JudasIscariotTheBird

The chess analogy is fair. I like watching/playing chess. But I gravitate towards the slower time controls. Classical is my favorite to watch. And I even play correspondence when I can. To TT's point, I don't debate that there isn't enough time to do that between pitches. But it isn't always enough time to do it leisurely. Maybe when my kids get older and I have fewer distractions... But for now, it still feels too short to me. As I said, I recognize that I'm a minority on this. But since the previous post was just talking about pearl clutching, I thought it was worth pointing out that some people have legitimate views to the contrary on this whole pitch clock thing. It's cool to dig classical chess the most, but it's prety telling that the best chess player of all time is sick of it, and semi-ditching it to focus on blitz/rapid/streaming/drinking.

I've never really considered myself a Nuggets fan, but the team is hard to not root for with Jokic playing beautiful ball. The best basketball player to come out of my high school is Reggie Jackson, and the Nuggets recently signed him to be the backup PG for Murray. I'm pretty pumped about the playoffs this year.

I was actually looking for that when this topic came up, I enjoyed the first several episodes when Southpaw19 did but dropped off after a while. I couldn't find them when I looked the other day https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-northside-baseball-podcast/id1604412042

Have we all forgotten the NSBB podcast so quickly?!

Toney first catch props are the best bet on the board, which are around 15-1 on Draftkings. If he's inactive, the bet is void. I'm going to put a small bet on that one.

If you really believe that, check out some of the lines. Via Fanduel: Boston +280 Milwaukee +400 Phoenix +460 Denver +700 Other books have the Bucks and Suns essentially switched, but neither are especially close to Boston.

I'm still steaming. What was the bet you had? It was complicated. It was a playoff-best-ball contest on Underdog. My team advanced to the finals, but without the Bengals in the Super Bowl, I've got no shot at the 200K first prize. If the Bengals had won, my team would have been one of the favorites to win it.

I'm still steaming.

If the Bengals can win this somehow, I'd be VERY live to win a large amount of money in two weeks. Fingers double crossed.

Feel any better now?

I would consider Davanta over Kirk for anti-correlation reasons. I know you are considering what WR will be available for the final week, but you have to get there first. In the final week, because you are going to be lower on talent, you will probably switch to wanting correlation and Purdy (with Aiyuk) might be your only option at QB. It's close either way. But I'd definitely play Walker over Harris.

I would consider Davanta over Kirk for anti-correlation reasons. I know you are considering what WR will be available for the final week, but you have to get there first. In the final week, because you are going to be lower on talent, you will probably switch to wanting correlation and Purdy (with Aiyuk) might be your only option at QB. It's close either way. But I'd definitely play Walker over Harris.

In that best ball contestI mentioned, the guy currently in the lead is a YouTuber that I kind of follow. Imagine being in his situation, or any of the dozen players that have a shot of overtaking him.

...are you asking because I already waste a lot of time here? It was all spaced out over 4 months. The team that made the finals was drafted in early May. Underdog even had a silly little promotion where if you could semi-prove (by posting to twitter) that you were doing cardio while drafting for 7 drafts, they would send you a t shirt and "something extra." The extra wound up being getting rake back on any subsequent cardio drafts you did. So I was getting paid something like 3 bucks an hour for rowing on my rowing machine and annoying my few twitter followers with screenshots of drafts they don't give a horsefeathers about. Even if my team in the finals takes last (and that's nearly infinitely more possible than first, at this point) I'll still have enough in the account to max out again next year. Oh, and there is a fair amount of strategy for best-ball, specifically top-heavy best ball contests, that differ from season long with rosters or daily fantasy. I can go over some of it some other time, if anyone cares to go into it.

How is a team assembled in this format? And how many play? I also need these details. Assuming it’s salary cap based. Would love to join next year. I need best ball formats in my life. Tough luck on Hurts. You have a draft just like a season long draft with 11 other randos. It's .5 ppr format, no yardage bonuses. Each week 1 QB, 2 RB, 3 WR, 1 TE and one non-QB flex count for points. Draft is 18 rounds. For the first 14 weeks you are matched up against the teams you drafted with, and the top two advance. Then you get put with 9 other advacing teams for week 15, only the top team advances. Grouped with 15 others teams for week 16, only top team advances, and then its the final week, 17, with 469 others teams. You can do the math to figure out how many entries that is, total. This year, a million was also given to the team that scored the most points in the regular season. Draftkings runs a similar contest at 5 and 25 dollar entries, but they are full ppr with yandage bonuses, and the draft is 20 rounds long. There are also two different options for type of draft: fast or slow. Fast drafts give you about 20 seconds for your pick, while slow drafts allow 24 hours, until the season approaches, when allotment starts getting scaled down so the drafts can actually complete.

So a year ago I lucked out huge and made the finals of a million-to-first best-ball contest on Underdog fantasy, won 5k by taking 23rd, and decided to let it ride and enter a similar contest 150 times (at 25 bucks a pop) over the summer. This year its 470 teams making it to the final, first gets 2 mil, second gets a mil, third half a mil, and more swiftly falling off after that. I advanced slightly above average into the playoffs, but then advanced slightly less than average into the semis, which meant I only had two shots at the finals last week, and one of those teams had Hurts and Mariota at QB, so only one decent shot. I was on a boat in the Galapagos all week and missed the games and all news of them, but when I got reception on Wednesday, somehow the team with zero points at QB managed to beat 15 other line ups and make the finals. And now that Hurts seems to be unhurt again, I'm live! I don't think I'll be able to catch the games Sunday as I'll be en route to Quito for most of the day, but if some of these players blow up, I might make some cash. My team isn't a very unique line up comepared to the field, but the triple Hurts stack is fairly rare (getting AJ and Smith on the same team, specifically) so if Hurts explodes, I don't need as much to go right to do well/win. Hurts/Mariota Ekeler/Rhamondre/D'Onta Forman/Mattison/Pierce/CEH AJ Brown/DeVonta Smith/Waddle/Jakobi Meyers/ Kendrick Bourne/Nico Collins/Laviska Shenault/Mooney Kittle/Goedert ...just now read that Hurts is unlikely to play. Super deflating.

Sanders going missing really hurt me. Probably cost me thousands of dollars.

I'd lean Darnold, but it's kinda a toss up between him and Mayfield.

Just looked up week 16. Dak faces the Eagles, Lawrence faces the Jets, and Brady faces the Cards. I'd save Brady for week 16.

Yeah, Dak and Lawrence are a fair amount better than all the rest of your options. Unless Dak has some insanely better matchup than Lawrence for week 16, I'd go Dak this week.