BONUS EPISODE - Draft Day Strategies + Q&A - Fantasy Football Podcast for 8/28

Look, if you're frustrated with the commissioner because of like transactions and things that aren't, there's not enough being done when you think it should be, I'm guessing that the commissioner would welcome another commissioner as well. It's not negative to them. Yeah. And I think you can also develop non-commissioner positions for people where, you know, maybe somebody is doing weekly reviews of the games that took place, which is really fun. Like,

The more responsibility that individuals have in your league, the more buy-in there will be, the more draft day will be exciting. So, you know, that's the direction. I think I'd be happy to go. We've got a guy who always does the write-ups post-draft. Oh, I'm excited for that. I am too. I mean, those are fantastic. Even though I know I've already drafted a great team. You've already locked it up tomorrow. My question for Philip is, does your league commission is, would he write into a fantasy football show? Like, is he that passionate?

Philip here. Sounds like the commish. Philip, you need to look in the mirror and say it's time. It's Philip time. Climb those milk crates to the top, brother. But also stay safe. Squat, got to get low. Low center of gravity. I thought you were just going to start tying in koala bears and kangaroos. Oh, yeah, sure. I mean, you hug that tree and go to sleep, brother. Rosie McNugs from Twitter. If you're in multiple redraft leagues.

I'm just pressing forward. Okay. If you're in multiple redraft leagues, do you put all your eggs in one basket and target the same guys you're high on? Or try to get them on one team and then draft different players in other leagues. So had a similar question on the footcast this past week. Basically, the deal is, is if you're really, if you know who your guys are, right, we had our My Guys show, if you know who your guys are, do you hedge or do you draft them everywhere? Because you could be wrong. If I'm in a couple of leagues.

And I draft Tyler Lockett when I'm in the fifth round because I think he's the best pick there. I'm going to do it in both of my leagues. I'm going to do it in all three of my leagues if I think that that's what the value is personally. But it really is a matter of, at some point for certain fantasy players, this becomes a portfolio situation. This becomes a, you're going to pretty much have half of the league rostered and every single week you're going to be playing.

every player because you're rooting for every player. Exactly. And in that case, it's probably wise to diversify your assets and make sure that one injury, you can love a player all you want, but you don't have 100% hit rate on being right. It's funny because I'm starting to think of it in the terms of like the stock market when people think they like a company, right? Exactly. I like the stock. You got, you know, you got $20,000 to invest. If you put all $20,000 in the stock you love,

That is maximum glory. That's maximum winnings. And that's you wrong. But it's also really hard for me. Like my psychology is if I'm right about that one guy I love and I didn't take him in two other, three other leagues, I'm so stupid. Like that potential regret means that I'm a guy who takes my guys. I have found that when I care about just a few leagues, I don't have as much fun when I'm rooting for.

all these random situations where it's like, I want this guy to do good and bad and I need this guy. You know, it's like I really like having my guys and watching football and rooting for the same core. What about you, Mike? I preferred the same guys. As long as you're not, as long as you're taking what the draft is giving you and you're not being overly aggressive to target the same exact players, I prefer to have similar makeups.

I like this question from, well, this is a Twitter question from H.E. Pennypacker. What? Tell me more about your league of record draft and how do you shift your strategy when your league mates hear you talk on the reg. Also, any league members that you want to put on blast. Oh. I mean, it's good. All of them? It's good timing with us having our league of record draft. I believe this is year 11. Something like that.

Wow. Three out of 11 times I've won? Right. Compared to only two out of 11 for me. And then Jason? I got one. You know, it's amazing because you drove the bus over me. And then I just kind of hopped in, too. And I was like, you judo through that bus right away, man. It was very impressive. Harness the energy. Let's not focus on my deficiency. Right. Let's focus on the Dynasty League, you know, where we've got four. The question was about the League of Record, good sir. So. Okay.

Our League of Record, we've talked about kind of how it's formulated. It's a three-keeper league, and there's pre-draft trading. There's mid-draft trading that takes place oftentimes. It is definitely a, I would say, a hurdle to overcome that everyone hears the players we like. I mean, literally the other day, I talked up Corey Davis a day after I had made an offer about Corey Davis, and I received a text right after the show that said,

The price on Corey Davis just went up. It was like an actual penalty text. So, but I wouldn't say that we're too like overcome by that. I don't think you have to change that much because while they know what we're going to do, so you know that a few times in the draft right before you pick, your guy is going to get taken. It's just, it's going to happen. But they're all independent minds and they like players.

more than we like players, and so they draft their guys. Yeah, and this is a perfect example of what we always say to stay water. We just, we do what is best at the time that the pick comes to us, and we know, you know, that it's really irrelevant. Everything that we like and that other people know we like is out the window once the draft starts. You just do your best every time you're on the clock and pay attention to what rounds are right ahead of you. You're telling me neither of you guys are wincing.

when Tyler Lockett goes around early on Sunday? Oh, yeah. I mean, I'll throw something as someone. I'll feel pain. I do have one follow-up question here because, I mean, I would just like to know, when are you taking Trey Lance, Mike? Like, when, because I, well, that Pandora's box has been.

just ripped open now that you took him in the seventh freaking round in our mock draft. It's all a set up just to get you tilted. I want to see second round Trey Lance in the upcoming draft because you're afraid. That's the goal. All right. Also with my first pick. So you better take him in the first round, 80. I mocked him in the sixth round in our League of Record mock draft. Nice. Thank you for the year. What do you mean in your League of Record mock draft? What do you mean? Who's we? Who did the League of Record mock draft?

