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And here we are with the very first podcast for the dynasty guys my name is Brent Wassell here with my co-host John Gross. We really love dynasty football so we thought it’d be a fun idea to put together this podcast and start kind of chatting about things I’ve been playing dynasty for three years I got into it because of John yeah absolutely and I have been playing dynasty football for since 2012 so that make it seven years started with only a couple of leagues with some buddies now built out currently I’m in nine dynasty leagues and that number continues to grow and it shall continue to grow

yeah well I’ve kind of learned that once you start it kind of becomes a pretty addictive habit but it’s a lot of fun I think that the rewards you get the more time you put into your research the more leagues you’re in the payoffs are greater absolutely man oh I love this game I played low-level d3 college football played high school football and really when I got done playing college football it’s like I just wanted to continue to do something keep my hands dirty with a fantasy football and dynasty it just adds another level

when I looked on the spectrum of gambling going off a little off topic here but just one of my core concepts I like to loot too and I look at the spectrum of gambling on one end of the spectrum you have slots which is just pure gambling right and then on the other end of the spectrum you have like poker which you see guys with a lot of strategy there’s still some luck involved right and fantasy football is kind of a little bit closer to slots but when we start talking about a dynasty football that’s where you can really get an edge and that’s where I find my one of the Ring things that really draws me to it is you can get a competitive edge by just being consistently making better and better decisions day after day

yeah and that’s another thing that just really draws me to it and why I love playing dynasty football absolutely I’ll drop that a bit one of the things I love about dynasty is I kind of look at it almost like the stock market in terms of players have different values throughout the year player value will be at its all-time high and you have to decide do I sell this stock wall the assets high and then try to buy other things or when do you go all in burst kind of going for more of a rebuild which we’ll get into but knowing when to buy high and not so low I think is a key thing in dynasty that those small trades I mean you have your big blockbuster trades but the small trades can really make a big difference to in the long term yeah man you got to keep building that portfolio yeah

yeah so John and I go way back we’ve been friends for 20-plus years we’re here in Minnesota diehard Vikings fans and sitting in John’s basement right now surrounded by all kinds of Vikings accoutrement we got paraphernalia 3d poster on the wall we got us Bank Stadium good to go purple people eaters you got Karl eller jim marshall alan page and the lesser-known gary larson sitting over there so yeah man we’re diehard Vikings games it’s about 10th diehard Viking fans it’s about 10:30 right now like needless to say we are waiting with bated breath for the 12 o’clock kickoff yes so today is actually Sunday September 8th we’re recording this right before the main games all start

one other thing that we’ve seen the basement here is a Minneapolis miracle John you were at that game yeah man I was at that game it was absolutely insane I had a I got a picture of Stefon Diggs with a little blurb on it frame then I also have the little it’s not homer hanky but it’s the towel that they gave everyone that was there that says bring it home and yeah I was there man I remember standing there with my buddy Scott and we were watching the game there was about 10 secon