Drafting Upside vs. Drafting Floor ... Which is Better? (07/21 Fantasy Football Podcast)
Fantasy Football Today
CBS Sports
4.6 • 8.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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We talk about drafting upside often, but sometimes the floor plays make more sense. Do we have an overall floor vs. upside strategy in drafts (1:30)? Today we put those strategies to the test by comparing floor and upside picks at various spots in the draft. Also we've got a news item about T.Y. Hilton (6:00) ... Let the draft begin (10:00)! Dave has the third pick. Jamey picks fifth. Ben picks ninth and Adam has pick #12. We're drafting six rounds and filling out a starting lineup. During each round we'll say who the floor pick is who the upside pick is as we gradually build rosters. And while we draft we debate: Is Travis Kelce a floor pick or an upside pick? What about Patrick Mahomes? Which strategy lends itself to waiting on RB? ... We reveal our final rosters and pick which teams we prefer (51:00)! Ben somehow puts together a ridiculously awesome upside team with the ninth pick in the draft ... Your emails at fantasyfootball@cbsi.com
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| 0:57.3 | Welcome to fantasy football today on this Tuesday. We're recording this fairly early actually |
| 1:01.6 | on Monday 12, 30 PM Eastern. So there might be some news that we missed that we don't get to. |
| 1:06.4 | We will get to on Wednesday show. I'm Adam Azer with Dave Richard and Jamie Eisenberg and it's |
| 1:10.7 | the second show of the week. It's Ben Gretchtime. What's up Ben? |
| 1:16.0 | Not much are we doing? I'm good. I'm doing well. I just had a left over chicken case idea. |
| 1:24.0 | My favorite Mexican restaurant was oh, home run. |
| 1:28.1 | I'm in a good mood. You said you said you were late because of baby stuff but really |
| 1:31.4 | you know I was like at a 45 minutes ago I had a lunch. The baby stuff yeah that was bad but the food |
| 1:36.0 | was great. I was telling Ben that you could be baby stuff as an excuse for anything. |
| 1:42.1 | Like you don't want to hang out with your friends. You know I'd be there but baby stuff and then you |
| 1:47.9 | you know go surf the internet for two hours at home and I would love to hang out with my friends. |
| 1:53.7 | Ben it's been way too long. Way too long. Jamie's here as well. Hey Jamie. |
| 1:59.3 | What's going on? All right. Do you have a floor versus upside strategy? Do you just let it play out? |
| 2:07.4 | You know Jamie is there such a thing for you? I will always look for upside whenever it's presented |
| 2:15.6 | to me. I think that's the way you win in fantasy. So I think you always want to shoot for the player |
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