🏆 A New World Record?

In this week's P.O. Box:

Last year I became the first person to stream all 150 of my Best Ball Mania drafts.

But that wasn’t the only other record set in the best ball space…

We also led an intrepid group into the history books for the World’s Fastest Slow Draft.

And sure, no else had previously attempted a blazing fast fantasy draft so it was a theoretically low bar to clear, but I don’t see anyone out here trying to diminish the accomplishments of the individual with the largest collection of rubber ducks simply because they were the first person to think of hoarding 5,000+ rubber duckies.

Our quick-twitch, nimble-fingered crew isn’t one to rest on their laurels, though. We’ve heard the whispers, the criticisms…We know there is a target on our back. We know our time of 9:24 can be broken.

And that’s why we will be breaking it ourselves this afternoon:

I honestly don’t know what’s possible time-wise. People used to think it was impossible for a human being to run a sub four-minute mile, but now it’s been broken by nearly 2,000 athletes.

Our new record setting attempt comes at a time when “drafting fast” is part of the best ball zeitgeist. Underdog recently experimented with faster clocks, reducing the typical 0:30 allotment to 0:20, 0:15, and even 0:10.

But our world record-holding crew says, hold my beer.

No, literally, hold our beers. We’ll all be drafting with beer helmets to hydrate in real time thus saving precious seconds otherwise spent reaching for our draft juice:

Whatever you have planned for 3pm ET, I assure you it pales in comparison to witnessing history being made... again.

✔️The best pick in every round of 2024 drafts. From the Round 1 layups to the deep sleepers in Round 18, here are the best picks in every single round of drafts on Underdog Fantasy. Check it out on the Deposit Kingdom channel.

🧠How To Transition From Best Ball Brain To Redraft. This week on Fantasy Life, I talked through the key differences between best ball and managed as we start to schedule our home league and high stakes drafts.

🎡Randomizer Draft w/ Neil Orfield. Over the course of 18-rounds, Neil prank calls the Sizzler, pitches Underdog on an AARP partnership, and tries to open a pickle jar without help.

☕️Best Ball Breakfast: Snipes & An 8-RB Team. Four more drafts on BBB this week, including ones with Shawn Siegele, Pat Kerrane, and Mike Leone. Topics discussed: Jordan Addison's DUI arrest and market impacts, extreme Zero RB builds, WR rooms with volatile rookies and proven veterans, and building a hyperfragile RB room with CMC. Also: PREVIOUSLY ON BEST BALL BREAKFAST.

🏆️Fantasy Life roundup. We’re now writing the newsletter every weekday. This week: the people’s champ, Nick Chubb’s recovery, Brandon Aiyuk’s trade request, the Jokers in Pittsburgh, and starving for news.

☣️Is It Time To Start Scrolling The Eff Down? Added some new inputs to the Draft Caddy, including my exposures and ETR's ownership projections before hopping in a BBMV draft.

🚢Best Ball vs. Managed & A High Stakes Preview. The Ship Chasing crew talk about the shifts they are thinking through as they gear up for some of their high stakes managed leagues.

💪The Swolecast Drafts A BBMV Team. The one where I forgot to join the draft and bullied Davis on a shared team instead.

⏰Predicting Training Camp ADP Risers. This week on Off & On The Clock, we catch up on the Brandon Aiyuk and Jordan Addison news and share their predictions for the biggest ADP risers from training camp.

📈Late-Round QB Targets w/ JJ Zachariason (ADP Chasing). Kerrane, Davis, and Sam are joined by JJ to discuss his beef with David Kitchen, the latest risers and fallers on Underdog Fantasy, the Jordan Addison news, his highest exposure players, and the top late-round QB options in 2024 drafts.

⛰️Book #12 for June (80%): Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

Much of the first part of this book felt like a slog. I really enjoy the first-person descriptions about his team’s ascent up Everest, but a lot of the history of mountaineering stuff and backgrounds on ancillary characters felt tiresome. There are so many players in the periphery that Krakauer gives multiple pages to in a way that prevents it from being a page turner.

That said, once he gets into the scary events surrounding their summit attempt, things really pick up.

The most interesting dynamic with the book is almost fully encompassed by this paragraph:

🤠Book #13 for June (Haven’t Started): True Grit by Charles Portis

✅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

In addition to the World’s Fastest Slow Draft stream this afternoon, we have an After Dark this evening…

🥃Best Ball After Dark w/ Michael Chiang (Fri)

Data whiz Michael Chiang joins me on Best Ball After Dark to discuss his Weekly Winners research and do a WW draft. Become a YT member to watch live (top 2 tiers).

There’s been a lack of “On My Radar” reccs this past month because of chaos with my schedule and very little time to consume other content, but we’re finally almost done with S3 of The Bear.

I understand it not living up to the sky-high expectations after the first two seasons (and some of the cameo porn has been over the top; we did not need John Cena), but I’ve enjoyed the vignette-style episodes.

It’s a lot of pressure to keep the plot thrust going in a captivating way, so just getting to spend some more time with these characters has been enjoyable for me.

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