WEBVTT - Redemption Awaits! 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:04.360 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of I Heart Radio. 0:00:06.559 --> 0:00:10.240 Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from I Heart Radio, 0:00:10.640 --> 0:00:14.520 your weekly source for the nation's best fantasy speculation and advice. 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:18.400 Now along with the guys from fanball dot Com. Here's 0:00:18.440 --> 0:00:26.520 the host for Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome to the first 0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:30.120 episode playoff edition of Fantasy Football Weekly. I'm Paul Charchi 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:32.280 in My co host today is Brian Johnson. Hi, Brian. 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:35.520 We've done the show twenty five years now. We've never 0:00:35.720 --> 0:00:39.280 gone into the off season at all, including the postseason 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:42.440 first time ever. Yeah, normally it's a pack up after 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:45.559 Week sixteen and it's see uh August, even though we 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:47.680 do see each other in the off season, but yeah, 0:00:47.880 --> 0:00:50.480 not behind the mike unless we're podcasting, but yeah, which 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:52.879 we do as well. Um, this is gonna be fun. 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:55.639 What I instead of breaking down the week seventeen matchups, 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:59.320 because you really should not be crowning your champion in 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:01.800 week seven team you already know that, and you know, 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:04.560 I think our listeners aren't doing it that way. The 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:06.360 other five percentage is stubborn and they've heard all the 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:08.600 rationale and I'm not gonna get into that. We're gonna 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:11.960 spend this podcast talking about the playoffs because most people 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:15.400 are gonna hear this Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday of 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:17.720 next week. Rolling in the playoffs plaoffs Fantasy football is 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:20.240 so much fun and you get redemption. Most of us 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:24.279 didn't win our leagues, right one in twelve did one intended? Um, 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:26.679 here's some redemption and a chance to extend the fun. 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:28.520 We're gonna talk about all the different ways you can 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:32.320 play playoffs fantasy football. But first, before we dive into 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:34.520 that too much, you can also keep playing DFS as well. 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:36.960 If that Week seventeen is really made for is this 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:40.720 it is for dfs? Now? My my over urging strategy 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:44.000 is don't get cute with the teams with nothing to 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:46.160 play for. Yes, you can go out and chase the 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:49.440 Robert Griffin the third or even like the Dumpster Diver 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:53.760 teams like, but you never know and there is some 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:56.360 danger with that. Right. Does Miami decide they want to 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:58.760 get a look at one last look at Josh Rosen 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:01.400 right out one? You just cook, you know, you just 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:04.040 you just started, Davante Parker. So I like the key 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:05.960 in on the teams that still have something to play for. 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:08.440 And we can run through those really quick. So the 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:10.560 teams that have made the playoffs but are locked in 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:14.440 probably gonna arrest their starters. Baltimore, Buffalo and Buffalo, Minnesota 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:17.760 fade all those guys teams that made the playoffs. But 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:21.800 it's still very fluid. I something to play for New England, 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:26.560 Kansas City, San Francisco, New Orleans, Green Bay, Seattle, and 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:29.120 even Houston, who can move up to three and knock 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:33.000 out their division rival Tennessee and then winning in Tennessee 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:36.200 and Philadelphia and in with some help is Pittsburgh, Oakland 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:39.240 and Dallas. So those are the only teams I'm advocating 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:43.040 for DFSC usage really because you know they're gonna play 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:45.880 to win to all their starters. You know there's some 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:48.320 teams out there that may not be playing to win 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:52.960 in Week seventeen. Oh yeah, like draft position change, there's 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:57.600 you know, don't just avoid the mess of the Washington's 0:02:57.639 --> 0:03:00.280 and the Giants and the Jets and all that. What 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:03.480 do you think about teams like Chicago playing against a 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:06.080 Viking team that has nothing to play for? You know, 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:08.560 David Montgomery could easily go off. Vikings will be missing 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:11.600 two of their starting linebackers and who knows how many 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:13.800 by injury for injury, and then they might just rest 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:16.120 most of the rest of their starting defense. Yeah, but 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:18.760 you never know, like third string running back on the 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:20.960 batters could be coaches pet and he's gonna get a 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:24.120 run in this game. So there's so many unknown it's 