🎡 Randomizer Drafts Make Me Feel Old

In this week's P.O. Box:

The Randomizer drafts returned last night with 4-time guest Ian Hartitz joining me for a fun show, involving a séance to summon Will Fuller back to the league, Week 17 league winner predictions, and a “vegetable” shake…

Lots of things make me feel old these days and kicking off the fourth season of Randomizer drafts is no exception.

If for some reason you aren’t familiar with the show conceit, I wrote up an explainer last year:

I was digging through old tweets yesterday and found the exact origin story to the Randomizer:

The summer of 2019 was a much simpler time. I was itching for some kind of interesting hook for a draft show I was doing on the Rotogrinders Youtube channel.

This was all pre-COVID, back when Underdog was still DRAFT and long before we had things like advance rate and Week 17 correlations to discuss while streaming best ball drafts.

Luckily, Zachary Krueger suggested a random list generator and we were off to the races, initially calling it Draft Roulette (great thumbnail photo of me btw, thanks RG):

Fast forward six months later: DRAFT closes up shop underneath the FanDuel umbrella and COVID forces us indoors. With plenty of time on my hands, I start playing League of Legends DFS and decide to begin regularly streaming Randomizer drafts on Drafters while Underdog prepared its launch:

This is also when we made the huge tech upgrade from RandomList.org to the wheel:

Since then, we’ve done 40+ Randomizer shows, accidentally created a merch box for dogs, got Matthew Berry to take Logan Thomas 1.01, balanced dangerously on some bike toy from a Miami warehouse, made picks blindfolded, sang iconic songs, and drafted some of the worst teams humanly imaginable.

We’ll rip off another 12 or so shows this summer, every Thursday evening at 8pm ET on my channel.

If you’d like to soak up that sweet, sweet EV in these shit show drafts and/or would like priority access for getting your prompts for guests on the wheel, you can become a Youtube member and unlock the #randomizer channel in the Deposit Kingdom discord:

📺 BBM4 Drafts: #30 & #31 Splash Play, #32 w/ Kerrane, #33 w/ Siegele, #34 Swolecast, #35 w/ Ship Chasing crew.

📚 BBM4 plot lines. The bye weeks bros are PISSED at me and Pat and I got my first share of Anthony Richardson (barely).

💡 Best Ball Tips. #21: Can you handcuff your RBs?

💎 The WR gem available late in drafts. He’s way too cheap.

🍹 Best Ball After Dark with Nick Ercolano. These shows I do for YouTube members are quickly becoming my favorite thing to do each week.

At this point they are poorly named. There’s very little best ball talk. It’s more a vehicle for me to catch up with various friends in the fantasy space and talk candidly about behind-the-scenes stuff. Nick had a wild year at his company (BDGE) and shared a bunch of the lessons he learned along the way:

☣️ DFS Drama on LOLz. The Run Pure Sports/Ship It Nation drama continues with Chris Randone leaving Ship It Nation a few weeks into the start of the company. Naturally, LOLz is on the case.

🤓 Take your excel skills to next level. LouDog shares his experiences with the Fantasy Data Pros course.

If you have any reccs, shoot me a message. I should have mentioned on Twitter that I don’t care about fitness tracking elements, I just want a wearable for exercise so I don’t have to be such a boomer…

Alright, see you guys on Monday for Best Ball Breakfast. It’s time for me to go binge I Think You Should Leave S3…

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