drinkfive Podcasts: Fantasy Football, Restrospectical & TV Soup
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12/09/14, Week 15 - In Which Jonas Gray Has Disappeared
Welcome to another installment of the drinkfive Podcast. We’re knee deep in fantasy football playoffs, which is just fine with us! We broke down some of the fun stuff from week 14 before diving into our weekly segment, the trends. As always, we started it by drinking for the trends that we didn’t predict correctly last week. We also looked more into the trends themselves and what we should really be getting out of them.
For Week 15, we said that Matt Ryan will continue his upward trend and reach or exceed his line of 21 points against the Steelers. We looked a Demaryius Thomas and the Broncos and set his line at 14. Dave said he’d stick with the trend and go under, I said he’d break it and go over 14. Malcolm Floyd has been talked about a bunch lately and is trending up. Dave said he’d continue that and score over 8.5, I said he’d struggle and go under. Joquie Bell’s line was set at only 12 points and both of us went over for his matchup this week against the Vikings. Shane Vereen has been struggling and we both said that he would stay under 8 points against the Dolphins. Finally, we looked at Denard Robinson’s downward trend. This is now irrelevant as he’s on the IR. Drink five anyways!
To wrap up the show, we discussed waiver pickups for this week. Coming in the following weeks, we will gather all of the trend data, finish looking at where the top 10 ADP/finishing RB’s and WR’s are and have more guests!
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12/02/14, Into the Breach! Week 14, Playoffs
This week we had several beers to choose from, starting with the common but good Sam Adams Boston Lager. I had a 2014 Celebration IPA from Sierra Nevada, a wet hopped IPA that is very good. We also split a bomber of the Stone Brewing Double Bastard, an 11% beast. We started off the show with waiver wire discussion, ranging from Johnny Football to Steadman Bailey and Jordan Reed.
We went over our trends for week 12 and drank for the trends we did not get and, ostensibly, you drank for the ones we got right. Going forward, we actually look back because Dave doubled down on a trend from last week. He insists that Tim Wright will have over 6.1 points this week and if he's right, I'll drink 10 and if he's wrong, he'll drink 20. For Week 14, we both say that Flacco will go under 14 points and Mike Evans stays under 11 points. We split on DeSean Jackson, Dave going under 12 points and Jason over 12. Jeremy Hill has been trending down and both of us say he'll go over 12 points, staying in the mix with Giovani Bernard.
Rashad Jennings has been trending up and both of us say he'll stay over 12 points. Jason Witten has been trending down, but both of us agree that he'll bounce back with an easy matchup against the Bears. Finally, we bet a six pack on the outcome of the Steelers/Bengals game. Dave, of course, has the Steelers and Jason has the Bengals.
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And here's a bonus: We're trying out a new podcast streaming option and did an hour of bonus content. It's not really about fantasy football, but it was pretty fun!
12/03/14, Bonus After Hour Episode
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11/26/14, Trends and Top Tens in Week 13
This week we had a big show, jam packed with good info. To start off, we changed it up and drank wine. No, no, that would never happen on this show. We did start right off with this weeks' waiver pickups. We then drank for last week's trends and predicted some new ones.
Ryan Tannehill has been trending up and Dave and I both think that he will score over 20 points this week. John Brown now has the official drinkfive.com fantasy fool's gold stamp - both of us think he will stay under 8 points. LeSean McCoy is heading up, we both say he'll score over 12 points. Dave added a bet for next week's beers - McCoy points for Jason vs Jordan Matthews points for Dave. Good luck buddy! Next is Frank Gore who has really been struggling. Dave and I both say that he'll score under 8.5 points. Dave went a step further saying that he'll never score over 12 points in his life again. Finally, Tim Wright is the biggest pickup of the week for Tight Ends, according to Yahoo stats. We both think he's fool's gold, Dave predicts, rather specifically, that he will be between 6.1 and 8 points, and I am going to go under 6.1.
To wrap up the show, we did the third quarter check in on the top 10 WR's and RB's. We compare them to their ADP, and then look at where the top 10 ADP wound up. After week 4 and 8, it looked like the WR's were a better value at the top of the draft. This time around, the RB's look way more consistent. Listen to the show for our take on this and check back after week 16 to get a final report card.
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11/18/14, Approaching the Playoffs, Fantasy Trends
This week on the show, we enjoyed some fine scotch. Glenlivet 12 year to be exact, and a fine scotch it is. We started right into grading last week's trend predictions. Dave and I assigned plenty of drinks to the audience, and we drank a few for ourselves as well. On to this week's predictions:
Matt Stafford has been trending down, Dave and I split on him with Dave saying he'll go over 18 and I say he'll go under. Golden Tate's trend has mirrored Stafford's in many ways, and we've split on this player just like before. Dave says Tate will go over 11 and I say he'll stay under 11 points. Torrey Smith is the first player we agree on, both of us saying he'll go over 10 points. Andre Ellington was another split, Dave betting on the TD and going over 11, while I stay under 11 points. Mark Ingram we agreed on, both of us saying he'll stay under 14 points. Martellus Bennett is another guy who we think will continue his down trend, staying under 7 points.
You can check out our article breaking down all of the trends, and be sure to check in next week before the show to see the results. Finally this week, we talked about waiver wire pickups and answered some questions from the peanut gallery. Please keep the questions coming!
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11/11/14, Trending! Julio Jones, Le'Veon Bell, DeAndre Hopkins and more..