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:27.320 clearly not David Montgomery right. That much we can say 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:29.320 with a degree of certainty. All right, if you want 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:31.840 to try DFS week seventeen, please go to famball dot 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:34.639 com and we have super Flex DFS as well, which 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:38.400 is super fun. Super Flex. So when you're playing playoffs, 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:40.840 let's turn our attention back to the playoffs and playoff 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:45.640 fantasy football first, just some overarching things, and then we're 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:47.480 gonna actually talk about some of the formats you might 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:50.520 want to try in your leagues. First, test drive new 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:53.680 ideas here. If you've got um, if you for your 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:58.800 main league, if you've always wanted to try this thing auctioning, 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:01.560 you want to update your scoring system to something else, 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:03.000 you want to go PPR, if you want to try 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:06.920 super flex, you know, whatever, This is the time to 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:11.560 test drive those ideas with especially reluctant owners in your league, 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:14.600 like the auction is a great example. People get all 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:17.680 get there, get all nervous about an auction. It's gonna 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:19.800 take too long. It's it's too hard. I can't get 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:23.000 drunk at the draft all that stuff, test drive the 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:26.800 auction for your for your fantasy of the playoffs, and 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:30.000 we always say it everyone should be auctioning in their 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:32.200 regular leagues, but it's it's a scary notion for a 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:34.000 lot of people to do that. But I love like 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:35.919 dipping your toes in the water in the playoffs. But 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:38.680 no one ever goes back from auctioning them don't when 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:45.120 it goes back. So what scoring system changes or another one. 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:50.200 Maybe you want to try fantasy without kickers or with kickers, 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:52.560 or you know, whatever you want to do, this is 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:54.400 the time to do it. I've had a lot of 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:56.479 people ask me if you can run a guillotine league 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:59.440 in the playoffs, and I think you can. Why not? Um, 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:01.200 this would be at has to test your water on 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:03.240 the test the waters for a guillotine league. And here's 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:06.719 how you do it. You'd start with eight teams and 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:08.920 you had chopped two every week. I think you could 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:10.680 do it with four teams and chop one every week. 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:14.520 But I think eight teams the bottom scoring two every 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:18.000 week get chopped. I think you'd have to do large, big, 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:22.719 bigger rosters here because you're not going to be redrafting, 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:24.839 and you're not gonna be using free agency. You're gonna 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:27.480 you're just gonna hold all the guys you have. But 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:29.839 and part of the fun of Guillotine League really is 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:32.520 is the redraft is getting going after those free agents. 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:36.640 But so in a perfect Guillotine League, Brian, I think 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:38.960 you would. So if you and I get cut in 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:41.200 the first round of the playoffs, all of our players 0:05:41.279 --> 0:05:45.279 become available, and ideally the surviving players could have a 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:49.400 redraft of all of the players in the playoffs, including mine, 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:51.120 including my guys that got dropped in your guys that 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:54.080 got dropped you. Because you really wouldn't want to draft 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:56.880 players on a bike in the Guillotine League, right, there's 0:05:56.920 --> 0:05:59.279 no super dangerous So you're gonna have to do a 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:01.640 redrafted for you every week. I think you're right, So, 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:04.120 or you have to have really deep rosters so that 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:06.960 you're bye week guys you know just aren't starters. You're 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:09.279 not losing that much. One of the things as a 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:13.039 broad top before we get into the specific things. Where 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:15.920 to host these is a real problem for people. When 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:17.680 we were talking about this on Twitter and I'm at 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:22.040 Paul Charchi and Brian is at bt x J, people like, well, 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:24.080 this all sounds great, but where do I play this? 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:27.000 And you know, for all of these great ideas, mostly 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:31.719 I think you have two options. Play at My Fantasy League, 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:34.960 which is free in the playoffs. It's a service that 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:37.840 does all. It does everything basically, but it's not it's 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:41.080 not the world's easiest service, but it's free and if 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:42.960 you dork around with it, you'll probably get it to 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:45.680 your settings. Or you're just gonna do it by hand. 