Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Starts of the Week, Daily Dose, Matchups, News

Sleeper pick. That's probably on your wire right now if you're not happy with your tight end. I made that move in a couple of my leagues. I wasn't pleased with the tight end, so I was going with the matchup this week. Okay, dokey. Let's go ahead and move on to the mailbag. I thought you're going to want. Ardochoki. Mail bag. Okay, dokey. Thank you. I, you know, the mind is focused on so many things. That's what came out. Okay, dokey, art of choky. All right, if you have a question, remember, you can go to the website.

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a person named quang quang quang quang i really wish it was cring i thought that's not that you have a bad name but if it was crank this would have been the taps yes in a standard 16 person league so big league Colin cavernick or joe flacco for week one hmm i think i would i think i would go with flaco yeah me too i'm going flaco more points i think are going to be put up in that game trying to keep up with the broncos he's got the big arm so

I have Flacco ahead as well, despite my like for Kaepernick. I almost made a bet, too. That would have been bad. All right. John in Alabama, Amari Cooper, Devante Adams, or Charles Johnson? What do you guys think? I'm going to Devante Adams for sure. I love it. Is he higher than 15 for you, Andy, since Amarro? Devonte Adams is 17. Cooper is 15. All right. I'm taking Adams with the best quarterback in the league. I...

I might make an adjustment. I've come up on Adams, so I think I'd go Adams here, probably a spot ahead of Amari Cooper and Charles Johnson, a distant third for me in this decision. Well, the Chicago Bears, their defense is not the best. That's what I was laughing at. Our next question for Mike in poop hole. Poop hole. Yeah, but it was not that word. I took that out. Let's keep these clean, people. I'm not reading your little, I'm not reading your junk on the air. I like a good poop joke.

Yeah, well, not that one. All right, Mike in Illinois, Mike in Illinois, I have Julio and Devante Adams. He's trying to figure out his third, wants to start Brandon Cooks, but he's worried about the Patrick Peterson treatment. Well, is that the treatment that gets you like 200 yards in two touchdowns? Yeah, don't worry about it. We're in Arizona, and I think that...

the rest of the world overvalues Patrick Peterson. He's athletic. Yeah, but he's on the back of Madden. Yeah. I'm not worried at all about Cooks. Cooks is the kind of receiver, in my opinion, that could destroy Patrick Peterson. I like Brandon Cooks, and it's not close. Your other options being John Brown, Charles Johnson, Eddie Royal, those guys. I mean, if you're, for whatever reason you don't want to throw cooks out there, I would go with John Brown, assuming Michael Floyd is out.

All right, we're going to take a quick moment and visit with Chris Meaney of the Fantasy Sports Network to talk some DFS for week one. You talking to me? The fantasy footballers are excited to welcome in Chris Meany of the Fantasy Sports Network. You can find him on Twitter at Chris Meaney. Thanks for joining us, Chris. Thanks for having you guys. Exciting times. Week one in that NFL season, we're ready to kick it off.

I know it seemed like it would never come, and yet here it is. So we're trying to get our users ready for the DFS season. We know how much fun it is to play on Fanduals. So for a brand new DFS player, for a brand new Fandual player, why don't you take just a second and explain some of the tournament formats that you can find on Fandual and what some of the more popular options are for players?

Sure. Yeah, for new people, obviously there's all kinds of free rules that you can get into if you don't want to spend your cash that way and just get comfortable and get a feel for things. But there's all kinds of tournaments. You get your GPP tournaments. Those are bigger tournaments, usually lower price to only a couple dollars. But a lot of people are in them. I'm talking about like sometimes 30,000 to 50,000 people, even 100, way more than that even.

And those are called your GPPs, your tournaments. Sometimes when you're playing those kind of contests, you really want to have contrarian picks, different picks that stand out. Sure, a lot of people may have Aaron Rogers Week 1. Even Sam Bradford Week 1 is a popular play now, even because the Fandle pricing has been out for a long time now. So that's just one of many games that you can play. There's head-to-head leagues where you just go up against one person. Those are particularly my favorite ones.

in particular, because you only have to beat one guy. And I like 50-50s. Those are much like head-to-heads where, you know, if you go into a contest with 40 people, you only have to come top 20. And top 20, you end up doubling up your money, whether, you know, you can go in $5, $1, $2, whatever it may be. So there's all kinds of different tournaments out there. I suggest you just, you really, for the guys that are new to it, start off small.

You want to go into a little tournament. You kind of really see how it plays out. But again, maybe the best way to do it for new people would just be just to go head-to-head against one guy or going a little 50-50, keep it small, and then you get a feel for things.

Yeah, that's really good advice to kind of get your feet wet, get used to the way the system works and the pricing and those type of things. So one thing you mentioned there that I think is important is the contrarian pick thing when you're in big tournaments, right? And the reason for that is essentially because so many guys, you need a differentiator, right? You need somebody to separate you if you hit on them. Yes. Yeah, well, that's the thing. Because, well, for instance, I know a popular play already because, you know, when Bando came up this pricing,

just over a month ago, Jordan Nelson wasn't hurt. Jordan Nelson was going to play. Aaron Rogers was going to be a popular play. He still may be. I mean, last year against Chicago, 10 TV, 617 yards, five more incompletions and touchdowns. He's still probably going to have a pretty good day. He may not be the popular play now at QB. But just for instance...

