Welcome into episode two of Fantasy Football today, DFS GPP Strategy.

Let's get weird.

Today is Thursday, August 12, Frank Stamphle joined by Mike McClure and Cianajad. How are we doing, Sia? Before we started, you had a bit of a take on Carson Wenz being ready for week one of the regular season. Would you like to share? Well, first of all, I love how you started the show with Let's Get Weird because honestly, in the GPP context, you kind of have to do that, especially in the bigger tournament. So I thought that was a brilliant start. But yeah, you know, there's news. We're going to hear news trickling out every day. Some injuries, some, you know, progressing from injuries. And we heard, of course, that Carson Wentz is trending towards playing in week one. I find that extremely hard to believe. I don't expect him to play week one or maybe not even week two or week three. But I guess it's good news. It means maybe he's on the shorter side of the timeline. To me, though, when it comes to foot injuries, especially at the quarterback position, you're going to want to be extra cautious. So I'm not buying that news. Yeah, we do have preseason week one starting up this

weekend. So we'll get a good look at Jacob Easton and Sam Ellinger, who could potentially be starting

in week one of the actual season for the Indianapolis Colts. What's going on, Mike? How is Big Chief doing?

I haven't actually met Big Chief yet. Big Chief is hanging out here on the floor. We're going to keep the AirPods in as it's a lot easier to run the show with Chief off of me here. So he might come at some point, but he's doing really well. I will chime in on the Carson Wentz News as well. While I think it's possible that he could play, I don't see any reason for them to take that risk. You got the added game for the season anyway. I think it makes a ton of sense to let it get healed properly, but we will see what they decide to do. Yeah, I know. They got a new coach, not a new coach, rather, but they do want to hit the ground running, obviously, with a new quarterback. And same thing with Quentin Nelson, who they're hoping to be back. We got that report.

They have similar injuries and trying to be back for week one. Obviously, it affects a lot of people

on the offense. Jonathan Taylor, someone being drafted in season long leagues in round one. So obviously,

a lot of players being affected by these injuries early on. Today on the pod, we're going to focus on GPP tournament strategy, and my goal for

this will be to weave together a web of concepts, because it seems like things are very

intertwined when it comes to GPP, when you consider ownership, being contrarian, and creating

leverage.

All of those things kind of work together, and we'll talk about all of it. We'll have some news and notes to help you for preseason week one DFS if you're into that kind of thing. But let's jump right in and start off yesterday. I mean, rather, well, we're recording this on Wednesday for just being completely honest. But in our first episode, we spoke a lot about cash game strategy. GPPs and tournaments. If you've heard it before, you might be confused. Are they the same thing? Yes, they're the same thing. GPPs and tournaments are the same thing. When you go to draft kings and you look at the side, there'll be a little tab where you can click tournaments. Those are GPPs, which are referred to as guaranteed prize pools. And these are games where 20% of the

lineups or less get paid out, whereas that number is around 50% for cash games. So higher risk,

higher reward when it comes to GPPs. The prize you win is based on where you finish in the

standings. You finish first in the millie maker. You win $ million dollars. Not actually one million because there's going to be a lot of

taxes taken out, but the gist of GPPs or tournaments are that you want to score more points

from players that are at lower ownership. The more you can differentiate yourself from the field,

the better chance you have to move up the standings.

Is that a fair analysis, a fair definition of GPPs?

Yeah, I think it's a fair definition of it.

I mean, I think we could start even by going a little further and just basically breaking down

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