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:47.240 You're gonna do it all. You're gonna do it yourself. 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:48.719 You're gonna do an Excel, or you're gonna do it 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:50.560 in a Google doc, or you're gonna do it by facts. 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:52.800 If you're gonna you're gonna do it by smoke signal 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:56.640 to the rest of the league, whatever text message. I 0:06:56.680 --> 0:06:59.560 think you're gonna you're gonna go old school on it. Yeah. 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:02.680 The advocate for MFL my Fantasy League, I mean they 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:05.240 charged what seventy bucks the league for the regular seasons 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:07.520 of getting to do it for free. That is uh 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:10.520 as a definite bonus. And like you said, it's very customizable, 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:12.560 a little tough to use, but you you get the 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:14.280 hang of it pretty quick. Yeah. I like my Fantasy 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:16.240 League and the people behind it. They're great. Um, although 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:18.320 as you can probably do it offline ESPN and Yahoo. 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:20.960 I look today Brian today and it's this is the 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:23.280 week before the playoffs. As a recordings, they don't have 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:25.840 anything live right now, but I think they both have 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:28.800 playoff fantasy games. But you gotta play their style. They 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:31.239 gotta play their game and that's it. There's no customize ability. 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:33.720 So I think a lot of us are doing on spreadsheet. 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:36.000 That's my playoff league has been running on spreadsheet for 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:39.960 twenty years, my playoff Fantasy League. So there's there's all 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:43.280 of that. Let's not too laborious with only three four 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:45.440 weeks of action and now, yeah, you can do it 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:47.920 by hand. It's not too bad, and honestly, in some 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:51.560 ways it for those of us that did it by 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:54.400 hand for a long time in the eighties and the nineties. 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:57.200 For me that I did too, we've been you're young 0:07:57.320 --> 0:07:59.760 enough to have done that, Yeah, okay, then yeah, it's 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:01.840 just yeah, it's a little it feels at old school. 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:03.240 It's a little fun like it used to be. I 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:04.760 wouldn't want to do it every week, but I don't 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:08.560 mind do it in the playoffs. Broadly, in the playoffs 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:12.360 for fantasy football, you have two decisions to make. Are 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:15.920 you playing a traditional fantasy style league with like eight 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:19.160 teams and a draft or something like that, or are 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:22.920 you doing a style of play Brian that could apply 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:25.880 to a hundred leagues or a hundred players or a 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:29.240 thousand players in pool leagues. So I'm broadly calling like 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:33.800 fantasy style playoff leagues and then pool leagues. The pool leagues. Again, 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:39.040 every unlimited number of players shared player pool in a 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:43.000 pool league. The fantasy style is is much like what 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:45.960 you what we run during the season, all right, So 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:48.280 let's uh, I want to break down some fantasy league 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:50.600 styles here. First, here's the league I've been in for 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:52.800 whatever reason. We'll call this the charge Fan the chart 0:08:52.960 --> 0:09:01.439 playoff fantasy league. Exactly six teams in each league because 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:05.200 there are twelve playoff teams. That way, you can call 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:10.280 them conferences almost right, Well, they're not really. Um, so 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:12.640 there are six I I play with six teams in 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:16.040 my playoff league and the six teams. That means Brian 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:19.320 gets two team quarterbacks. Because there are twelve NFL teams 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:21.760 in the playoffs, I get to team quarterbacks. You get 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:25.040 two team kickers. I get two team kickers, etcetera, etcetera. 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:27.960 So the way I play is to two team quarterbacks, 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:32.560 four running backs, four receivers, two tight ends, and two 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:36.120 team kicker and two team defense. So that's that's the 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:38.679 format that I use. And once you take the Patriots 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:41.720 quarterback or whichever team, then I can't take the Patriots 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:44.760 quarterbacks and it's team quarterback because there's no pickups, there's 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:47.560 no drops, there's no ads. You just you you draft 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:54.640 everybody and you just score everybody that's still alive. Um, 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:57.440 there's no moves, there's no bench. You just everybody scores. 