Fantasy Football Podcast 2017 - 400th Episode! + Best Ball Tips, Mailbag, Show Highlights

everything from helmets and jerseys, shoes, whatever you want. You know, go search on there and see what they have. You know, when you're watching football this coming season, you want to be surrounded by, you know, the greatness of these signed player jerseys on the wall or, you know, the signed helmets. The signed helmets are incredible. Those are, those are.

crazy. Yeah, I just love how many items to choose from. It's not like you're pigeonholed into, here's three items from the Cowboys for the next five years. Hundreds of daily auctions. Yeah, I was going to say, the daily auctions are different every day. So just keep checking it out. It's completely free to browse, free to make an account. You could sign up, say that the, you know, you heard of them through the fantasy footballers. Let them know we sent you. But check them out. It's pristine auction.com. P-R-I-S-T-I-N-E auction.com.

All right, we're going to take a time out right now. We're going to jump into our weekly bestball segment. Very special guests today. Scott Barrett joined Mike to talk about bestball, some strategy for playdraft. Let's go ahead and talk right now. Best ball bonanza. Brought to you by Playdraft. For today's best ball bonanza segment, we thought we would reach out to a fella that you have heard of. You've heard his name multiple times.

on this podcast, yet he has never actually made an appearance a mistake, a gross mistake that we have rectified today. Scott Barrett at Scott Barrett, DFB, the original dude fantasy bro. What is happening? Scott, how are you doing? Good, Mike. Wonderful introduction. You had me at rectified. So, yeah, I just want to talk a little bit about best ball leagues. I've done.

uh about 250 over the past two seasons i've been profitable both years and it's just a really fun format that uh i think is kind of uh the future of fantasy in many ways oh we love it it's it's a great way to enhance the off season and we're getting people into it on the fantasy footballers there's a lot of people over here who they're just hearing about best ball for the first time in a reminder play draft

dot com slash ballers that's where we highly suggest you go check out the draft app but scott like you said is a master of the best ball draft he's had great success we brought him on and scott give us a tip maybe two tips if you if you have them but this is how you go about your draft your roster construction whatever it is just give us your top tip what do you got so when we look at a best ball league we have to

see what differentiates it from a typical redraft league. And the two big things is, you know, there's no waiver wire. And then you don't have to make difficult start sit decisions. It just automatically starts your highest scoring players at each position. So I think the two biggest things from that is that we can aim for, you know, upside.

boom bus type players, because they won't really hurt you as much in this format. And relative to ADP might actually be values in a basketball league. And the other is, you know, because you, like a zero RB strategy doesn't really work as well in this format. Because, you know, that relies heavily on finding a backup running back now thrust into a starting role or kind of a late.

round gem who was dropped at a certain point who's now starting. So I think maybe the two big tips for me, outside of just general roster construction where I want to go two to three quarterbacks, four to six running backs, two to three tight ends, maybe like six to nine wide receivers. The two big things for me is one, I want to go running back heavy early. I want

Maybe in the first five rounds, I want at least like three running backs. I really like. And you can check out my most recent article on Belkow running backs to find out which running backs those might be. And then the other thing is I want to go quantity over quality at the wide receiver position. You know, guys like Tori Smith, who you can get in the last round, I really feel like he's going to have like three.

three to five weeks where he could score like 18 fantasy points and then the rest of the time maybe he does nothing but yeah they're just more it's just a more volatile position uh so you can definitely go a little later and just go heavy on the number of wide receivers rather than just loading up um you know name brand wide receivers early on in the draft i'd rather go running back there like i said um yeah i think that's pretty much it

No, that's excellent stuff. That's good, you know, roster construction talk. And we appreciate you jumping on, Scott. I know it was just short-lived. Maybe. Maybe if you're lucky, we'll get you on for a long, long-form segment on here. But I wouldn't hold your breath on that one. All right. Then I'll sneak in one last tip while I have you on here. I knew I'd get it out of you. Also, wait on quarterback. It's just.

pretty easy to build elite quarterback production based on two to three mid to late range quarterbacks. You know, the difference between grabbing an Andrew Luck and a Blake Bortles isn't vastly different from something like Carson Palmer, Philip Rivers, and Blake Bortles, you know? Oh, I love it. So you can check him out on Twitter at...

Scott Barrett, DFB. He's wearing a really obnoxious t-shirt, at least at the time of this recording. That's what his avatar is. And of course, you can check out his other work at Pro Football Focus, where he's big time. He's big time now. You're a full-time guy, aren't you? Yeah, and it's all because you discovered me back when I had 800 followers. You are so welcome. You are welcome, Scott.

It has nothing to do with you actually being a quality fantasy analyst. It's because I mentioned your name on the show. It's that footballers bump, yeah. It only took a year, but I grew 15,000 followers from it. I love it. Thank you so much, Scott. Thank you, Mike. All right, great segment there with Scott Barrett. Thank you for coming on the show. Love Scott Barrett. Good information. Again, go to playdraft.com slash ballers to check out all the best ball leagues. It's so much fun. Do you think Jay Gris?

has a special place for Scott Barrett due to the name. I see where you're going. I barely got that. It took me a while. Well, there you go. Because his name is Barrett. Yeah. Got it. Nailed it. All right. Hey, very special time right now. We're going to close the show out. For those of you that have been around a little while or a long while. Maybe you went in on all the inside jokes that you've missed out on and don't understand. We've got a little special segment.

