Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - NFC South Breakdown, News, Mailbag

Pretty good. Let's go ahead and answer another one. Hey guys, I have a kid. I'm in a 10-team Dynasty Auction League. The budget's $200. You can keep any player year to year by adding $2 to the original price. So for example, say you draft Peyton Manning for 20 bucks. You want to keep him next year at 22. Following year is 24. If you don't want him, he goes back into the rookie and free agent draft. On my team, for sure, I'm keeping Big Ben, Jeremy Hill, T. Dwight Hilton, Mike Evans.

Sammy Watkins, Amanda Sanders, and Rob Jankowski for only 91 bucks, so that leaves me with a pretty hefty pocket of $109. My question for you guys is, should I keep Joyck Bell for 13, maybe look for Amir Abdullah for maybe $10 or so dollars? Thank you. I can tell you right now how all three of us are answering. It's pretty easy. Oh, we're not agreeing, but we can say what the answer would be yet. No, I'm saying, I know what your answer is, I know what my answer is. Okay, do this. Answer for me.

Mike will take Amir Abdullah for $10. That is correct. Mike, answer for Andy. Andy will keep Droke Bell for $13. That is correct. And he will also invest $10 into Amir Abdullah. That is correct. Ooh. If we're able to keep both. Andy has, Andy's answer for you. Oh, yeah. I think you will keep Joyke Bell for $13 and invest $10 in Amir Abdullah. I would love to keep both those guys. Yep. Yep.

Yeah, I was going to make the point that I actually, I have Joach Bell in three MFL 10s so far, because he just tumbles down the boards, and I am more than happy to take Joach Bell against Mike's wishes. So let's answer another one. Hello, it's Tony, but I'm about meatballs. I haven't called in a while, I forgot to say my bills. Sorry about that. My question today is... Pay them bills.

How do you guys determine your draft order? Me and my friends, we use March Maness. I was just wondering how you guys do it. Thanks. Oh, Tony, Meatball. That's the kind of guy that we need to bring you to the studio on a permanent basis. Just have him jump in. I just want...

Tony Meeba. I feel like this should be a cartoon series. Oh, Tony Mipo. Let's answer his question. He said, how do you determine your draft order? They use March Madness. I've heard about a lot of people doing March Madness. We had a league that actually wrote in and the guy said they all participate in some sort of obstacle course. Oh, the decathlon? Yeah, a decathlon. And whoever comes out on top ends up with their choice of where they want to pay. Any of events that cannot be mentioned on air.

Yes, yes, most likely not a decathlon you want to win. What other ways are people coming up with their drafts? I've heard of people using the Kentucky Derby assigning a horse to everybody. That would be pretty fun. My favorite one that I've heard ever is they fire up, I don't know which version, but a Nintendo or Super Nintendo, Royal Rumble, WWF Royal Rumble, and the computer controls everybody.

Everyone just gets a wrestler. Oh, that's funny. And then whoever wins the Royal Rebel, that's the draft. That would be entertaining. That is fun. My favorite is old boring. I just prefer... No, I really do. I want the draft order to be set by last year's finish. What if you're in a redraft league? Like, well, even if you're in a redraft league, I still think... If you're in a complete redraft league...

where you're getting new guys, then let the guy who won. That makes sense. In one of our keeper leagues, what we do is we do reverse order of standings, but the top four picks are determined by lottery. So the four worst teams in the league, they get put in a hat just for the first round. Those first four picks are determined by lottery, and that was kind of a...

It's pretty fun. Actually, it's fun to, like, we videotape that and send it out on the web so that people see who they get. And it's a good way to kind of mitigate the whole pure tanking mentality. At least that's what we convinced ourselves of. Any other thoughts on that? No. No other methods. Thanks, Tony. All right. Yeah, good question. Good question. Hey, guys, it's Will from the space coast of Florida.

I was calling. I have been an autodrafter for the past 13 years I've been playing fantasy football, mostly because I'm never available to do the live draft, so my team automatic just autodrafts for me. I'm wondering, I actually have the time this year to possibly be there for the live draft. Should I do the live draft, or should I just stick to what's been working for me with the auto draft? I've been in the last three of the last five championships, league championships.

conference finals the last six or seven years and pretty much all my league. So it's been working well for me with the auto draft. But I'm wondering if, from purely a competitive standpoint, if I should continue doing the auto draft or move to a live draft for once. Thanks, guys. Bye.

