Final MOCK DRAFT of 2020 + New Nicknames Emerge - Fantasy Football Podcast for 8/28

on Damien Harris. I really wish I could have taken him here. So now I have to change my plan. And you still need a tight end to quarterback and a defense. So this is your final depth piece outside of those positions. If you don't go with one of them. Sounds like the Blakeouts coming unless you think you get them later. Yeah. Oh, I definitely could get Blake Charwin later. Whenever I please. That's the best part about Blake Jarwin. Honestly, the difficult decision that, and I think I'm going to have to make it in our family league as well.

Look, I love Blake Jarwin. He's my guy. I believe he's going to break out. But I also have full confidence in Mike Gisicki, who is going very late in drafts as well. And in our family league, I think I'm going to have to make that decision. Oh, goodness gracious. But at this point, we're looking at, you know, real upside guys that can make some noise in week one. I'm going to take another rookie.

Apparently, I'm just filling my bench or my team with the rookies. But I'm going to take Jill and Rager, wide receiver for the Philadelphia Eagles, who could quickly emerge as the number one option. All right. Duke Johnson, Kishon Vaughn, two picks for Jason, the 10th and 11th round here. Jason, what are you going with? I had him as a breakout option. I'm going to draft Noah Fantastic and see if he can break out. If not, I'll pivot on the waiver wire to a Chris Herndon or a...

special postman named Dan Arnold. And then I'm looking at my team here. You know, I've got Kenny Gawaday, Tyler Lockett, Terry McLaurna, and Jerry Judy, a four pack of wide receivers that I think is good. Christian McCaffrey, Kareem Hunt, Ronald Jones, Carriott Johnson, four pack of running backs, who I think is good. So I'm just looking for the most solid piece out there that could be used on a weekly basis. To me, that's Deshaun Jackson, who could very well be the number one wide receiver for the Eagles.

That sucks. I was hoping he'd make it back. There you go. I am taking the approach of the later Eagle wide receiver. Rager, D. Jax. Interesting. Let one go. Take the second one if you want to shoot your shot. Yeah, you finally came up, Snake Eyes there. And then you took, Mike, you took Cam Newton in the 11th. I did. It's the situation of who will I be more upset about missing out on? I don't think I'm going to miss out on any of the tight ends I want to come back.

But Cam Newton, he's already in my top 12. I know he's not officially the starter, but I've been to the future. Cam Newton is the starting quarterback for the New England Patriots. All right, I'm going to take a shot here in the 11th round on the player I talked about on yesterday's show. He's running back for the Indianapolis Colts. Has a great opportunity with Phil Rivers. I like it. Had a bit of a discussion with tags on Twitter about the viability of Naeem Hines in the offense. But I'm going to take Naeem Hines in the 11th.

Basically a dart throw at an Echler style value. But getting him in the 11th round, Tony Pollard went next, LaShawn McCoy. Okay, there's a name that we hadn't talked about. And then we're coming back with the 12th round pick. Hmm. Hmm. I do. I like LaShawn McCoy as a very, very late round pick. Okay. Just in case, Ronald Jones, if he messes up and then...

Bruce Aaron just has faith in McCoy, especially as a past catcher and a past blocker. He could be on the field way more than we believe. All right. I could go Chris Thompson, another sleeper name we brought up here in the 12th round, but I'm going to actually go with Justin Jackson. Justin Jackson is a player that I can see in week one. Does he have a much larger role than fantasy football players are expecting? If not, I can cut him. I can move on. I can use that spot. But if he has that bigger role and we're missing out on him,

12th round value is incredible. So that's my final position pick before defense. Mike, Jason, you got your final pick here. Mike went with Blake Jarwin. It's time to Blake out, baby. Let's get it. And Jason, your final pick here before we wrap this thing up. Is done. I took Chris Thompson. Okay. You know, just to add another pass catching depth piece of running backs get injured, I can throw him in and get some points. At defense, I believe in the Saints.

bringing back a ton of the same, you know, they've just, they had a great defense last year. Their defense has been balling out in camp so far. Okay. That was the end of your sentence. That was the end of it. All right. I didn't realize it sounded like the middle of it. No one cares who our defenses are. No, we'll just take some defenses here in the last round and we'll share our teams on Twitter and you guys can contribute your thoughts.

