🏃 The Run-Stream-Draft Challenge

In this week's P.O. Box:

When I committed to stream all 150 of my Best Ball Mania IV drafts, there were some unintended consequences I didn’t fully think through.

Some were foreseeable, like my rooms being absolute WR Avalanche disasters where I’m forced to take Tyquan Thornton and Curtis Samuel ungodly amounts ahead of ADP:

But one I really didn’t properly think through was the Underdog Cardio Club.

Last year in the spring I got in the lab with Underdog’s Nick Rudman (who coincidentally was my guest on the Randomizer last night) to formalize a club around something that was already starting to happen—people drafting best ball teams while doing cardio.

The first year was a massive success. Hundreds of people successfully joined the club by completing 7 BBM3 drafts while doing cardio during the month of June.

Twitter was littered with the #underdogcardioclub hashtag and people were mixing in all kinds of cardio—stairmaster, peloton, treadmill, and even trail running.

One of the best teams I drafted all last summer was drafted on the stairmaster on May 4th, just days after the contest opened. I’m still salty I couldn’t squeeze this one through to the finals:

Anyways, you see where this is going…Underdog Cardio Club returned for 2023, and even though I’m grandfathered in as a member from last year, I wanted to find a way to get that sweet, sweet 100% rake back perk with the program, which would require me to stream, do cardio, and draft at the same time

Well, I gave it the ‘ol college try on Wednesday’s Swolecast after purchasing a treadmill desk and let’s just say, I don’t think I’m doing 6 more of these:

While I do think that I ended up drafting a nice team all things considered, I ended up running nearly four miles over the course of 52 minutes while my co-hosts took their sweet ass time on the clock. I came dangerously close to destroying my keyboard and mouse with an unrelenting geyser of sweat.

I think there’s really only one way to successfully pull this off and it’s to do what Mike Leone did on Ship Chasing last summer—tap in to the stream from a night run while other people control the draft:

So keep an eye out for Wednesday night’s Ship Chasing, where Mike Leone and I will do a night run while Pat and Ben control the draft from the warm, stationary comfort of their desks…

📺 BBM4 Drafts: #36 & #37 Best Ball Breakfast, #38 ETR, #39 & #40 Splash Play, #41 The Club, #42 w/ Kerrane, #43 w/ Siegele, #44 Swolecast, #45 4or4

📉 The QBs & TEs are dropping, while RB2s are surging. Wrote about Best Ball Mania IV ADP trends on Fantasy Life.

❌ I’M NOT TAKING 4 TIGHT ENDS (OR 5). This TE shit is out of control.

💡 Best Ball Tips. #23: How to win the BBM4 regular season prize & #24: Don’t take a QB in Round 2.

🎡 The Nick Rudman Randomizer. Are olives a fruit or vegetable?

💎 My 3 favorite RB sleepers in draft. The Minnesota guy ain’t going to last long after Dalvin Cook’s release.

🚢 5 Puppy Drafts At Once? With Ronald Jones in the queue on each of them…Ship Chasing went full chaos this week.

☣️ The Next Generation of DFS Sims Is Here. This week on LOLz, we took a break gossip hounding and discussed the interesting new sim product at Stokastic and the PGA/LIV merger.

📺️ Best Ball, Dad Life, Exercise, and In-Person vs. Remote podcasting. Had fun hopping on Pat Mayo’s show earlier this week.

2 Promo Code Pete things for this week…

1) New Best Ball Breakfast merch just dropped. Promo code Pete gets you free shipping on all orders over $50:

2) YouTube members get additional merch discounts, as well as access to the Best Ball After Dark interview series, a gated channel in the Deposit Kingdom Discord server to talk strategy, and ping alerts for when I enter drafts. Made a quick video to outline it all here:

Speaking of Best Ball After Dark, on Saturday night at 9pm ET I’ll be joined by Chris Gee—an Underdog crusher (won the Gauntlet a few years back), a Deposit Kingdom OG, and a Ship Chaser. Join us for some drinks, discussion about best ball and his experiences doing content for the first time, and a BBM4 draft.

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