Tonight on the show, we were joined by our rookie expert Shawn Foss. Shawn has joined us on and off this year, and his input is always valued. We enjoyed a bomber of the Abita Select Imperator Black IPA, Revolution Fistmas and Continuum IPA from Saugatuck Brewing Company, all of them excellent.
We continued to track trends and drank for last week's misses while assigning Shawn to drink for the audience. This week we have Cam Newton scoring over 13.34 points and continuing his upward trend. Julio Jones will easily score 12 or more against the Panthers. DeAndre Hopkins we split on, Dave and Jason saying he'll go less than 10, Shawn says he'll be over 10. Le'Veon Bell has been trending down - Dave and Shawn say that he'll go over 12 points (Shawn says he'll get that with yardage alone), I say he'll stay under 12 points. Finally, Ahmad Bradshaw has been trending down, to everyone's surprise - but everyone also agrees that he will reverse the trend and score over 12 points this week.
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11/04/14, In which Mark Sanchez is a relevant fantasy player
This week we started off the show with a few beers and toasted Ben Roethlisberger's new record of 12 TD's in just two games. Jeremy Hill and Mark Sanchez were also topics, as were Terrance West, the Miami Dolphins and Arizona Cardinals, all big winners in week 9. Now let's move on to the trends.
We drank for the trends we predicted last week and picked a few new ones for next week. For week 10, we've got: Russell Wilson will score over 18 and resume his proper fantasy output, we both agree. Emmanuel Sanders will continue to do well, 15 pts or more. Kelvin Benjamin stays relevant and scores 8 or more points. Alfred Morris will score a solid 14 points or more, we both agree. Branden Oliver will continue his struggles and is basically irrelevant at this point. Zach Ertz is the only player we disagree on, Dave going under 5 points and Jason taking 5 or more.
Because this is the drinkfive podcast, we can't just stop there when it comes to bets. Beers for next week's show will rest upon the performances of Heath Miller for Dave and Zach Ertz for Jason. We've also decided to bet Portillo's with Dave taking the Miami DST and Jason taking the Lions DST. All points are determined via standard scoring.
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10/28/14, It Caaaaammeee from Week 8
This week we had a rather football appropriate beer. We had the excellent Firestone Walker Union Jack IPA. Firestone Walker's logo is a bear and a lion - under the cap it says "Bears, Lions and Beers". We'll have to get this again on Thanksgiving when those teams clash. On to the show - we broke down Big Ben's big performance, Tom Brady's resurgence and Mark Ingram's awesome showing on Sunday night.
Like a good Lannister, we paid our debts from last week and drank for the trends we predicted wrong last week. I hope you all drank for the ones we predicted correctly. This was a fun segment, so we picked a few more to track for next week. They are: Julian Edelman will continue trending down, scoring below 5 pts in standard scoring. We split on Michael Floyd, Dave says he'll continue trending down, I say he'll score over 10 points. Brandon Marshall is another guy we split on, Dave going under 10 points and me going over 10. We also split on Knile Davis, but the other way around this time. Dave says he'll score 8 or more points, while I have him scoring fewer than 9. We'll check out 3 of these next week (Marshall is off this week) and either we drink, or you do!
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10/21/14, Wow.. the Jaguars can win, after all!
Welcome to week 8! We're more than halfway through the fantasy regular season and it's been an awesome ride, as is tradition. We started out the show going over some of the headlines from last week - check out my breakdown of Week 7.
We started a new segment where we will be betting on trends. Each week, we will spot a few trends and decide if the trends will keep going, or if the player will buck the trend. We will bet 5 drinks on each outcome. This week our results are: Denard Robinson - continue trending up; Zac Stacy - Jason says he'll score over 8, Dave says he'll trend down; Jay Cutler - continue trending down, less than 20 pts for sure; Allen Robinson - continues to trend up, around 12 pts again; Justin Hunter - continues to trend down; Travis Kelce - continues to trend down, less than 6 points; New England D/ST - Dave says 10 or more points, Jason says they will score less.
We also fielded questions from the peanut gallery this week to help you with waiver wire and start/sit decisions. To ask questions that we will answer on the show, tweet us @drinkfive, hit us up on our Facebook page, or shoot us an e-mail. Finally, we placed a bet for next week's beers. In Dave's eternal struggle to not have to buy a Zach Ertz jersey, he is betting against him again this week. Dave has Jordan Reed in standard scoring against my Zach Ertz. May the loser buy fine beers and the winner enjoy them mightily.
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10/14/14, Revisiting RB/WR Consistency, Rating the Rookies
Thanks to mother nature, our rookie expert Shawn Foss had a rain out and was able to join us for tonight's show. Tonight we enjoyed beers from Stone, Rogue, 5 Rabbit and St. Bernardus. It's quite a selection, check out the show for details.
Tonight we went over Joe Flacco's excellent game against Tampa, Andre Holmes showing up against the Chargers and Knowshon Moreno winding up on the IR. Then we revisited the top 10 drafted WR's and RB's and where they are at. Once again, we found that the WR position is more consistent at the top of the draft.
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10/07/14, Injuries Strike Again, Week 6 Preview
Week 6 is upon us, and before we break it down, we went back and looked at the weekly leaders from week 5. Manning being Manning, Brees coming back up, some guy named Davis. We also hit up the rushing and receiving leaders.
In between Laphroaig, All Day IPA and Dude a Double IPA, we discussed last week's injuries and waiver wire pickups. Finally, we broke down some of next week's games. Naturally, we made another bet - this week, I'll be taking Green Bay and Dave will take Miami, the loser buying beer next week.
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Fantasy Football Podcast
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