One guy that may be is Devante Adams. Devante Adams, this price came out obviously. When the pricing came out for Fandul, he was wide receiver 3, $5,500. Now he's wide receiver 2 in Green Bay against a weak defense in Chicago. So he's probably going to be a popular play. If you're playing him in a GPP, he may be over 50% owned, and that's a lot. But if you're playing in a head-to-head against somebody and a 50-50, you really want to put out your best possible.

line up with the best guys. You're not fishing for somebody to just have a great game. And Devonte Adams is going to be a nice play in a cash game of 50-50 a head-to-head, wherein GPPs, you're looking at a lot of people owning this guy. Yeah, so if you're going into, say, the head-to-head matchups, right? I mean, that's probably what people are most comfortable with when they're transitioning from...

fantasy football the way they're used to playing against my matchup against your matchup. You know, you're trying to make the most use of your money. So a lot of times we, you know, we hear that the best strategy is to start with some of the cheaper options. Look to look for the biggest steal so that you've got a bankroll later. Do you tend to go that way? And if you do, what position do you find the best, like, cheap value in? Where do you start your roster with?

I usually, I try to start with the QB. I mean, it's different every week, depending on matchups, guys, are priced different. And as I mentioned earlier, with the pricing being out for over a month now, things are a little bit different with injuries happening and whatnot. I mean, you know, you probably didn't want to start Alfred Blue because Aaron Foster. Now, Aaron Foster's not around, you know, for the first couple weeks. So right now, Alfred Blue is cheap? Now, is he a great matchup or is he a great play? Probably not spectacular.

It differentiated all over the place. You know, wide receivers, you can always find a lot of value in wide receivers because there's so many of them. Even another example, too, is Ruben Randall because Victor Cruz is most likely not going to play week one. So Ruben Randall is cheap. He's 5'3. Eddie Royal, we could see Al-Shon Jeffrey. He's probably going to play word through of the week. It's looking a little bit better for him in the cap injury.

He's $5,000. He's a little bit cheaper. So it really, there's no particular position. I would say kicking, kickers in defense, I kind of punt those positions. You know, the Jets are going to be a popular play. They're not the most expensive defense on the board week one, and they have a great match against Cleveland. And I don't mind that. I don't mind that, you know, maybe 75 to 85% of people playing for Hindul are going to have the Jets see because it's just, it's just defense. It's okay.

I'm not going to spend top dollar on a defense. I'm always going to kind of punt that position and just kind of stream it and go from there and sing with kicker. I don't want the most expensive kicker. I'm going to get somebody in the middle of the pack near the end. I mean, at the end of the day, you're not going to win your contest because of your kicker. So I like to save a little bit of money in those positions and kind of go from there. How many teams do you have right now? I get a few.

And I would suggest that if you can. I mean, you're not going to win by just having one or two teams. You're really not. And I would just be a little bit different. I mean, I like Matt Ryan. I like Ryan Tamahill this week. Sam Bradford is the 17-pice quarterback. I mean, we haven't seen much from them preseason. Four drives four touchdowns. His last preseason game, 10 for 10, 3 TDs, 120 plus yards. James Winston might be one of those contrarian plays where are people going to play James Winston? Probably not. But, I mean, $6,900 is going up against Tennessee. It's not bad.

And then you just go through the list. Again, Jeremy Hill might be a popular play. DeMarco Murray, Atlanta gave up the most yards in the air last year, the most touchdowns on the ground. Lamar Miller has a really nice matchup. So you're saying even if you're in head-to-heads and you're playing, you know, you go in 10 different head-to-head matchups that you like picking different rosters for those 10, or do you try to find your best roster and just kind of roll with that in all the leagues?

That's a really good question. I think if you're doing head-to-head, if I'm doing head-to-heads, I have my best match-up, and it's just a little bit of a tinker. Instead of Julio, I'm going Des. You know, instead of Aaron Rogers, maybe I'm going Matt Ryan. So for the most part, I'm trying to put out my best roster. I'm not trying to play any long shots, but if I'm going in a few tournament plays, different ones, then I'm going to be all over the place. I'm going to have...

guys all over who, from different teams, it's not going to be repetitive. It's going to be really, really random. I remember last year someone wanted a million dollars because they had Ryan Fitzpatrick as their quarterback. That was a beautiful week for Ryan Fitzpatrick. Can you believe that? Like, who would have thought to play Ryan Fitzpatrick? Like, nobody. That is the lottery ticket. Yeah, that's how you win. You win with those random tickets, right? Who would have thought?

So we really appreciate you joining us. We know you've got to get going. And we're excited to have you join us every week for this Daily Dose segment. We know this is a really good foundation for new players. This is a good insight for experienced players in terms of how you go about building your roster. So we want to keep bringing you back. Appreciate you joining us. You can find Chris at Chris Meaney. He's on the Fantasy Sports Network for into the show. Thanks for joining us, Chris.

Thanks so much, guys, for having me. I love the show. Fantastic, and I love that. It's on the Fantasy Sports Network now. Congrats, guys. We love that, too. All right. Thanks a lot. Take care. Take care. That is all the time we have for today's show. Make sure you tune in next week. Mike has something to say. I had an interesting opening game day story that I wanted to share, and I wanted to do at the top, but I wanted to get into football. So you got to go with pizza, right? Opening game, you got to go with the pizza.

So I call up my local pizza chain. This sounds like it's an ad read. Not a chain. No, this is far from. I call it my local pizza store and I'm like, you know, I want the pizza in the wings special. Give it to me. I really, really wanted hot wings last night for the game. And it was an extra long wait, which is completely fair. I know that there's going to be a high volume of pizza eaters, as there should be on opening day. So I wait my 30 minutes. I go to pick it up for my pizza's there in glorious nature.

My hot wings are not ready. So now I'm sitting in this jam-packed pizza parlor with the loudest karaoke music that you've ever... I had no idea there was karaoke this night. But it was not... Because you know karaoke can really... On a scale of 1 to 10, it could max out at about 5. Right. Yeah, 1 to 5 is the scale. And it was about a 2. It was... I think some gals were singing La Freak, and they didn't know any of the words. So it was just them dancing.