Rest Of Season Top-150 Special: Preparing For The Fantasy Playoffs (Episode 939 with Adam Levitan, Mark Dankenbring, John Daigle, Jack Miller)

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🗓️ 19 November 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Fantasy trade deadlines have come and gone. Now is the time to start optimizing for the playoffs.

Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

Handcuffing strategy
How to use your bench
QB, D/ST streamers
Listener Questions
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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to a special preparing for the playoffs edition of the rest of season
0:18.9	Ranking Show.
0:20.3	My name is Adam Levittan.
0:21.3	Today we are gathered to discuss optimizing your roster for weeks 15 through 17,
0:27.4	a.k.a. the fantasy football playoffs, aka the greatest time to be alive.
0:32.3	Be sure to stay tuned to the end of this show.
0:34.4	We will cover your listener questions and submit our one move to make.
0:39.3	For this exercise today, I'm joined by three young men you know and love. Mark Duncanbring,
0:44.8	how's it going today? It's good, Adam. Bitter sweet week here. That was, it'll be our final
0:49.6	rest of season top 150 rankings set, which is, you know, labor of love. We spend a lot of time on it throughout the season, but it also helps us prepare weekend and week out. I know to hone in our player take. So I'll enjoy having some more free time, but we'll miss being a little bit more dialed in each week doing these rankings. For sure, John Daigle, welcome. How's it going? Ready for one last ride with everyone. Indeed. Jack Miller,
1:13.1	how's it going? It's going all right. It's a sad day with it being the last show and everything.
1:18.1	But congrats to everyone who this show still pertains to and excited to break down how to prepare for the playoffs.
1:24.5	Yes. So just to be clear, this will be the last of these shows for the season.
1:29.0	Really appreciate everyone who has followed along and listened to this show or watch
1:33.4	this show all season long.
1:35.2	Special shout out to Mark and Jack and Daigle for putting an incredible amount of time
1:39.6	into crafting our rest of season rankings each week with a lot of feedback from other
1:43.9	people, especially want to shout out Herzig, who week with a lot of feedback from other people,
1:44.3	especially want to shout out Herzig, who's given a ton of really good feedback on these
1:48.8	rest of season rankings all season.
1:52.9	But yes, last show here as it is trade deadline time in season long leagues.
2:00.6	Quick note here, if you have not yet tried our NFL in-season product, I have good news.
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