Backup QBs, SF Giants preview, Sleep Science in sports

Fantasy Sports Radio Network. For the first time in a long time, I got my boy Frankie stand for with me on the ones and tunes. Helped me blow up like a Samsung seven so hot that we sweat steam. And as you know, you can check us out on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network, get that app, get that audio boom, that Stitcher, that Google Play, and now all

across the country we're making it happen. I'm very excited about today's show, not only because I got Frank Stamford with me on the ones and twos, but we're gonna be doing a lot of good things. I got a great guest for us later on in the show in studio we're gonna hear from Stomic Gross, who produced the Sleepless in America documentary for National Geographic. If you've been listening to Speeds the Spitting Statistician, you know that I care about these West coast to East coast flights, these

back to back schedules. Well, Tomic is gonna join us a little bit later on in the show, and we're gonna find out the actual impact. Let me tell you something. He's gonna be talking about some studies, absolutely incredible. Benny Riccardi and Tony Sencata, they need to understand this for their DFS lineup block. I'm telling you some real good

information later on. As usual, in this last week of the preseason, before we hit opening Day this Sunday in Major League Baseball, Speeds the Spitting Statistician will preview and give his spotlight on a team. Today it is the San Francisco Giants. And also, as you know, we are getting down to it when it comes to the TV Greatest of All Time tournament, so we got some matchups

in the animated region to preview as well. If you want to hit me up at any point this hour, you can do that At eight four four eight, four, three, six, eight, seven nine. Follow us at F and T s Y Radio. Follow me at Spitting Speeds. We're gonna give you everything you need to win your league and win that cash. But we get started with, as always, top five that

are alive. I want to start with a couple of news and notes from Major League Baseball, like I said last week before the season, and we have found that the Dodgers pitcher Julio Urias will start the season in the minors. Okay, a lot of people thought he might have made that opening rotation. Speeds was not one of them. I think he uh he, I thought he was gonna start in the minors. He is going to start in

the minors. But I tell you what, I like this move because these new young kids who winds up happening is they have an innings limit on them as they're you know, stretching themselves out. And I would hate for you to have your reus on your team and then he hits his innings cap right when you need him in uh, you know, July or August, competing for Fantasy Baseball championship or layoff run. So keep your eye on him. He will get called up. I'd say, right after that

service time is up. Urban Santana will be the opening day starter for the Minnesota Twins. I don't know if that's good news or bad news for the Twins. Yeah, I think Urban Santana is a rosterable picture, maybe as an sp for but the fact that he is the opening day quote unquote ace for the Twins does not bold Well. We have another opening day start announcement, this one for the San Diego Padres. Your list shot scene is going to get the start for the San Diego Padres.

Let me tell you something right now, anybody that just realized that Major League Baseball the slates are now live on Fan Duel and on Draft Kings, I'm telling you right now, my opening day slate will be stacking some Dodgers against shah Sin on that Monday slate. Carlos Worldon looks like well, he will start the season on the d L. He got a second m R. I good news is that they showed no structural damage, but that original diagnosis looks to be correct. That is versitis in

his arm. You will probably start and miss most of April on the d L. We have a trade in Major League Baseball today, as well, the Temper Bay Rays. They get Peter Borgeous from the Chaie Socks for the player to be named later. And I gotta ask you, Frankie standfull, how do you feel about the infamous player to be named later? I kinda, I kinda wish I was a player to be named later. No, well, Dan, we can't trade you, you know, to be part of any trades. We need you around here. I appreciate that.

Now Monday through Friday, seven eight p m. Here on the Fantasy Freestyle on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network, A Frankie, we got some news and notes in the NFL as well. It looks like the Saints are taking a long, hard look at Malcolm Butler to see if they want to maybe try to acquire him via trade or ready to pounce if he does not sign his tender with the New England Patriots. And you know what, I realized, these Saints and the Patriots have had joint practices, you know,

in training camp for the last few years. And then what do you see? You see the trade of Brandon Cooks from the Saints to the Pats. I think Bill Belichick is using this strategically to get a good look at some guys that he may target in the future. I think it's an interesting strategy. Keep an eye on which teams have joint practices once we head into August. For the Indianapolis Colts, Chuck Pagano has said that getting a young running back is paramount as they look to

the NFL Draft. It makes me wonder if they will spend a first round pick on someone like, you know, Christian McCaffrey, Dalvin Cook, Leonard four Nette. I'm even hearing some reports that have Alvin Kamara running back out of Tennessee in the front first round. I like it. I'm telling you, I think that's cool. But if I'm the Indianapolis Colts, I'm looking to build up that defense and I'm looking to build up that offensive line. So Mr Andrew Luck and be up all night to get Lucky.

Interesting though, I will say this, Jim Ursay gave some quotes owner of the Colts yesterday. He said that it is not I repeat, is not a win or else situation this year for head coach Chuck Pagano. I kind of think it should be. I mean, they fired the GM in this offseason. Andrew Luck is entrenched as the highest paid player in football? So who else's head will roll if the Indianapolis Colts do not impress like I think they need to and that imminently winnable division that

is the a f C south over in Baltimore. Uh Mr Harbaugh says that Terrence West is his lead back. That right now, Terrence West is his number one back. I think he's gonna be in a committee. But Terrence West is probably the first guy you want to get in Baltimore unless it's a PPR league. Okay, don't forget. The Baltimore Ravens signed Danny Woodhead from the San Diego I mean Los Angeles super Chargers in the off season.