Brought to you by Judge Diamati himself. Brooks has cut together some of our favorite moments, most interesting moments from the show over the last three years. Infamous moments. Infamous, famous, famous, whatever you want to say. Take it away.

So we're talking David Johnson, the 22nd pick of the third round by the Arizona Cardinals. Be still my heart. Go watch David Johnson's highlight reels. David Johnson. David Johnson. I just want an announcer to do it. Now coming in, running back. David Johnson. In February. Don't ever sing that. Please. Stop. No! I'm Andy Holloway. And I'm an Aryan Foster owner.

So sad right now. Oh, you burned bright. Ah, Aryan. What do they call me on Twitter, Mike? They're calling you the Fantasy Reaper, my friend. You get high in Andy's rankings, you go down. Believe it or not, it's at Andy Holloway, not the Fantasy Reaper. I'm in. I love Michael Keaton. Whoa! Did you? The ever under pressure? Yeah, the ever under pressure question. So I love Michael Keaton. We're adding a Sunday morning. I love Michael Keaton.

Michael Thomas. I love Michael Keaton. Thomas Rawls. I love Michael Keaton. Russell Wilson. Russell Wilson. They brought in Guns Mahoney. Guns Mahoney there. Guns Mahoney's decision. Dan Campbell is his name. Yeah. It's back, baby. Abdullah Express is fully ready to go. Blah pow. Blah, plow. If you've not been infected.

With the Beasles. You got to get yourself together. No, Jason clearly has not. I had the Beasles when I was a kid, so I can't get it anymore. Touchdown? But Andy. Yes. But I've got the Beasles. Oh, yeah. I got the Beasles number one, one receiver. Oh, I'm sorry. Your unverified supporter is out of town right now.

But Mike, but Andy. Yes, voice of public opinion. But Mike, but guys. But Andy. Oh, no. What are you doing here? Andy. He's at the back of the second. But Jason. Oh, my goodness. I didn't know where this was going. I'm just moving on. It's going nowhere. All right. You're just out of the blue saying Tyler Eifford is a nice looking gentleman. Yes. Okay. There's handcuffs and then there's.

Like a handcuff you want to have. Yeah, he's a handcuff. He's the second one. Handcuff. The big difference is last year, Belal Powell. Bilal Powell was a handcuff. You know what I mean? As opposed to just a hand cuff. I totally know what you mean. Like a modern Western. Handcuff. All right. So the modern Western. So if this is a valuable guy, then we need him to be a handcuff. And also I would say this, to all Foot Clan listeners, if you are live drafting and you show up at your draft.

Without double stuff Oreos. You are making a terrible mistake and you have let me down. What Jason forgot today was he has one of those heart lockets and you open it. And it's Danny Woodhead. Woodhead on one side and Oreo double stuff on the other. I think you have to keep him because what you're saying in the snap percentage. Oh, what's your snack count? My snack count is 100%. I don't bake extraordinarily well, but I eat baked goods.

As good as anyone. I would say I'm expert level at eating baked goods and other non-baked goods as well. So Jason has discovered mixing Sprite with lemonade and really enjoying this. It's the best drink that exists. There's no real name for it. So I call it the Jason Moore when I go to my order. He's trying to brand it the Jason Moore and talk casually about this. And I need your help, America? That's...

Bananas. That is absolutely ridiculous and stupid. The Megalodon giveaway. Megalodon. Megalodon. You guys are terrifying. Megalodon. Oh, yeah. Megalodon. Yeah, these two very sick individuals. Tomorrow, we have the Megalodon episode. Wow, that's impressive.

Thank you for making the Megalodon the most successful episode in our history by a lot. This is the official last recording of the show in our old studio. And what better way to commemorate that than boys to men? Yes. And if you're wondering how we're going to say goodbye, we're burning it to the ground. Wait, no one can use it. It's gone. I brought a sledgehammer today.

This is the uncristening event. It's the opposite. Yeah, we're waving goodbye. And bigger and better things. We've got a new studio we're debuting next Tuesday. And we'll be, you know, we'll be spreading our legs. We'll be comfortable. Mike won't be putting his feet up on the desk. What? Did I say spreading our legs? I really don't know what to say at this point.

What was I trying to say? We're going to be spreading our wings? Stretching our legs? Stretching our legs? Oh, there it is. That's a lot different. There you go. Those being quite different things. We're back. We're back in a new building. But this is great news, I think, for Odell Beckham. I've seen a lot of Twitter, you know, questions from people just worried. Oh, Brandon Marshall's coming. Does that ruin my Odell Beckham? No.

O'Dell Beckham is not going to see any kind of significant downcrease in targets or... Downcrease is a brand new word. That is impressive. It's a special word. How does it feel when you're really good fantasy football opinions get just derailed by your grammar? It feels pretty par for the course, really. Okay, okay. Just feels like living. Just like. It feels like dreaming. L-I-V-I-N. Living. Living.