Preseason Power-Up + Crucial Draft Questions

plays himself out of a starting role by halfway through the season. And in a Dynasty League, it's pretty easy to trade for a Philip Rivers, a Big Ben, a Tom Brady. So you can offer something, you know, deeper on your bench or a future draft pick or something if you do need to bolster. Marcus Marietta has not exactly been the pinnacle of health in recent years either. So last year, what Blaine Gabbard had, a number of starts in that offense.

Last year, the elbow nerve problems and the nerve contusions and the hamstring strains. These things are risky business with Mariotta. All right. Let's go ahead and go to this question from Facebook, from Josh. I know you guys aren't the biggest fans, but would love a show for tips on an auction draft. $200 budget. Love the show. Got my first championship last season. Nice. A couple things here. One, we've heard from a lot of auction-loving fantasy football players.

Auctions great. Auctions fun. I can anticipate that next season we'll probably have more features for auction players in our ultimate draft kit because that's an area we want to add more resources for you. One way we do that is with the website and the articles on the website, even though auction's not mainstream predominant compared to snake drafting, we do put a number of a lot of work into the articles on the website, so I would check those out. Yeah, and it's not that.

draft information is completely useless for an auction because you're using ADP and how we value these players to know like these are the guys you're going to want to spend up on here are the players that are values so I know that I can get them a little bit cheaper so it but you're right auctions are they are rising in popularity and we do have auction values in the ultimate draft kit it's just a matter of maybe we build some more customization out for you next year yeah and I would throw out two tips if you're nominating players nominate players you don't

necessarily like and try to get guys in the middle of a tier. Usually if there's a big three, whoever goes first is going to go for a lot of money because it's like, oh, it's a big name. Whoever's the last guy in that tier is also going to go for money because it's like, if I don't get him, I miss out. So go for those middle players in each tier. They'll usually be the cheapest. All right. Instagram, what is your best advice when choosing a team name and picture from Luna J? A pop culture mashup.

Yeah, those are very nice. Those are fun. My Ventura Bravehearts and I got the, I got the logo of Ace Ventura with the, with the war paint on the face. Oh, it's so good. Now, when you do that, Mike, do you put Charlie for Mighty Ducks or do you put Banks from All right. All right. So, yes. So we've brought it up. Yes. In my rush to get the analogy out there, which I was, I was incorrect. I was throughout the name of Charlie.

It's clearly Adam Banks. Yeah, not Charlie Conway. Good friend who loves Mighty Ducks. Where were you? I was busy hosting the show, Mike. I was the one talking. You were sitting there doing nothing. I'm off the hook because I've never seen it. And someone tweeted at me and said, dude, I was so disappointed in you, Jason, for getting that reference wrong. Oh, yeah. This was Mike. We may receive the mailbag questions about that. Unfortunately.

My house of cards are collapsing. I don't listen to you on the show, Mike. I've never heard a word you've said to this point. And most of your pop culture references, they go over right over my old man head anyway. So let's just grab it. I got it wrong. I'm sorry. Every once in a while, you can get something wrong. What's up, guys, holding from Indiana here, big fan. My question is, which rushing quarterback wide receiver court has a more successful fantasy year? Buffalo or Baltimore?

Thanks, guys. I think Buffalo. Yeah, I think Buffalo is the answer because you specified wide receiving core. And I think Mark Andrews is going to have a big role to play for Lamar Jackson as is Justice Hill, Ingram out of the backfield. So I do believe Buffalo adding John Brown. Buffalo's got good wide receivers. Yes. John Brown, the addition of John Brown is great. Robert Foster showed out at the end of last year.

has already kind of showed up here in preseason as well. So if it's just wide receivers, we're not, we're removing quarterback from that talk. If it's a dynasty league, give me the Ravens White House. Okay. I'll take the rookies. I'll take the Ravens crop in a Miles Boykin, Marquis Brown. Yes. In a, in a dynasty. Hollywood. Okay, we got time for another one. Let's go. Do I need to?

Pick one in particular, Brooks, that you said ties in with the Mighty Ducks someplace? Oh, no, I was just letting you know. Multiple people wrote in about that. People were very upset. Yes. Yeah, I know. And you know where they weren't upset? Batilda Bagshot. Betilda Bagshot. Oh, yeah.

They loved them some Batilda Bagshot. Good old Batilda. I'm over here. 99 out of 100 pop culture references. I crush them. I don't hear from people then. Somebody said, want to kick a man when he's down. Well, they wanted to know, do we like Harry Potter, too? Otherwise, Jason is now the numeral uno on their power rankings of the show. Oh, that's fine. I relinquish. I love Harry Potter, but I'm just... Not to Batilda Bagshot level. No, I've seen the movies.

Okay. Brett Carlson, how many bench spots would you recommend for a 10-team league? Six. At least six, yeah. I would do six and two flex. Yeah, that was Brooks's answer as well. Instagram, full point per reception league. Caitlin Belanger, Peyton Barber.

Ooh. Kalin Balaj. This is coming from the guy who has been so against Kalin Belage. I didn't like him coming out of college. You know, I. Be smirch his name. Smirch his name being behind Kenya Drake. I am starting to get very excited about the prospects of Kalin Belage. Look, he's just done everything that the team has wanted him to do. He's balled out. I saw some reporter talking about how the defenders were asking who.

Who's that guy? Because he was so tough all week when they had the scrimmage against each other. And they're like, that was Belage. So he's showing him. You were saying his own teammates. No. Who's that guy? No. Inner team. Yeah. Scrimmage. Yeah, I'm with you on that one. Belage has more upside. And Belage could probably have three games this year where he gives you a 50 plus yard touchdown because that's just kind of when he hits.

It's kind of like Latavius would have those plays for Oakland back in the day. All right, that's going to do it for today's show. We want to thank our studio sponsor, Pristine Auction. Once again, a George Kittle signed 49er mini helmet. Beckett Witness yesterday, $72.54 on pristineauction.com. Use our registration code, ballers, when you sign up.

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