In this week's P.O. Box:
Halloween (x3)
Content roundup: Week 9 prep
On Tap: After Dark, Week 9 Cram & ShipCast
Book Club: A new selection for November
My parents are in town this week, so we all got to go trick-or-treating together last night.
Time flies…

April’s first Halloween - Tinker Bell

April’s 2nd Halloween - Kitty cat

April’s 3rd Halloween - Spooky/friendly ghost

We all raided my prop closet
⚔ Eliminator update. Down to our final two bullets. My best team got middling scores from Achane and Flowers on TNF and is now projected to lose, but we’ll see…

💎 Week 9 Gems. My favorite sleepers on Underdog this week. YouTube members can grab them here. Masterclass subs head here.
🤯 BLOCK PARTY & BULLY THE SIMS: Week 9 DFS Strategy: Top Plays & GPP Angles. Sharp takes from JMToWin and Youdacao.
⏰ OFF & ON THE CLOCK: Week 9 Battle Royale Strategy & Sleepers. Scrolls, draft angles, and spicy pick ‘ems. Check show notes/description for link to pick ‘ems.
🔮 FANTASY LIFE: Week 9 Draft Strategy for Underdog. Topics: a swap lesson, bullying the Bengals, a cheap offense to load up on, a running back sleeper. Also, check out the draft stream I did on the FL YouTube channel.
🚨 ALSO: last call for free Fantasy Life+ for a year. All you need to do is download the Comet browser. Details here.
🤓 FANTASY LIFE: Newsletter Roundup. This week in the newsletter we got bored of writing about JT hat tricks, id’d five players to add to your squads, found a couple WR sleepers and dreamed up five dream trades for fantasy.
I regularly write the Fantasy Life Newsletter. Get it in your inbox free every morning:
💪 THE SWOLECAST: Week 9 NFL DFS Picks. Nice discussion about mobile phone carriers.
🎉 BATTLE ROYALE BASH: Drafts With Mr. Clean & Clay Matthews. The Halloween edition of the Bash was great.
☣ LOLZ: The Real Value of Prediction Markets. Plus, a discussion on how we explain to people what we do for a living.
📈 STAT CHASING: The WR Who Is About To Explode Down The Stretch. Sack and Drico sift through recent usage and efficiency trends to help you set your lineups.
☕ POURTFOLIO REVIEW: A DFS Swap Cost Me $40,000, Whoops! Week 8 DFS recap, including some shots on goals in the BR.

After Dark is back Saturday night (8pm ET) with DFS sharp EZ from the Deposit Kingdom:
For After Dark shows, you can become a YT member for access or subscribe on Spotify for a private RSS feed (I post the video/audio there directly after the show).
Then we’ve got the Week 8 DFS Cram at 10:30 am ET on Sunday:
And then we’ll have the ShipCast at 4pm ET. Leone will be joining for Chiefs/Bills:

🏃 Book #9 for November: The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson.
Okay, this book finally became available at my library so let’s go back to the Larson well. He’s never steered us wrong:
The author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers an intimate chronicle of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz—an inspiring portrait of courage and leadership in a time of unprecedented crisis.
🏃 Book #8 for September (100%): Endure by Alex Hutchinson.
🤼 Book #7 for August (COMPLETED): Playworld: A Novel by Adam Ross.
🚶 Book #6 for July (COMPLETED): Things Become Other Things: A Walking Memoir by Craig Mod.
☁ Book #5 for June (COMPLETED): Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
🐊 Book #4 for May (COMPLETED): Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades by Rebecca Renner
🍌 Book #3 for April (COMPLETED): The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King by Rich Cohen
💉 Book #2 for March (FINISHED): Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe.
🐃 Book #1 for February (FINISHED): The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry
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