Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Rookie WR's, Interview with Adam Aizer, Mailbag

They're going to have to draft somebody new? I'm just saying you don't know what the quarter – it's not a long-term great – like at what point does Kevin White become the number one there and overtake Ashon Jeffrey? Is it next year? Is it the year after? If it's the year after, what happens to their quarterback situation? There's actually a lot of question marks that right now aren't in Kevin White's name. So confusing. I don't even want to play fantasy football anymore. It's okay, buddy. No, those are good points. This next question from Michael Kay –

kind of speaks to what you just said, Jason. He says he's been drafting like this. RB, wide receiver, wide receiver, RB, QB, tight-end, DSD, and then picks his backups. And that's what he does every year. So he wants to know if he should mix it up going into this draft. And you just spoke to this point. When you go into your draft with a predetermined plan, you have many opportunities to miss the boat on guys you should be drafting because values will be there.

that you weren't expecting, and if you're too locked in, like Jason said, you're going to miss them. And so we might like running backs in general more than wide receivers, but I can promise you if Mike is staring down Julio Jones or Lamar Miller, he's going to make a value decision on those positions. Am I right? Yeah, but I will say this. Generally speaking, things draft flow changes. It's a wild animal. But by the sixth round,

almost, I'd say 98% of the time, I will have three running backs on my team. And that was one of your principles, though, in general, right? Never have more wide receivers on your roster than running backs because of position scarcity issues. Yeah, and I will often take the first running back who's going to sit on my bench before I have a wide receiver too.

Yeah, I don't think you need to worry about what position you're going to draft, but I think it is smart to know what positions you're not going to draft. You know, if you're not going to take a quarterback early, if you know that, or you're not going to take two tight ends. You know, don't be fooled by thinking, you know, oh, I've got a good value on the board for my fifth wide receiver. Then at that point, you go, no, don't just look at the value on the board. And it looks like he's taking a tight end in the sixth round.

The tight end you're getting in the sixth, unless somehow Greg Olson is there, you're getting a guy who you could draft an equivalent value in the 10th. Just like Adam Azer was saying, after those first three guys, you know, all those tight ends are just all the same. They're just a bunch of the same. So just wait. Wait until, you know, the third to last round and grab somebody off of that list because you've got more chances to get that flyer running back stud who's going to win a championship. Doing the preset.

I'm going in drafting this way. That is how you finish well and never get a championship. Good answer. Good answer. Hopefully that helps you out. I got a couple quick ones from Twitter here. And then I got one more that I think is a really good question, kind of a philosophical question in terms of strategy. But let me ask this one for you guys. First one comes in from at Dynasty Debates. What do you do with Justin Blackman? Break up, dump them. I don't see any long-term value. I don't see any short-term value. Mike.

You cry over what could have been. Yeah, I agree. You don't pay much attention to his name ever again until you need to. Kevin White or Kelvin Benjamin? I like that question. That's really tough question for me because I'm a big Kevin White guy and I'm not a Kelvin Benjamin supporter. However, Benjamin is established and the one. So if we're talking redraft, I'm going to take Benjamin over White.

But if you're in a dynasty, then I'm taking Kevin White. I'm identical. Eileen Benjamin as well. Who do you prefer from these three quarterbacks? Carson Palmer, Ryan Tannahill, or Andy Dalton? Oh, that's easy. Ryan Tannahill. Depends on when I'm getting them if we're saying. These are all later round. So assume you're drafting them later on the board. So let's say that all three are on the board. Yeah, that's the question. And I'm taking the last quarterback. It's going to be Tantahill. However.

I really like Carson Palmer this year, and I think you'll be able to get him super, super late. No love for the Red Rocket? None. I figured as much. All right. This is the last question we'll answer today as we're running out of time here. But Josh wants to know this basic question, okay? Do you guys...

consider revising your rankings based on leagues that do performance bonuses. So an example, that would be a quarterback big game bonus where they get two bonus points when they hit the 300 passing yard mark, the 350 or the 400, or a running back that gets a two point bonus when they hit the 100 yard mark. And he asked this because does it change? Is it just the rolling tide where everybody's...

rankings stay the same or because quarterback can hit 300 yards easier than a running back and get 100 yards does it change to where quarterbacks are more valuable i mean what is your guy's opinion on this type of a league does it change anything for you it changes hardly anything for me and i agree the everybody goes up when you get the bonus points for a quarterback because it everyone throws for 250 or 300

And a running back, it maybe puts even more emphasis on trying to get the Belcow running back who's going to get the 100-yard games. You okay? Just punching my microphone. The only thing I would say maybe changes it. If you have a quarterback system where 300, 350, and 400, all get a two-point bonus, maybe I'm more inclined to take one of those quarterbacks who's...

Oh, if they increment like that? Right. Oh, yeah, I agree with you on that. I think that, because it's a common question of how much change is there from like PPR to non-PPR, not from who's better, because obviously that does change, but from a positional standpoint, or wide receivers more valuable, our running backs more valuable. When you're talking about scoring changes within a position, it doesn't really do much. Everybody rises, everybody falls, and then there's a couple people in each position that do change, and the order of that position changes. But the one thing that will change your draft.

dramatically is roster. Roster changes everything. If you've got a two-quarterback league, it flips the quarterbacks to becoming very valuable because position scarcity is what matters. If you only need to start two running backs and you can't even start a third running back, running backs aren't nearly as valuable as in the leagues where you are forced to start two and many will be starting three or, you know, just...

Look at the positions, and, you know, when you know your league, look how many guys need to start, and then go and look just as, if you want to make it simple, look how many guys are going to be starting in your league. There's 12 teams, there's two quarterbacks, so that means I got 24 quarterbacks. Go and look at the last year's numbers and see where were the top 24, and where's the drop-off, because every position has a drop-off from decent to death.

And if you go, man, that happens at 16, then you know you've got to get that too way earlier. And so, you know, that would be my philosophy. But my real philosophy. Your real philosophy? My real philosophy. I thought that was pretty long to be a fake philosophy. Well, you know, my more important philosophy is daily fantasy sports at fanduel.com. And I would never sign up without...

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