Danny Woodhead is a beast in PPR formats. And if you remember, Kenneth Dixon, the young promising back, rookie back last year, was suspended. He's gonna miss the fourth first the first four games for violating those performs enhancing drugs. He got suspended there. Also in the NFL, Ryan Tannehill they're reporting, has no restrictions. He'll be fine going into O T A S. They say he feels like a percent.

Remember after that what looks like a pretty gruesome knee injury late in the season as we keep me moving vance. Joseph New, head coach of the Denver Broncos, has come out and said that listen, this Tony Romo stuff is a quote unquote non issue. Okay. They like the young, developing quarterbacks they have there in Paxton Lynch and of course the starter out of Northwestern, Trevor Simeon. So it looks like they're gonna go to war with Simeon see

if they could develop and bring Lynch along. That Tony Romo is a non starter. We keep it in news for you know, I guess on the decline quarterbacks or backup quarterbacks. I don't know if you saw this, Frankie, but Jay Cutler is currently unemployed, but it does not seem to matter because he's enjoying himself. It looks like if you check Twitter, you may have seen some pictures of him on the beach showing his bare ass. How do you feel about that, Frankie Stamfell, I actually havn't

seeked out these pictures. Seek them out? Come on, and you're not following this. What's his wife's name? That Christian Cavalieri is at her? I think that's She's like beach kind of yeah, yeah, yeah, So maybe that's what they do on the beach. But here's what I'm thinking. It brings me to our first pole question of the day here on the Fantasy Freestyle. It made me thinking, you know, you got Cutler in the news, Romo in the news.

Now that free agency has sort of settled down, there are a couple of quarterbacks out there that don't really have a seat now that the music has stopped. So the first poll question today on the Fantasy Freestyle is who would you prefer your team go get as a backup quarterback if it was obvious to them and the money was there and they knew that they were there to be the backup for your team. Would you prefer Jay Cutler, would you prefer Tony Romo? Or how about this?

What about the blacklisted Colin Kaepernick? Obviously the NFL owners have done something aligned and around um with you know, forty five to basically shut him out. If Geno Smith can get a job, I don't see why Kaepernick can get a job. Or is it my boy r G three that you would want to maybe bring in as a backup. That's the poll up there, right now you can check it out at F and T s Y Radio. We want to hear your thoughts. Will be checking in on that throughout the show, keeping it moving here Top

five Dead or Alive. You're listening to Day Martinez here on the Fantasy Freestyle on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. My next topic, now, we know the Raiders are moving to Las Vegas. We've heard about this already. I personally think it is a sad day in football because that is a fan base that has been so loyal with the Black Hole and the Silver and Black, whether they were in l A or in Oakland. Um, but check this out. This move to l A is going to

have some ripple effects. I'm sure you've heard. When you think Vegas, you wonder, well, why haven't they been in Vegas ever before? And obviously the answer is because of the concerns around potential gambling and scandal and point shaving. You've heard of these things. Is now it's not only the players though. Okay, there was an article out there.

Did you know that NFL referees are not allowed to even go to the city of Las Vegas as soon as the preseason starts until the end of the Super Bowl, they're not allowed to set foot in Las Vegas for fear of perception and of scandal, or they're gonna have to change that rule as the Raiders have moved to Las Vegas. But I gotta tell you something. I think that whole perception is absolutely ridiculous. This rule has been around for a long time and people thought that we

shouldn't have a team in Las Vegas. I'm gonna tell you something. I'm a lot of things, but I am not concerned about that. This is not the days when, like you know, when when the mob was controlling Vegas. You know, this is not Hyman Roth and that sort of stuff in Vegas. Let me let me tell you something. In these days, if you want to gamble, you can use that new thing called the interwebs and you can

still gamble. It don't matter where you set foot. And I gotta also tell you, listen, what are you worried about visiting teams coming and wiling out in Vegas? Like you can't get anything done in New York City, in Los Angeles, in New Orleans, in Miami. These are all cities where players, young players, rookie players can get into some some dirt. I gotta call it. Shout out to

the unicorn hashtag personal responsibility. If these athletes, whatever control they have, whatever that locker room is, this should not matter. I am all for the Raiders, you know, or a team moving in Vegas. I don't think we have to worry about like what concerns might happen. Okay. I do feel bad for the Oakland Radars fans because now for the next two seasons, as the Raiders are improving, getting better and better, they know they're in essence lame duck fans.

And I saw a report today actually that they realize that and they may move to San Antonio as an interim home, okay, as a temporary home for the two thousand eighteen and two thousand nineteen season before their stadium is ready in Las Vegas. If you want to talk to me about this or any of the moves that we've mentioned so far, hollerd me at eight four four, eight four, three, six, eight seven nine. But let's keep it moving here. Top five that are live on the

Fantasy Freestyle. The Wouldn't Award finalists in college basketball have come out. Uh, the All American teams have been announced, and I think it's interesting that there are very few players from teams that are still playing. I think that part of what happens with this one and done culture in college basketball is that if you have anybody who like actually is nice and it's still there, they are

in position where they can dominate some games. The only person who is on a team still playing is Nigel Williams Gross at a Gonzaga. This is a guy who got sixteen point seven points a game, five point nine rebounds the game, four point six assists a game. Um, you know, all American to be sure, and the only All American still playing. Only first team All Americans, shall

I say? Other Wooden Award finalists are Josh Hart at a Villanova eighteen points seven points a game, leading the defense the national champions from the guard position, calebs want to get out of perdue. This guy eighteen and a half points a game in twelve boards a game for the boil Makers. A lot of people thought that was your team that maybe could have made a run. Frank Mason leading to Kansas Jayhawks with over twenty points a game.

