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It is week 15. It is Friday, December 18th. We already have one game in the books. We've got two more games on Saturday. We've got a full slate of Sunday. We've got a Monday night game that, you know, you maybe are interested in if you play DFS or gambling

with the Steelers 12 and a half point favorites against the Bengals. But we're here to talk you through

it all on this episode. I'm Michael Bellar, joined as always by Derek Van Riper. DVR, week 15, man.

We are almost at the end of the regular season. How you doing? Doing really well. And as we will talk about throughout this episode, it's like bizarre a week compared to things we would have thought just a few weeks ago. I mean, I think that's one of my favorite things about DFS in general, though, is that things can change so quickly. And for players that you didn't get in your season-long leagues, whether you missed out on

draft or auction day, or you didn't get to pick them up off the waiver wire, there's

always an opportunity to use those players later.

The pool is just so much larger, and that's what makes it so fun.

Exactly, man.

And we have a pool that has gotten,

as you said, strangely deeper, both because of it being this part of the season and because of

who we are talking about and the way we were talking about some of these players just a few weeks

ago. I want to start this off a little bit differently than what we've typically done this

season.

I just went across all the positions and looked at the most expensive players.

Because no matter what position the most expensive guys play, you can't have more than two.

You can maybe find a way to get two of them in.

But two is going to be the max.

And even if you get two, you're going to be scrounging at other positions.

So the guys who I selected were Patrick Mahomes, and even if you get to, you're going to be scrounging at other positions.

So the guys who I selected were Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson, Russell Wilson at quarterback, Derek Henry, Delvin Cook at running back, Tyree Kill, D.K. Metcalf at receiver, and then Travis Kelsey at tight end. If you're going to build a lineup around one of those guys, who's it going to be this week? I think Travis Kelsey is the one that I like the most, believe it or not. And I think it's just because you're always getting leverage on the field at the position.

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