Speaker 1: Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from I Heart Radio,
Speaker 1: your weekly source for the nation's best fantasy speculation and advice.
Speaker 1: Now along with the guys from fanball dot Com. Here's
Speaker 1: the host for Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome to the first
Speaker 1: episode playoff edition of Fantasy Football Weekly. I'm Paul Charchi
Speaker 1: in My co host today is Brian Johnson. Hi, Brian.
Speaker 1: We've done the show twenty five years now. We've never
Speaker 1: gone into the off season at all, including the postseason
Speaker 1: first time ever. Yeah, normally it's a pack up after
Speaker 1: Week sixteen and it's see uh August, even though we
Speaker 1: do see each other in the off season, but yeah,
Speaker 1: not behind the mike unless we're podcasting, but yeah, which
Speaker 1: we do as well. Um, this is gonna be fun.
Speaker 1: What I instead of breaking down the week seventeen matchups,
Speaker 1: because you really should not be crowning your champion in
Speaker 1: week seven team you already know that, and you know,
Speaker 1: I think our listeners aren't doing it that way. The
Speaker 1: other five percentage is stubborn and they've heard all the
Speaker 1: rationale and I'm not gonna get into that. We're gonna
Speaker 1: spend this podcast talking about the playoffs because most people
Speaker 1: are gonna hear this Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday of
Speaker 1: next week. Rolling in the playoffs plaoffs Fantasy football is
Speaker 1: so much fun and you get redemption. Most of us
Speaker 1: didn't win our leagues, right one in twelve did one intended? Um,
Speaker 1: here's some redemption and a chance to extend the fun.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about all the different ways you can
Speaker 1: play playoffs fantasy football. But first, before we dive into
Speaker 1: that too much, you can also keep playing DFS as well.
Speaker 1: If that Week seventeen is really made for is this
Speaker 1: it is for dfs? Now? My my over urging strategy
Speaker 1: is don't get cute with the teams with nothing to
Speaker 1: play for. Yes, you can go out and chase the
Speaker 1: Robert Griffin the third or even like the Dumpster Diver
Speaker 1: teams like, but you never know and there is some
Speaker 1: danger with that. Right. Does Miami decide they want to
Speaker 1: get a look at one last look at Josh Rosen
Speaker 1: right out one? You just cook, you know, you just
Speaker 1: you just started, Davante Parker. So I like the key
Speaker 1: in on the teams that still have something to play for.
Speaker 1: And we can run through those really quick. So the
Speaker 1: teams that have made the playoffs but are locked in
Speaker 1: probably gonna arrest their starters. Baltimore, Buffalo and Buffalo, Minnesota
Speaker 1: fade all those guys teams that made the playoffs. But
Speaker 1: it's still very fluid. I something to play for New England,
Speaker 1: Kansas City, San Francisco, New Orleans, Green Bay, Seattle, and
Speaker 1: even Houston, who can move up to three and knock
Speaker 1: out their division rival Tennessee and then winning in Tennessee
Speaker 1: and Philadelphia and in with some help is Pittsburgh, Oakland
Speaker 1: and Dallas. So those are the only teams I'm advocating
Speaker 1: for DFSC usage really because you know they're gonna play
Speaker 1: to win to all their starters. You know there's some
Speaker 1: teams out there that may not be playing to win
Speaker 1: in Week seventeen. Oh yeah, like draft position change, there's
Speaker 1: you know, don't just avoid the mess of the Washington's
Speaker 1: and the Giants and the Jets and all that. What
Speaker 1: do you think about teams like Chicago playing against a
Speaker 1: Viking team that has nothing to play for? You know,
Speaker 1: David Montgomery could easily go off. Vikings will be missing
Speaker 1: two of their starting linebackers and who knows how many
Speaker 1: by injury for injury, and then they might just rest
Speaker 1: most of the rest of their starting defense. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: you never know, like third string running back on the
Speaker 1: batters could be coaches pet and he's gonna get a
Speaker 1: run in this game. So there's so many unknown it's
Speaker 1: clearly not David Montgomery right. That much we can say
Speaker 1: with a degree of certainty. All right, if you want
Speaker 1: to try DFS week seventeen, please go to famball dot
Speaker 1: com and we have super Flex DFS as well, which
Speaker 1: is super fun. Super Flex. So when you're playing playoffs,
Speaker 1: let's turn our attention back to the playoffs and playoff
Speaker 1: fantasy football first, just some overarching things, and then we're
Speaker 1: gonna actually talk about some of the formats you might
Speaker 1: want to try in your leagues. First, test drive new
Speaker 1: ideas here. If you've got um, if you for your
Speaker 1: main league, if you've always wanted to try this thing auctioning,
Speaker 1: you want to update your scoring system to something else,
Speaker 1: you want to go PPR, if you want to try
Speaker 1: super flex, you know, whatever, This is the time to
Speaker 1: test drive those ideas with especially reluctant owners in your league,
Speaker 1: like the auction is a great example. People get all
Speaker 1: get there, get all nervous about an auction. It's gonna
Speaker 1: take too long. It's it's too hard. I can't get
Speaker 1: drunk at the draft all that stuff, test drive the
Speaker 1: auction for your for your fantasy of the playoffs, and
Speaker 1: we always say it everyone should be auctioning in their
Speaker 1: regular leagues, but it's it's a scary notion for a
Speaker 1: lot of people to do that. But I love like
Speaker 1: dipping your toes in the water in the playoffs. But
Speaker 1: no one ever goes back from auctioning them don't when
Speaker 1: it goes back. So what scoring system changes or another one.
