👑 The Sharpest Community In Fantasy

In this week's P.O. Box:

I don’t brag about the Deposit Kingdom community enough.

I was reminded of this on Sunday night after noticing that a member from the Kingdom had won a ticket to Underdog’s live final in Miami ($10k value) for the third straight week:

• WEEK 1: COPPERPRICES

• WEEK 2: NEZ

• WEEK 3: GMEHOLDER & COPPERPRICES (X2!)

I then noticed that Lemmings, another Deposit Kingdom/Ship Chasing OG, was sitting in first place of the FFPC Main Event (with a beautiful Zero RB team, naturally).

At that moment it dawned on me that I need to do a better job gassing up our crew more because all they do is crush.

The Deposit Kingdom Discord isn’t a typical server. We aren’t affiliated with any specific site. We don’t sell picks or projections. We don’t post screenshots of our Ws in hopes of getting people to sub to our paid offerings.

Sure, we do have a few premium, gated channels, but for the most part it’s just a collection of ~3500 smart individuals who congregate to talk about fantasy sports, crypto, and everything else under the sports speculation sun.

And not that there is any Discord battle or dick-measuring contest to actually settle this, but if there were, I’d take our squad—pound-for-pound—vs. any other fantasy community out there.

Deposit Kingdom explainer: This post needs a refresh, but will still give you a good overview of the server. And here’s where the original reference came from (s/o Cashout King).

It’s not just the fact that members in the DK are constantly littering the leaderboards in fantasy contests across virtually every site, it’s the quality of the people and the amount of knowledge and insight that is regularly shared for free.

And some of it is so valuable that it’s legitimately absurd that it isn’t behind a paywall:

• Chad Maschke’s Underdog draft data (that is pinned weekly in the #badge-bros channel) is an invaluable resource for anyone trying to leverage field tendencies in Battle Royale contests

• EZ, the actual king of the Deposit Kingdom, is a spreadsheet-generating machine who could legitimately start a one-man tout site and charge $69/month to hundreds of users if he felt like it. His correlation sheet for drafting was one of the more inventive things I’d seen in the best ball space.

• JonBoyBeats is constantly churning out high-quality data and fun resources for fantasy players.

What’s crazy is this is just the tip of the iceberg. It would literally take me days to compile a comprehensive list of all of the shared resources, wins and big scores from the Deposit Kingdom community over the years.

And this is all before mentioning the Club NGMI crew who collectively smashed and grabbed the NFT boom for a sum of ETH that would rival the GDP of some small nations.

I could go on and on—and I’m already feeling guilty about not spotlighting more members doing dope things (s/o to all of our bouncers/mods btw; Dangy, Lou, Willis, Phil, Clay, Cyler)—but you get the gist of it by now…

The Deposit Kingdom, as Pete Manzinelli would say, is a great commuuuuuuuuuunity.

P.S. There are still some spots in the Week 4 rake-free $10 single entry contest on DraftKings that is posted in the #announcements channel.

💎 Hidden Gems for Week 4. Wrote up 2 QBs outside the Top 6, 2 rookie WRs, and a forgotten RB to scroll down for in Underdog contests this week.

☕️ 2 Rookie Cheat Codes - DFS/Best Ball Pourtfolio Review. We bricked on DraftKings in Week 3 because we didn't have any Dolphins, but our blessed best ball bags got a huge boost from Raheem Mostert and Devon Achane.

🏆️ Fantasy Life roundup. Recapped a wild week 3 and the Dolphins going nuclear, pondered if the Jets can be fixed, and got amped on the Colts this weekend.

🧠 State Of The DFS Sims & The 10 Nice Guys In DFS. We follow up on Awesemo's comment about Nerdytenor ruining DFS, give a current state of the sims address, analyze the Top 10 All-Time DFS Nice Guy Rankings, and hit on the news that Florida is trying to shut down DFS.

💪 Swolecast: Draftkings Week 4 picks (& A Dawg Bowl Draft). We made Tuttle suffer through an in-season draft.

🚢 #ShipCast: Gibbs Heartbreak, TE Types & Trash Talk w/ ChessLiam. The crew sweat the TNF game between the Lions and Packers, debate Sam Laporta's rest-of-season value, analyze the overreaction phenomenon in fantasy, welcome ChessLiam on the show to talk trash about their high stakes matchup, talk with Steph about Week 4 waiver and the SC high stakes portfolio, tilt some maddening Jahmyr Gibbs pick 'em entries, and try to bucket every TE into either a "Golden Retriever" or "Frat Boy" bucket.

📈 How To Value Dolphins, A New Elite TE & Week 4 Risers. Drico & Sack break down all of the important usage trends from Week 3 and help you make the best decisions on the waiver wire for Week 4. Topics discussed: Concern levels for Sam Howell and Trevor Lawrence, surprise workhorse RB roles, Achane vs. Gibbs, the Breece Hall conundrum, TE values in Resurrection drafts, WRs not paying off their ADP, and praying for JSN.

📊 Ship Chasing High Stakes Team Reviews & Week 4 Waiver Roundup. Steph recaps our high stakes teams, including one sitting Top 10 in the Main Event.

We got 4 shows on tap before the Week 4 main slate kicks off…

🧩 Block Party: Week 4 DFS Plays & GPP Strat w/ JMToWin

⏱️ Off & On The Clock: Week 4 Draft Party w/ Badge Bros

🥃 DFS After Dark: Interview & DFS Build w/ Sammy Reid

🤓 Week 4 DFS Cram: Top GPP Plays & Hidden Gems

🎉 Fantasy Life Newsletter hits 400k subs. I won’t rest until Taylor Swift and Donna Kelce are subs.

🙏 Supporting Tas Melas. The Basketball Jones hosted by Skeets and Tas was the first podcast I ever regularly listened to. Awful news about Tas, who is a great dude. Hoping for a speedy recovery.

👻 The Resurrection is live. Underdog’s mid-season best ball tournament is live. I’m going to hop in a few over the weekend and write up some strategy for Fantasy Life next week.

Speaking of Underdog, they have a couple cool promos going right now…

• 💰️ $500 deposit match. If you are a first time depositor, they’ve raised the deposit match from $100 to $500. It’s the biggest deposit offer I’ve seen from them yet, so if you want to dabble fire up promo code ‘Pete’.

• 🌴 Dawg Bowl promo (4 drafts = free $50). If you want to chase the Deposit Kingdom to Miami, Rudman dropped a promo in the server yesterday: “This week, for every 4 Dawg Bowl drafts you do, we will give you $50 in Bonus Cash the following Monday. If you do 8, you get $100, if you do 12 you get $150, there is no cap. You don't have to opt in or anything, if you've already done you'll get the bonus too.”

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