10 Tips & Tricks to Win Your League - LIVE in Minneapolis

commonly known now. But I guess it is baseball. Baseball's not commonly known? But let me ask you this. Not to Jason. Let me ask this. No, he said it is commonly. Does cricket have fences? Nobody knows. This guy plays a lot, and he said yes. Oh, then that was a cricket reference, actually, Andy. That was not a baseball reference. Is the goal to hit it over the fence?

Into the fence? Thumbs up. All right. All right. We're good. It's a cricket reference. Let me pause for just a second. Okay. Do you know what it looks like when people play cricket? Do you have... Intimately, I played for several years. What do they hold? A paddle? All right. I just had to check. All right. I never know how far away from knowledge you really are. So the... Anyways, you want to swing for those cricket home runs? Um...

Are they home runs? Are they home runs? Oh, they're not home. All right. I've been exposed. All right. Jamal Williams in the 10th round. Deontaforman in the 10th round. Naim Hines, 12th round. You could be the starter. PPR monster there. Kenneth Dixon in the 14th round. Maybe he becomes... That one's nice. You know, maybe that's more your style. But the point is this. You don't want to not...

go into your draft knowing who you're targeting late. Because it will inform how you draft in those middle rounds especially. When you're drafting in the fourth, the third, the fifth, you know, where making the decisions, there's not, you're not going to be able to have infinite running backs you like and infinite wide receivers you like. You have to choose one type. And I always prefer the drafts when I leave knowing the end. And I go, I want this guy, this guy, or this guy within this position. So therefore,

I like this wide receiver and running back. I'm going the other way early. Know the end from the beginning. That's my tip to you. Impressive. It worked out in the end. What do we think? Do we like it? Oh, yeah. So let me try this out. In Dynasty League this year, me versus you, know the end from the beginning. Withdraw now. Them fighting words. Yeah. And that trophy should be on this side. My two silver trophies look almost as good as your one gold. Thank you.

All right, let's move on. Are you ready to lay this one out there? This is from this is a big one. Number one. It's so big that it's very loud. So we got two tips here. This is a two step. Very easy. Number one. To implement. Identify the problem. Number two. Fix it. It's easy. Yeah. Fix it. This is about your job is done. This is the time of year that this advice needs to.

be given. We talk about this at the end of the year, but right now, you're about to head into your leagues. You're going to take this into America, into, nay, the world. And you're going to... You're already in America. Well, yeah, but they're going to... Not the people listening at home. Huh? Maybe we're an international show. They're in America, too, mostly. There are the bonjores. Yeah, bonjour. Thank you, people. But you need to go to your league now and...

Fix the problems that are broken. Fix the stupid rules in your league. Because we're tired of the emails. You're playing some dumb leagues. Identify the problem. Fix it. We're talking about your waiver system. Get fab in. Get it. And I know it sounds like the majority of you are with us.

But there are, I would dare say the majority of players still use the old waiver system because they're worried about Fab. I get it. It's intimidating. It took me some time to convince our entire league to get with it. But it's fair. Well, and some people think there are multiple options, but we have microphones, so we're telling you the right ones. Yeah, and when you do that, turn on zero-dollar bidding.

You close waivers the one day on the Tuesday so the people can have, and then every day have it run. It's a great system. Raise your hand if you play in a league. That plays in week 17. It's okay. It's all right. No. Do not shame this man. Brooks. Brooks. Will you escort him out, please? There's one out there. We identified the problems. Now, fix it. We're fixing it. Get out of here.

I guess now he could do that, though. He could do the fix now. Yeah. If he wants to stay. Look, there are at least, there are at least arguments to be made for a waiver system that you could try to say is better. But there is not an argument for week 17 championships. But Jason? Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, he's getting moved. I don't normally try those things. But is it more football?

Is it more football better? Oh, the more football better. No, come on. You want to have the players that have gotten you to your championship. You put it this way. You spend the entire year to get to the championship. You draft guys. You trade for guys. You sign guys. Don't you want them playing in the Super Bowl? Yeah? Fix it. We identified the problem. You fix it.

Transaction restrictions. Oh, you hate those. It limits the fun. Gross. And this is another reminder. I want my league only to be so fun. Another reminder. Medium fun. We're asked frequently, how do I make my league more fun? And the truth is, the more active your league is, the more fun it is going to become. And putting a restriction on how many moves I can make in a week or a season.

You're cutting down on fun. You want the league to be better. There's no reason to restrict how many times a player can make a free agent move. There are a lot of leagues that have gone up for a long time that just need to modernize some of those things, decimal scoring and eliminating older or uncommon or retired rules. And you can play however you want. Different leagues are great. Different leagues are great.

Help you very much. Different unique leagues are awesome. Shout out to Scott Fish in the house. The Scotty Fishbowl. He makes different rules every year and makes it interesting. I love different leagues. You can definitely play in different leagues. But what we're really talking about with this tip, this fix-it tip, is that your goal, your goal should be...

The most fun league. That should be the goal when you structure rules. As a commissioner, that's your job. Yes, it's not to stay how it's been. And part of that might be you're in a 12-team league with 10 good owners and two dead owners. Yeah. And you have to write an uncomfortable email. And that's it. So any others? Do you want to add to it? I want to get into our Triple M.

