I’m Drafting 3,000 Best Ball Teams This Season (Here’s How I’m Starting)

Grinding The Variance (A Davis Mattek Fantasy Football Pod) · Jan 29, 2026 · 2h 2m

Timestamps:

00:00 Big Board kickoff, 3,000-team goal, and early draft season mindset

03:10 Why early Big Board ADP inefficiencies matter more than later drafts

06:00 Christian McCaffrey at 1.06 and early first-round RB vs WR decision-making

09:35 Brock Bowers in Round 2 and how stacking dynamics shape elite picks

14:15 Why quarterback stacking is structurally difficult on the early Big Board

18:00 CeeDee Lamb ceiling concerns after George Pickens trade

21:40 RB-heavy start logic: McCaffrey + Josh Jacobs and early build construction

26:15 Malik Willis speculation and early QB arbitrage…