And then yes, that team is rounded out by Mr Lonzo Ball from u c l A leading the second highest scoring offense in the country almost ninety points a game U C l A and rated by Draft Express as the second best overall prospect for the NBA. You hear that, You hear that LaVar Ball the second best prospect. Don't get it twisted, though. We're gonna talk a little bit more about Mr Ball a little bit later on in the show when we put the Fun and Functional

Sports Radio. The second team, though, had some people still playing. Dylan Brooks out of Oregon watched that yesterday's show, Donnie Burns and I talked about Dylan brook Brooks as a wingman. Mike Camp in the league. Is Jimmy Butler someone who's a big kind of guard that can play the wing. Watch out for Dylan Brooks. You got Justin Jackson out of Carolina who is still playing on the second team along with Josh Jackson, Luke Kennard and the true study

at Kentucky, Malik Monk. Last thing I want to tell you here on Top five Dead or Alive on the Fantasy Freestyle in the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. You know, our new president has done away with a lot of traditions and a lot of institutional memory. To be quite frank, but there is one tradition that will remain Monday Opening Day in Washington, d C. It will be five throwing out the first pitch at the Washington Nationals home opener. I'm all about this tradition. I don't care what you

feel about the president. I think the president should be able to throw out the first pitch. But it makes me wonder he got four percent of the vote in Washington, d C. I wonder what's gonna happen in that crowd. I will say this. You know, at least it will be a huge crowd. It will be a sold out crowd. There will be no debating the crowd size on this. But you know, and Bryce Harper last year was trying to make baseball grade again, you know, will bring in

a little bit more fun. He was trying to do that. So I wonder. But the biggest question I have for you, we all know about hands. Do you think he can palm a baseball? That's my question. So if you want to talk to me about any of that, holler at eight four four eight four three six eight seven nine when we come back. Speed Spotlight today is on the San Francisco Giants will preview the Giants. It's not an even number year, but I still think they can make

a run. All that and more Fantasy Freestyle in the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. You know what it is, Martinez, You're listening to the Fantasy Freestyle on the award winning Fantasy Sports Radio Network. I got my boy, Frankie stand for with me. He's got the bell. I don't know, we may need to use it a little bit, Frankie in this next segment, because listen, I've been giving people what they need to win their leagues and win that catch.

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it's been it's been a long time. I shoulding left you, Frankie. But um, what I do is I first look at the offense a couple of people. I might want to spotlight a couple of people that I think are good and rosterable where I think you need to get them. Then I turned it to the you know, to the arms rotation bullpen. I give people a um, you know, I give people a diamond and a fool gaze. That's

how we do it on the Fantasy Freestyle. I'll tell you who's the foul gayze, who you need to forget about, and I tell you who the diamond and the rough is then, because I need to give you what you need to win your leagues and win that cash. Another way to win some cash is on these baseball over unders for the wind totals. So I'll tell you what Vegas has as a wind total for the Giants, and I'll tell you what I would do with that. So let's start it off to San Francisco Giants. Let me

tell you something. This is not a powerful team. Okay. The guy Brandon Belt led the Giants last year with seventeen home runs. That is not a high total. Eduardo Nunez was second on the team with sixteen home runs. Granted, granted that Mr Pennce did not play a full season. Granted Buster Posey had a little bit of a down year, But that's what I'm talking about. This is not a you know, big time offense. Like for example, I'm previewing the Seattle Mariners tomorrow. They have like three or four

guys that hit thirty home runs. That's not what you're gonna see here with San Francisco. And I gotta start with Buster Posey himself. Now, listen, I know that everyone like automatically considers him the top catcher. I don't know if I'm among that group. Okay, did you know last year he was actually the fourth rated catcher. He was behind Jonathan luke Roix. He was behind Evan Goddess and

his thirty two home runs. He was behind Wilson Ramos, who had a bounce back year for what was the Nationals. He's now gonna be with Tampa. So I also think that now Posey has sort of gone into a tear. He used to be the standalone best catcher out there. I'm telling you, I wait a little bit longer. I will not be the guy who starts to catcher run or who drafts the first catcher. And I gotta league. I got a draft coming up in literally an hour. I'm telling everybody in my league I will not be

drafting Buster Posey. He's in this tier with Schwarber, with Gary Sanchez, with Lukroix. And here's the other thing. Buster Posey has had five straight years of playing over a hundred and forty five games. This kid is not a kid anymore. I think there is some attrition there. I remember last year saying the same thing would happen with a guy like Salvador Perez who kept on playing, who played into the postseason. And I honestly think it is

starting to impact Buster Posey. His two eight eight average last year was the lowest average of Buster Posey's career. When you're drafting Buster Posey, you're expecting him to hit three twenty. That is not the case anymore. Okay, so I'm a little bit fading Buster Posey. Brandon Crawford led the team with eighty four r b I s let me tell you too, That's why I like Brandon Crawford at shortstop one. He's gonna be in the five hole

