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Two Drafts in the Rookies and Sophomores Tournament - Stealing Bananas

Rotoviz Radio

Blue Wire

Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.8770 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Shawn take their QB tactics from last week's show and try to build a couple of unique rosters in the Underdog best ball tournament. Subscribe to the RotoViz YouTube Channel here! HOSTS Ben Gretch (@Yardspergretch) - Creator of Stealing Signals Shawn Siegele (@FF_Contrarian) – RotoViz Co-Owner Stealing Bananas is powered by RotoViz Radio. SPONSORS RotoViz - RotoViz Radio listeners can save 10% off of a 1-year RotoViz subscription at RotoViz.com/podcast  or by applying the discount code 'rvradio2022' at checkout. Underdog Fantasy - Sign up via this link or use Promo Code ROTOVIZ at Underdogfantasy.com and get a 100% deposit match on their first deposit up to $100. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Drafting a couple of teams in the rookies and sophomores format on Underdog.

0:15.5

That's what we're going to be doing today on stealing bananas.

0:18.4

I'm Ben Gretchen.

0:19.0

You can find my newsletter at Ben Gretchen.

0:20.2

.substack.com with me. As always, is Sean Siegel. We'm Ben Gretchen. You can find my newsletter at Ben Gretchen.com with me.

0:21.6

As always, is Sean Siegel.

0:22.9

We talked last week, Sean about, oh, yeah, you can find all of Sean's work at

0:27.6

rhodo if you didn't already know that from every other intro.

0:29.9

We talked last week, Sean, about the rookie quarterbacks and how they were undervalued in all formats.

0:38.9

And this seemed like a really fun contest for people who don't know there's 12 rounds.

0:44.2

It's only a four person draft.

0:45.5

All you can draft are rookies and sophomores.

0:48.2

And so there is definitely some added constraints in this format where there's not a ton of strong

0:56.0

quarterbacks first of all obviously the 2021 quarterback class not fantastic but the second year

1:01.9

quarterbacks do tend to go a lot higher than the rookie quarterbacks and then as far as the

1:07.2

starting lineup goes you start one quarterback one back, two receivers slash tight ends.

1:12.4

You don't have a dedicated tight end spot and one flex.

1:14.5

And then you have seven bench spots to make the 12 total spots.

1:18.1

It's a really fun format, quick drafts.

1:19.8

We're going to do two of them on the show.

1:23.2

And Underdog is a half point PPR format as well.

1:26.8

But Sean, we wanted to do this primarily to see how strong essentially we could build our running back in receiver groups while trying to wait on the rookie QBs.

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