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:00.200 That's that is how I play. Now do of a 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:01.960 particular by by the way, as a as a side 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:07.320 note here, do you have a preference for trying to 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:10.720 draft wild card teams or avoiding wild card teams because 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:16.560 that's the key delineator of success in a playoff fantasy team. 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:21.520 It is very polarizing strategy to either fade the playoff 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:23.880 teams or draft that the wild card teams, I'm sorry, 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:26.360 because it's one way or another they're gonna get bounced 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:31.080 early or you have like as a as a former 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:33.199 Giants fan or a Giants fan on hold, that's when 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:35.599 the teams get hot going into the wild like and 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:38.439 they yeah, and then you accumulate more points, and especially 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:41.599 then we'll get into the formats where you know, the 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:45.840 points double each round. You gotta sit on teams with 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:48.040 a bye until the second round. Even know, even though 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:50.880 you get teams get double points, you get a goose 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:52.920 egg in the wild card rounds you're not playing of course, 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:57.800 But generally in general, I don't really know. It depends 0:10:57.800 --> 0:10:59.480 on the year really which way I'm gonna go with 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:02.040 it depends on the wild card team. As of right now, 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:04.240 I'm not feeling too good about the vikings. I don't know, 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:11.000 but in general I would still just don't even look 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:12.640 at if they're a wild card, if they have a 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:15.600 bye or a division winner, just how well I think 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:17.920 they're gonna do moving board in the playoffs. And here's 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:20.440 why I I draft lots of wild card teams, and 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:24.760 here's why one I get four game upside. So the 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:26.400 only way I can get The only way you can 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:28.640 get four games out of your player is if it 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:31.080 go you go wild Card to super Bowl. And you 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:33.320 may say to yourself, well, that never happens, but in 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:36.440 reality it happens pretty often, like wy not ever every 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:38.920 four years you've got a wild card team that gets 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:41.199 to the Super Bowl. Maybe it's even one every three 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:44.160 I should really run the analysis at some point. Um, 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:46.280 you mentioned the Giants, the Steelers did it not that 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:49.760 long ago. It's it's it's by no means impossible to do. 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:52.760 You really can do it. Um. So there's that, which 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:54.880 is uh, which is one of the reasons I like it. 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:59.960 The other is this. If I told you that, let's 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:03.080 he took the the the Ravens, and the Ravens were 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:05.200 gonna get knocked out, and they were gonna make it 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:07.000 a the f C Championship game and get knocked out, 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:08.199 you feel like, well, it's pretty good. I got to 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:09.800 the a f C Championship game. I got one game 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:12.840 away from the playoffs, but the Ravens only played two games. 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:16.400 If I get a wild card winner, I got two games. 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:18.640 All I need is a wild card winner, and I 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:22.120 got the equivalent of a team that got to buy 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:25.000 getting to the championship game. You know what I mean. 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:27.920 It's the same two teams, same two games. I'm looking 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:30.240 for the number of games. I like the wild card teams. 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:33.040 I would lean that way as well. All right, let's 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:36.880 talk about some other options. You can redraft before every 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:40.600 round starting in you can redraft basically, you know, you 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:43.840 can have a full redraft after every round. This takes 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:45.520 a committed group of owners. Have you ever Have you 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:47.840 ever done it this way? I have not. I would, 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:49.880 I would be that committed, but I've had trouble finding 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:52.559 owners that committed they would partake in this format. But 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:54.880 I like, I think you do it in the office. Yeah, 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:58.640 so you go, okay, every week of the season or 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:01.959 every week of the playoffs on Tuesday, we're all going 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:05.160 out to lunch every Tuesday, and we're gonna help draft 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:08.320 for that week's games, and you pick whatever you know, 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:10.360 you pick whatever roster size you want. But it can 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:13.200 be a smaller roster size if you're doing it this way, 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:16.720 because nobody's gonna draft by week teams and by the 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:18.360 time you get to the Super Bowl, you're only drafted. 