Speaker 1: Maybe you want to try fantasy without kickers or with kickers,
Speaker 1: or you know, whatever you want to do, this is
Speaker 1: the time to do it. I've had a lot of
Speaker 1: people ask me if you can run a guillotine league
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, and I think you can. Why not? Um,
Speaker 1: this would be at has to test your water on
Speaker 1: the test the waters for a guillotine league. And here's
Speaker 1: how you do it. You'd start with eight teams and
Speaker 1: you had chopped two every week. I think you could
Speaker 1: do it with four teams and chop one every week.
Speaker 1: But I think eight teams the bottom scoring two every
Speaker 1: week get chopped. I think you'd have to do large, big,
Speaker 1: bigger rosters here because you're not going to be redrafting,
Speaker 1: and you're not gonna be using free agency. You're gonna
Speaker 1: you're just gonna hold all the guys you have. But
Speaker 1: and part of the fun of Guillotine League really is
Speaker 1: is the redraft is getting going after those free agents.
Speaker 1: But so in a perfect Guillotine League, Brian, I think
Speaker 1: you would. So if you and I get cut in
Speaker 1: the first round of the playoffs, all of our players
Speaker 1: become available, and ideally the surviving players could have a
Speaker 1: redraft of all of the players in the playoffs, including mine,
Speaker 1: including my guys that got dropped in your guys that
Speaker 1: got dropped you. Because you really wouldn't want to draft
Speaker 1: players on a bike in the Guillotine League, right, there's
Speaker 1: no super dangerous So you're gonna have to do a
Speaker 1: redrafted for you every week. I think you're right, So,
Speaker 1: or you have to have really deep rosters so that
Speaker 1: you're bye week guys you know just aren't starters. You're
Speaker 1: not losing that much. One of the things as a
Speaker 1: broad top before we get into the specific things. Where
Speaker 1: to host these is a real problem for people. When
Speaker 1: we were talking about this on Twitter and I'm at
Speaker 1: Paul Charchi and Brian is at bt x J, people like, well,
Speaker 1: this all sounds great, but where do I play this?
Speaker 1: And you know, for all of these great ideas, mostly
Speaker 1: I think you have two options. Play at My Fantasy League,
Speaker 1: which is free in the playoffs. It's a service that
Speaker 1: does all. It does everything basically, but it's not it's
Speaker 1: not the world's easiest service, but it's free and if
Speaker 1: you dork around with it, you'll probably get it to
Speaker 1: your settings. Or you're just gonna do it by hand.
Speaker 1: You're gonna do it all. You're gonna do it yourself.
Speaker 1: You're gonna do an Excel, or you're gonna do it
Speaker 1: in a Google doc, or you're gonna do it by facts.
Speaker 1: If you're gonna you're gonna do it by smoke signal
Speaker 1: to the rest of the league, whatever text message. I
Speaker 1: think you're gonna you're gonna go old school on it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The advocate for MFL my Fantasy League, I mean they
Speaker 1: charged what seventy bucks the league for the regular seasons
Speaker 1: of getting to do it for free. That is uh
Speaker 1: as a definite bonus. And like you said, it's very customizable,
Speaker 1: a little tough to use, but you you get the
Speaker 1: hang of it pretty quick. Yeah. I like my Fantasy
Speaker 1: League and the people behind it. They're great. Um, although
Speaker 1: as you can probably do it offline ESPN and Yahoo.
