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THE PLAYOFFS Week 15 2024
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Summary
In this episode of YouVikeThat, hosts Andy and Jeff recap week 15 of the fantasy football season, discussing key performances, stack corrections, and the implications for their league. They analyze Kirk Cousins' performance, recap the Vikings vs. Chicago game, and share personal insights on guilty pleasures, surprising movies, and social media trends. The conversation also touches on favorite shows and animal knockout theories, culminating in a look ahead to future matchups. In this episode, the hosts delve into the intricacies of fantasy sports playoffs, discussing luck factors, matchup analyses, and the dynamics of team performance. They explore close calls in games, highlight award recognitions, and make predictions for upcoming matchups. The conversation also touches on the consolation bracket and future draft picks, providing insights into the strategies and decisions that shape the fantasy football landscape.
Chapters
00:00 Welcome and Introductions
02:44 Stack Corrections and Their Impact
06:47 Kirk Cousins' Performance Analysis
09:37 Vikings vs. Chicago Game Recap
11:41 Guilty Pleasures and Personal Insights
14:28 Surprising Movies and Cultural References
18:46 Social Media Trends and Interests
20:53 Favorite Shows and Their Impact
21:47 Animal Knockout Theories
23:07 Looking Ahead to Future Matchups
26:21 The Luck Factor in Fantasy Sports
28:29 Divisional Showdowns and Matchup Analysis
30:41 Close Calls and Narrow Victories
33:10 Playoff Predictions and Team Dynamics
36:03 Awards and Recognitions in Fantasy Football
39:29 Consolation Bracket and Future Draft Picks
43:02 Matchup Previews and Predictions
51:38 Final Thoughts and Wrap-Up
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Transcript
Introduction and Week 15 Recap
00:00:28
Speaker
Welcome, welcome, welcome everybody to You Vike That, week 15 recap. I am joining you from the desolate wasteland, where I've spent a considerable amount of my life, according to this jingle.
Jeff Mangan Joins the Podcast
00:00:50
Speaker
And next up, joining me from a town that inspired a movie and a five-season TV series, pulling double duty this week as co-host and special guest, ladies and gentlemen, it is Jeff Mangan, he knows all the numbers from Japan. Say hello, guest. Oh, hi, Andy. Hi, Andy. Thanks for having me on. Hey, thanks for, thanks for reading. I'm getting so funny. um Oh, because you're on every week. Yeah, it must be, must be. And you host this recording session. This lively, lively ah studio audience today.
00:01:29
Speaker
Hey, Jeff, we should, we should be proud of ourselves here. You know what we accomplished ah last week? Um, no, I don't. That's right, Jeffrey. We got everybody from the 14 team. You like that fantasy league on the show. That's, that's pretty good. Let's hear it. Let's hear it for all the members of the league.
00:02:00
Speaker
are Thank you, thank you, thank you. On behalf of everybody, thank you.
00:02:11
Speaker
wow That sounded natural. Yeah. Jeff, you know, there's only one one person left who has yet to answer this year's five questions. And I'll give you a five guesses who it is. you know Feel free to make as many soundbites as you need.
00:02:34
Speaker
Maybe we can get Cam back on the show. You know, we might not have enough sound bites as is. Uh, first part of our show, Q's and C's. Okay. Number one. Yes. Number one.
Cooper Rush Stat Corrections
00:02:50
Speaker
We had two stack corrections from week 15, both for Cooper Rush where they added two points were added yesterday and then two points were removed today.
00:03:03
Speaker
Yeah. It didn't make a lot of sense to me what happened there. I'm i'm just wondering if it's swung and then unswung any, any match-ups, not in our league, of course. Yeah. No, no one, no one was desperate enough to roster Cooper Rush recently. He has been rostered in our league though. He has. I have, I have close for familiarity with the Cooper Rush. Yeah.
00:03:33
Speaker
But more on that later. Um, our previous, the previous stack correction, the most recent one before this one was in week 12. And, uh, all of these stack corrections have been made on Mondays. Surprisingly, no stack corrections have been made on any Tuesday this season. And I can't look back beyond this season, but I'm just wondering, Jeffrey, are Monday night football crews that much better?
00:04:00
Speaker
Or are stack corrections a contract role and they only pay for one day of work per week? Are we ever going to get stack corrections from a Monday night game? That would be, uh, that would be funny. Um, I think, uh, I think, I think why we don't get set corrections on off of Monday night games is because they correct him in real time for Monday, for Monday games.
00:04:27
Speaker
So that makes, that makes sense. Yeah. Cause so much is happening Sunday. Yeah. The, the, the, the NFL home office can't, you know, they got to wait to write process. Yeah. All the ones I saw looking back were, were the, were Monday, um, stack directions.
00:04:50
Speaker
And I just assumed that that was all the stack corrections for the week, but it could also be that there's no Thursday stack corrections either because all hands on deck, we got to get this right. And I, I mean, I think, I think they just do the stack correction like right then, like, like it, cause it's almost, it's almost always fumbles, you know, stuff that's stuff that's being, uh, call the fumble or no longer a fumble, you know?
00:05:16
Speaker
Yeah. And so then also like if you fumble it and you recover it, uh, or your team recovers it, it can still be a fumble for positive yards, you know? and And so, so like there's some weird rules about like if an offensive lineman recovers it, the quarterback gets, you know, like if the quarterback fumbles it and the offensive lineman recovers it, the quarterback gets the positive yardage. you know Okay. But that is funky.
00:05:46
Speaker
Yeah. Uh, I'm sure we have a funky beat somewhere. But yeah, I wasn't on, I wasn't thinking there. No, no, it can be, it can be later. I just like it queued up because I expect more funky shit.
