Welcome to Thunder No. What is up? It's up. It's the rant. My name is Jeff Rachalvin. It is Wednesday, June

24th. And we have a big show plan for you today. I'm going to talk about a mock draft that I was in last night where I used the very things I talked about on this podcast the last two days. And really the goal here is to pull the curtain back. You know, I always want to, you know, really give you a sense of what am I thinking about when I go into these drafts and what am I thinking about when I make my picks, etc.

Ultimately, you know, hey, you can use it or maybe not, but I think that that was always the big mystery for me back in the day.

I remember before I was in the industry like back in like 2005, 2006 when I was

starting to get very into fantasy football. I mean I've been playing since the late

90s but that was when I really

got the bug. But I really didn't know what anybody else was doing in terms of drafting.

Like this is like the very very beginnings of the industry starting to take off too by the way because that was

it was right around when Matthew Barry went to ESPN and I'll say this till you know till the day I

die if it wasn't for Matthew Barry, there would be none of us there.

You know, none of us doing this in the fantasy industry, he helped pave the way,

but it was still in its infancy then.

And you really didn't know what the heck anybody else was doing I mean yes

so we're like deep message board posts about draft strategy but for the most part you

know you may even still be in that position like what are other people doing when it comes to drafts?

So that's just the thought process here, you know, to expose you to what I'm thinking during

the course of a draft.

And in this case, yeah, it's against against industry folks so it's going to be a little bit different than your home leagues but generally speaking

the industry itself does shape the home league drafts now you're always going to have one or two maybe wild cards in your

home league drafts and you know who those guys are, but for the most part, you know, especially when you're talking

the first five rounds or so of drafts. I mean, they are so heavily slanted towards what the

industry says. It isn't even funny. So anyway the draft just a

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