in this lineup. In my opinion, I think he's gonna be hitting in the middle of the lineup, and there are not many shortstops out there that hit in the middle of the lineup. Okay, that we'll have those RBI opportunities. He's probably gonna be hitting right behind Pence in that lineup. So I'll tell you I like Brandon Crawford. If you miss out on that top tier of shortstops, the Lindors, the Seegers, the Koreas, the bow Guards, those guys. Brandon Crawford is not a bad option. I see him as

a top ten, top twelve shortstop for Shure. I also want to talk about a hundred Pence Hunter Pence played in only a hundred six games last year, played in only fifty two games in two thousand fifteen. That's after a stretch of like six or seven years in a row where he did play a hundred fifty hundred sixty games. So I wonder about him as well. Um, last year he had a three forty eight babbit that's batting average on balls and play that that's kind of what helped

him to a two eighty nine average. Three eight babbit. Boy, Frank Stanfeld knows that is not sustainable year over year for a guy who's not, you know, not a leadoff hit or not a groundball hitter. I think that's gonna regress a little bit. I think there's no reason why you couldn't project Hunter past actually fall back to about a two seventy average, And with that injury risk, he's slated as kind of like a third outfielder. I would rather take an upside flyer, a young kid on the

come up, than a guy like Hunter Pence. However, this rotation is good stuff. Okay, Um, Madison bum Gardner, you know about him. Johnny Quato, you know about him. These two are about as solid as of of a one too, as it gets anywhere in baseball. I'll with those two up against the Mets, top two, up against the Nationals, top two, up against the Cubs top two, or anybody else you want to name. Give me mad bum and

Johnny Quato. The question I have and I want to bring in, uh, Frankie stanfil here right there is when you look at the number three and four pictures for the Giants. Frankie, we're talking Matt Moore and we're talking Jeff so Marger. Which of these two would you prefer this year? Frank I'm a Jeff some margin guy. Really, yeah, I'm not in on Matt More. I mean I've seen enough out of Matt More that I know who he is. He's always gonna have a high whip, walks a ton

of batters. You can try and sell me on the strikeout upside, but look, I've seen him pitched long enough. He did the same exact thing when he came to the National League Lands. Here the walks actually went up. So I'm not in on Matt More. He's never really been a guy for me. Uh. I just think too many injuries that they've taken their toll on Matt More. Jeffson Margin, I feel like he's kind of underrated, like

on a consistency basis. It might not be there to start by start, but at the end of the year, you know you're gonna get out of him at three point six to three point eight e r a. Uh, he's gonna have a lot of volume. He's gonna go over two pitched and because of that, he's gonna get you a hundred and seventy eighty strikeouts. So I think that Jeffson Margin is actually a guy who is underrated for fantasy purposes. Alright, alright, I'm gonna take the other side.

I think Matt Moore slightly underrated. I know you talked about how we moved to uh the Giants in the middle of the season. I think now at a full offseason, and I think moving first of all to the Enna, going from the A L East to the N o West is nothing but fantasy goodness in general. Right, the ballpark change is a lot better. The offenses he's facing are a lot better. I think he's gonna wind up on some of my teams, not as a stud that I invest in, but as one of those guys that

are gonna be around. Remember, I like to make a murderers row. I invest heavy on offense. So Matt Moore might be the kind of guy that I think with a full year and in new ballpark, new league, I mean also going to the National League facing the picture, and when I look at the different a DP s I mean more is going sometimes fifty sixty picks after Jeff Somarja. So I think that that provides a little bit of value keeping it moving though. I also want

to talk about Mark Mlanson, their closer. Okay, now, m Lanson is a guy. Listen. He's gonna get thirty saves this year. Okay, I'm telling you right now, he will get thirty saves. But unlike most closers in the majors, he doesn't have like what I would call quote unquote like closer stuff, pure strikeout stuff. Okay, I love his ratios. He's coming off at one point six nine r a a zero point nine whip. You gotta love that. But

in your closer, I expect the better k rate. This guy only sixty five strikeouts in seventy one innings pitched last year. I'm looking for guys that have more than a strikeout per inning for my closer, because he's one of the you know, he's one of the you know, first or second tier closers. If I'm gonna spend that draft pick or spend that money in an auction, I want a guy where it's not only the save opportunities and those ratios. I want a guy that's gonna be

striking out more than a batter per inning. Let me give you my diamond in the rough for the San Francisco Giants, and it is Eduardo nun Yez Okay. I like a lot of things about Eduardo nun Yez, Frankie, I'm gonna give you three of them, and you tell me if I can convince you that he might be a little bit of a diamond in the rough. I like that he's eligible at third base and that shortstop. In more formats, I like that multi position eligibility. I'm

not drafting Eduardo Nuniez high. He's a diamond in the rough, But when I'm trying to get guys later on in the draft, I like having some of that flex ability. Let me also tell you this, did you realize that Eduardo Nunez was one of only five players in the major's leagues last year that stole forty basses? Now, Frank, I know that you have been saying that there's been, you know, a dearth of speed. You know, it's not like it used to be. This guy stole forty basses

last year. I don't think he's gonna get forty this year. I think he's gonna maybe get thirty. But out of the players that did steal forty bases, only Jonathan VR had more home runs. Adwardo. Nuniez had sixteen homers forty stolen bases. The only person who stole about forty that had more home runs than that was Jonathan VR with nineteen. And here's the last thing, Frank, I think Eduardo Nunez is gonna be their leadof hitter against lefties. I don't

