Fantasy Football Engineering

This week I welcome Chad Parsons from UTHdynasty.com & FootballGuys.com on the pod to discuss dynasty philosophy, strategy, and his approach to waivers, trades, and more. Twitter: @ChadParsonsNFL Follow me on Twitter: @kevinobrienFF and visit my site: apps.theffengineer.com Join me on Patreon!  https://www.patreon.com/theffengineer

This week I welcome Sigmund Bloom from Footballguys.com on the pod to discuss the upcoming drum beat season of training camps, offenses to target, how to approach good players on bad offenses, then get his thoughts on #SFB11. Twitter: @SigmundBloom  Follow me on Twitter: @kevinobrienFF and visit my site: apps.theffengineer.com Join me on Patreon!  https://www.patreon.com/theffengineer

This week I welcome Ryan McDowell on the pod to discuss Productive Struggle framework, Roster Cloggers, and more. @RyanMc23 follow his work on dynastyleaguefootball.com Catch his podcasts; Commish Impossible, DLF flagship pod, and LockedOn Dynasty. Follow me on Twitter: @kevinobrienFF and visit my site: www.theffengineer.com Join me on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/theffengineer

Solo pod -About Me -Philosophy; 401k methodology -Rough agenda for the offseason -foster orphans -web tools -DLF Articles -upcoming pods, guest appearances, etc.   Twitter: @kevinobrienFF Website: theffengineer.com

Lauren Carpenter, writer/contributor to Rotoworld, FantasyPros, and The Footballers joins the podcast to talk about reacting in-season and navigating the ups and downs through the NFL season.   Follow Lauren on Twitter, @stepmomlauren. Find all her work, StepmomLauren.com

Ryan McDowell from DynastyLeagueFootball.com and co-host of the new LockedOn Dynasty podcast joins the podcast to discuss Productive Struggle strategy and how to manage your roster in-season. We covered types of players to target on waivers, when to pull the trigger on trading away players, and the thin line people tanking and productively struggling in good faith. We wrapped up with some commissioner topics and how to handle these situations.    

Ben Baldwin from The Athletic joins the pod to discuss NFL Analytics, @nflfastR, and we go into some specific metrics like Expected Points Added (EPA). We try to answer the question, do running backs matter?   Follow Ben on Twitter, @benbbaldwin  

Sam Holt of the Fantasy Debate podcast, part of the @FantasyFocusedd family of podcasts, joins me this week to talk Fantasy Football. We discussed how Sam is handling the unknown of the COVID impacted season and then we went through each position talking through our thoughts on some players.   Follow Sam on Twitter, @SamanthaRHolt

Scott Fish joins the pod to discuss how to handle COVID in your leagues, everything on SafeLeagues formats, scoring, auctions, etc and then I try to get some SFB11 Live spoilers out of him.    

Senior Writer and Editor at 4for4.com, Jennifer Eakins joins the pod.     Follow on Twitter: Host: @the_ff_engineer Guest: @themondaymommy Check out my Website: theffengineer.com

This week, Seahawks Insider with NBC West, Joe Fann joins the pod to talk Seahawks. In the beginning of the episode, before I start the interview, I covered some opinions on rankings, auctions, and stacking in dynasty.   Follow on Twitter: Host: @the_ff_engineer Guest: @Joe_Fann Check out my Website: theffengineer.com

This week, Rich Hribar from Sharp Football joins the pod to talk about approaching Buy, Sell, and Hold decisions in dynasty. We dug into each position to find the edge.    Follow on Twitter: Host: @the_ff_engineer Guest: @LordReebs Check out my Website: theffengineer.com

The G.O.A.T. of all Fantasy Football, Co-Founder of establishtherun.com, Evan Silva joins the podcast this week to discuss his pragmatic approach to all formats of fantasy football, how to use advice responsibly, and the approach to building a roster. Listen for how to enter to win a spot in the Scott Fish Bowl!! Follow on Twitter: Host: @the_ff_engineer Guest: @evansilva Check out my Website: theffengineer.com

John Bosch, creator of Fantasy Cares Eliminators, host of Dynasty Wall Street, and Dynasty Game Night podcasts joins the show to talk about interesting dynasty league settings, ways to keep the league interesting and owners engaged the whole year. We cover the Fantasy Cares Eliminator leagues he runs, sign up here: #FCEliminator Sign Up Follow on Twitter:  Host: @the_ff_engineer Guest: @JohnBoschFF Check out my Website: theffengineer.com

Scott Barrett, Director of Data Analysis for FantasyPoints.com joins me to discuss Dynasty roster building for the long term and his new article Upside Wins Championships.  Follow on Twitter:  Host: @the_ff_engineer Guest: @ScottBarrettDFB Check out my Website: theffengineer.com

On this week's episode I welcomed Pat Kerrane from establishtherun.com to discuss his Dynasty philosophy and then we compare some Rookies vs the Sophomore ADP counterparts. While we covered specific players, we share our thought process when evaluating these types of players. Playing for the short term or long? How does format influence value? Rookie vs Sophomore discussion: Burrow vs Danny Dimes Tua vs Darnold Herbert vs Lock Josh Jacobs vs Jonathan Taylor  Miles Sanders vs JK Dobbins  AJ Dillon vs Ronald Jones  CeeDee Lamb vs DK Metcalf  Marquise Brown  vs Laviska Shenault Harry, Hardman, Campbell vs Aiyuk, Pittman, Mims   Follow on Twitter:  Host: @the_ff_engineer Guest: @PatKerrane Check out my Website: theffengineer.com

After a long hiatus, the podcast is back! In this episode I go solo and give my thoughts on a bunch of topics at a higher level. -Adjusting strategy -ADP, what is it good for? -ADP vs Rankings vs Tiers -Superflex benefits I didn’t expect  -Auction: A new found appreciation Twitter: @the_ff_engineer Website: theffengineer.com