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Hello, everybody.

Welcome into the Fantasy Pros Football Podcast.

I'm Ryan Warmly, joined as I am every Thursday by Pat Fitzmorest and by Jake Sealy from The Athletic.

We are into the fantasy playoffs, guys.

We have made it just three weeks left for pretty much every league out there.

We are here into the first round of the postseason.

Quick reminder, just for everybody, all of our 2025 consensus rankings and tiers can be found at fantasypros.com slash rankings fits.

How is your, I hate to use the word portfolio, but your portfolio looking throughout this year, how many leagues were you in that

you made the playoffs in? How many buys did you get? What's your kind of overall landscape

looking like going into the playoffs here? Yeah. So I have what I consider to be five home

leagues. And I was a perfect five for five in those and have four buys in the home league.

So that was really good.

And then in the analyst leagues, it's more of a mixed, more of a representative, uh,

sample where I've made the playoffs and probably what, 40 to 50 percent.

And, um, yeah, I'm playing in a number, an annoying number of consolation brackets.

The leagues where you don't make it, like, it seems like I'm in way too many leagues that

have consolation brackets, and I think they're completely stupid. How do you guys feel about them?

Very anti. I, I, it's just, it's a relic from a time when people had typically one fantasy team and like,

oh, we got to make sure people get their, get their fill and play 16 or 17 weeks. Like,

I don't care, man. Maybe like 10% of my teams that don't make the playoffs, like I want to keep

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