Can I go ahead and ring this? Disregard this man's luck. Actually, what I was going to say is I want a list of your league mates and I'm going to invite him to the listener league. Or this guy is the master of the waiver wire, apparently. Well, and that's actually the point. I'm glad that we played this one because the thing that I wanted to mention to everybody here, and I fully believe this, unless it's like an NFL best ball, those aside, no championship is won on draft day. Alone.

Right. I mean, draft matters, but you win a championship through, I mean, every single team, every single one, all 12, if you're in a 12 team league, will have some guys hit and some guys miss. You will have some issues and you will have opportunities to improve your team all through the year with drafting with waivers. So this is a good example. I think this guy's...

clearly played well through the year and gotten lucky on the draft, but definitely show up to the draft. If you're listening to podcasts right now, you are going to be much better than an auto draft. Do not auto draft. On top of that, if you've really never experienced the draft, draft day is my Christmas. It is. It is my favorite day. You put the tree out. For personal joy, for just me, being selfish. Right. Draft Day is my favorite day of the year.

So you've got to be there. Definitely. Do not auto-draft. Hey, what's up, guys? My name is Ralph. I'm a new listener from the show. I have a really good question for you guys. It's on Chamberlain. I know that he went to the New Jersey Giants now. I want to know what you guys think, and where will you draft Chambering? All right, guys. Thank you for everything. Well, we talked about Chambering a little bit on today's show. Where would I draft him, though? That's a good question.

I have him outside the RB3 range in my rankings right now, which I will be changing. He will get up into that flex contention type of guy, probably late 30s as a running back. I assume we're talking PPR because it's Shane Vereen. Yeah, let's assume that. Okay. So assuming PPR, where do you draft him? I have him just outside that running back three category as well. And right now he's going in the...

Sixth round. So that, which, which running back is he? Looking, looking at that, I would personally draft him in the seventh round because there's a couple running backs just according to that, to the ADP that I like more than where he's, then guys going behind him that I like more than Marine. So I draft him in the seventh personally.

All right, thanks for the question. Eighth. I'll say eighth for me. Hey, guys. Neil P. out of Grand Rapids, Michigan. I absolutely love the show. I started listening. This summer, actually, quickly became my absolute favorite. So keep up the good work. My question was, I'm actually in a 12-man league where quarterback accuracy. You get 0.5 for each catch done, and each drop is 0.5 in the other direction. So I just wondered how that would reconfigure your top quarterback, then if you wait as long based on...

how big of a deal that ends up being in the long run. So appreciate it, and keep up the good work once again. Thanks. Bye. Interesting. Top five guys in accuracy last year were, do you guys know these? I know him because I'm looking at him. But Tony Romo. Yeah, I would have guessed him. Drew Brees, Big Ben, Philip Rivers, and Ryan Tennan. So accurate. So, does this change anything, though? Because, I mean, you do have other guys like...

Cam Newton, who we talked about earlier, who's 29th. You have Matt Stafford at 25th. Andrew Luck was 23rd in accuracy last year. Does it change anything, though? What is this? There's a musical jamboree going on. I don't even know where it's coming from. Just off the top of my head, I don't think it would change things too much for me. I do know, because I had randomly just came across this stat, that over the past few years, Romo.

has had the most reliable receivers. I did see that. They have the lowest drop rate, so maybe Romo gets a bump, but it doesn't really change it too much. It's negligible to me. It's one of those things that can be a distraction from what really matters, and it's like, okay, I'm going to grab, you know, am I going to grab Ryan Tannehill because he finished more accurate than Andrew Luck? No. Or Aaron Rogers, because according to this, he did, so you don't disproportionalize it, so I don't think it changes very much. Yeah, I agree. All right, don't forget.

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I'm still baffled by this auto drifter. Yeah, that is success. The luckiest man on the face. That is doing work. Good through the year. Yeah. He must listen to the fantasy footballers through the year. Man, you can't go one episode without doing it. Nope. Almost got to the end. All right, turn his mic off. Goodbye. For listening to another edition of the Fantasy Footballers podcast, don't forget to visit us on the web.

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