00:06:16
Speaker
Still do double G.
Kirk Cousins' Performance: Family and Health Concerns
00:06:20
Speaker
Next question. Did our namesake, Kirk, three chains, cousins, did he play the Falcons Jeffrey? Is this some some next level revenge for his wife compelling him to move their nuclear family to be with her extended family you know in her home state? Was this all a ruse?
00:06:46
Speaker
So my, my, my read on it is that he still isn't healthy, you know? And I think that if they hadn't used a first round draft pick to pick a quarterback, he would have felt more comfortable getting fully healthy. You know, um, he has a pretty strong arm, but you can just tell that his throws are late. And I think it's because his,
00:07:15
Speaker
you know, his base, his legs are not, are not fully under him. And he's never been like a really mobile running quarterback, but it just doesn't seem like he can put, he can put, uh, his hips into throws, you know, like his, his legs aren't, he's not getting like push from his legs.
00:07:36
Speaker
Did you glean this from, um, the game against the Vikings or are you watching extra, extra footage as well? edge well but Yeah, I know that there's a,
00:07:48
Speaker
There's a couple of Vikings um specific social media accounts that have been putting out some pretty some pretty good Kirk Cousins highlight packages this year. But yeah, I think that Vikings game, it was pretty evident that he's almost having to like crow hop into some throws, you know, like really like try to like get his body's full momentum to get the ball going and ah To me, that just seems he's not healthy, you know, cause otherwise like he, he pulled one over on the Falcons and their morons and they shouldn't have given him $85 million dollars guaranteed and a hundred million dollar contract. And, yeah you know, but, and the living is easy. It is. Thanks, Jeff. Uh, next up, any, uh, any questions and comments arise from funk only that we should give some air time early in the show.
00:08:47
Speaker
Um, yeah, Thunker Thunker had kind of gone silent. Um, and we can talk about his matchup later. I don't know if I should really read all these. No, no, no, we shouldn't. We shouldn't, you know, but, but Thunker had gone quiet, uh, until, uh, about lunch time today. And since then he has made, uh, three posts. Wow.
00:09:12
Speaker
When it rains, it pours. I'm thunk only. Yep. Hashtag it. All right. We'll tune in later to give some, give some valuable updates there. But now it's time for the meal in a minute. Oh man. Sorry. I need to keep you on it. Okay. Yes. The mill in a minute. I am ready on that one. All right.
Vikings vs. Chicago Game Analysis
00:09:33
Speaker
Here we go.
00:09:37
Speaker
So Vikings versus Chicago. Did you watch the game? Uh, Monday night. Yeah, I did. I did watch most of it. Okay. I took some notes for one. The Vikings never trailed. Yeah, that was impressive.
00:09:53
Speaker
Um, Chicago, uh, is bad. Chicago, Chicago has no, no direction. They still have a pretty good offensive line. And, um, yeah, they didn't score in the first half, right?
00:10:10
Speaker
Right. like so I said, I said I watched it, but I, I didn't start watching it until halftime. Okay. So I don't know why I said that, but um, Hey, you watched enough of it. but Football games are long. Yeah. Yeah. No, that one went until like for a game that was wrapped up by the middle of the third quarter. That game did go quite a while. Uh, all right. That's the end of the meal.
00:10:39
Speaker
I would say that the bears have seem to find a way to destroy Caleb Williams.
00:10:49
Speaker
Yes. Are they the worst QB coaching team? Look, I don't get it, man. They have so many offensive weapons and they have like above average offensive line. And yet he looks like he doesn't know what the hell he's doing back there ever. And you know, he's throwing to like good receivers yet none of them can catch anything he throws to them. It's just,
00:11:20
Speaker
I don't know. It's weird. Yeah, that is weird. Well, um, good luck, Caleb. I hope you stay healthy and that your body stays together. I wouldn't be surprised if they shut them down. Yeah, they should. Yeah. Well, now it's time for your favorite segment than mine. Jeffrey, welcome to Five Questions.
00:11:50
Speaker
is question It's been a long time coming, Jeff. You've been champion at the bit, I'm sure. I have been. But you've also had the most time to prepare your answers.
Jeff's Guilty Pleasure and Favorite Vacation Spot
00:12:02
Speaker
So it's the most pressure. Are you up for it? Uh-huh. All right. Jeff, question number one. What's your guilty pleasure band or performer?
00:12:13
Speaker
Yeah, so I don't really have a band that I feel guilty about listening to like ever. um But if I am listening to a clip like on social media or something like that of the Joe Rogan experience oh um and my wife happened to walk into the room, I probably I might turn that off.
00:12:37
Speaker
Uh, yeah, you know he's definitely a performer and you should feel guilty. So that yeah is one point for you, Jeff. question number two, what's your favorite or ideal USA vacation spot?
00:13:05
Speaker
Yeah. Um, I love the boundary waters canoe area. So I'm going to go with that. I think it's been said already, but it, I still, you know, that's okay. We can double up on that. Um, any, uh, tips and tricks for someone wanting to visit and enjoy the boundary waters canoe area?
00:13:29
Speaker
I mean, if you don't already have all the gear, just print it. Don't try to buy stuff that you're going to use once or twice. Do you need a guide or can you just... You don't need a guide, no. You need to map out what you want to do. There's a lot of portages and you got to have kind of a plan on where you're going to stay and you want to it's It's, it's, it's good to go through like a, an outfitter so they can, they can tell you, you know, the seasons change every year up there and like, what's, what spots are good to be in and you know, like what animals are where. So it's always good to talk to an outfitter. Thanks, Jeff. Uh, that's good to know.
