Fantasy Football - Breakout Picks + Injury Anger, Mike Returns! - Podcast for 8/17

Who is usually the first to lock in all three of their my guys? Is there an answer to that? I don't think there is one. I feel like I did use a lock early. I think you are the one that locks someone in the earliest. Like you usually have an offseason. Like this year, Alec Pierce from the get go was going to be until recently when he hasn't been able to get healthy. But.

I think most years, Mike Evans for you one year was super early. Like all offseason you were locked. Jameson Williams was like an all. You always have one guy that you're like very early and never sway on. I don't know that. I feel like you might have had yours down before anybody this year. Or Mike did. I would say most years there isn't really an answer to this that's universal. It's just. It's not great to lock. I mean, we give that advice to our listeners. Like you want to stay water. So like.

That was actually one of the things I think we probably brought up in the, you know, maybe not in 10 things to remember, but basically, like, I want to wait a while because you can feel great about a situation in the personnel, the draft, all that stuff happens. I want to remember. Don't trade George Pickens, my guys, to Jason. Yeah, because he was yours for a long time. Yeah. Because that dude was on the board forever. Eric in Iowa City, Iowa, when considering strength of schedule, why do you put so much emphasis on weeks one through six rather than the entire season? Well, number one.

You want hot starts and fantasy football. It's silly, but this is the human part of the game, the emotion of waiting so long to see a player. And if someone has two awesome weeks, then it, hey, this is probably going to be a successful season. If they have two terrible weeks, they're a bust, and there's panic in the streets. Also, with the changeover of just defense.

This is all we have to go on right now. I can't project the entire season of how a defense is going to go. The team that stinks against tight ends, they will reveal themselves to us over the course of the season. It may not be the same people. Yeah, I would also suggest look at the end of the year roster and then look at your draft. And more than likely, it will be surprising like, oh, wow, I only drafted these three guys. You have a lot of changes. The season is long.

you know, swaps on the way or whatever. Getting off to a hot start will allow you to make trades high to grab people who get off to a slow start and do better there. So certainly getting off to a good beginning to the season is very valuable in fantasy. Deborah in Jonesboro, Tennessee. When is it a bad idea to reach for a player in your draft? Top five or would you go six rounds?

I feel like after. I think five. Right around after that, everyone has their warts. So, you know, if there's a player in the, whose ADP, say, is in the seventh, but I'm in the fifth and it's like, I got a, I got a bad feeling in my gut that someone's going to take him. I'll just take that player then. But right around the five, six round is where it starts to break open. The top of drafts in ADP are pretty good.

Like, statistically, historically, historically, especially in the last five years, people get things right more than they don't. Obviously, when you get to the later rounds, it's a scatter shot. So when you reach too far in those early rounds, you're usually going to be making a mistake. And the thing is, is in those early rounds, ADP is more established towards not just that you're making a mistake and grabbing a worse player over a better. Even if you reach and that guy is correct, you're not getting the value you could get.

By getting him the next round or, you know, obviously if he falls all the way to his ADP, you're just not getting the most value you can. Jeff and Madison, Wisconsin, I haven't heard much talk about the dreaded RB Dead Zone. Where would you say the Dead Zone falls this year, Mike? So we did just briefly start talking about it.

I had a whole thing that released on Saturday about the running back dead zone on just the tips. You can go listen to it from this last weekend, but it's back. You know, the thing that we have seen, and we're going to be talking about this on Wednesday as well, is that running backs this year because of the health of the last couple years have been pushed up.

more than it was a couple of years ago. It's always there. It just kind of shifts where it is inside the draft. We'll talk about it in detail here in a couple days. All right. I was going to say, I think it probably starts, and look, I love Scataboo, but I think right around there is where you start, you have guys where you're, you're either concerned about the team or you're concerned about the timeshare.

All right, we have sleepers on tomorrow's episode. Wednesday we'll cover the 10 tips and tricks. We'll have bus and values and a mayhem mock draft with Mike back in the building. Yeah. He was just afraid of the mayhem. Oh, I was. I was terrified. I was very afraid. He's very afraid. All right. Don't forget the UDK from life giveaway. Pick it up. Take my Theraflu away from me. Yeah. The drafts are here. Ultimate draft kit.com. We'll talk to you tomorrow. Goodbye.

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