Speaker 1: I look today Brian today and it's this is the
Speaker 1: week before the playoffs. As a recordings, they don't have
Speaker 1: anything live right now, but I think they both have
Speaker 1: playoff fantasy games. But you gotta play their style. They
Speaker 1: gotta play their game and that's it. There's no customize ability.
Speaker 1: So I think a lot of us are doing on spreadsheet.
Speaker 1: That's my playoff league has been running on spreadsheet for
Speaker 1: twenty years, my playoff Fantasy League. So there's there's all
Speaker 1: of that. Let's not too laborious with only three four
Speaker 1: weeks of action and now, yeah, you can do it
Speaker 1: by hand. It's not too bad, and honestly, in some
Speaker 1: ways it for those of us that did it by
Speaker 1: hand for a long time in the eighties and the nineties.
Speaker 1: For me that I did too, we've been you're young
Speaker 1: enough to have done that, Yeah, okay, then yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just yeah, it's a little it feels at old school.
Speaker 1: It's a little fun like it used to be. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't want to do it every week, but I don't
Speaker 1: mind do it in the playoffs. Broadly, in the playoffs
Speaker 1: for fantasy football, you have two decisions to make. Are
Speaker 1: you playing a traditional fantasy style league with like eight
Speaker 1: teams and a draft or something like that, or are
Speaker 1: you doing a style of play Brian that could apply
Speaker 1: to a hundred leagues or a hundred players or a
Speaker 1: thousand players in pool leagues. So I'm broadly calling like
Speaker 1: fantasy style playoff leagues and then pool leagues. The pool leagues. Again,
Speaker 1: every unlimited number of players shared player pool in a
Speaker 1: pool league. The fantasy style is is much like what
Speaker 1: you what we run during the season, all right, So
Speaker 1: let's uh, I want to break down some fantasy league
Speaker 1: styles here. First, here's the league I've been in for
Speaker 1: whatever reason. We'll call this the charge Fan the chart
Speaker 1: playoff fantasy league. Exactly six teams in each league because
Speaker 1: there are twelve playoff teams. That way, you can call
Speaker 1: them conferences almost right, Well, they're not really. Um, so
Speaker 1: there are six I I play with six teams in
Speaker 1: my playoff league and the six teams. That means Brian
Speaker 1: gets two team quarterbacks. Because there are twelve NFL teams
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, I get to team quarterbacks. You get
Speaker 1: two team kickers. I get two team kickers, etcetera, etcetera.
Speaker 1: So the way I play is to two team quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: four running backs, four receivers, two tight ends, and two
Speaker 1: team kicker and two team defense. So that's that's the
Speaker 1: format that I use. And once you take the Patriots
Speaker 1: quarterback or whichever team, then I can't take the Patriots
Speaker 1: quarterbacks and it's team quarterback because there's no pickups, there's
Speaker 1: no drops, there's no ads. You just you you draft
Speaker 1: everybody and you just score everybody that's still alive. Um,
Speaker 1: there's no moves, there's no bench. You just everybody scores.
Speaker 1: That's that is how I play. Now do of a
Speaker 1: particular by by the way, as a as a side
Speaker 1: note here, do you have a preference for trying to
Speaker 1: draft wild card teams or avoiding wild card teams because
Speaker 1: that's the key delineator of success in a playoff fantasy team.
Speaker 1: It is very polarizing strategy to either fade the playoff
Speaker 1: teams or draft that the wild card teams, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: because it's one way or another they're gonna get bounced
Speaker 1: early or you have like as a as a former
Speaker 1: Giants fan or a Giants fan on hold, that's when
Speaker 1: the teams get hot going into the wild like and
Speaker 1: they yeah, and then you accumulate more points, and especially
Speaker 1: then we'll get into the formats where you know, the
Speaker 1: points double each round. You gotta sit on teams with
Speaker 1: a bye until the second round. Even know, even though
Speaker 1: you get teams get double points, you get a goose
Speaker 1: egg in the wild card rounds you're not playing of course,
Speaker 1: But generally in general, I don't really know. It depends
Speaker 1: on the year really which way I'm gonna go with
Speaker 1: it depends on the wild card team. As of right now,
Speaker 1: I'm not feeling too good about the vikings. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but in general I would still just don't even look
Speaker 1: at if they're a wild card, if they have a
Speaker 1: bye or a division winner, just how well I think
Speaker 1: they're gonna do moving board in the playoffs. And here's
Speaker 1: why I I draft lots of wild card teams, and
Speaker 1: here's why one I get four game upside. So the
Speaker 1: only way I can get The only way you can
Speaker 1: get four games out of your player is if it
Speaker 1: go you go wild Card to super Bowl. And you
Speaker 1: may say to yourself, well, that never happens, but in
Speaker 1: reality it happens pretty often, like wy not ever every
Speaker 1: four years you've got a wild card team that gets
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl. Maybe it's even one every three
Speaker 1: I should really run the analysis at some point. Um,
Speaker 1: you mentioned the Giants, the Steelers did it not that
Speaker 1: long ago. It's it's it's by no means impossible to do.