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:20.640 There's only there's only two quarterbacks we had now if 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:23.040 you're gonna do it this way. One of the things 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:25.319 that people will do, Brian, I find this in fascinating. 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:29.120 If you're gonna redraft after everyone, after, every after, every week, 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:32.199 knowing that like there's only two quarterbacks of the playoffs, 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:34.960 no roster requirement, none, you don't have to fill a 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:38.959 quarterback spot, just all flex. It's an all flex roster. 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:43.560 Why not you could just all flex roster whatever whatever. Yes, 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:46.040 so then you can keep drafting all the way to 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:48.880 the super Bowl and when the two quarterbacks go off 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:50.559 the board, find you're just not you know, you're you're 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:52.839 gonna you're gonna go running back or whatever. So in 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:57.600 all flex roster. So I think that works. Um, how 0:13:57.640 --> 0:13:59.440 about this as a variant, And by the way, thanks 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:00.679 to the people on it, they gave me some of 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:05.559 the variations they've got. As an in using an auction format, 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:09.000 and you auction between every round, but the money you 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:11.120 spend in the first round is gone. The auction amount 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:13.680 does not reset. So if you save a bunch of 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:15.960 money in the first round, you can go to the 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:19.680 second round and get and and you've got you control, 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:21.280 you know, you might control the boards. You've got the 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:24.640 most money at that point. And what would you recommend 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:27.560 just going cheap on wild card players in the first 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:29.840 round and then saving all your money for the Lamar 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:33.680 Jackson's and the But somebody could drive, somebody could auction 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:36.520 Lamar Jackson in the first round, sit on him for 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:40.120 a week, right, Although if you're doing a fresh auction 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:42.520 with all new players, then yeah, you would save money 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:46.120 knowing Lamar Jackson's coming, So you could do auctioning that way. 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:48.280 But I like the part where you just don't reset 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:51.360 the cap between every round. You've given advantage of those 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:53.520 people that have saved some money. All right, I want 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:54.760 to take a quick break, and then I want to 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:57.280 talk about the pool, so you can how you can 0:14:57.320 --> 0:15:00.200 play fantasy. How you can play fantasy to scare l 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:03.400 to ten people or fifty people or a hundred people. 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:06.400 Are a thousand people in the playoffs. When we come 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:12.600 back right after this, okay, Brian, we're back Fantasy Football Weekly. 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:16.680 I am Paul Charge and Brian Johnson. UM play if 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:20.760 you would the NFC postseason hold Him game. This is 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:24.720 through Fanball. It's got a price pool of one hundred 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:29.840 twenty five thousand dollars. I believe life changing life changing 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:34.040 money in the playoffs and FC dot s h g 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:38.200 N dot com. That's too hard, that's too hard, But yeah, 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:41.320 that's what it is. It's the NFC postseason hold him 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:45.480 and each week, the way it works is and by 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:47.200 the way, it's two dollars to play, so it's not 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:50.320 cheap to get into, but it's a hundred twenty five 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:54.560 thousand dollar payout um each week. The number of points 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:57.480 an NFL player earns gets multiplied by the number of 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:01.280 consecutive weeks that player has been on your roster. So again, 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:03.520 if you can get that four week wild card run 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:07.720 your multiplier, it's times four on your Super Bowl players 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:10.080 who came from the wild card, which, by the way, 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:13.960 that's how you win this thing. Yeah, I agree. Um again, 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:16.640 it's the NFC postseason hold them. You can, um, you 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:19.560 can google that, you can you can. It's accessible via 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:25.360 fanball or this FBFC dot s h and and f 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:29.840 C dot s h g N. We got to have 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:32.720 a better system than that. Sports Games Network is s 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:35.560 h g N. Yeah, that's that's too hard, all right, 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:37.360 so we encourage you to check that out. Let's talk 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:40.280 about pools within your unlimited number of participants. I know 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:42.560 you've got you've got some pools you want to talk about. 