Mike Clay joins Rufus and Jeff | Sponsored by Splash Sports

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🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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This week on Bet the Process, Jeff and Rufus are joined by Mike Clay, a fantasy football and NFL analyst at ESPN. They chat about Mike’s journey into sports analysis, the advantages of having qualitative data, and give playoff picks. To check out Splash Sports one and done contests for the NFL Playoffs go to splashsports.com

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0:00.0	Riffithers, are you in any playoff fantasy leagues? Probably not. No. Not yet.
0:06.0	Playoff fantasies. Playoff fantasy is really fun. We have a league, but splashports.com, which is our
0:11.7	sponsor, they are an amazing company that's reinventing the way office football pools and office
0:18.4	pools are done, Survivor, all that kind of stuff.
0:22.6	They have a bunch of one and done starting.
0:24.4	They have a bunch of stuff for the playoffs starting.
0:27.5	So if you want to get involved in some playoff fantasy stuff,
0:30.2	you can go to splashports.com and check it out. And we're going to have Mike Clay on from ESPN today
0:33.2	to talk a little bit about that he'll give you some insights into how you might model out the playoffs
0:39.7	and some edges that you might get. And so with that, let's start the process.
0:47.4	Bet, bet, bet, bet, bet the process.
0:55.0	Welcome to the podcast, bet the process.
0:57.0	It's not that typical cookie cutter nonsense.
1:00.0	If you came just for picks, you're in the wrong place.
1:02.0	Find a town with the narrative to make a strong case.
1:05.0	Instead of blindly assuming a team must be tanking, we're looking for the edge and messy P body rankings,
1:10.0	crunching all the numbers in a
1:11.4	simulator system that break down the data analytically driven.
1:15.1	Media coverage. The sports gambling is pathetic.
1:17.6	Welcome to another episode of the Beth to Process podcast.
1:21.1	It is the post-national championship episode where Rufus kind of, I feel like you predicted what was going to happen in that
1:31.2	national championship game. You alluded to maybe this being another TCU, Georgia instance. And,
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