Myself and my co-owner. Oh, okay. I just thought there were other people from the league that were getting in on this. Were you a part of this, Al? I was not. Of course not. He's the enemy. We used to mock together. Mm-hmm. Now we just mock each other. A website question from Bumpkins McChillingsworth. What are these names? You producers found some special individuals with these questions.

What is your preferred setup while drafting? Is it pin and paper? Is it printed out rankings? Is it a mobile app? Is it a laptop? Is it a dry raceboard? Is it flashcards? Is it quill and ink? For me, Quill and ink, that's a power move. That's only for my trade offers. I send those, I actually send them with an owl. You get a bunch of scrolls. And you write your trade on a scroll. If it's not sealed, it's not a real offer. No, you got to get the wax seal of your team's. Your team's crest. That's right.

How Stark has a trade for me? I've always enjoyed pen and paper I really have, printing out the cheat sheet, just having it to where I can glance at everything at a whole. It's very, very easy. But the last two years, my preferred method, what I have really made the transition to, is the app on the iPad.

I know, you know, if you've got an iPad, you might have used the app on your phone and you've used the ultimate draft kit on the web, but maybe you haven't actually downloaded the app on your iPad. It's glorious. You put it in landscape. You can see all the blurbs. You could see all the write-ups and the rankings, all your markings, and you can just so quickly and easily, mark players is drafted, get them out of the way, see who's left, scroll it easily. Like, it's outstanding. So even as somebody that's kind of getting...

Like just centimeters from 40 years old, you have made the move from pen and paper to like a more advanced technology. That's right. I'm an advanced technology guy. Okay. Impressive. I take the tech, which even before we had our app and things, before the footballers even started, I was in a spreadsheet because the pen and paper does not have Apple F. And that's frustrating when you're like, wait, they said who? And then you got to track them down, scribble them out.

Maybe that could have cost you an extra 20 seconds. And when the bullets are flying in the draft, that's a lot of time. That's fair. And here what we aren't saying, which is we are not just using the ADP in a, you know, in your draft platform to just look at who's at the top and pick one of the top three guys that is literally the worst way you can draft. I.

I don't know if it would be a real draft for me if I don't have a headache from Sharpie by the six. You are a pen and paper man. He brings the two inch Sharpie, the real thick one, his rocking chair. Yeah, if I'm not staying in the desk beneath the paper. I can't wait one year. He's not going to tell us about it. And he's just going to be so proud of the pen and paper. And those readers, they're going to come out of the pocket. Oh, no.

I'm going to pull the readers out. You know you are. I think it was sitting right on the tip of your nose all low. I kind of like the visual image of that guy drafting. Am I in a rocking chair? You're in a rocking chair. Oh, man.

And they'll probably have a pipe. Brooks just messaged me about a rocking chair the second I said it. And the whole entire time, remember the draft from 2013? Well, you guys got him a rocking chair, didn't you? We did. I'm sad to say that after several years of good use, that rocking chair. Oh, no. It's pretty dilapidated. The sun has, so I.

That's great news because I got another birthday. Yeah, because now I know what to get you for your next birthday. So easy. I'm not going to argue with you. I want to rock. Yeah, it's great. It's a great time. Okay, Twitter, Joe Batung says I have a 10th. I have the 10th pick in a half PPR league. Would I be nuts to go top tier whiteouts back to back in the first two rounds? So 10th pick?

Maybe you end up going Tyreek and then you come back and you got yourself a what? You got a Diggs. Jefferson Ridley. Yeah, Ridley. You could any, you know, between Hopkins, Diggs, Tyreek and Devante Adams, you could have.

two of those four rather easily. And no, you're not nuts at all to do that strategy. Now, we are much more of the robust running back theory on this show. That's how we personally draft. I love having two strong running backs because I feel like there's a lot of talent, a wide receiver. You can find that much, much easier. But there is...

an argument to be made for the strategy of taking two of those elites at the back of the first. I think the best argument is to understand that compare the running backs that you're going to get there versus, let's say that that person at the 101 has the, you know, the Christian McCaffrey and Clyde Edwards-Alair stack we've seen a lot of.

your running backs at the end of the first aren't going to be as good. So now in the third round, that first player is getting better players than you are while having better running backs than you have. You're playing catch up at that point. So that's the one place where I tend to.

often go either zero RB or like a modified one stud running back in a bunch of wide receivers because I don't want to play catch up. I want to build an elite lineup. And if you're grabbing a Kelsey Hopkins Hill, Diggs, Devante Adams, those are elite players. Mike, a lot of people this weekend are going to be in salary cap slash auction drafts. Frank writes in and says in a salary cap auction draft.