Welcome to the Fantasy NBA Today Podcast.

Happy Mock Day, ladies and gentlemen.

September the 23rd, it's a Happy Mock Day, ladies and gentlemen.

September the 23rd, it's another Mock Day here on the pod.

Pretty soon, not the next one, maybe the one after that.

Mock Day will be replaced with real draft results day.

And nothing, I tell you all, nothing is more indicative of how a draft will actually go than how a draft actually went.

As far as mocks go, let me talk to you for a minute about the different kinds once again because and this is why I actually did three

Mocks leading up to today's podcast I wanted to make sure I had all the ammunition I could possibly need for this Friday

Mock Day show. Yesterday, Thursday evening, I did a mock with folks on Twitter, but I think it got

kind of firebombed by randoms.

Because with Yahoo, you can't just, like, you can't just set up your own room, you have to go into a

mock that's like six to ten minutes away. Then you could send the link out and a bunch of you guys did jump into that one, but that one had five auto drafters by the sixth round.

And the short version of that is, yeah, you can take a little bit away from the first three or four rounds,

but effectively you're not learning anything from that draft.

Because a lot of what we're watching for in Mock's now is not necessarily the order of the top 30 or 40 players.

They're basically going in the same order with slight adjustments based on actual, like

legitimately individual fantasy managers at this point.

So you could run a thousand mocks and you can watch every first 40 in those thousand and it'll be a little bit different

and probably almost every single one of them at some point you run out of

combinations but you know you'll hit a couple of repeats overall that first 40

verse 35 whatever you want to call it is pretty damn predictable

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