Hey everybody, welcome to the Roto Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast.

Jeff Erickson here.

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My guest tonight is Vlad Settler.

You know him as the gut,

roto gut at roto gut or as I like to say roto goot for the longest time. But Vlad is a regular here hosting and guesting with us. Thrill to have them on. Thrill to talk some ball. Let's talk some shop.

Vlad, welcome. How are you, my friend? I'm doing great, Jeff. It's always good to see you. Last time we hung out, it was over a, at a brand new Smashburger place. And I think that place has exploded with several more locations since we were last there. That's awesome. Glad to hear. Yeah, we need in. You know, the thing is, we're in the same town, really we didn. We didn't get, we didn't get a Dodger game together this year.

So we got to, we got to rectify that.

That's right. Let's go. All right. Um, you've done a lot more drafts than I have. Um, I'm, I'm, I'm catching up, but it's going to be a while. You are an early, you're one of the early sickos. You've done plenty of gladiators, lots of underdog.

Are you in? What season are you in?

Draft champion season.

Are you starting to do the OCs? Where are you doing right now?

Yeah, it was gladiators for most of the winner until that contest ended at the end of December. I ended up getting in 22 of those. Only a couple of them were actually time draft most of them were

slow and then i'm i'm a little lighter on the on the draft champions just a lot of you know

content family stuff and so um or typically i'd be at like 12 at this point i'm at six so i'm in my

sixth one and it's a four hour draft uh i think it's on the third week and it's like in round 22. But listen, it's part of the game, not complaining. That what I sent up for. And I did just do my first OC. So the 12 team, you know, Road to Wire online championship. And it's a whole different animal with, you know, kind of going for a little bit more of the high upside, trying to get your guys. That was fun and actually made it my, my CLQ. So I'm competing in the CLQ with this first 12 team online championship. Nice. How did the CLQ go for you last year? The CLQ, I'm not very good. I don't think. I had, you know, I don't remember my overall standings. It was not in the bottom third percentile. I think I had a, you know, one of my three teams was massively injury plagued. So I think my, my main came in second. uh, my OC was like fourth.

And then the, the, the draft champions was basically a disaster.

So ended up being middling.

Draft champions for me has always been a struggle.

Um, it, it's been my toughest of the big three formats there.

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