00:14:18
Speaker
Next up, what's a surprising movie you've never seen that hasn't been named by the past 13 guests? Yeah. So I have two because one of them, someone named it, but it wasn't their pick. Um, that's the sixth sense. I've never seen it. Hmm.
00:14:39
Speaker
but it did get brought up. Um, and then, uh, if that's not acceptable, then I would go with, uh, Schindler's list. Uh, the sixth sense is correct. Okay. Correct. Correct. Correct. Correct. Correct. Correct. Correct. Correct. That's three points so far, Jeffrey. Uh, feeling good. Feeling good.
00:15:08
Speaker
My sixth sense story is that I hadn't seen it either. And it was releasing on blockbuster home video as in come to our physical location to rent this tape, probably, I don't know DVD, who knows tape sounds right. I was on a roof working for Joe Roy and, uh,
00:15:30
Speaker
and they did the radio-blared blockbuster, 60-second films, 60-second movies, and they they just spoiled the whole movie very quickly. That's funny. And I was stuck on a roof, and they the radio was on the ground level. Yeah, so you could not hear the spoiler. I guess if I if i could even fathom you know what what was coming,
00:15:58
Speaker
or how how brash they would be, I would have likely plugged my ears and hummed. I've done it in movie theaters when I didn't want to see the trailer for a movie I was really excited to see. well because when did When did the sixth sense come out like when we were in high school? Yeah, i i I'm going to guess 96.
00:16:18
Speaker
Okay. Um, cause then signs, do you remember that one? Yeah. So I hadn't, I hadn't seen the sixth sense. And then I went on a date to that movie signs and, uh, that movie sucked. And, uh, I thought I wasn't that into it. Different S word. Yeah. And, um,
00:16:42
Speaker
the person I was on the day with, uh, loved it. And, um, I was like, what, what, what is going on here? And, uh, this isn't going to work is what you said. And then, and then she explained in like granular detail, uh, the sixth sense to me.
00:17:04
Speaker
because she thought I didn't, yeah she thought I didn't understand science because I hadn't seen the sixth sense. And I was like, no, no, science is just a shitty movie. It's not, I understand it. I picked it up. Like I figured the movie out and it's not a sequel. Yeah, no, they're not, they weren't additive.
00:17:28
Speaker
I was, I was wrong. Uh, six cents was 99. Sorry guys. but still Please don't, please don't write in or if you do just text the number, Jeff, what's that number? 6 1 2 2 9 3 6 6 3 5. All right. Whatever you have to say to me. I deserve it. Next question. Uh, what's your favorite random social media wormhole?
Social Media Interests: Hoof Trimming Videos
00:17:53
Speaker
Yep. Uh, hoof trimming. So, uh, Nate, the hoof guy, he's on, uh, pretty much all the social medias, uh, the hoof GP also on a lot of the social medias that trim, uh, typically cows, but they do, uh, hoof care.
00:18:18
Speaker
Thanks, Jeff. I don't know if I'll ever look that up myself, but the joke maybe the joke on them is that, uh, when you see a Nate, the hoof guy, like in the comment section, uh, when you see an eight, the hoof guy video, that means it's bedtime. You need to go to bed. You need to quit scrolling on whatever social media platform you're on. You've reached the end of today's dose of the internet. Yeah.
00:18:46
Speaker
All right. Thanks, Jeff. Uh, next we're rolling right through these. What's your lit, mistest television show? Man, this one's, this one was like legitimately hard for me. Um,
00:18:59
Speaker
And I felt like, felt like there's like a bunch of ways I could take it. Uh, but right now I think, um, if you can't watch bluey and, uh, and get down with that shit, um, I probably, I probably don't understand you.
00:19:20
Speaker
Thanks, Jeff. What if you've never seen it? That's fine. Uh, but once seeing it, you need to be down with it. Yeah. No, it's like, like my kids were like really, really into it. And I was like, Oh my God, this is just another fucking kid show. right And, and then, and then like, I started watching it with him and I'm like, Holy shit. They're like,
00:19:43
Speaker
They're like taking stuff head-on, you know, like they have like an IVF episode, they have a self-harm episode, they have a divorce episode, adoption episode, like they take on like The take on like really big social issues were really big things that are like hard for kids to understand and they put it into like a 15 minute television show and it's like like you're watching it you're like holy shit like they you know
00:20:20
Speaker
they had an ah entire episode about playing, ah you know, cricket, but really it was a story about like, it's okay to have a parent that is not home, you know, for whatever reason. ah And so like that, you know, there's just, they have, they have all kinds of stories where like, you know, that's really fun. And then when you like think about it, there was like something deeper. So Why? It's a good show. That's really something. Thanks, Jeff. Uh-huh. Uh, lastly, your favorite question and you know, mine.
Jeff's Emu Challenge
00:21:03
Speaker
Yeah. What's the largest animal you can knock out with one punch? Um, I'm going to go emu. Leemu, emu and Doug. Would you take, who would you take out first, the emu or Doug?
00:21:18
Speaker
I mean, I think, I think I have to take the emu out because if you go dog, that gives the emu too much time to really lay into you. Right. Cause I feel like that emu is smart. You know, that emu sees you, sees you put, uh, put dog down and then the, you know, it's going to bring the pain. Okay. So, um, any, any other emu guidance, emu fight guidance?
00:21:46
Speaker
Uh, well, I did ask Kate Hanson, um, how much force she thought I would need to knock animals out. Okay. And she, she gave me some, some guidance on skull size and how, uh, if they, she also said, if they have a whippy neck that, uh, that you're going to have a better chance of knocking them out. wi So yeah.
00:22:15
Speaker
So she, she seemed to think that like a giraffe might be easier to knock out than we thought. But, um, she also said that an ostrich, uh, it's going to have, it's going to be hard to knock out because they, they actually like know that that's a weakness of theirs. So from everything I could find about emus, they, uh, they're dumb and, um, don't recognize the fact that their long neck is a weakness.
