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The Late-Round Fantasy Football Podcast

671: Week 1 Sleepers

The Late-Round Fantasy Football Podcast

iHeartPodcasts

Sports, Football, Fantasy Sports

4.83.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Which players sitting on your waiver wire could you trust in Week 1? Are there any? JJ looks into it on the weekly sleepers show.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Lay-Round Podcast with your host, JJ Zacharyse.

0:12.0

What's up everyone, it's JJ Zacharyse and in this episode 671 of the Late Round Fantasy

0:17.2

Football Podcast sponsored by Fandool.

0:20.8

Thanks for tuning in.

0:22.2

I started doing this sleeper show last year after doing more of a start-sit format for

0:26.6

years.

0:27.6

I think it ended up being the right call.

0:29.2

People seem to get more use out of it at least, because it really could be used for more

0:33.0

than just season-long formats.

0:35.7

The premise of this show is pretty simple.

0:37.8

Each week I look at three buckets.

0:40.2

Players who are rostered in 26-50% of Yahoo Leagues, players who are rostered in 11% to

0:45.4

25% of Yahoo Leagues, and then players who are rostered in 10% or less.

0:51.3

So we go from moderately deep sleepers to super deep sleepers throughout the show.

0:56.4

These players are guys who are hanging out in your waiver wire right now.

0:59.5

Now I want to be clear about something too, since this is the first sleepers episode of

1:02.5

the season.

1:03.5

I'm not saying that you should start these players over proven starters.

1:08.4

If you want weekly rankings for me, you can check them out on Patreon.

1:12.2

Just head to Laytround.com, there's a Patreon link, go there, you can check out those

1:16.1

weekly rankings.

1:18.1

But just because I'm calling someone out as a sleeper doesn't mean I think that you should

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