you know. Denard span is probably their leadoff man against rights, But against lefties, I think Nunez could be their leadoff man. A lot of attention, a potential there. I think that's an interesting DFS look against lefties when he's at the top of the order. I can see people using Eduardo Nunyez. Did I sell you, Frankie? Yeah, I like all those points. I was actually gonna say, we could sit the over under at stealing basis at thirty. I think that's a

good thing. That's a start with Edward on Nuniaz this year. And another thing, you know, people might look at him playing in San Francisco and say, all right, he can't hit home runs there, But if you look at it, for a right handed bat, hitting towards left field park is much better than hitting towards right field because we know that it gets much deeper out there. So, you know, I think he's not gonna get sixteen home runs, but we get ten to twelve of him. I certainly think

that's possible. Yeah, he could. He could easily wind up with you know, thirteen and thirty three steals, which is which is you know, not easy to find. I gotta tell you that with eligibility at multiple positions, my fantasy Gazy the person you need to forget about on the San Francisco Giants. In my opinion, is Brandon Belt. Listen, I think that you know, you've heard the term post hype sleeper. Whatever the inverse of post hype sleeper is. I think that's Brandon Belt. Okay, I've heard a lot

of hype for the last one two years. Oh, Brandon Belt is gonna break out. This is the year we see power from Brandon Belt. All that got him last year was seventeen home runs. I don't think he necessarily crack cracks twenty again. And at a first base I can get that wherever I want. I can get that late, and I can get that late in the draft Ken DRIs Morales, I can get that out of Greg Bird. And part of the reason that people were liking Brandon Belt is because he ran a little bit, which you

don't get out of a corner infielder. However, from two thousand fifteen to two thousand sixteen, his stolen bases dropped from nine in two thousand fifteen to settle that Spanish for zero in two thousand and sixteen. So without his speed or the potential, I got no reason why I'm spending that much on Brandon Belt. Vegas says that the San Francisco Giants put the over runder at eighty seven and a half games. Frankie, would you take the over on the under on the San Francisco Giants at eighty

seven and a half? God, damn, that's a good number. It's a good number. I'm gonna tell you something, I personally because and this is mostly to be honest, because I am not as high on the Los Angeles Dodgers as most people are. Okay, I think the San Francisco

Giants can be slightly over that. I can see the Giants being one of those teams that are competing for whether it be the Division against the Dodgers or the Wild Card against teams like the Mets, like the Pirates, like the Cardinals, you know, other teams in the West. I think they're gonna be competitive all year, and I'm gonna tell you the truth. If they get into the playoffs, I would ride mad Bum and Johnny Quato. I think they could do a little bit of work. I'm high

on the San Francisco Giants. I don't think they're gonna, you know, win more games than the Cubs in the regular season. I don't think they're putting out wins or anything like that. But I can see them winning games and then be making noise in the playoffs with a leader like Posey and arms like bum Gardner and Quato. So there you have it, that speed spotlight on the San Francisco Giants. When we come back, I got a

guest in the studio. It is Mr. Tomic Gross, the producer of Sleepless sent America on the National Geographic Channel. We're gonna get into all the impacts of sleep and why this maybe the new market inefficient inefficiency in fantasy sports. You're listening to Dane Martinez Speeds, the spitting Statisician. You're listening to the Fantasy Freestyle and the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. You know what it is. It's a boid, Dad Martinez Speeds,

the spitting statistician. You're listening to the Fantasy Freestyle and the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. I am overjoyed right now to have with me for the next segment. Stmic Gross. He was the producer of Sleepless in America on National Geographic where they went into kind of a little bit on the science of sleep, the effects of sleep. Quite frankly, why it's so important that you get to bed tonight and get that full eight hours of sleeptomic. My main man,

my good friend, how you doing. Today's pleasure to be here. Thanks for having me, absolutely absolutely so listen. If you've been listening to Whether It Shock it was a fantasy freestyle. If you've been listening to day Martinez for a while, now, you know that I talk about this. I talk about you know, the West Coast teams flying to the East Coast for one o'clock games in the NFL. We've been talking. It's in the news big time right now, the NBA schedule and the impact of back to back games, A

big conversation right now on teams resting their players. You know, these assets, these commodities that these human beings actually are. So why don't we start from the beginning? What do humans need when it comes to sleep? Um? You know I hear eight hours of sleep? Right? But like, is that the same kids, adults, old people, Like, what is it that I actually need? When do I need to

go to bed tonight? So, in the year that we spent making this piece, we spoke to all the leading experts on sleep science, and it does turn out that for adults of us needs seven and a half to eight hours of sleep at night. Kids need a little more. As you're a teenager, it kind of starts to taper off and we all kind of even out at seven and a half to eight. Now, there's five percent of us that can do with less. I think I'm part of that five percent because like I never sleep. There's

five percent of us who need more. Alright, alright, So so obviously that's some of the stuff you've but like what can go wrong? You know, like if I'm a finely tuned athlete, right and I'm worried about you know, how I go to the gym and what I'm eating. You know, sleep is also a part of that equation. What are the risks there? What are actually in my performance?