00:22:45
Speaker
Huh. Wow. Thanks Jeff. Yeah. Thanks Kat. Yeah. Thanks Kat. That's been this week's episode of installment. I have questions.
00:23:02
Speaker
is question
00:23:07
Speaker
Jeff, any calls on the line that we should get to before we jump into one thing? No, the only calls we have, um, I think are related to, uh, our, uh, look in head section. Okay. Thank you, Jeffrey. Yep. And let's get right to it.
Fantasy League Standings and Playoff Predictions
00:23:25
Speaker
The divisional matchup going into wake 15 was 24, 22 favoring, uh, my squad, the little about skis urban achievers.
00:23:39
Speaker
Let's see how we ended up. Yeah. Game number one, five Oh first versus to net, but this was not a divisional matchup. This, uh, was projected to be a two and a half point differential Jeffrey, two and a half points. What do you have to say about this? Um,
00:23:59
Speaker
This one, this one, the thing I would say about all these match ups is kind of becomes evident as we go through it. But this one here, the two seed lost to the seven seed. Since I, since I'm known for numbers, I thought I'd bring numbers this week. That's wild. Thank you, Jeff. Um,
00:24:20
Speaker
I was looking into how the median score has played out sure and in terms of getting the right teams in the final, you know, in the in the playoffs and and seeing how, if that could be any indicator of of success here. Eacom went 10 and four against the median on the season, but he fell short to Tim who went seven and seven.
00:24:49
Speaker
and two and five in the second half. So this was a real median score fail. Yeah, I would say that seems to be true. Yeah.
00:25:04
Speaker
So the 24 and a half points instead was what separated Tim from Tenemba and the optimal lineups would have been a 4.6 point difference, but no no change to the result. Sure. That's a huge blowout.
00:25:24
Speaker
It is. It is for the playoffs. That's pretty big. But, but the, you know, the, the algorithm knew that the algorithm knew what lineup you should have played. Obviously. Right. Right. That was much closer. All right. Getting a little closer here. Uh, we got, we got the steel house versus the pure shit house. Okay.
00:25:49
Speaker
Another non-divisional. This one was projected a little wider, 6.15 projected differential going in. Okay. This was a big one, Andy. This was the number one seed taken on the number eight seed. This is a two, a two time second place, right? Tom's come in second runner up twice, I think. Yeah, overall. And Maxa was new to the league this year and Tom lost. No.
00:26:19
Speaker
Yep. The number one seed loses. To the eight seed. To the eight seed. I remember when I won as an eight seed. It was a wonderful time. Right, right. Isn't that Takimbi Mutombo? He won as the eighth seed with the Nuggets. He did, he did. Oh, breast in peace. Tom's team was getting pretty lucky the last half of the season though. Going six and one head to head. Okay.
00:26:46
Speaker
but only four and three against the median. Um, how's he getting lucky then? And it was, and it was nine to five overall. Well, he was, he was lucky in his, who he was lined up against. Ah, I see. He was playing against teams that underperformed to the median. Yep. Yes. Yes. Um, Maxa went seven and seven overall against the median this season compared to Tom who went nine and five overall.
00:27:13
Speaker
I would consider this another median fail, median metric fail. I mean, it does seem like Maxa was the median. It does. It does. And he won. So maybe that's saying something about the median.
00:27:34
Speaker
Maybe maybe there's a new team name coming this way. Maybe we can get out, get out of the shit house. That's been spreading right through the league. Uh, 7.8 points, uh, separated Matt, the winner from Tom, the loser of median Matt. That's not who you're talking about. online Yeah, that's it. Yep.
00:27:56
Speaker
Uh, optimal lineups had they use them would have increased this to a 29 point differential with the same result. So in terms of who should have won this specific match. Yeah. definitely Yeah. The specific matter. Um, she, uh, she ah you looked at the the lineup and he played the median lineup. He did. So it's interesting.
00:28:28
Speaker
Jeff, next up we got a divisional showdown. duh Need to, need to get, need to get back in this one. Yeah. The Kuznug versus no game scheduled. That's Zach versus Jarrett. Um, they live just on the street from each other. and So I wonder if any shenanigans took place, egging, toilet paper, et cetera, just to throw the opposing manager off his game. I think probably all of that. Uh, the number four seed loss to the number five seed here, Andy.
00:28:58
Speaker
Wow. Again. So, so it's so far. It's held. Yeah. All right. We'll see. We got one more match. Right. Uh, Zach was eight and six against the median this season, five and two in the last half. So I would call that momentum. Wouldn't you? Yeah. No, he's a medium Buster. Jarrett was eight and six as well, but only four and three in the second half of the season, slightly less momentum.
00:29:26
Speaker
Yep. Yep. The median was kind of catching him. Yep. And that's what you carried it out. Yeah. Yeah. He got median cut. and So, you know, in this regard that we have a marginal success for the median, the median metric, but we do have a point Lebowski.
00:29:46
Speaker
Jarett was so close to winning this one, man. He had multiple paths to that victory. Brock Bowers dropped a pass in the fourth quarter.
00:30:05
Speaker
That would have been like a 30 yard reception. That would have, that would have done it right there. Um, and then I don't think Brock Bowers got targeted again. So it was, uh, so that his points could have exploded if he was catching balls. Yeah. I mean, it was only one pass, I guess, but it was just, you know,
00:30:29
Speaker
and then And then, yeah, I don't want to see what happened at the end, but... You don't? No, no. What's our next matchup? Last matchup to recap is What's My AJ Again versus Holy Shit House, May 5 points less than Steel House.
