speed. I
Speaker 1: think a flow like that makes sense, and maybe we
Speaker 1: should do that. Maybe we should maybe not be specific,
Speaker 1: but like, if we get this type of player, yes
Speaker 1: we need to have backups here, and we get this
Speaker 1: type of player, we should be able to go in
Speaker 1: this direction, like in this tier of both category wise
Speaker 1: and monetarily speaking. That makes sense. Yeah, very cool, let's
Speaker 1: move on. UM. I don't know if we want that
Speaker 1: was out of the idea. I had something he wants
Speaker 1: an auction strategy specific you want to that, well, something
Speaker 1: that I've spent the past couple of days looking into.
Speaker 1: And I don't think that you should build your whole
Speaker 1: team based around this. And actually I was listening to
Speaker 1: Matt Modiqi the other day and Derek Van Righter. They
Speaker 1: did a great job breaking the standard. Compete against dr
Speaker 1: We are competing against DVR, so that should be fun.
Speaker 1: But they did a good job of breaking this down
Speaker 1: where I think you have to spend up on a
Speaker 1: few players because there's a reason why you spend up
Speaker 1: all those players. They're dependable. There there counting stats are
Speaker 1: more bankable. I still want to find those players that
Speaker 1: are going on for too cheap in auctions right now, Greg,
Speaker 1: and you can go over to the NFBC and you
Speaker 1: can look up average auction values and you can look
Speaker 1: up auction prices, and like Fantasy Proslo fan Graphs, they
Speaker 1: have it as well, and you can kind of see
Speaker 1: a range of how much you can expect to a
Speaker 1: for a single player and figure out which players Greg
Speaker 1: can ultimately outproduce their auction value. So I don't think
Speaker 1: you can make a whole team based on that, because
Speaker 1: no matter what, you're always going to pay for players
Speaker 1: that you lose value on people. A lot of people
Speaker 1: don't talk about that because at the end of the season,
Speaker 1: if you spend thirty five dollars on Starling Marte but
Speaker 1: he only returns thirty dollars, in terms of value, but
Speaker 1: still hits to eighty with thirty plus stolen bass. Did
Speaker 1: he do for you what you wanted him to do?
Speaker 1: The answer is yes. So even if you lose a
Speaker 1: couple of dollars dollars of value on the player that
Speaker 1: you spend up on, if you can make that up
Speaker 1: incrementally at other spots by by looking at players and saying, like,
Speaker 1: hory Seeger this year ten dollars average auction value. That's
Speaker 1: someone who I could see having a monster year and
Speaker 1: returning maybe twenty dollars worth of value. I think you
Speaker 1: have to find some of those players, but also realize
Speaker 1: greg that the players that you're spending up on you
Speaker 1: might lose a few dollars of value, but you need
Speaker 1: those bankable stats. Ultimately, that's what you need to agree
Speaker 1: with that obviously, I just want to I just almost
Speaker 1: want to think, though, that we need to be able
Speaker 1: to have our own projections in a way, right, Like
Speaker 1: we believe these guys, not what fan graphs or base
Speaker 1: reference gonna tell us. We believe these certain guys will
Speaker 1: outperform their number, their value. Like you and I really
Speaker 1: really like Scott kingery Less say he's going to relate
Speaker 1: twelve bucks like we think even easy now player, that's
Speaker 1: something that you don't have to use projections by someone else.
Speaker 1: I mean, just use common sense almost what we've talked
Speaker 1: about all along great throughout draft season, and you can
Speaker 1: you can correlate draft pick picks to how much players
Speaker 1: are going for in drafts right now. Like obviously, if
Speaker 1: you're a top three pick and fantasy you're close to
Speaker 1: a fifty player. That's the correlation there. But something we've
Speaker 1: continuously talked about, Greg is why do I want to
Speaker 1: have a mid first round pick right now because I
Speaker 1: want an ACE? Why do I want an ace? Because
Speaker 1: there are hitters going in the second and third round
Speaker 1: who are not valued the way that they should be.
Speaker 1: So guys like j D. Martinez and Bryce Harper I
Speaker 1: think can severely outperform their draft position. That means they're
Speaker 1: also going to outperform their average auction value. Same thing
Speaker 1: could be said for someone like Javier Bayas. So yes,
Speaker 1: you need to find those players that you know, maybe
Speaker 1: your projection, your personal projection is different from than a
Speaker 1: fan graps of fantasy pros, whatever it might be, and
Speaker 1: be aggressive on that player. Fair enough, all right? There,
Speaker 1: you go. I feel we're prepared, even though we haven't
Speaker 1: talked them anything, but I feel more prepared for the
Speaker 1: auction tomorrow night Live. Hopefully he's do be a chent.
Speaker 1: You will be here. I don't know if she will
Speaker 1: be anymore. I think so all right, we'll find out
Speaker 1: tomorrow because coaches up next night. Job by Sean Alex
Speaker 1: downstairs for Frank l Grad will do it all go
Speaker 1: in tomorrow, we hope. I want to light the lamp
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