Speaker 1: You really can do it. Um. So there's that, which
Speaker 1: is uh, which is one of the reasons I like it.
Speaker 1: The other is this. If I told you that, let's
Speaker 1: he took the the the Ravens, and the Ravens were
Speaker 1: gonna get knocked out, and they were gonna make it
Speaker 1: a the f C Championship game and get knocked out,
Speaker 1: you feel like, well, it's pretty good. I got to
Speaker 1: the a f C Championship game. I got one game
Speaker 1: away from the playoffs, but the Ravens only played two games.
Speaker 1: If I get a wild card winner, I got two games.
Speaker 1: All I need is a wild card winner, and I
Speaker 1: got the equivalent of a team that got to buy
Speaker 1: getting to the championship game. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: It's the same two teams, same two games. I'm looking
Speaker 1: for the number of games. I like the wild card teams.
Speaker 1: I would lean that way as well. All right, let's
Speaker 1: talk about some other options. You can redraft before every
Speaker 1: round starting in you can redraft basically, you know, you
Speaker 1: can have a full redraft after every round. This takes
Speaker 1: a committed group of owners. Have you ever Have you
Speaker 1: ever done it this way? I have not. I would,
Speaker 1: I would be that committed, but I've had trouble finding
Speaker 1: owners that committed they would partake in this format. But
Speaker 1: I like, I think you do it in the office. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you go, okay, every week of the season or
Speaker 1: every week of the playoffs on Tuesday, we're all going
Speaker 1: out to lunch every Tuesday, and we're gonna help draft
Speaker 1: for that week's games, and you pick whatever you know,
Speaker 1: you pick whatever roster size you want. But it can
Speaker 1: be a smaller roster size if you're doing it this way,
Speaker 1: because nobody's gonna draft by week teams and by the
Speaker 1: time you get to the Super Bowl, you're only drafted.
Speaker 1: There's only there's only two quarterbacks we had now if
Speaker 1: you're gonna do it this way. One of the things
Speaker 1: that people will do, Brian, I find this in fascinating.
Speaker 1: If you're gonna redraft after everyone, after, every after, every week,
Speaker 1: knowing that like there's only two quarterbacks of the playoffs,
Speaker 1: no roster requirement, none, you don't have to fill a
Speaker 1: quarterback spot, just all flex. It's an all flex roster.
Speaker 1: Why not you could just all flex roster whatever whatever. Yes,
Speaker 1: so then you can keep drafting all the way to
Speaker 1: the super Bowl and when the two quarterbacks go off
Speaker 1: the board, find you're just not you know, you're you're
Speaker 1: gonna you're gonna go running back or whatever. So in
Speaker 1: all flex roster. So I think that works. Um, how
Speaker 1: about this as a variant, And by the way, thanks
Speaker 1: to the people on it, they gave me some of
Speaker 1: the variations they've got. As an in using an auction format,
Speaker 1: and you auction between every round, but the money you
Speaker 1: spend in the first round is gone. The auction amount
Speaker 1: does not reset. So if you save a bunch of
Speaker 1: money in the first round, you can go to the
Speaker 1: second round and get and and you've got you control,
Speaker 1: you know, you might control the boards. You've got the
Speaker 1: most money at that point. And what would you recommend
Speaker 1: just going cheap on wild card players in the first
Speaker 1: round and then saving all your money for the Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson's and the But somebody could drive, somebody could auction
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson in the first round, sit on him for
Speaker 1: a week, right, Although if you're doing a fresh auction
Speaker 1: with all new players, then yeah, you would save money
Speaker 1: knowing Lamar Jackson's coming, So you could do auctioning that way.
Speaker 1: But I like the part where you just don't reset
Speaker 1: the cap between every round. You've given advantage of those
Speaker 1: people that have saved some money. All right, I want
Speaker 1: to take a quick break, and then I want to
Speaker 1: talk about the pool, so you can how you can
Speaker 1: play fantasy. How you can play fantasy to scare l
Speaker 1: to ten people or fifty people or a hundred people.
