Zack and John talk 1 up and 1 down from the bullpen for each team and 1 up and 1 down for each team's hitters - in the AL East. A couple Free Agent predictions and thrown in and with a Draft and Hold twist.
John Fish gives a NFBKC primer. Topics include: - Why you don't play home leagues with trades - John's 2nd place overall finish in the NFBKC Main Event - Luca Love - Pocket Centers - The importance of the draft - Michael Porter Jr. - Blocks/Assists are early targets - The most overrated player in fantasy - Zack's advanced basketball metrics - Harden's value in Houston and Brooklyn and the #1 player in points leagues - Kendrick Nunn and Shai - Injury prone players...
1:30 - Intro and Small Business Promotion and Listener giveaway 8:30 - MTM's Victory lap on last episode's rant and how many followers he's lost 11:45 - Sean Gilmartin is not in the Baseball Forecaster 12:45 - The Process review (Jeff Zimmerman) 15:00 - Top 10 NFBC Twitter follows that are under and MTM got the handle wrong - it's @ScottJenstad 20:00 - News and Notes (Cano is an idiot, Arozarena estimated suspension, Nelson Cruz and Big Papi Pharma) and teaser on the latest fast DC 25:00 - Zack ...
Just 2 CPAs talking spreadsheets and bestball. Zack makes a 1 sided bet with Derek All bestball strategy talking the nuances of different formats on NFBC, BB10s, and Fantrax.
Phil and Toby discuss winning individual Main Event leagues 3 times in 2020 and some 2021 strategy including pocket aces, a potential full house, some catcher love, roster construction, and how many batters a pitcher is worth.
Jim talks about his 2020 victory, 2021 bouncebacks, managing FAAB leagues vs. draft and hold, managing team construct, reviews a recent DC in his honour as well as gives us 6 sleepers to draft after round 30.
Rob talks his DC win, some late round comps to Burnes and Javier, auction values, how to draft starting pitching, and team construct using "buckets". We also discuss a main event league we were both in.
Kevin talks his TGFBI win and general approach to team composition including "working backwards". We talk what went right and how to navigate what went wrong. We talk about how to apply Steamer projections for 2021 and the shortfalls of using projections. Late round targets are discussed including the trio of Tigers young pitchers, Bobby Witt Jr, Austin Martin and Torkelson. We also react to the recent news of the plethora of declined options.
Mike "The Mouth" lives up to his name discussing his NY Super Victory, general strategy, and gets granular on a recent Draft Champions we were both participating in. Sprinkled in: "How to Train Your Fantasy Spouse" Epilogue: "Donald Trump is not a SP1. The Election isn't Best Ball. You have to pick one to start for 4 years"
Zack and Drew talk what you can expect with respect to early ADP in the early Draft Champions leagues with no ADP available. - Arozarena - Kyle Lewis - Marlins Pitchers - Top 4 rounds of SP - Closer analysis - Catcher analysis - The forgotten - Puig, Domingo German, Mancini, Clase - The Tommy John recoveries - Thor, Severino, Sale - Prospects - Kelenic, Vaughn, Wander, Manning, Brujan
This episode Mike and Zack are reunited and talk about Zack's Main Event and see what he did wrong and a few things he did right. We discuss how some of the top players in the world overcame sub optimal drafts to cash. We then shift gears to the first 2021 NFBC Draft Champions draft with several other high stakes players and talk about potential recency bias on busts such as Baez, Torres, Hiura, JDM, Paddack, Albies, Ketel Marte, Bryant, Donaldson, Altuve, etc. We also discuss if the helium is w...
The first 10 mins is an intro, the last 40 is the draft recap through 18 rounds of the first NFBC DC of 2021 Follow @draftchampagne on Twitter
Marc and Zack discuss both NFFC Silver Bullets they were in, recent FAAB, cutline bye strategy, risers and fallers since June, and super late round targets
Dave McDonald of High Stakes Heat and Rotosaurus.com does a round of speed closers (30 closers in under 30 minutes) as well as talks fading frail players and FAABagedeon (aka week 3 of FAAB in the NFBC)
MTM and Zack talk FAAB, the Main Event Boards and drafting with Hall of Famers, Kurland the FAAB whisperer and Manscaping Pigs
Chris @baseballpods joins Zack to discuss - The Main Event Strategy - The Battle of the Podcasts - Mike Trout Playing - 5 bold predictions recorded July 22nd each including something that Zack will not take a victory lap for
John Fish talks about the NFBC Main Event in terms of preparation, sharing a team, players he's avoiding, and how the 60 game season impacts the draft. We also take a fairly in depth look at the ADP of the first 2 mains. follow us @draftchampagne on Twitter
Zack and Mike discuss players opting out and the Battle of the Podcasts. Follow @draftchampagne and Kurland's @Basesloadedpod and his contributions to @3Bsofbaseball
Zack and Toby review the Battle of the Podcasts NFBC Draft Champions league through 13 rounds. Follow us @draftchampagne
A short season makes moving averages less relevant, but we need @mlbmovingavg more than ever
NFBC champ Matt Modica talks about the implications on draft strategy of a short season with Zack. We talk about a lot of players!
MTM and Zack talk about strategic changes for the 60 game season including new bust candidates, NL DH options and more. Mike assesses the NFBC decision and attempts to get Zack to join a main event and the first 20 minutes are complete non-sense as per usual...but only the first 20 minutes.
Zack plays devils advocate and gives some reasons why the fantasy season should play on !
The inaugural DC NFL podcast simulating a draft where Marc Winokur picked 1st and Andy Saxton picked 12th in an NFFC Draft Champtions BUT both had to jump recent ADP by at least 10% to build their ideal squad (i.e. 24th pick can't draft above ADP 26.4) Follow @draftchampagne
@zackroto talks to long time NFBC veteran Marc Winokur about a recent 2nd Chance Draft Champions draft, players that are getting pushed way up the board and take some listener questions. Follow us at @draftchampagne
@zackroto and @cmagee523 talk with John Fish of ArbourPro about the Second Chance Draft Champions League he and Zack are currently drafting, and the implications on various unknowns of the new fantasy baseball universe. Each of us survey the new landscape and give a sleeper, bust, comeback, early season whiff, and favorite closer target with a guest appearance from the President of the United States, Donnie Baseball himself. Donnie Trump chimes in at the 1:30:00 mark
@zackroto and @cmagee523 have @baseballpods on to review the first annual battle of the podcasts
@zackroto and MTM talk the uncertainty around the seasons start date and 7 groups of players whose values may have changed. 51:00 to 1:39:00 we talk these value changes. The rest of the episode is amazing nonsense
@zackroto and high stakes NFBC pro Dusty Wagner talk everything NFBC Main Events leading up to the 2 weekends in NYC and Vegas. They discuss, FAAB, Draft flow, targets, avoids, KDS, 2 start pitchers, etc.
@zackroto and @commonsensefbb have Alex Fast of PitcherList on the show. Discussion topics include - undervalued hitters - CSW metric - RP that can turn into solid SPs - innings caps on prospects and young pitchers in draft and hold formats - Alex shares some deep sleepers (hibernators) - Of course, we dive deep into the Baltimore rotation
