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Date Title & Description Contributors
2024-10-04

  Episode 316: Main Event Victory Lap

We did it! In our very first try at the NFBC Main Event, we finished 121st out of 855 entries, which sounds mildly impressive at best. But more to the point, we won our league, completing a dramatic reversal of our early-season misfortunes (well docume...
  Bret Sayre author
2024-09-16

  Episode 315: Reviewing 2024 Draft Strategy

Everyone is already drafting (whether mock or real) for 2025, but we at Flags decide to look back at the board from 2024 and ponder some questions about the first round, about what happened to the elite starting pitchers (spoiler: they were pretty good...
  Bret Sayre author
2024-08-02

  Episode 314: Trade Deadline Fallout

Since the last podcast, a lot has happened in the world. One of things that hasn't happened is the White Sox winning a single game.Today we avoid current events to discuss some fallout from the trade deadline, with quite a bit of attention to the close...
  Bret Sayre author
2024-07-12

  Episode 313: More Patience than Axl Rose

Hey, it's (just past) the middle of the season, so Mike and Jon talk a bit about how patience with slow starters and consistent FAABing have worked wonders for their suddenly-halfway-decent Main Event squad.Then we dive into Mike's midseason valuations...
  Bret Sayre author
2024-06-24

  Episode 312: History Lesson (with Larry Schechter)

We have a conversation with Larry Schechter, fantasy legend and author of the new book, The History of Fantasy Sports. We talk about how the history of fantasy baseball is more complex than you might think, some of the people and personalities that led...
  Bret Sayre author
2024-06-14

  Episode 311: Midseason and Midlife Conversations (with Jeff Erickson)

Mike and Jon welcome Rotowire's Jeff Erickson for a free-range conversation centering on our midseason process, specifically as it relates to player evaluation, the timing of cuts and adds, roster management, FAAB strategy, and how we balance our time ...
  Bret Sayre author
2024-05-31

  Episode 310: Valuing Players At The End of May

Mike and Jon talk about the tragicomic Mets, the utility of rolling three-week samples, not holding to tightly to fast starters who slow down, and then we conclude with a little game where we discuss players whose rest-of-season value has changed the m...
  Bret Sayre author
2024-05-10

  Episode 309: Talking about Texts about Baseball

What to talk about as the MLB season rounds the first-month post? Well, Mike and Jon text regularly about many things--and a good portion of those are baseball-related. So we looked at a few text exchanges we've had over the last couple of weeks and co...
  Bret Sayre author
2024-04-27

  Episode 308: Three Men in Action Park (with Grey Albright)

We kick the ass of April doldrums with the help of our Very Special Guest, the one and only Grey Albright of Razzball and ostentatious eyewear fame.After some desultory baseball discussion we talk about New Jersey's favorite defunct libertarian tourist...
  Bret Sayre author
2024-04-12

  Episode 307: The Cruelest Month

We're getting all T.S. Eliot on you, because for us, and for fantasy basebal content, April is kind of a dead zone. Rather than overreact to fast and slow starts, we discuss some process points in evaluating your early-season roster and negotiating FAA...
  Bret Sayre author