00:30:52
Speaker
Jeff, this one was the closest projected differential of the week at 1.54 differential. Yep. These, these projectors are projecting pretty well so far. Um, late game desperation heaves along with Atlanta disregarding the knock it down rule of thumb gave thunk the last second victory with the three seed falling to the six seed, uh, in a five hundredths of a point loss. That is remarkable. Yeah. I think I saw some chatter about this on the cord.
00:31:31
Speaker
Yep. Um, if I could just quickly, uh, check in on thunk only. Um, thunker said today at 12, 58 PM today being Wednesday, Wednesday. Yes. Sorry. Sorry. thank you Um, what did we say is but yeah, since this will be released tomorrow. Today is the 18th Wednesday. Can I admit something? It is Wednesday, December 18th at 1257 p.m. central time and I just found out I won my playoff game by .05 points.
00:32:09
Speaker
eight minutes later. I stopped paying attention when my Raiders waiver wire quarterback got hurt. Thought I was hopeless. Was very annoyed at losing playoff game after having a pretty good team, so didn't even want to look at it until today.
00:32:26
Speaker
okay you know i mean like that makes that makes sense right um to celebrate my victory i think oh then at 4 17 p.m to celebrate my victory i think each member of the league should listen again to the thunk only cut of my podcast appearance send me a postcard with your name and location if you complete a listen
00:32:50
Speaker
Oh, you guys, uh, that sounds very appetizing. Yep. What, what might happen if you do complete the listen and send the postcard and if you send the postcard without completing a listen, how will he know? I'm not, too can I'm too scared to try it. How about you, Jeff? To not listen. Yeah. know um And send the postcard. Yeah, exactly. Well, maybe there's a way we can help him with that.
00:33:16
Speaker
I'm going to have to go back to the, to last year's episode to find out where he lives because that's when we really drilled down on that one. I think if I just put like thunk on a postcard, it's got minimal chance. I mean, I could put thunk Minnesota. That's good. You just up the chance from five to 10%. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, you know, um, Brian was eight and six against the median this season. Yeah. and Pretty good. Pretty good. Thunker was the same.
00:33:45
Speaker
Okay. Also pretty good. Brian finished second half of the season, one game stronger in this regard. So this is another median score fail, but Oh, because, because, because Brian lost and he had a stronger. Yeah. He had by the metric I invented this week. Uh, it's a median fail. Sure. All right.
00:34:13
Speaker
But this does end up with another point for the Lebowski, the Lebowski urban achievers. Jeffrey, that puts us at 26. The thing, the thing about the median is that, uh, Brian did beat the median this week. He lost to Thunker, but he beat the median by two points. Only two.
00:34:37
Speaker
Well, two, two point, uh, two two five five. Right. If you take one 20.56 plus one 24.05 and divided by two, uh, he, he would beat that by two two five five. Right.
00:35:07
Speaker
um oh yeah yeah i was just looking for it on my page but it's not there you're doing actual math you know all the numbers from japan um one two two three four
00:35:36
Speaker
Yeah, I think you're right, Jeffrey. High scoring week. Yeah, that's, uh, that's just additional insult to the, uh, to the, you know. Yeah. 1.745. That's how much he cleared it by. Wow. Well,
00:36:02
Speaker
I moved forward pretty quickly. I'm sorry about that. I moved on too quickly, but I think now we're ready to announce that the Lebowski urban achievers are up 2622 going into week 16.
00:36:17
Speaker
Yeah, it's going to be a tough one. there's a There's really only three matchups left that would score points. And um there's going to be a divisional matchup this week when the 501sts are playing. So they can win that one, right? And then if the 501sts win the championship, ah that would bring it to 26-24. So it looks like looks like Lebowski.
00:36:47
Speaker
as a has picked has taken this one. You're calling it? I mean, the math math is. Well, ladies and gentlemen, I'll prepare a ah statement for our final final show of the season, but I just want to congratulate the little Balski's urban achievers for being the strongest division in you like that season, whatever. Season twenty twenty four. Yeah. We do have some awards tracking updates. Number one, the highest scoring loser. Congrats, Brian. You might be out of contention for the big money, but scoring 124.05 in a losing effort has put you in the top spot to win this $10 award. How exciting for you to follow the other remaining matchups this season.
00:37:42
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that yeah If it's any consolation, you've yoinked the $10 prize away from your conqueror, AKA five points less than Steelhouse, who has been holding onto that, uh, $10 promissory note since week 13. Um, when the difference between your, uh, high scores is 4,200 of a point.
00:38:17
Speaker
That's crazy. The other award we get an update for Jeff, you want to read this one? ah hey Hey, Brian, congratulations here. Um, you are out of contention for the big money, but losing to thunk by 0.05 points has put you in the top spot to win this $10 award. How exciting for you to follow the remaining, the other remaining match-ups this season.
00:38:45
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Sorry, Tim. Your 0.07 point loss from week seven just doesn't cut it anymore.
00:38:56
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yeah yeah yeah yeah Oh, man. Thanks for that correction. You guys, that was a live a livestock correction from Jeffrey. I had it. I had a typo in the notes. He corrected it mid flow. You didn't even know.
00:39:16
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Jeff.
00:39:21
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I didn't think .07 was beatable. No one did. No one did. And in the playoffs, no less. Right. Man. Congratulations, Brian. Lightning truly struck twice. Yes. Now it's time to look ahead at the remaining four playoff matchups. Same teams, different stakes. Jeff, I'd like to announce that next year's draft position selection order will be determined by the final standings after playoffs.
Draft Position Order Changes Announcement
00:39:54
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So ah these these four these four teams in the consolation bracket are playing for the seventh through four, no, that's not true. there that eight eight Eight through fifth.