Speaker 1: Are a thousand people in the playoffs. When we come
Speaker 1: back right after this, okay, Brian, we're back Fantasy Football Weekly.
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Speaker 1: an NFL player earns gets multiplied by the number of
Speaker 1: consecutive weeks that player has been on your roster. So again,
Speaker 1: if you can get that four week wild card run
Speaker 1: your multiplier, it's times four on your Super Bowl players
Speaker 1: who came from the wild card, which, by the way,
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Speaker 1: so we encourage you to check that out. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about pools within your unlimited number of participants. I know
Speaker 1: you've got you've got some pools you want to talk about.
Speaker 1: I've got a couple of them here as well. Do
Speaker 1: you want to go first or second? Well, mine is
Speaker 1: more actually around the teams and not the players, and
Speaker 1: there are a limited number of participants, So you go first,
Speaker 1: and then I'll go over it. People just want to,
Speaker 1: you know, are afraid to do fantasy for whatever reason.
Speaker 1: You can still just play playoff games with using the
Speaker 1: teams and there's a lot of fun thos do I know?
Speaker 1: But still I do both. But al right, okay, twelve
Speaker 1: position here'saying so there's a pool that again you could
Speaker 1: send this off to everybody in your contact list, twelve
Speaker 1: positions to fill using players from all twelve teams, one
Speaker 1: player per team, So if you choose Patrick Moomes, you
Speaker 1: can't have Travis Kelsey, right, and so it's you. You know,
Speaker 1: you've got twelve positions, you know, probably the ones we
Speaker 1: talked about before. Two quarterbacks, uh, you know, three running backs,
Speaker 1: to receivers to uh, two kickers to defense, two tight ends.
Speaker 1: You fill those out, but only one player per team
Speaker 1: and NF actual and NFL team um, and then you
Speaker 1: can So that's you know, that's one way to go,
Speaker 1: and then you just let that ride. Also, you just
Speaker 1: let that You just let that roster ride the whole time.
Speaker 1: So you would think kicker and defense or the two
Speaker 1: you could part with easiest, easiest, But maybe I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's the Cowboys, but I don't know. It's
Speaker 1: funny you bring that up. Quarterbacks and kickers are way
Speaker 1: more valuable in playoff because they're sure points. And the
Speaker 1: reason we don't draft them very highly in fantasy is
Speaker 1: because all quarterbacks are the same, All kickers are the same,
Speaker 1: All defenses are the same, are they You know, they
Speaker 1: don't have a lot of variation, But when you don't
Speaker 1: have one at all because your team has been knocked out,
Speaker 1: that's a huge differential, huge differential. And so I take
Speaker 1: quarterbacks early and all my playoffs stuff, and even the
Speaker 1: kickers and the defenses, and there are a lot of
Speaker 1: people that are so ingrained into not taking them. I
Speaker 1: think it's a huge advantage. Another playoff pool option. Every
Speaker 1: round is basically a redraft where you pick one quarterback,
Speaker 1: in this case a quarterback, a running back, a wide receiver,
Speaker 1: tight end. For the playoffs. That's only one two three
Speaker 1: four four four positions, but you can only pick You
Speaker 1: can't pick a player twice. So you compare players together
Speaker 1: in the same week, like homes and kill. Yes, I
Speaker 1: can never use them again. Use them. You've got to
Speaker 1: figure out when you're gonna go pick your spots with
Speaker 1: those plays. And I like that angle. You could go
Speaker 1: a deeper roster than just one quarterback, one running back,
Speaker 1: one tight end, one one wide receiver if you wanted to,
Speaker 1: including kicker and defense. But I like the part that
Speaker 1: you can't you can't pick another you can't pick the
Speaker 1: player against. You gotta apply a little strategy to that.
Speaker 1: Espen's got something called the grid Iron Playoff Challenge. It's
Speaker 1: a salary cap game, and players salaries increase every week,
Speaker 1: but you get to hold the old salary from whenever
Speaker 1: you added that guy. So if you had a wild
Speaker 1: card guy and he's winning and winning his salary cap,
Speaker 1: his team's winning, his salary cap is gonna keep going up,
Speaker 1: but not for you because you locked him in early.
