Draft Champions Podcast

Zack and John talk 1 up and 1 down in the AL West with respect to the bullpen and offense.

Zack and John discuss 1 up and 1 down for each bullpen and offensive position in the AL Central.

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 lists the NFBC players he wants to avoid drafting with

26:00 - Zack calls out The Mouth on recruiting for his DC

28:45 - Zack rants on Group Chat guys

39:00 - Review one of his Fast DCs and why he took Bichette in Round 1

48:00 - over/under on Mike Mager's stolen bases on this team is 5.

50:00 - Wander/Vaughn/Kelenic and Matt Tantillo's risky squad

51:20 - MTM's 10 avoids

1:04:50 - Zack's 1 MAJOR avoid but MTM says he could go 20/20 at age 33 coming off 17 injuries

1:08 - Free agent market and early drafter advantages

1:12:40 - Kenley Jansen vs. Craig Kimbrel 

1:18:00 - Who will move up boards this year like Bichette did last year?

1:19:30 - Players with low min picks as an indication of ADP rising 

1:20:40 - Kim, Sugano, Arihara, and the Japanese Mallex Smith (calibrating the KBO)

1:25:00 - 112mph+ Barrels predicting sleepers

1:31:30 - MLB curse of changing your name and Dee Strange-Gordon's father

1:34:10 - Giving MTM some positive and negative feedback from our listeners

1:36:30 - MTM gives a heartfelt shout out to an industry guy 

1:38:00 - MTM discusses his Twitter groupies 

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.