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:44.800 I've got a couple of them here as well. Do 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:46.480 you want to go first or second? Well, mine is 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:48.960 more actually around the teams and not the players, and 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:52.040 there are a limited number of participants, So you go first, 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:53.880 and then I'll go over it. People just want to, 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:56.080 you know, are afraid to do fantasy for whatever reason. 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:58.520 You can still just play playoff games with using the 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:00.840 teams and there's a lot of fun thos do I know? 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:04.520 But still I do both. But al right, okay, twelve 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:06.680 position here'saying so there's a pool that again you could 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:10.120 send this off to everybody in your contact list, twelve 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:14.280 positions to fill using players from all twelve teams, one 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:17.159 player per team, So if you choose Patrick Moomes, you 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:20.600 can't have Travis Kelsey, right, and so it's you. You know, 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:22.879 you've got twelve positions, you know, probably the ones we 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:26.280 talked about before. Two quarterbacks, uh, you know, three running backs, 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:30.720 to receivers to uh, two kickers to defense, two tight ends. 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:34.240 You fill those out, but only one player per team 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:38.800 and NF actual and NFL team um, and then you 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:40.840 can So that's you know, that's one way to go, 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:42.919 and then you just let that ride. Also, you just 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:45.440 let that You just let that roster ride the whole time. 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:48.000 So you would think kicker and defense or the two 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:51.600 you could part with easiest, easiest, But maybe I don't 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:56.320 know if that's the Cowboys, but I don't know. It's 0:17:56.320 --> 0:18:01.080 funny you bring that up. Quarterbacks and kickers are way 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:06.359 more valuable in playoff because they're sure points. And the 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:09.919 reason we don't draft them very highly in fantasy is 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:12.640 because all quarterbacks are the same, All kickers are the same, 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:14.440 All defenses are the same, are they You know, they 0:18:14.480 --> 0:18:17.040 don't have a lot of variation, But when you don't 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:19.880 have one at all because your team has been knocked out, 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:24.720 that's a huge differential, huge differential. And so I take 0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:27.639 quarterbacks early and all my playoffs stuff, and even the 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:29.560 kickers and the defenses, and there are a lot of 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:31.480 people that are so ingrained into not taking them. I 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:35.880 think it's a huge advantage. Another playoff pool option. Every 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:38.880 round is basically a redraft where you pick one quarterback, 0:18:39.280 --> 0:18:42.520 in this case a quarterback, a running back, a wide receiver, 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:44.760 tight end. For the playoffs. That's only one two three 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:48.720 four four four positions, but you can only pick You 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:51.840 can't pick a player twice. So you compare players together 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:55.119 in the same week, like homes and kill. Yes, I 0:18:55.119 --> 0:18:56.600 can never use them again. Use them. You've got to 0:18:56.600 --> 0:18:59.520 figure out when you're gonna go pick your spots with 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:02.159 those plays. And I like that angle. You could go 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:04.720 a deeper roster than just one quarterback, one running back, 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:07.119 one tight end, one one wide receiver if you wanted to, 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:09.879 including kicker and defense. But I like the part that 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:11.840 you can't you can't pick another you can't pick the 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:13.960 player against. You gotta apply a little strategy to that. 0:19:15.000 --> 0:19:17.639 Espen's got something called the grid Iron Playoff Challenge. It's 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:21.040 a salary cap game, and players salaries increase every week, 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:23.840 but you get to hold the old salary from whenever 0:19:23.960 --> 0:19:27.119 you added that guy. So if you had a wild 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:29.200 card guy and he's winning and winning his salary cap, 0:19:29.240 --> 0:19:31.199 his team's winning, his salary cap is gonna keep going up, 0:19:31.200 --> 0:19:33.879 but not for you because you locked him in early. 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:37.119 This is a sitting on a players with a bye scenario. Again, 0:19:37.320 --> 0:19:39.639 we're like Lamar Jackson will be five bucks on his 0:19:39.800 --> 0:19:42.760 by and then ten, but you you get him for 0:19:42.800 --> 0:19:44.920 five if you just willing to sit out on that 0:19:44.960 --> 0:19:47.080 and sit on the player. Yeah, but we're we're you 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:48.960 and I were kind of advocating not to do that. 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:51.880 I don't know. Yeah, I like having the games under 0:19:51.880 --> 0:19:56.760 my belt. I don't know teams all the times to Yeah, 0:19:56.800 --> 0:19:59.320 absolutely talk to me about this team based one that 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:02.399 you're you're mentioned. There's two. There's a confidence pools and 0:20:02.560 --> 0:20:06.760 NFL uh they're called takeover pools. The competence pools are easy. 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:10.480 You can have any number of users, players whatever in 0:20:10.520 --> 0:20:13.119