Oh my goodness, good morning, good afternoon, whatever it is for you, I hope you're having a fantastic day.

My name is Zach Schamler, this is Strong Appendix Sports episode 567. Welcome in! Today we are doing something I have never done

ever before in this podcast. I'm wearing a black shirt today. No? No, yeah, I've done that all the time.

I love that.

Black shirt wearing it today, a little more casual episode of the show.

Today we're talking about fantasy football, something I have never, ever done,

never ever participated in before.

There's a first ever fantasy football episode

in the show's history and I am trying

to understand fantasy football.

I've made fun of it a lot in the past. To me when

you watch football stats and numbers, they're not everything. If you need to

see that explained, go watch Kenny Pickett last year during the regular season.

He had a lot of interceptions early on in his career.

They weren't his fault.

Like the interception numbers piled up, I'm sure that's bad for fantasy football,

but the reality is he was still playing well.

And so the best fantasy football players

are not necessarily the best football players.

I'd always hated that dichotomy.

I thought the way that fantasy football

kind of destroys the minds of a

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