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Yahoo Fantasy Forecast

Peeling back the curtain on how the Yahoo Fantasy Football game operates

Yahoo Fantasy Forecast

Yahoo Sports

Football, Nfl, Sports News, News, Fantasy Football, Fantasy Sports, Sports

4.7737 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

For all of the talk on this podcast of strategy, pickups, injuries, trades, league disputes and more— we rarely touch on the one topic without which none of this would be possible: the Yahoo Fantasy platform.Scott Pianowski is joined by a special guest on this Friday edition of the Fantasy Forecast: Joe Nazzaro, Principal Product Manager at Yahoo Fantasy. They run through all of the changes coming to the fantasy product this season and provide a glimpse of how the Yahoo product team keeps the game running every season and every Sunday for our users in the fall.From how the new 17-game schedule works, to Draft Together, to all of the exciting new features being rolled out in our Yahoo Fantasy Plus tier (which is a must-buy for every fantasy nerd), Joe and Scott have you covered with everything to expect while playing fantasy football on Yahoo in 2021.Stay up to date with the latest fantasy football news and coverage from Yahoo Sports on Twitter @YahooFantasyFollow Scott @Scott_PianowskiFollow Andy @AndyBehrensFollow Dalton @DaltonDelDonFollow Liz @LizLoza_FFFollow Matt @MattHarmon_BYBCheck out the rest of the Yahoo Sports podcast family at https://apple.co/2Abi8jk or at yahoosports.com/podcasts See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0

Welcome, everyone. Welcome to the Yahoo Fantasy Football Forecast. It is Thursday, August 5th, and I'm Scott Pianowski, one of your rotating hosts. And today we have a very special edition. It's going to be a little bit different. It's going to be our behind the curtain edition where we're going to give you an idea of what happens, how the sausage is made at at Yahoo Fantasy and some of the changes we have coming, some of the new products we're offering,

0:25.9

and the NFL has made changes with their schedule, all this stuff. We're going to give you a hint,

0:30.7

peek behind the curtain and just how things are made, how things are done. And to do that,

0:34.6

we have my friend, Joan Nazaro, who's the principal product manager at Yahoo! Fantasy, been with Yahoo for a while. And to do that, we have my friend, Joan Nizaro, who's the principal product manager at Yahoo!

0:39.2

Fantasy, been with Yahoo for a while, and it was all about this stuff. We're going to pick his

0:45.1

brain on stuff. I may even, because we're both from New England. Maybe at the end, we'll even talk

0:48.5

a little Patriots. But if you don't want to listen to that, you can certainly cut that out. Mr. Nizarro, my friend, how you doing today?

0:55.7

I'm great. Great. Thanks for having me, Scott. This is exciting for a product manager like myself

1:01.7

to talk to a fantasy expert like you. This should be fun. You know, I got excited when we first got on

1:07.6

together and talking with the producers backstage. And I saw you were rocking

1:10.9

the breaking the All-Juse Team shirt that is our homage to Therz Pailer, who we lost

1:18.2

recently. And he was a great NFL writer and had footprints all over the NFL. I mean,

1:23.4

he made an impact with journalists. He made an impact with players. And if you've seen this All Juice team, which is, again, it's an homage to Therese, and you want to rock this shirt like Joe Nazaro is, they even have hoodies.

1:35.2

You can go to breakingtie.com slash Therese that raises money for the Therz Pailer scholarship at Howard University.

1:42.5

I was in a fantasy league with Teres.

1:44.6

It was a league that Charles Robinson runs.

1:46.5

We've actually changed the name of the league now to reflect that we, you know,

1:50.3

Therese has gone and then he's still in our thoughts.

1:52.3

So I just just want to start with that, that, you know, we miss you, man.

1:55.6

We know you'd be as Jack for the NFL season as we are.

1:58.3

And if nothing else, we can keep your legacy alive by giving to that scholarship fund

2:02.5

and wearing some cool clothing and props to Joe for passing that,

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