00:40:11
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8th through 5th. Thank you, Jeff. You're playing through for the 8th through 5th pick picks. Pick picks, yep. And we're still working out how to how the everyone who missed the playoffs is going to vie for those positions. We'll probably do something. 9th through 14th pick picks.
00:40:34
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Uh, no, it's one, it's not one, it's one through six pickups. So you had it right. So seven, so seven, eight, nine, 10, seven, eight, nine, 10. Yep. That's it. There it is. Hey, we're getting there. Yeah. Seventh through 10th. Thank you. Yep. Man. Okay. I mean, I just saw pick, you know, I was thinking pick picks and that my numbers were, we're all, we're all a kilter.
00:41:02
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We're probably going to do something in the actual NFL playoffs with like a survivor series. Uh, sure. Uh, you know, free of course, but, but this'll be, this'll be working out your pick. redddi and A grid iron showdown.
00:41:18
Speaker
Yeah. Vying to see who gets to take Christian McCaffrey, number one overall. Right. Exactly. Um, okay. So, so in the consolation bracket, then we have the first consolation matchup would be steel house versus, uh, no game scheduled.
00:41:37
Speaker
And um Andy, I had some notes in here, but i what I want to tell you is that Steelhouse is still the number one seed and they are taking on no game schedule at the number four seed. So my prediction is that Steelhouse will lose. Well, we haven't done predictions all year. That's kind of fun. And it's backed by science. Yep. It's playoff science.
00:42:02
Speaker
Uh, you know, these guys, these guys met in the closest match of week nine decided by 38 hundredths of a point. Yeah. Some, some sort of bullshit closeness there. yeah Though not as bullshit as we've seen. Yeah. If you, if you're if you're using tenths of a point to say how far apart you are, you're miles.
00:42:28
Speaker
Well, I'm saying it right, aren't I? .38, 38 hundredths, right? Yeah, yeah. But once you're once you're in the three-tenths of a point, not, ah you know, right, hundredths of a point, right you're you're just an asshole. Double double digit hundredths. yeah you're You're done. Yeah, yeah. It's nothing to us. Yeah, that's not close. That's not close at all. That's Seattle to Los Angeles.
00:43:01
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Jeff, you got one thing to say about this matchup. Uh, would steel house versus no game schedule? Yeah. Yeah. No, my one thing is, uh, eight C four seat versus one seed playoff math oh is the four seat advances. I'm sorry. Yeah. I'm sorry. and More edits on the fly. I should recognize. Yeah. I should recognize.
00:43:23
Speaker
Yeah, no, I recognize that I have a math thing that I do here, Andy. All right. And I have to stay with it. All right. know You know, what the great thing about numbers, Jeff, they're the same, whether you're in the West or, or calculating numbers as far as Japan. Right. That's why I love them so much. Next up, we have what's my AJ again versus to Nettinba.
00:43:49
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Yeah. Um, and know what I'm going to point out here, Andy, is that this is, uh, to then bought two seed versus what's my AJ again, a three seed. So I'm going to go with AJ again.
00:44:06
Speaker
Brian handled his business in week six. against Ecum by 35 points, but something tells me but that ah the NBA is going to drive angry this week.
00:44:21
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per discord his last statement and one of his only statements of the season alongside how, how do wins losses get correct? Get, um, determined, which I think was in week 13. Uh, his last statement was one word. Damn it. I think he's mad. Jeff. I think he's mad. He's out for blood. Yeah.
00:44:49
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Next, next up we have the actual championship round. Okay. No, no one here has guaranteed money yet as fourth place still gets the shaft. So, you know, if you're going to lose, lose closer than 0.05. Great. Um, first matchup is the five Oh first versus, uh,
00:45:14
Speaker
the holy shit house nay five points, like five points less than steel house. Um, so problematically here for, um, for thunker, he's coming in as the six seed, um, against Tim's seven seed. So I'm going to put my, my stamp of approval behind the five Oh firsts.
00:45:43
Speaker
Wow. I really, really, really, really hope you're wrong. Jeff. Um, I've got a personal issue against someone winning this league three times when there are many of us who haven't won it once. Uh, I will remind you, it isn't even near. So, Oh no, that's his year. Nope.
00:46:06
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I mean, thunk, thunk no longer has the specter of Tom in his future. Um, but you flip one of those letters and you got Tim, uh, or Mott.
00:46:21
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Thugs. Thugs projected to lose by nine. Sure. Will he overcome his demons to try to make it to the final round?
00:46:33
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Uh, I think we're all wondering if, um, this week, uh, funker is going to stick with, stick with the Atlanta Falcons defense. And if he's going to bank on, um, multiple interceptions in the fourth quarter, stay tuned to the update.
00:46:57
Speaker
right for the update Lastly, we have Kuzna versus pure shithouse. Yeah. Um, so I feel like, I feel like Zach's kind of like held his, held his cards close to the vest all season here, Andy. yeah Um, going into this matchup, um, Zach has what would typically be considered a pretty nice five seed. Um, but he is coming up against the powerhouse eight seed. And, uh, I think that's going to mean, uh, doom. Zach is probably going down this week.
00:47:34
Speaker
Yeah. They, uh, these two teams only met in week one when the nug took it by 27 points. But since then Matt has upgraded from Mark Andrews to TJ Hockinson and Devontae Adams seems to be on an upright, an upswing. Uh, for Zach Cooper cup got 25 points in week one and zero points in week 15. Yeah. He's going the wrong way. Yeah. He's going the wrong way. That's not a, that's not a good way to go.
00:48:04
Speaker
Jeff, did anyone in this championship round have anything to say this week that we can share on the air? Yeah. You know, I kind of forgot about that. Uh, I'll be honest. Um, appreciate your honesty. That's on me.
