Welcome, everyone to the score fantasy football podcast.

I'm your host, Justin Boone.

Appreciate your riding along with me today.

And this is an important week because this is a time where we start to get enough data where we can actually make some real decisions about what we're seeing here. And I know you could say it's a small sample size. It's only two games. But when you come off that first week, a lot of crazy things can happen, right? One game can fool you. It could be a great matchup, maybe an injury happens an injury happened something like that but two weeks when you have those two games

that you can kind of compare against each other two different opponents then

you can start to identify some trends and hopefully start moving in the right

direction here if you weren't already this is the time to course correct you

want to get it figured out right now in the first couple weeks of the season and get headed towards the fantasy playoffs at this point. So that's why last year at this time,

I went out of my way to make sure that we had today's guest on around this time of year

because he is just a master at spot in what's real, what's misleading, or as he calls it,

signals and noise. You probably know who I'm talking about. Ben Gretch was so awesome last year. We had to bring him back early this season to see if he could help us figure things out in September here. And after you listen to today's show, you're going to be odd by how knowledgeable Ben is for sure. And then you're going to want to go sign up for his substack, gretch dot substack dot com if you forget that address don't worry you can go find

them on Twitter at yards per grech she's got the link up there as well you can

also hear him on the stealing bananas podcast over at rhodoviz with another super

bright guy Sean Siegel highly recommend listening to that too and you can probably

hear it in my voice I'm just really pumped to have Ben back on with us today so welcome back to

the show man thanks for jumping on again I mean it might have to be an annual thing we were joking

about that before we came on here but either way appreciate you taking the time I mean how's

the early part of the season been for you so far yeah it's been busy um It's always fun to jump on a show and hear people kind of roll out the red carpet. That's far too kind from you, definitely, but at the same time, very well appreciated. And it's always fun when I jump on with someone who is excited to have me on. So we're going to have a good time. I'm excited man. Well, and last time I had John, I think I said this, but I'm a subscriber to your substack.

I love reading stealing signals. Read it every single week. Can't miss it. A ton of valuable information in there. And that's where I want to start today. Because not only do you go over every single game each week, you break it down in full, you also condense them into like short kind of bullet point type sections at the end of each game. And then at the end of the full article, you give the best signals of the week. So what we saw, what we think could continue, and then the biggest noise for things that happen that maybe were a little more fluky or outliers. So what I want to know off the top here is what's the biggest signal that you've seen so far this season?

Only two weeks.

A lot can change, I know, but what would you identify as the biggest signal so far?

I'm going to go with Mike Williams.

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