Mid-Round Madness + Trade Telemarketer

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You know, sometimes you can't get enough fantasy football. That's why we started this show to begin with. We just wanted more. So here's the quick question of the day. Well, hold on. Hold on. Yeah, I was going to say, kind of burying the lead here. Go ahead. Football assemble. The listener league. It's open. The listener league you can now enter. Submissions this week and this week only. Yes, and this is the only time we're going to talk about it. This is it.

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We'll go through. We'll add you. And that's it. And it will also be talking about the Megalobole coming up, which is a way that you can get into next year's listener league. But Jason's coming. It's coming soon. All right. All right. Quick question of the day. This one comes in off of Twitter from Brian Blazek. That's a powerful last name. Brian is a superhero. He is.

What is your go-to trick for convincing somebody to accept a trade? You know, we're setting the table for our team with the draft. We're getting ready to go. And then, look, 40% of your team is probably going to be the same at the end of the year from what you drafted. Maybe less. If it's my team, it's always less. So you're going to be making transactions, waiver pickups, and trades. How do you convince somebody to do a trade? What is your strategy?

You know, we've shared this before, but I use the overwhelm them strategy. If you add in two more decent players, if you're going after a stud and you say, you know what, okay, you can have this guy and this guy, but I'm going to also give this guy a, you know, I'm going to throw in Deshaun Jackson and Marvin Jones in addition and just kind of overwhelm them. That's the way where it's like.

People have a hard time, especially if you've got draft picks available to trade. You can add in, you know, future draft picks. And sometimes people go, I should never trade this player. You know, I should never trade my Christian McCaffrey or whatever. But they're offering so much I feel like I have to take it when in reality is not.

really that fair of a deal when usually when you're doing like a three for one trade it's the person getting the one that wins because once i trade i'm gonna pick guys up off the waiver wire maybe de gas you dropped and then uh you know and then you get you get the best i am a little feisty uh and then you get the best player in the deal it's funny because we i was going to say overpay because i thought when you wrote overwhelm them you were taking the pure troll approach you're just smothering the same

offer over and over again till they give in. I don't think that's a fun one. That's not a real one. It's not productive. No, look, the thing is, is just to add to what you're saying, a three for one trade is not a three for one trade. It is a three for three trade. You will receive one player back. You will spend two waiver pickups on additional players. You are not necessarily giving up as much as you think you are. If you can turn the dial a little bit.

overwhelm them like Jason said. That's the direction I go. Throw in a little extra and play to the team's strakes and weaknesses. Because if you're going to go in with an offer and they're on the fence and you can say, ah, you know, here's Edo Smith to handcuff your, uh, your Devonta Freeman. That's just the perfect little incillary piece to make a trade go through. Whenever you can get something for Edo, get something. And I would say it's, it takes some time, but you just, you got to build up your.

trade avatar. The confidence that people have knowing they're going into a trade conversation with you and you say, this is my initial offer. You can either accept it. Maybe you have a quick counter. Otherwise, this trade conversation is done. Why, Mike, don't you trade with me? Why won't you trade with me? Why don't you trade with me more? Well, because I know what you tried to do in trades, which is.

Not just improve your team. It's make mine worse. Mike, Mike, I want the best for you. I will say that. Don't you understand that? Yeah, sure you do. All joking aside, that is another tip, though, is to look at a team and make sure it could improve that team. Ideally, your trade helps both. That's not what Andy does. No, Andy just takes a shotgun approach. That's another tip. Offer 700 trades. One will get accepted.

And that's what you think I do. Yeah. No, that's, we know that's what you do. You offer 10 to 1 trades over everybody else. Look, it's like telemarketing. Like, everyone, who likes a telemarketer? Who answers? Literally nobody. And. Which is why I don't like being associated with them. Well, that's too bad because this is your trade approach because it just takes one. It takes one person to pick up the phone and go.

Well, maybe that is interesting. Maybe the FBI is after me. I would love a free vacation. Thank you. I do go. I look for a nibble. They canceled my social security card. I'm standing on the beach of the lake with eight or nine fishing poles in my hand. I'm waiting for a nibble on one of them so then I can start the conversation. I shotgun that starter out there, no doubt about it. And when somebody goes, well, I would never do that, but then I know I can have a deeper conversation. Sure.

But I, yeah, I don't like the analogy whatsoever. So let's get into the main event on today's show. By the way, if you want to keep up to date with the news, I know we said we recorded this a couple days earlier. Don't worry. We'll catch you up. You can follow us on Instagram. You can follow us on Twitter. We'll share some commentary. You can also grab the Sleeper app and get all the latest news right to your phone. So check that out. They're great with the latest camp news, injuries, things like that.

He's not wrong. The middle rounds are a bit blasphemous this year. So why don't you talk about what we're doing today on the show? So mid-round madness, we're taking a look at specifically rounds four through eight, seeing if there are any players in those particular rounds that are jumping out at us that look like a value for their ADP. Well, this player is going at wide receiver 30. I think they will.