10 Tips for the Fantasy Football Playoffs

The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Jeff Ratcliffe

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

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🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

The fantasy playoffs are here and the margin for error is razor thin. In this episode Jeff breaks down the key mindset shifts and strategic moves that separate the contenders from the pretenders. It's a focused look at how to tighten up your process, avoid the traps that take good teams down, and give yourself the best chance to keep moving forward. This is your roadmap for staying sharp when everything is on the line.

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0:00.0	What's going on?
0:14.0	What's going on?
0:15.8	It's Tuesday, December 9th.
0:17.2	I'm Jeff.
0:17.7	This is the rant.
0:18.6	It's here.
0:23.2	The fantasy football playoffs, baby.
0:28.3	And as you can see from the title, it's today's show, and I promise this yesterday in the podcast as well,
0:35.0	wanted to break down some tips, just overarching ideas, because in some ways the fantasy playoffs are different. But in other ways, they aren't, right? Obviously, if we don't win this week, we don't continue next week and we can't win a championship. If we don't win that final game, we don't win the championship. We ultimately have to get there. And that's different than week seven. In week seven or we, I don't know why I keep using week seven, week three, whatever, you're going to play the next week regardless of the result so that creates some different scenarios however we can't take that to the end degree and we can't apply every last bit of that like this is not that different we still make start start sit decisions the same way we still go through the process the same way but there are some
1:12.0	things to focus on so i wanted to break down 10 tips for you today for the fantasy postseason on the
1:17.5	podcast so let's dive right into it and these are simple these are very simple yeah i used to use the
1:22.7	the saying like dance with your date you know dance with who you brought to the dance that that old
1:28.5	saying i know i'm butchering it uh there was once uh an idea where people were like start your studs
1:35.4	the fantasy playoffs is no time to get cute but i'm not going to do any of the cliche crap
1:40.6	trust your top players you know you don't have a whole bunch of studs on your
1:46.0	rosters. Nobody does. But you have your top players. You have the guys who consistently produce for you.
1:51.8	And this is the time to trust them. They got you here. So trust them. Don't overthink it this week.
1:59.9	We have an entire regular season of evidence helping us out, and this is when we use it.
2:05.9	You know, don't overthink those start sit decisions.
2:08.4	I actually had somebody earlier asking me about Jacoby Resett saying, I don't know if I can trust this guy.
2:13.1	And it's like, well, what has he done that we can't trust?
2:16.3	He has yet to finish in his starts lower than QB12 every single week, even this week, which
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