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Go Birds!

This Week In Fantasy #1: Fantasy Football is FINALLY Back!!!

Go Birds!

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4.42.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2016

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

James Seltzer gives his takeaways from Week 1 of the Preseason, discusses how to approach fantasy draft season, and more. Plus, fantasy analyst and co-owner of Footballguys.com Sigmund Bloom joins James (as he will every week this season) to give his thoughts on draft dynamics, the importance of the preseason, and much more. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

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0:31.0

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0:52.0

I've waited a long time to be able to say this to you guys. Fantasy Football is finally back and this is this week in Fantasy.

1:02.0

I'm your host, James Celtser. I am a writer over at rotowire.com and of course a host at BGNRadio.

1:11.0

We'll be getting some fantasy experts on this season for you or parts as they're affectionately called, of course.

1:18.0

I think most fantasy quote unquote experts will tell you that there's no such thing as a fantasy expert just being informed and making solid risk assessments.

1:30.0

It's really all that the job entails. A few things I want to look forward to coming up. We are going to get some things going on.

1:37.0

I want you guys to be a part of the show. We're going to have a lot of Twitter interaction with the show. I'm going to get a league started up with listeners and some of the BGNRadio crew.

1:45.0

We'll look for that and we'll get more into specific players, specific battles, some sleepers and buss as it were.

1:53.0

Some day someone's going to come up with a better term than sleepers and buss we have yet to get there.

1:59.0

I will have some of that stuff for you as well and we'll go position by position and break some stuff down.

2:04.0

Look at some of the guys who I think are underrated or overrated and some of those market inefficiencies that we could take advantage of.

2:12.0

I will give you some quick thoughts on the preseason and we'll be joined by Sigmund Blumen just a few minutes.

2:18.0

I was able to catch up with Sigmund right before the preseason began and with Sigmund we're getting some real specific stuff now that we have some action to break down with him this upcoming week.

2:28.0

I was able to pick Sigmund's mind on some of the more general type of stuff in terms of how to approach your draft, in terms of lead dynamics and things like that.

2:37.0

With draft season approaching and everyone getting ready, we're all doing our ranks, we're all looking at players and specific position battles and all that type of stuff.

2:46.0

Sometimes we can forget to really focus on some of the more important stuff as in league size and rules and the best way to approach different types of leagues, whether it be PPR or Sigmund Blumen.

2:57.0

PPR or Standard or a 10 team league versus a 16 team league.

3:02.0

There's a lot of different ways to go about this type of stuff and a lot of different strategies to employ for different types of leagues.

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