00:48:19
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Uh, not quite, but here we go. Yeah. I was trying to get ahold of, uh, Hicholus J. Bunker. Um, I tried to, uh,
00:48:32
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tried to reach him in funk only, but couldn't get my messages through some sort of strange blockade or force field. I don't know. It was odd. But anyways, I just, you know, having listened to the podcast for several years and and watched from a comfortable distance,
00:49:04
Speaker
I'm trying to figure out why she has such a problem when it came to beating Steelhouse, ah particularly in the playoffs.
00:49:16
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um I mean, I'm just a lowly eight seed, and look at me. So I didn't seem that hard.
00:49:28
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so you know i I'll listen for a response. Maybe I'll pop in the phone calling me, see if anything comes out there, but that just kind of baffled.
00:49:46
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Yeah, have a good one. Oh, also, sorry for the strains that are still host. Night. What did he say? Sorry. Correct, correct, correct.
00:50:00
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You say sorry for the what? Stray's, you know? Steelhouse, Gotham, Stray's for the nightmare. Yeah, I don't think he's sorry. He's definitely not sorry. And anything else we can share? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Sorry, Andy. I'm reading something that I shouldn't be reading.
00:50:29
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what you're going to do brother when cuz nug runs wild on you.
00:50:39
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Wow. That was a few, a few wrestling icons. Well at least two together. Yeah. My understanding. But you know, Zach's a man of many talents and voices in his head. Look out, Matt.
00:50:56
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Kazanek's coming. He is coming. He's gotten 11-point projected deficit to to to make up here.
00:51:09
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but I don't think Davante Adams is going to pull. I just can't see Davante Adams scored 21 points in the last four minutes of that game. Um, so I just don't see that happening again. Uh, you know, two touchdowns and like 140 something yards. Uh, so that's, yeah, that's a hard one, but yeah, that's a good, that's going to be a good matchup.
00:51:35
Speaker
Maybe, uh, maybe I'll watch some football this weekend. Great matchup. Definitely. I'm going to watch, uh, what I can and, and track these, these playoffs on my app playoffs that I am not a part of that we are not a part of Jeffrey. Yeah. Uh, it's embarrassing, but illuminating at the same time. Any final thoughts as we, uh, eclipse 50 minutes with no special, no, I'm good.
00:52:02
Speaker
Yeah, me either. Hey guys, make sure you like and subscribe. Tune in next week. We're going to try to get a special guest on here um to also answer the five questions. But in the meantime, we know you have plenty of options when selecting a league specific fantasy football podcast. And we thank you for choosing ours. Thanks, Jeff. And his name is John C.
00:52:30
Speaker
Happy to be in my thank you. Thank you. Thank you. No, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. I, I, I'm in my favorite place. The bonus room next to the three car garage. Yeah. Thunk only. It's pretty, uh, happened in place. Yeah. Well, that's kind of what makes it special. Let's be honest. All I know is it's set up site. Andy's closest to the median score, but just below it is, um, my understanding of how the rules work. I've been memorized. I was just seeing if you guys would get it right. And you nailed it. Heard the answer, but I guess chocolate based. Oh, good. Thanks. A snow related question. This is the question that came into the text slide. Well, I'm a dedicated listener. I did listen to last week's episode, but I think I was so excited by that segment. I must have blanked on that.
00:53:18
Speaker
So yes, plenty of valuables back in the backyard and the snow ah by peeing and you like melt the snow. I think it's just that, you know, that training for, you know, finding ah bodies and avalanches and things like that just can just came through at a key moment.
00:53:35
Speaker
That's how you find an avalanche. That's how you save people in an avalanche. You stick a stick till you hit it. Yeah, very important in Fargo. that's that's I do the opposite approach. I draft ah Travis Kelsey or someone high and then I don't have to worry about tight ends the rest of the season, good or bad. Yeah, that helped. But I'm going to blame mainly Stefan Diggs and ah ah T Higgins for getting hurt. And then Bijon Robinson being on a buy was kind of tough with my week receiver group. So I'll give the Swifties a break this week.
00:54:09
Speaker
Yeah, I saw 35% of the game because I was doing leaf cleanup and hanging Christmas lights, but I yeah the Vikings did block a bears field goal, which is pretty funny after to what happened the previous week. And that's what that's how they talk out there on the frontier. Appreciate you bringing that out for my week. Yeah, we can move quickly. I guess this is the one I'll move the quickest. strade I could have eliminated it. I don't like that huge music guy, don't totally love, you know, that so I'd just say just any trashy pop song would be the guilty pleasure. No, because I really don't care that much about music. I think the only song I know the lyrics to is from Alka Savage. And that hasn't hasn't changed from when I was 16 years old till now. I think that's like the only song lyrics I know.
00:54:54
Speaker
Metallica's sad but true. I think that that's the only songs lyrics I could actually tell you. Yes, I i thought that'd be the panel's reaction. So I'd have to. I love the Black Hills is a good one for the family, but we actually went to Yellowstone, I guess maybe two years ago, two years ago now. And now ah Yellowstone is actually better than better than I expected. So I kind of expected it to.
00:55:18
Speaker
I don't know, be a little cliched or overplayed, but it was actually more amazing than I thought it would be. So I'd love to go back there. And and I'd love to go to more places out west. So. Oh, good. Thank goodness I got one right. So I don't know if it's surprising. Was it surprising? I've never seen any Harry Potter movie. I said to people, especially with me having kids, but we're all of about the same age. Right. So like Harry Potter was like baby stuff when we were teenagers. So it's like.