How might that be impacted? So originally all of this research was done about drivers, let's say doctors, let's say new parents, people who were short on sleep and seeing what kind of effects you know, short sleep had on them. And of course, just like everything, you know, people turned to sports and started to really look at sports. And the mother of all of these studies was started in this woman Sherring my University of Stanford and she decided

to do a study with the Stanford College basketball tea. Okay, and what happened then, So what she did was she she took four weeks of data of them with their regular SEEPS schedules, and then she took seven weeks of data with what was known as a sleep extension study. So they were supposed to be trying to sleep for ten hours a night. Really they were getting more like eight and eight and a half. And compared to the four weeks that they were sleeping, you know, their regular schedules, studying,

staying up late, hanging out. Uh, they're shooting accuracy improved, right, as well as their sprint times. But the really shocking number was free throw percentage increased by nine and their three point field goal percentage increased by nine. That's legitimate data. That's really important, right. Yeah, and you mentioned so, you know,

you talked about in the college level. You mentioned, uh, you know, off air before we came on today, you told me that um Andrea Guadala on the Golden State Warriors, he actually had a dramatic change, right and started thinking about this himself and saw a noticeable change in his game as well. Yeah, So Andrea Guadala did something interesting when he first joined the Golden State Warriors. He was a guy who was self professed pretty bad sleeper. He

would get super hyped after games. He would stay up, he'd play video games. He would be, you know, two

pumped up to go to bed. And when he got to the Golden State Warriors, he teamed up with one of these technology companies that measures your sleep and he recorded his sleep over the whole course of the season and released the data on what he was doing during a game on a good night's sleep, which again we're talking about seven and a half to eight hours versus a bad night's sleep, which is really six hours or less. So on nights that he slept well on average, he

had a nine percent increase in free throw percentage. He had a two percent increase in three percent consistent with the Stanford study right at decrease in fouls committed. Oh, that's really interesting. So maybe he's like more alert or more focused not making what they call silly fouls. That's sort of thing that's very and that leads some more time on the court, that leads more production. Okay, it's thirty seven percent decrease in turnovers. And more time on

the court. He had twelve percent increase in minutes played. So you bring up a very good point. One of the things you see across all these sleep studies people who are short on sleep. Whether you're driving a car or whether you're an elite athlete, your decision making, your split second decision making is impaired a lot of studies, of course, as you would imagine on driving cars because

people are concerned about safety. But in sports, especially the level that these guys are playing in, you know, these these things make a big difference. And there's an even better NBA study an anonymous player. An anonymous over twenty four games, wore another measuring device and was rated every night before the game on their sleep. They either got a low medium or a high raking right, high is your eight hours, let's call low six or let's compare

this low on the high. Howd it work out? All? Right? So low on their assists was three point five right over twenty four games, bad night's sleep, three point five assists, they're high eight assists. So this guy over the span of tw four games, which is in essence, you know, almost a third of the NBA season. So I think it's a legitimate sample size this NBA player. The impact was going from eight assists down to three and a half assist per game. That's okay. What about their points?

Their points eight team point five low, they're very good result twenty one point three high, so on three points more. And I know another stat you talked about before that I thought was interesting with the turnovers, right, that's right, so when he wasn't sleeping well, five turnovers a game on average, but when he was one turnover a game again, better focus, split second decision making, not getting into those

risky behaviors. Frank Stanfield, I think this is kind of interesting because when we're reading off these kind of stats right now, that's a difference in DFS man going from eight assists to three point five four more turnovers the game, three more points a game. I don't know, Frankie Stanford, what do you think? I mean? Benny Riccardi and Tony Sincada, they use like usage stats and paste stats of which teams are playing fast. But maybe we have found an inefficiency.

Frank what do you think you buy this? You think that, um, maybe we need to get like reports on who slept well last night? Well the proof is all in the put right there. The stats don't lie, and so we say everything is all about the number. So I think that, you know, once I get to Stupe on audio Boom, I'm gonna have to send this over to Tony. I'm saying, so you can use this. I think this is legit.

We're gonna have to find out about this. So so Tomic and again we're talking to Tomic Gross this day Martinez and Tomic Gross on the Fantasy Freestyle on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. My Man Tomic Grows, a sleep expert, producer of Sleepless in America that you can find on National Geographic. Here's a question I have for you, man. You know, I'm reminded, and I know Frankie Stanfield knows about this. I'm reminded of Chip Kelly, who was the

NFL coach, you know, with the Eagles. Obviously made his bones at University of Oregon, and he was big on this health like what people were eating, what people were sleeping, you know, how much people were sleeping. What is really like the next horizon on this, how are some teams and if you maybe even know what teams are like ahead of the curve, Yeah, in this area, and what are they doing to be ahead of the cred Yeah?

So uh. The Seattle Seahawks are really kind of the the team most well known, yeah, most well known for sort of thinking about sleep. Early. Richard Sherman was saying a lot about how Pete Carroll, you know, it's the complete coach and is making them all think about their sleep as well. But really what's happening is the league's like the NHL, like the NBA. You know, Adam Silver is taking a look at the travel schedule, right NHL

has already taken a look at the travel schedule. They're making sure that teams have nine hours between when their flight lands on their on an away game before they have to practice the next day, not even play. But a lot of people are are recognizing that this is something to take into consideration right now. There's individual players who are at the forefront, Like I said Richard Sherman,

Steph Curry. Lebron has talked about how inven he credits a piece of the loss to the Mavericks in the finals to not having good sleep and trying to turn that around. Yeah, he's just looking for excuses. The Giants who you mentioned before. San Francisco Giants are very well known for consulting with sleep experts when they put together their road schedules to make sure that the team has

enough time to recover between games when they travel. So it's out there, people are paying attention, and I think you're going to you know, if you're looking for that information, A lot of that information is there. Great. Let me ask you one more thing, Tomic here and remember this is speedis fitting statistician and Tom and gross on the fantasy freestyle. Um, even if you get a lot of sleep, let's say you're in that range that eight hours of sleep.