Jason, why don't you run back your whole team, Mike, after him, and then I'll run mine back before we get into best ball. Sure. Running back, I've got Christian McCaffrey, Kareem Hunt, Ronald Jones, Carrie on Johnson, and Chris Thompson at wide receiver. I have Kenny Gallaudet, Tyler Lockett, Terry McLaren, Jerry Judy, and Deshawn Jackson. And then, of course, I have Lamar Jackson at the top of my board with Noah Fantastic. All right.

I have Drew Breeze at quarterback, Josh Jacobs, Lev Bell. That was my starting running backs, Tyree, Kalamarii Kalamari Cooper, Evan Ingram at tight end, flexing with either Moisterd or A.J. Green, Deontay Johnson, Zach Moss, Naim Hines, Justin Jackson. And I went with the Chargers defense, which I am so excited to watch. Yeah, that's not bad. With Chris Harris and company on that Chargers defense. So that is a mock draft in the books. At quarterback, I have Cam Newton. My running backs are Edwards-A-Layer.

Kenyon Drake, Chris Carson, Cam Acres, Antonio Gibson, at wide receiver, DJ Chark, DK Metcalf, Will Fuller, the Flying V, Golden Tate, and Jalen Rager, and then the Blake out. Blake Jarwin is my tight end. You always know you had a nice mock draft if you accidentally draft DK Metcalfe and if Emilio Estevez likes your team, which is certainly the case with Will Fuller. Bestball Breakdown, presented by Underdog Fantasy.

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This is something that I've seen both Jonathan Bales talk about when it relates to DFS play. I've seen Chris Raybon talk about this when it comes to basketball play. And this is a principle that we apply here just to the way that we run our business, which is the Pareto principle. Also, some people call that the 80-20 rule. That rule is essentially that 80% of the results come from 20% of the causes. And this is huge.

when you are playing bestball. You see this principle carried out in daily life and society, things like 20% of the criminals commit 80% of the crimes. 20% of all drivers cause 80% of all accidents. 20% of company products represent 80% of sales. And in best ball, here's what happens. You're drafting your best ball team. Every player of relevance is going to be drafted across the entire best ball draft.

and because you aren't setting a weekly lineup, the way best ball works is your lineup is auto-optimized. So the majority of players, that production evens out. When you apply this principle to best ball, you are taking your shot at blow-up potential in your draft. You are looking to find that 20% of players that make 80% of the difference in best ball leagues and who wins those leagues. You're looking for every week, QB ones, RB ones, wide receiver ones, tight-in ones.

Those are the players you want to draft. Good example. We just did a redraft mock. Mike went with Golden Tate later in the round, Darius Slate. If I'm in a best ball league, Darius Slateon represents that upside potential that Golden Tate doesn't. In a best ball format. You want the chance of a player separating. So when you're talking about best ball, you're talking about risk in general. You're looking at those difference makers. But the later your draft goes, the less.

risk averse you need to become. Take the huge shots. Take the Jalen Rager or the D Jax over the Alshan Jeffrey. Maybe he comes back and gives you the ho-hum performances. Take the shot, in my opinion, on a player like Anthony Miller, who has unseen ceiling potential versus the ho-hum Tyler Boyd type of pick late in drafts. So that's kind of...

The tip I wanted to bring to the table today, realize that the people who win at basketball, they do it on the backs of guys that are difference makers have potential to be that breakout guy. It's a really good life tip, too. Oh, certainly. So, yeah, when I brought up using it in our company, we do not. That's not a joke. No. We run everything through the filter of the 80-20. Yeah, yeah, because, you know, you have so many opportunities to do stuff. But we try to invest most of our time on the 20% of things that.

That matter. Yeah, that matter. That makes the biggest difference in our business or in your life because, I don't know. There's nothing quite like carving away all the needless crap in your life. Oh, yes. The Golden Tates of your everyday. Oh, no. That was rude. That was rude. Golden Tate deserves your respect. He's just on the back end of his career. That's fine. Yeah. No, it is fine. Larry Fitzgerald. I mean, he's a great player. Tons of respect. Not drafting him in basketball.

Yeah, that's fair. You can, like I said, sign up for Underdog today, Underdog Fantasy.com, or search for the Underdog Fantasy app in the app store. We did it, guys. Our final mock draft in the books, D.K. Matt Calf, Mike's signature player of this draft. Next week.

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