Oh, Minneapolis, Minnesota mailbag. Warm up your vocal. I want to get into the mailbag. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Because we're bringing the godfather. Paul Chartian is joining us. He is blessing us with his presence. He's going to answer the questions with us. We're waiting for the official. Charts, wherever you're at, get on up here. Come on up. Because we are not doing the mailbag drop. Jay Gris has your mic. Charge is going to be.

blasted in the face with the awesomeness of the mailbag. I want to feel wind. I want to feel wind. And if you were one of the ones selected to ask a question, you can line up now in the middle, and we'll answer your question. Get up here, Charge. Round of applause for Paul Chartian. I could not have been farther apart, I think. I think we are on. You got it? Absolutely, yes. All right. Is everyone ready? This is very important. You get one shot.

If you've listened to Jason, you know you only get one shot. You guys are doing it. Get up. Are you kidding me? Are we ready? Mailbag. Well done. That was spectacular. The book clan. Even the guy in the week 17 leagues sounded good. That was incredible. Well, welcome up here, Paul. It's fantastic to be here. I love this. Let's bestow some knowledge. Does Minnesota love you guys or what? Holy God. I think so.

Yeah. It's been, we've been here all week. We were at the FSA, obviously, the conference. This place is great. You have green grass. There's people outside. Trees and things. Things that grow in nature. The weather was great. The stadium's incredible. The plants aren't trying to kill you. All right. Please state your name and your question. Name's Andrew from. Oh, you got to talk in the microphone that minute. Eat the mic. Take control.

Take control of that microphone. The tech team is coming. Eat the mic. We've identified the problem. Fix it. Fix it. Name is Andrew from Minnesota. Hey, Andrew. So many fantasy leagues have punishments for whoever gets last in our league. What's the most embarrassing punishment you would condone for somebody that's lost twice? Condone is different than implement. I've got a good one. Oh, let's hear it. If embarrassment is what you're looking for, do people know Reddit?

Do you know about this horrific Reddit subreddit called Roast Me? So the premise of Roast Me is you hold up a picture of yourself and Reddit destroys you. Oh, man. And it is savage and humiliating. I'm making notes. I must do it. Oh, that is, that is awesome. Wow. I love it.

That is spectacular. I'm not going to answer because my answer will be bad. That is awesome. You can definitely download Wheel of Water. Yeah. We normally make the Dead Last Loser, they get like 12 cups of water from the wheel of water thrown on them, and then they draft soaking wet. It's pathetic. I've never experienced it, obviously. That is so good. That is incredible. Get roasted. Oh, man. For public embarrassment, it doesn't get any better than roast me. Yes.

Jason? No, thank you. Next question. Thank you. My name is Norse from Minneapolis, and this first round looks very promising, but like you guys said, everybody busts. So who's one player going in the first round that you guys are kind of worried about or has a big bus potential? I've brought up Kareem Hunt's name. Yes. Just because I don't trust Andy Reid very much, and he was forced into such a workload. I don't think that was the plan, obviously, with what happened to Spencer Ware and...

the inefficiency behind him. I brought up his name as a possibility. That's the hard thing about the first round. There's always two or three. I named four earlier. Yeah, there's always... It's very difficult to identify one, but he's one that comes to mind. There's always a few, and obviously the guys that are going in the first round are guys that most all of us like right now. But if I had to predict one, Leonard Fournette comes to mind for two reasons. Look, I like him. Dainty still owners, be quiet. Yeah.

I drafted him today in a draft league. I'm not anti Leonard Fournett, but the reality is he gets injured a lot. He did in college. He did last year in the NFL, and some of the injury experts that I trust, they worry about the specific types of injuries he's had. So injury is probably the most common reason for first round running back busts. That would be where I would lean then. You got a name, Paul?

Well, you took really my first two options, but just to be different maybe, and Cream Hunt's my top guy for that. And I loved Cream Hunt last preseason. He's a great player. Spencer, where coming back is a factor for him? And where was a proven goal line guy?

People don't like this. And you guys love Saquan Barclay, and I do too. Crazy talent. But there are so many moving parts on this young team, right? New coach, new offensive coordinator, a still probably borderline terrible offensive line. Maybe it doesn't all come together in New York for Saquan Barclay to be worth that first round pick. He was almost the one I went with because of everyone out there. He's the only one we haven't seen yet in the NFL. If Eli falters early.

That could be trouble for him because the offense could just be so inefficient that it doesn't matter. At Eli's age, we say this about a lot of old quarterbacks. When the end comes, it comes quickly and it comes with injury. Guys in Phoenix, you might be familiar with that with older quarterbacks, right? Oh, man. When that happens, you know, the whole offense goes under. Yeah, that's not good. Mike, do you have one name? The one...

who stins out the most. I'm with Jason. That Leonard Furnett has just, he's got some very red flags. They're super red. It's just a couple, but they're so red. Very, very rich, vibrance. Right. Jason? Next question. Whoa. That was cool. Oh, my man. Shout out. He's bringing it.