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In this week's P.O. Box:
New bros emerged this offseason
Stream roundup: Football in 6 days
Offszn Book Club: Wrapping up Paradise Sky
On Tap: Guillotine After Dark
Once a year I hold up a funhouse mirror to the rapidly evolving and increasingly ridiculous best ball universe.
It’s my favorite video to make each year and the 2024 edition is the best edition yet.
Meet your characters…
📺️ Streamer Bro:
Streams most of his drafts
Spends more time begging for subs than talking about fantasy football
Great at regurgitating takeaways from Mike Leone’s Best Ball Manifesto
🧮 Pretentious Math Bro:
Cares way more about being perceived as smart than winning
Can’t stop reminding people that we are still working on a limited sample
Always caveats that sims are “flawed”
⌨️ X Bro:
Anon Underdog power user with 211 followers and a dog avatar
Constantly begs Underdog for another $5 Puppy contest
Post screenshots of ADP with commentary like, “I can’t believe X is going after X, can someone please explain this to me like I’m five??”
🩺 Doctor Bro:
Dropped out of med school, but won a friends and family home league in 2012
Loves giving injury return timelines within a 2-4 week window
Willing to abruptly leave family dinner time to repost a slo mo clip of a player tearing their ACL
🧠 Galaxy Brain Weed Bro:
Consumes equal amounts of marijuana and best ball content
Willing to push any micro edge to an unreasonable extreme
“Has to bink” in 2024 otherwise will be forced to add a shift bagging groceries at Trader Joe’s
👑 Davis Mattek:
Former corporate minion turned best ball streamer
Willing to fire up a stream right after an assassination attempt
Thinks about portfolio diversity exclusively through the lens of getting the same four Chiefs players with a mixture of other players
There are plenty of other surprises and Easter eggs in there for all of the hard core sickos. I hope you enjoy:
By the way, Underdog is running a rare deposit match for existing customers today. Nice opportunity for a top off before Battle Royale season…
And Fantasy Life is running a big sale for FantasyLife+ as well. Great day to value hound…
Before the biggest draft weekend of the year I wanna do one last FantasyLife+ flash sale. This will be the cheapest possible price you can get FantasyLife+.
Code MB30 = 30% off
Deal ends midnight tomorrow
— Matthew Berry (@MatthewBerryTMR)
8:15 PM • Aug 29, 2024
🧮 Expert advice from a whiz who has done 2000+ drafts. Best ball crusher Sackreligious shares his favorite player targets, stacks, and draft structures in this new video. Check it out on the Deposit Kingdom channel.
💊 20 Bold, Hot & Crazy Truth Serum Takes From The Best Ball Cabal. I asked all of your favorite best ball thought leaders for a take that they believe deep down but have been too scared to share…until now.
🥊 Fantasy Feud: ETR vs. Ship Chasing. This was absurdly fun. An actual Family Feud-style game show pitting Evan Silva, Mike Leone, and John Daigle vs. Pat Kerrane, Ben Gretch, and Davis Mattek.
🪓 Guillotine League strategy. Recapped a Fantasy Life staff Guillotine draft and explained strategy tweaks to make in this unique format. I’ll also be streaming a Guillotine draft with a bunch of people from the Deposit Kingdom tonight if you’d like to check it out.
☕️Best Ball Breakfast: Must-Draft RBs. Four more drafts on the last monday edition of BBB this week, including ones with Shawn Siegele, Pat Kerrane, and special guest JMToWin.
🏆️Fantasy Life roundup. This week in the FL Newsletter: a deep RB sleeper, two alpha WRs stop their holdouts, fallout from roster cut-down day, the Kyren Williams/punt returner story, and Aiyuk closure.
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🚢 FFPC Main Event Draft w/ Crakrok (Chasing $1M). The Ship Chasing crew draft their annual Main Event team with the infamous Crakrok from the 1.12. Things, predictably, go off the rails.
💪The Swolecast Drafts A BBMV Team. The one where Kitchen drafts blindfolded.
☣️ Behind The Scenes w/ ETR’s Taylor Caby. ETR’s founder joins us to discuss his thoughts on the future of DFS/sports betting, new things coming for ETR, and which of his employees is most likely to get cancelled.
⏰ Scroll The Eff Down Super Sleepers. This week on OOTC, we recap cutdown RB news, share our favorite scroll the eff down clicks in BBMV before it closes, preview the Week 1 BR slate on Underdog Fantasy, and rip a couple drafts.
🏊️ Deep End Invitational (Pat Snipes Gretch All Night!). The SC crew, along with Jakob Sanderson, all draft in the same Deep End Invitational draft (Superflex, TE-Premium). Mike Schopp guest hosts.
📈 Final Risers/Fallers & A Big Dog Draft (ADP Chasing). ADP Chasing takes one last look at risers and fallers before hopping in a Big Dog draft.
🌤️ Book #15 for August (70%): Paradise Sky by Joe R. Lansdale.
Still slowly chipping away at this sprawling epic, but hope to finish it over the long weekend.
I’ve been particularly enjoying some of the very funny exchanges between Nat and Wild Bill:
“You know, a man could get used to living in a spot like this, having him a house and a wife,” Wild Bill said.
“You have a wife, Bill,” I said.
“I know. That’s the one I meant.”
“I will be shooting,” I said.
“Good,” he said. “It’s how I figure to make my dowry for Wow.”
“You need one?”
“No, but we need money, so I thought I’d call it that.”
✅ Book #14 for August (COMPLETE): Excellent Advice for Living by Kevin Kelly
✅ Book #13 for June (COMPLETE): True Grit by Charles Portis
✅Book #12 for July (COMPLETE): Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
✅Book #11 for June (COMPLETE): The Hunter by Tana French
✅Book #10 for June (COMPLETE): River of Doubt by Candice Millard
✅Book #9 for May (COMPLETE): The Art Thief by Michael Finkel
✅Book #8 for May (COMPLETE): Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
✅Book #7 for April (COMPLETE): Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson
✅Book #6 for April (COMPLETE): The Trading Game by Gary Stevenson
✅Book #5 for March (COMPLETE): Recursion by Blake Crouch
✅Book #4 for March (COMPLETE): The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
✅Book #3 for Feb. (COMPLETE):Gambler: Secrets from a Life at Risk by Billy Walters
✅Book #2 for Feb. (COMPLETE): Chain Gang All-Starsby Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
✅Book #1 in Jan. (COMPLETE): Clear Thinking by Shane Parris
I decided to spin up one final BBB to wrap up my BBMV entries this morning…
The final draft will be with Neil Orfield, who is attempting to become the oldest person to stream all 150 of their drafts. I’m then going to hop on his stream for his 150th draft…
Best Ball After Dark is tonight at 8pm ET. I’ll be streaming a Guillotine draft with a bunch of people in the Deposit Kingdom. This one will be available to watch by everyone. Become a YT member to get access to the BBAD archives (top 2 tiers).
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