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team that finishes last gets first priority. Fab is a way to kind of equalize that and add another element of strategy where you get a set amount of virtual dollars. Maybe it's $100 over the course of the whole year. And the day after the game's finished, people put in their bids on players and it's blind bidding. And so, you know, Mike and I, maybe Tyson Williams is out there. He has a nice week one. And Mike and I both want him.

Mike may put a blind bit of $10 of his fab, and I might put $15. And so I overpay by $4, I guess, than what I needed to get him, but I would get him when waivers run the next morning. So what are some strategies people should use with that? So our strategy that we like to give out, if it's the league's first time in it, people are going to be nervous, and they're not going to know when to go, go hard in the pain after trying to get one of these free agents on their...

on their squad. So week one, don't be afraid to go after somebody. And when we're doing our waiver shows, you know, next Tuesday, we'll be talking about what percentage of the fab we're willing to risk to try and go after these potential waiver wire studs. So that's it. Be ready to go after a player in week one. And make sure you're by the end of the season, save at least a little bit.

It doesn't have to be a ton. Like five, save five bucks for the playoffs. Yes. So that when you are, because a lot of people will be out and you'll only be able to do out of your budget and you'll only be able to do zero dollar bids. And when there's that great defense that you want to either keep your opponent from getting in that matchup or you want, you know, you'll have, you can put that $1 bid in and guarantee you get them if your opponent is down at zero. Yeah, it's equally.

offensive and defensive by the end of the season when you can take a player or a defense away for just a $1 bid. And if you want to conserve Fab over the back half of the year, I always tell people pick up that defense a week early. Look at the matchups ahead of time because then you won't have to spend Fab. Even if it's $1 or $2 a week, that's a lot to conserve for the sake of the end of the year. Absolutely. Even right now, we'll be talking about undrafted gyms.

on tomorrow's episode. Defenses will be in that, like the Browns. We could talk about that a little bit moreover. Yeah, because they play Kansas City in week one, so nobody drafted them. Exactly. Nobody's drafted them, but week two, looking pretty nice. Probably coming off a loss. Probably. Here we go. Voice mail. Hey, ballers. Do you have a general preference as to whether you like to start running backs or wide receivers, more at Flex? Thanks, love the show.

Do you have a preference? I mean, does it depend if it's half or full? Yeah, I mean, the scoring format will make a difference. Obviously, in full PPR, wide receivers will catch more passes, and the baseline is higher. The way that I look at it is this. Usually the top running backs will outscore the top wide receivers. The next tier of just really solid wide receivers versus really solid running backs.

are about even. But that's usually when you're in your starting positions. You know, you've got two running backs and two or three wide receivers. Then once that pool is dried up and you're looking at the flex option, in a full PPR league, it will usually be I prefer to start a wide receiver. They'll score more points than the running back on average in that range. But running backs are a little bit more consistent in known volume. Like, it's easier to know.

a running back is going to touch the ball 12 or 13 or 14 times versus knowing on a flex, you know, range wide receiver, whether they'll get the targets. So volatility of the rest of your roster could have an impact on what you play there. Yes. If you need more high-end, you know, production versus, like you said, guaranteed volume from the position. All right. You like that, writes in from YouTube and says, are we going to have the start-stit-em tool on the website this year? You betcha. It'll be up there today.

It'll be up there today. The whole transition, if you heard at the beginning of the show, the week one website changeover is happening today on Tuesday. It will probably take the majority of the day to happen. But our like our week one rankings are going to be up there today. And everything is, we're turning the page into week one. Yeah. I mean, all of the strength of schedule, the flex rankings, the.

the snapshot tool everything will be available by the end of today for week one whether you're you know if you're a supporter join the foot and you have access to all the premium projections all the free projections on the on the rankings by the end of today all right last one dan in missouri how do you guys feel about trades in a redraft league before the season even starts i love it if i'm i'm a big fan of

If I can do a two for one and grab, usually right now, there are about, there's about 20 players on the waiver wire that I usually like before week one that, oh man, I just, you know, these undrafted gyms. And if you can do a two for one, improve your starting lineup and then grab one of those guys off the waivers, I'm thrilled to do that. All righty. Well, that'll do it for today's episode of the show.

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