Speaker 1: This is a sitting on a players with a bye scenario. Again,
Speaker 1: we're like Lamar Jackson will be five bucks on his
Speaker 1: by and then ten, but you you get him for
Speaker 1: five if you just willing to sit out on that
Speaker 1: and sit on the player. Yeah, but we're we're you
Speaker 1: and I were kind of advocating not to do that.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, I like having the games under
Speaker 1: my belt. I don't know teams all the times to Yeah,
Speaker 1: absolutely talk to me about this team based one that
Speaker 1: you're you're mentioned. There's two. There's a confidence pools and
Speaker 1: NFL uh they're called takeover pools. The competence pools are easy.
Speaker 1: You can have any number of users, players whatever in
Speaker 1: your league and you take all twelve playoff teams. Can
Speaker 1: you assigned confidence points to them? One through twelve. You
Speaker 1: can only use one number each. And if I put
Speaker 1: a twelve on a team, it's my most confidence, the
Speaker 1: most confidence in that team, and every time the team wins,
Speaker 1: you get that points. And again, UH, teams that are
Speaker 1: on by a fewer opportunities to win. So there's strategy there.
Speaker 1: If you put your twelve points on a wild card
Speaker 1: team and they make a run, I think I would.
Speaker 1: I would be tempted to put my all my top
Speaker 1: six points, my numbers twelve, eleven, ten, at nine eight.
Speaker 1: I think that's six. Maybe it nots for uh seven
Speaker 1: six all wild cards, every one of them wild cards.
Speaker 1: Now I don't have to figure out which wild card
Speaker 1: teams are going to advance, but I'd be rolling the
Speaker 1: dice that some of them are going to advance. And
Speaker 1: because one always gets hot, you could just say, well,
Speaker 1: you know what, I want the Ravens and I want
Speaker 1: the twelve points, and I would get that and I'd
Speaker 1: probably put the I. But if I'm in a big pool,
Speaker 1: you have to go contrarian to some degree, don't you. Definitely?
Speaker 1: Definitely you know so pool size is a variable here too, right,
Speaker 1: if you've got a pool with hundred players, you have
Speaker 1: to go contrarian. You can't. There's a little bit like
Speaker 1: a March Madness pool. You have to at some point,
Speaker 1: you just have you have to get a little bit lucky,
Speaker 1: and you have to be the guy that's that figured
Speaker 1: out which underdog was going to win some games that
Speaker 1: nobody saw coming. If you're in a small pool with
Speaker 1: ten people or eight people or twelve people or whatever,
Speaker 1: you can go and just make one contrarian pick. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm with you. If you want to ship the whole thing,
Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta be unique, stand out, and uh
Speaker 1: put more than one point on the Vikings, don't you
Speaker 1: think you right? I'm sorry to say that to this
Speaker 1: And we're better Viking fans here in Minnesota right now
Speaker 1: as they just got handled by the Packers. This one's
Speaker 1: stung in a way that I was not. I was
Speaker 1: not necessarily prepared well in the takeover pool. What there's
Speaker 1: hope for the Vikings because the takeover pool involves the spread,
Speaker 1: so you can you Uh, it works best with twelve
Speaker 1: or six people. So either with twelve people everyone gets
Speaker 1: a team, or six people each get two teams at
Speaker 1: the started playoffs. Uh I, I suggest you pick them
Speaker 1: rather than like drawing out of a hat or whatever
Speaker 1: to a draft. But basically you have your two teams
Speaker 1: like I have. Let's say the Vikings and the Saints
Speaker 1: play right, I got the Vikings plus six and a half.
Speaker 1: You have the Saints my cover. I take over your
Speaker 1: team even though the Saints won because I covered my
Speaker 1: six and a half. Yeah, I take your team over
Speaker 1: because the Vikings are lost there but the one for me.
Speaker 1: But I take your team over. And if I had
Speaker 1: the Saints and then just keep and I'm done. That's
Speaker 1: kind of cool. It's it's fun. And then whoever has
Speaker 1: the super Bowl winner against the read at the end
Speaker 1: is the winner. Oh so it's just last team standing. However,
Speaker 1: whoever whichever team against the spread ended up winning, all right,
Speaker 1: so you gotta start with exactly twelve or six six?