One thing during the football season that I was talking about where teams that are based on the West coast that fly east and then play a one o'clock Eastern time game on Sunday like jet lag, Right, so you know you could sleep paid hours a night, but then when you have that kind of jet lag and your body clock is thrown off. Can you tell me a little bit about that and let me couch you in this question. If you were of these sleep consultants from

a team, when should they fly? Should it be the night before the game, two days before the game, like so that your body can sort of normalize for optimum performance. And uh, you know what is pretty high stakes an NFL game. Well, funny enough, there is a ton of research that's been done about this East coast West Coast

football thing when it comes to Monday night football. And actually, as opposed to worrying about the West Coast teams who are coming east, the teams that are really losing out are the East coast teams that are flying to the west really and playing these the night games, playing the night games where they think it's eleven thirty at night.

That's right, it's the reverse. So it's worse to be have your body think it's eleven thirty at night when you're kicking off and you're almost ready for sleep, than than being west to east and playing when your body thinks it's ten am. Well, the money night football games are at eight thirty, regardless of their on the East or the West coast. So imagine a team happening on the West coast. Your West coast team is starting at

five thirty. The bodies of your East Coast team, I think it's eight thirty by the time the first quarters over. Those guys are kind of getting ready to go to bed, listen. So if it's a if it's a tight game these night games, if they're tight, if they're tight, I'm riding with the West Coast teams late in late game situations. You got anything to back that up on West Coast team. Twenty five years of Monday night NFL games East versus West Coast, the West Coast team wins of the time

by an average of two touchdowns. When the East Coast team won, the average margin of victory was nine points. So West Coast teams are blowing them out. They are blowing them out. Now when you have West Coast team playing a West Coast team or an East Coast team playing at East Coast team, it's about right. So there was no So it's really when and that The only variable there is the time zone difference, right, so your body clock is just you know, a couple of hours later.

If you're from the East Coast, you know that is very interesting. Frankie Standfeld, I think Tomic is giving us some stuff here that we could turn into hash money. I'm gonna start betting on these West Coast teams. I'm telling you that. Can you stick around for a little bit time fantastic when we come back, I'm just still you know, give my man Tomic the third degree about this sleep. But you know, we have the TV tournament going on as well. We got big time matchups in

the animated region. I want to talk to you about. We'll check in on the polls. We'll we'll see if I can get some sleep myself. This is Dane Martinez on the Fantasy Freestyle on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. You know what it is is your boy, Dame Martinez Speeds has been satisticition. You're listening to the Fantasy free Style on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. We are joined here by Tomic Gross, sleep expert, producer of Sleepless in

America on the National Geographic Channel. We're learning some good stuff. I got Frankie Standford with me on the ones and twos helping me blow up like a Samsung seven. One of the things I was talking to Tomic about during the break is, you know, and and frank you can attend to this or like NBA players notorious for like taking naps in the afternoon, maybe after right after practice. So I asked you, Tomic, does that count as part

of the eight hours of sleep. Is there anything out there that says that that's actually a good or bad strategy? All these NBA players maybe taking a nap at three o'clock and then playing at seven. Yeah, So the science of napping, it shows that, you know, especially if you're short on sleep, a nap really does count towards that

eight hours. Kylie does help you round it out. And the other thing to know about napping, there's lots of studies that show that, for example, if you're cramming for a test and you take a short nap, you're gonna do better on that test when you wake up than someone who is cramming right up to the last minute. And never so if they're installing new plays or something like that. In that's right, they're thinking about coverage of, you know, of a certain player, or how they're going

to handle, you know, a certain situation. And we don't totally understand why that's that's happening yet that a lot of people think it's you know, the brain is processing and practicing even when we're sleeping. So but the bottom line is that napping is a good thing. Okay, And you mentioned things like turnovers in the NBA, I would also think that there's some correlation to injuries across sports.

So again, you know, if you think about your slower reaction time, your poor decision making you know less, less able to to look ahead. So that the real sort of big study that was done on this by the National Institutes of Health teen Athletes and the studies then in teen athletes showed that student athletes who are getting less than eight hours asleep of night were nearly twice as likely one point seven times to have a sports related injury than those who got their eight plus hours.

So again, those those are pretty significant numbers, alright, no doubt they certainly are. And Frankie, we're gonna have to get this info to Benny Riccardi and to Sencato when they're doing the DFS lineup lock for the basketball slates. I think if we could find out, for example, that Lebron got a bad night's sleep, we might need to fade him this because this is anybody, thank you so much for joining us here at TOMIC. I hope to have you back again. You're in a fantasy freestyle sometime.

