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Contrarian Fantasy Picks and Playoff Upsets - Stealing Bananas

Rotoviz Radio

Blue Wire

Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.8 • 770 Ratings

šŸ—“ļø 12 January 2022

ā±ļø 71 minutes

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Summary

Stealing Bananas is powered by RotoViz Radio. STEAL THE SIGNAL Ben and Shawn discuss scenarios in which Kyler Murray, Dak Prescott, or Joe Burrow could be the playoff QB you need, plus give their recommendations for playing RB vs WR. HOSTS Ben Gretch (@Yardspergretch) - Creator of Stealing Signals Shawn SiegeleĀ (@FF_Contrarian) – RotoViz Co-Owner SPONSORS RotoVizĀ - RotoViz Radio listeners can save 10% off of a 1-year RotoViz subscription atĀ RotoViz.com/podcastĀ Ā or by applying the discount code 'rvradio2022' at checkout. SHOW NOTES Email:Ā RotoVizRadio@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Breaking down playoff fantasy football contest. That's what we're going to talk about today.

0:16.0

On stealing bananas, I'm Ben Gretchen. You can find my Twitter at Yards Per Gretsch.

0:23.9

You can find my substack at BenGresh.com.

0:26.4

With me, as always, is Sean Siegel.

0:30.0

You can find all of his work at RotoViz.

0:35.4

And Sean, we're going to definitely be getting into offseason stuff soon.

0:59.2

I know there's a ton of dynasty stuff you want to talk about. We have so much to break down from the season. But this week, it's really fun to look at the playoffs, to break down what we would think might happen. Even for people who aren't playing playoffs fantasy football, we're just going to talk matchups. We're going to talk about the bracket. We're going're going to talk teams high level stuff um there's a lot of different types of playoff fantasy contests for anyone who is considering playing um definitely a fun thing to do it's it's really high variance there's

1:05.2

a lot of game theory and things involved because you have to project how far the teams are going to go

1:08.9

but it's a it's a really fun cap to the season.

1:13.1

I always think fun thing to make the playoffs a little more entertaining.

1:16.8

And so, yeah, we're going to use today's show to kind of talk through the playoffs,

1:21.0

talk through what we think might happen, right?

1:23.2

We are.

1:24.0

And I'm looking forward to this.

1:26.0

It should be kind of crazy. I'm excited to get your

1:29.6

takes on some of these matchups. Many readers and listeners know that Ben also, in addition to stealing

1:36.3

signals, right, some excellent betting content has been very good with that the last couple of years.

1:41.0

And so even if you weren't involved in that, I'd be very excited to get your takes on some of these games, but I know you have a lot of experience in looking through and trying to figure out, you know, what are some exploitable types of opportunities looking at these game lines and what that might mean for us? And just, I'm interested in your contrarian takes for who you just think might be better, might be ready to spring and upset.

2:02.9

So we have, you know, five or six potential hours of content.

2:05.7

We'll see how it kind of boils down to 45 minutes or so here.

2:10.1

That's every one of our shows, Sean.

2:11.9

That's a typical stealing video in this episode where we have to try to pull ourselves away from talking for two hours, three hours, four hours.

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