Speaker 1: You gotta start with sex right, Well, he neither with
Speaker 1: twelve people, it's one team. We each have one team
Speaker 1: for the whole thing. Or with six people we have
Speaker 1: two teams. Couldn't go twenty four players, No, I could,
Speaker 1: because they don't all play at the same time. Twelve
Speaker 1: the most, I think, because the most games you have
Speaker 1: in anyone you can do anything visible. By twelve, Really,
Speaker 1: we could do this head to head we each have
Speaker 1: six teams. Yeah, but right, that would be weird because
Speaker 1: then I have both my teams playing against each other
Speaker 1: probably in some but yeah, it's it's fun. It's easy,
Speaker 1: and it's fun. One other reminder for for any of these,
Speaker 1: any of these pool systems. If you want to simplify
Speaker 1: the funds for all these and especially these big pools
Speaker 1: that could be fifty or a hundred, use leaks. Say,
Speaker 1: for the love of God, all you have to do
Speaker 1: is just send a link and everybody just pays on
Speaker 1: that link and we hold all the funds for the
Speaker 1: for the duration of the NFL playoffs and at the
Speaker 1: end you tell who won, and we released all the
Speaker 1: funds of the winners. It's couldn't be easier. And most
Speaker 1: these playoff leagues, it seems like people are playing for
Speaker 1: ten bucks. Twenty bucks man getting ten bucks from fifty
Speaker 1: people who wants that. Good look, just use League Safe.
Speaker 1: We encourage you to try that. And by the way,
Speaker 1: there's a bunch of playoffs leagues. We have a classified
Speaker 1: system on League Safe, so that if you want to
Speaker 1: go join a playoff syste a playoff league of some kind.
Speaker 1: There's a bunch of playoff leagues that are looking for
Speaker 1: owners at League Safe in the classified area. We encourage
Speaker 1: you to check that out. Um, there you go. We're
Speaker 1: back every Friday, folks. It's gonna be super fun doing
Speaker 1: Fantasy football weekly all off season. That'll I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: sharper rolling into next year's preseason shows and I've ever
Speaker 1: been and um, and that means we're gonna be breaking
Speaker 1: down all kinds of stuff throughout the off season. The
Speaker 1: free agency moves, you know, all the things that, you know,
Speaker 1: rule changes, format changes that we want to talk about,
Speaker 1: quilloteen leagues, the NFL draft, Bestball. We can start talking
Speaker 1: best Ball a DP practically right now. I know they're
Speaker 1: they're going to that for another show. When do people
Speaker 1: start drafting best ball for? Basically when the confetti starts
Speaker 1: falling at the Super Bowl? Alright, it's about it, all right,
Speaker 1: it's early February, it starts going, it's unreal. And then
Speaker 1: next week and although throughout the playoffs we'll break down
Speaker 1: more of the actual games that are happening fantasy style
Speaker 1: and talk through that a little bit for DFS players
Speaker 1: and just other people who care about what's what's coming
Speaker 1: up from from a game impact standpoint. Now for those
Speaker 1: in the Crush Charts Championship on fanball dot Com, if
Speaker 1: you're not in the Crushed Charts Championship because still play
Speaker 1: DFS on fanball dot Com, of course, I got like
Speaker 1: three or four players real quick, can I throw them
Speaker 1: out there? Some favorites were me at each position. And again,
Speaker 1: these are teams that are playing for something. These are
Speaker 1: only the players I'm targeting. Ryan Tannehill at Houston three
Speaker 1: touchdowns and three straight for Tannehill, including Houston two weeks ago,
Speaker 1: Houston getting flamed by virtually everyone at secondaries old and
Speaker 1: not good, and Houston might fold up shop in a
Speaker 1: game that Tennessee desperately needs to win, winning in so
Speaker 1: unlocking Tannie Hill, Hill and all my lineups all right?
Speaker 1: Running Back Alvin Kamara Over the last five weeks, Carolina
Speaker 1: conceding a hundred and nine plus combo yards and two
Speaker 1: whole touchdowns per game to opposing running backs. Camar didn't
Speaker 1: score in the first meeting, did top a hundred comboy yards,
Speaker 1: but in his previous four against the Panthers total five touchdowns.
Speaker 1: I think he goes off. But wait, how expensive is he? He'sily,
Speaker 1: he's upper echelon back. It's gonna be like seven thousand something.
Speaker 1: Or he's affordable. Though he's affordable. But what about Littavius Murray,
Speaker 1: who's dirt cheap and backup runners get paid against Carolina
Speaker 1: because they're so bad? I like it? Why not both? Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: the rare running, the rare running back stack. It might work,
Speaker 1: it really might. And Murray has done nothing for weeks.