Are you a fan of television? I M all right, so you should know here that Speedza spitting statistician because you know, it's March Madness and it's bracket you know, Frenzy. We are doing a contest here to uh crown the greatest TV show of all time, and we're getting down towards the end. And yesterday's show we had the Elite eight or excuse me, the sweet six scene in the sitcom bracket, and the number one seeded Seinfeld took out the number five seed Curb your enthusiasm by getting seventy

of the vote. You like that festiveus con Stanza. And at the bottom half of that bracket the chalk held true. The number two seed, The Office defeated number three seed Cheers with sixtent of the vote. So now it'll be one seed Seinfeld up against two seed The Office to make it to the final four out of the sitcom region. How do you think that's gonna break out? Now? Is that the US Office or the UK Office all out

to think about it however they want. I think that's a good question, but we had to group them a little bit all together. For example, in the drama region, the seven seed was Law and Order, and people ask the same kind of question. But we're talking about, you know, actual victims, criminal intent, all of them. I think the office is great, but nine seasons of Seinfeld pretty perfect, went out on top, didn't burn it out. I think

Seinfeld's got it locked fair enough. Well. Today we turn our attention to the animated bracket, where we have four contenders still remaining and a little bit of note out there. I've been catching a lot of flak from you guys on Twitter. Trollers are gonna troll. People are talking about like, oh,

the seeding is so messed up? What about this? What I gotta tell you is, in the sitcom region, we got the number one two seed and the number two seed still standing, so someone who seated them knows what they're talking about. And the same thing can be said for the animated bracket. We got two matchups right now, we got polls up on that f N T S Y radio and at spinning speed you can find them.

In the animated bracket, we have the upset of this region, the Cinderella of this region, the thirteen seeded Looney Tunes. It's still alive, but it's going up against the number one seed, the Simpsons, and right now it's closer than you might think, but with of the vote, the Simpsons are ahead. I feel like that's probably right. But shout out to Looney Tunes though, right, you know, yeah, yeah, maybe it's a generational thing, you know what I mean.

I'm sure they broke a lot of boundaries Looney Tunes, But the Simpsons, I mean still going to time right, absolutely absolutely. And in the other matchup we have here in hashtag animated region, the number two seed South Park well is going up against the number six seed, who pulled up an upset in the last round. The number six seed is Beavis and butt Head. So we got Beavis and butt Head against South Park right now, Tomic, what do you think about that one? I think I

grew up on Beavis and butt Head. But South Park, man, they It's just they've got more range there. They're a triple threat, triple threat as you are, and you are correct right now, south Park is holding strong with seventy three percent of the vote. And again to all you rollers out there, if these results hold true, that would mean the regional final in the sitcom is one seed verse two seed. That would also mean the regional final in the animated region would be one seed verse two seed.

Shout out to the seeding committee for the TV greatest of all time? A Frankie, standful, How do you think these are gonna break out? You think it's gonna be another one verse two regional final. I actually just voted. Okay, thank you, thank you. We appreciate the love. South Park is a lock for me. That's as tu because I grew up on that. I still watch it now. Honestly, I hope no one comes and tries to find me. I've never been a big Simpsons guy. Okay, and you

know what, Okay, And I am mad at you. And I'm gonna tell you something. In the previous round, Simpsons faced Family Guy in the one eight matchup, and and it only one it was it was really close. So I am mad at you. If Simpsons doesn't make it all the way through. First of all, they gotta get past Looney Tunes and Frankie Stanfords Verson for Looney Tunes, so who knows, But then they see see South Park.

I don't know. I'm gonna tell you a little bit later on this week when we go to the reality region. The number five seed in that region is the Real World road Rules. We are going to once again have Iralan from the Las Vegas season we interviewed her going into the first round. We're gonna have her on the show again as a real world has made it to the Sweet sixth team. We'll see how far they go. Checking in Checking in on another poll that we did remember earlier in the show. I asked you, guys, who

would you prefer for your backup quarterback? And right now, with votes so far, sixty eight percent of you have Tony Romo as the answer. And I gotta tell you something. I don't know how I feel about that. Tony Romo was in essence to take it all you comic book guys that know Tony Romo was missed her glass. So why would you want that guy as your backup? Because you only need even an emergency and then all of a sudden you're gonna be trusting Tony Romo for a three, four,

five game stretch and then he gets hurt too. I don't know if I feel that. I gotta tell you something. I might ride with the blacklisted Colin Kaepernick. What do you think about this? Frankie Standful, if you needed a backup quarterback? Our j E. T s Jets Jets Jets need uh you know, backup starter, all sorts of things, no disrespect Josh McCown. Ryan Fitzpatrick could have been another you know nomination on this poll. What are you? Where

are you going with this? Frankie Well? I thought it was a great point that you brought up with Tony Romo being made of class, but not only that, he's a guy that if he's the backup, people are gonna be clamoring for him to be the right fans right all of a sudden, the team gets off to a bad start, or you're trying to develop a young kid, they're gonna be people clamoring for Tony Romo. I think

that's a very excellent point. Thanks so much to my man Frankie Stanfell, you know on the ones and twos yet again so hot that he sweat steam, hot to death like Corey Stringer. And of course thank you so much Stomic Gross on the sleep Expert. Can we find that study natural geographic? Can we see the Sleepless in America? Yeah, they put it. They put it for free on YouTube. Just check out Sleepless in America when you go into YouTube. Absolutely so you could get it there. Thank you to toomic.

Thanks to my boy Frankie Stanfill. We're gonna keep going with that TV tournament Tomorrow you can catch me day. Martinez speeds the spitting statistician on Fantasy Freestyle five nights a week. You know what it is here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. I'm your boy, ha