00:55:44
Speaker
So that was the thing that little kids were into when we were like teenagers or young 20 year olds or whatever. So it's like I had zero interest and have had no interest in seeing a Harry Potter movie or reading Harry Potter book. Didn't get my kids on Harry Potter. So that's probably most people probably aren't like that, I guess. ah Harry Potter or no, or the ah there's something like the Astra can or something. Well, I was like, right like, like, like the curse of the Astra.
00:56:14
Speaker
As a camera can. I hate that. Is that the prisoner of Azkaban? Okay. I knew there was something of something. Azkaban. Okay. Is that the last one? Is that the latest one? Is that why? Okay. Clearly this is a shocking movie that I've never seen. I don't give the music. I got to hear that banger again. Thank you. Yeah. It's on silent. Yeah. So I I guess, uh, the quick answer is Wikipedia, but I don't know if that counts, you know, cause I don't know. So yeah, yeah. Yeah. Cause it's everything in anything megafauna continents, islands, inland waterways, but I guess that doesn't count. So, Oh yeah. Like that's like large animals, like anything on Wikipedia, you could just read it for hours, but, uh,
00:57:03
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If that's too broad, we're also going to get the true answers a little dark, just kind of anything from like a wormhole would be conflict stuff on Twitter, like Syria and now Ukraine, and Russia, you know, direct video feeds, what's actually going on. So yeah, pretty, pretty amazing that you can and just follow people and see all kinds of crazy stuff. So that, that would, that would be the social media wormhole answer, I guess.
00:57:26
Speaker
It's nice to be validated. Yeah, I thought that was gonna get a no, but I'll take it. Yeah, yeah. I've been, yeah. This question is so exciting, right? and And as I've been listening to other people answer, I've kind of done the same progression, right? Thinking about this seriously. Okay, large dog, then female deer, right? I mean, that seems right. But the correct answer was like the definitive answer was almost come to, and then it was squandered. The correct, it's draft.
00:57:54
Speaker
Right and then with Brian chicken out and said like ostrich. Like those things are like little waffle rafters. Those things are going to rip you apart, but not like the correct answer. I can knock out a direct and it's.
00:58:07
Speaker
easy. Go to the Minnesota Zoo, hold out a bag of stupid lettuce that they give you for $5. All the kids are crowded around, right? You push a three year old out of the way, knock a seven year old out of the way, push a stroller out of the way, hold that leafy lettuce there and just punch it right in the face. yeah chat gpt knows what's up yeah i feel bad given its answer because it's like it's like being on like family feud or jeopardy or whatever where like the person like answers it wrong but then they like feel dumb because they knew the answer they immediately then like say the right answer but it doesn't count because they get perfect first yeah like it's cheap but uh but draft is the answer it was beautiful i was so inspired when he was like going down that path and then he backed away it was it's kind of sad so i'm i'll take it yeah i think uh
00:58:58
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You know i'm not gonna judge anyone over whether they like a tv show or not but i think the wire would be a good one because if you are a person who watches the wire and enjoys it then we're probably we can hang out and watch conflict x twitter videos together right so i think the wire would be a pretty good that would miss test. Well, so even better, we were a Netflix three-disc household. It started that way for the Sopranos, right? So we could, you know, cause we started watching the Sopranos series. Well, when you're watching a series, right? The original binge watching, well, you gotta do that. You gotta be in the three-disc plan of Netflix. So you said, minimally, you go from one disc to the second disc, mail in that other disc, get that third disc up. Yep. So it's three-disc plan.
00:59:43
Speaker
Bring bring back. What were they what was it gonna be mixer fit flicks sure? Yeah. Yeah, they made they made the wrong choice with the streaming thing They should have kept that company going. Okay. Yes. Yep. No one's more prize than me. Yeah Yeah, you know I I've heard this saga as some have called it going on for the last couple weeks and you know I kind of feel compelled that it it's time to answer the question um You know as a parent I kind of find its best to When there's tough some just come up just be honest and direct so when mommy really loves daddy she lets daddy put his penis in her vagina. Okay, um three seconds later a big mess gets made and then nine months later you show up yeah well that's what she says.
01:00:33
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. ah but Yeah. Yeah. i'm I'm just here to answer the questions. Okay. Yes. Yeah. It's going to be the key key to victory. I'm just shocked and well, thrilled that Lamar Jackson's actually been playing in every single game this year. So I'll i'll take it. I'm sorry. The vastly superior league as drafted by Andy Ninja.
01:00:52
Speaker
I think the best worst, you know, scored 131 points is pretty much staying true to name, right? Did you guys see that Deontay Johnson actually had a ball go right through his hands in the game last night? Yeah, that's actually there's there's a clip relevant to that episode. The ball was thrown to once and it bounced right off his hands or through him. I believe so. Yeah, I think, yeah, he yeah puts his hands out to catch him, but they're they're forming two L's because he's a loser.
01:01:23
Speaker
Yes, we learned that on the the the the yellow stingers in sixth grade right together but but but Not a Caleb Williams fan. Yeah, I'm just looking forward to playing steelhouse in the playoffs and losing to him. Yes Well, for certain teams, the ones that lose in their name, Kirk Cousins, baby, I'm going to sneak him in either at the flex spot. I'm going to figure out a way to get him. You know, Lamar Jackson keeps playing well. Somehow, some way, Kirk Cousins can be ah what matters in that most points forward. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But like, you know, maybe I'm overlooking things. I know I'm going to make the playoffs and then lose to would whatever point I play Steelhouse.
01:02:01
Speaker
No, I'm just thrilled to be here. It's been a great experience. It's really what dreams are made out of. And maybe I'll post about it in Thunk only. We'll see. At a minimum, you'll go 7 and 17 like Andy has. Yeah, so it's worth the time and effort.