Speaker 1: Nobody's taking Littavius Murray right now. I like it. I
Speaker 1: like that cult charge Berry Concherion and and you know
Speaker 1: the Saints are going to the playoffs, why not work
Speaker 1: Littavius Murray and a one sided affair against Will Greer
Speaker 1: in which they're gonna be ahead. Why not save Alvin
Speaker 1: Kamara up for the playoffs. You need him to be
Speaker 1: special in the playoffs. You need him to be healthy
Speaker 1: on that that ankle he's been nursing all season long.
Speaker 1: Why not run Latavius Murray. You've containst me the flip flop,
Speaker 1: I like, all right? Real quick receiver Julian Edelman at
Speaker 1: home against the Dolphins. So Miami slot corner Joe Maul
Speaker 1: will wilt wilts well, and he's out, Oh he's out.
Speaker 1: He's too bad this week. Well, I don't know if
Speaker 1: they have anyone. Well, there's there's somebody. There's somebody wearing
Speaker 1: a number that starts with a two or three that's
Speaker 1: gonna try to guard him. And God don't even knows
Speaker 1: who that guy is gonna be. But he's worse than
Speaker 1: Joe Moo Wilts. My guts telling me this, regardless of
Speaker 1: it's Joe Maul or Joe Joel Moleman. Edelman quiet in
Speaker 1: the first meeting. It's not It's not Hans Moleman. I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure I was seeing bootenns Uh. Edelman quiet when
Speaker 1: New England won forty three to nothing. Under standable, but
Speaker 1: his previous five against Miami logged at least seven catches
Speaker 1: in every game, at least seventy yards, receiving total five
Speaker 1: touchdowns in those five games. I like Edelman a lot.
Speaker 1: Only worries just the you know, the usage has been
Speaker 1: so low with him because he's got so many injuries head, shoulder, chest.
Speaker 1: I believe he was field enough last week though, right,
Speaker 1: I don't have a snapcount in front of me, but
Speaker 1: just the usage the last few weeks has been low.
Speaker 1: He hasn't popped off in a while. I just feel
Speaker 1: one coming in week sevent. Yeah, I look the matchup.
Speaker 1: The matchup certainly sings. What about Brady. Nobody wants Brady, right,
Speaker 1: he's been so mundane roughly. I looked this up a
Speaker 1: couple of days ago. He's going to finish in most
Speaker 1: of my league's right around quarterback in that range. Brady
Speaker 1: is nobody's interested in him. But obviously the matchup those
Speaker 1: golden and you know Miami wins this. There the Clints
Speaker 1: the number two seed, so they'll have no problem just yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. New England will have no problem running it
Speaker 1: up and you know, airing it out because they're gonna
Speaker 1: have a bye week coming up. So yeah, I like
Speaker 1: the Brady called too. And then lastly, my boy, Jacob
Speaker 1: Hollis or a tight end uh at home against San
Speaker 1: Francisco the Hammer Game, the night game for the NFC
Speaker 1: West Championship eight for sixty two in the touchdown when
Speaker 1: these teams met in Week ten, and over the last
Speaker 1: four weeks, the Niners defense has fallen off and really
Speaker 1: as they've yielded the most red zone target gets end
Speaker 1: touches to opposing tight ends who have collectively averaged six
Speaker 1: catches for sixty nine yards and one whole touchdown during
Speaker 1: that four weeks span. So, Jacob Hollis, Niners defense has
Speaker 1: been much worse broadly, not just tight ends broadly lately,
Speaker 1: but they've also been injured all over the place. I
Speaker 1: think they get virtually everybody back for this one. Richard
Speaker 1: Sherman came back for most of the last game, Kwan Williams,
Speaker 1: d Ford. They've been you know, it's been, they've been
Speaker 1: you know, the injuries have been really a problem for them.
Speaker 1: But I think they're getting healthy now and then perhaps
Speaker 1: into the playoffs. See this is where the Niners gonna
Speaker 1: be sneaky in the playoffs. People have seen this inconsistent
Speaker 1: Niners defense for the last month. If they're all getting
Speaker 1: back to healthy again, that Niners defense aregularly the best
Speaker 1: in the league. If whenever when, when it's all hands
Speaker 1: on deck, so um, I think they're I think they're
Speaker 1: gonna be a little under the radar Niners and if
Speaker 1: they're a wild card team, will stack that baby. George
Speaker 1: Kittle will be a very popular pick if the Niners
Speaker 1: are a wild card team, if they potentially the first
Speaker 1: overall player maybe even I mean, who knows, although Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson's gonna be the first player taken and all of them,
Speaker 1: I think. All right, Brian, thanks for all for helping
Speaker 1: this podcast. We'll be back next week for another off
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