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- 0:00Speaker 1: Yeah, all systems don't clear the lift.
- 0:17Speaker 2: Mh, let's going on everyone, This is sheets and I
- 0:43Speaker 2: don't know that intro always seems to get everybody all excited.
- 0:48Speaker 2: Welcome everybody to uh, Survivor content, cool content, whatever you
- 0:54Speaker 2: want to call it. Hopefully this is a really really
- 0:57Speaker 2: interesting journey for everybody, and hopefully at least my first
- 1:01Speaker 2: time with the technology is not a complete and colossal
- 1:04Speaker 2: train wreck. That's always the first thing to get past.
- 1:08Speaker 2: So let me first get into the environments that we're
- 1:13Speaker 2: in right now. So for those of you that don't
- 1:17Speaker 2: know me back from previous endeavors, I mean I used
- 1:19Speaker 2: to be in the poker business like a long time ago.
- 1:21Speaker 3: And.
- 1:23Speaker 2: Where we are in Survivor and in pool content is
- 1:26Speaker 2: very similar to where we were when I got into
- 1:28Speaker 2: poker back in two thousand and four. Is you have
- 1:31Speaker 2: this incredible confluence of events right now in that you
- 1:36Speaker 2: have this contest, these types of contests such as Survivor
- 1:40Speaker 2: pools that are becoming extraordinarily big. You know, you have
- 1:45Speaker 2: Splash running million dollar guarantees, you have Circa running twenty
- 1:49Speaker 2: million dollars, you have everybody wanting to play Survivor pool stuff,
- 1:54Speaker 2: and In addition to that, people are terrible. Okay, So
- 2:00Speaker 2: usually what happens is is, but when people are terrible
- 2:05Speaker 2: and you have an edge, there's no action, right and
- 2:08Speaker 2: then sometimes by the time that the action is big enough,
- 2:12Speaker 2: everybody kind of knows how to play. But the way
- 2:15Speaker 2: poker worked back in the day is there was this
- 2:16Speaker 2: period of time for about five years where not only
- 2:20Speaker 2: was there incredible action, but everybody was awful. And that's
- 2:24Speaker 2: basically where we are right now in survivor pool business. Okay,
- 2:29Speaker 2: the development of the circa contest, the development of splash
- 2:33Speaker 2: and all this stuff has accelerated the amount of action
- 2:37Speaker 2: to such a degree and the ability of people to
- 2:40Speaker 2: play well has just gone nowhere. Okay, So you're in
- 2:46Speaker 2: a very unique position right now where you can really
- 2:50Speaker 2: fire and take advantage of this situation. Now I'll add
- 2:55Speaker 2: another thing again, not to create a holy work, but
- 2:58Speaker 2: I'll do it anyway. There's another thing that's unique about this,
- 3:02Speaker 2: which respect to survivor pool content and survivor pools in general,
- 3:06Speaker 2: is that back in poker, when you had you know, this,
- 3:10Speaker 2: this this state of affairs, there were like a couple
- 3:14Speaker 2: of content providers that taught people how to play, and
- 3:18Speaker 2: they were actually pretty good. But in this situation, you
- 3:23Speaker 2: have so many people that have like these X podcasts
- 3:27Speaker 2: and the Survivor podcasts and and even paid subscription sites,
- 3:32Speaker 2: and I have to tell you, like, they're even worse
- 3:35Speaker 2: than the Fish players. Okay, it's it's really amazing to
- 3:40Speaker 2: me to watch this. So you have that kind of
- 3:43Speaker 2: thrown in as well. You have everybody wants to play,
- 3:48Speaker 2: nobody knows how to play, and nobody knows how to
- 3:50Speaker 2: teach people how to play. So you have this perfect situation.
- 3:54Speaker 2: So when I talk to the guys about this, I'm like,
- 3:56Speaker 2: you know what, let's let's try to let's try to
- 3:58Speaker 2: do this. Let's try to hop on. Now. The other
- 4:01Speaker 2: thing is there is sort of a sense of urgency
- 4:03Speaker 2: here because I say that we have about well somewhere
- 4:09Speaker 2: between three and five years of this because unfortunately Survivor
- 4:14Speaker 2: pools and this type of thing is something that I
- 4:17Speaker 2: promise you was eventually going to get solved with SIMS
- 4:21Speaker 2: and coding, like most things do. And so once that happens,
- 4:27Speaker 2: then this edge is gone. Okay, listen, I'll probably still
- 4:31Speaker 2: keep playing, you know whatever. But it's like DFS, you
- 4:34Speaker 2: know it's I still play dfs, but it's obviously much harder,
- 4:38Speaker 2: you know, with with the advent of all the sims
- 4:40Speaker 2: and all the coders and all the and all this
- 4:42Speaker 2: type of thing. Okay, so it's a very it's a
- 4:45Speaker 2: it's something that you put twenty million dollars up for
- 4:47Speaker 2: grabs with Circa and all this money in splash, Someone's
- 4:50Speaker 2: gonna figure it out, and someone is gonna sim this,
- 4:53Speaker 2: and somebody is gonna code this, and you're just and
- 4:56Speaker 2: the edge is gonna be gone. Okay. But because it's
- 4:59Speaker 2: football and so many casuals and the fact of Survivor
- 5:04Speaker 2: pools are itself such a freaking amazing sucker bet that
- 5:09Speaker 2: I think that it's gonna last more than three years
- 5:11Speaker 2: and probably have five years. So that's something also to consider.
- 5:15Speaker 2: All Right, So let's talk about let's talk about We're
- 5:19Speaker 2: going to talk about it. So I think this week
- 5:22Speaker 2: we're doing this for free, but I'm gonna kind of
- 5:25Speaker 2: go over some of the things that I'm gonna talk
- 5:27Speaker 2: about with Survivor. We're gonna go into week one and
- 5:29Speaker 2: all this stuff, and then we're gonna continue on I
- 5:32Speaker 2: think the rest of the season. We'll talk about other
- 5:34Speaker 2: things too, Like I'm in the Circa Millions pool, so
- 5:36Speaker 2: we'll talk about something against the spread stuff as well.
- 5:40Speaker 2: And then when we get to March Madness, that's a
- 5:42Speaker 2: whole other puzzle, not the bracket pool stuff, but the
- 5:46Speaker 2: March Madness survivor. That's awesome, right, That's awesome. But for
- 5:51Speaker 2: the most part we're gonna be talking about survivor pool stuff.
- 5:54Speaker 2: And we do have a tool that I'm gonna debut
- 5:57Speaker 2: for you guys. It's fine. I'm gonna have to say
- 5:59Speaker 2: it's fine. What's good about it? It's customizable, and we'll
- 6:02Speaker 2: talk about that we get there. But the majority of
- 6:05Speaker 2: the value added you're going to get is honestly me
- 6:07Speaker 2: teaching you how to play. I'm going to give you
- 6:11Speaker 2: everything I have for my twenty years of experience figuring
- 6:14Speaker 2: the stuff out, and quite honestly, if I've done my
- 6:18Speaker 2: job right that after a year, you won't even need
- 6:21Speaker 2: to come back for a second year. I mean, because
- 6:23Speaker 2: not that I'm saying it's easy, but if you commit
- 6:25Speaker 2: to this and you commit to the concepts, it's really
- 6:28Speaker 2: not that hard. Okay. You just have to dispense with
- 6:32Speaker 2: a lot of your preconceived notions about how these things
- 6:35Speaker 2: are supposed to be played, and it's an amazing sucker bet.
- 6:38Speaker 2: You know, you tell to somebody about it to Survivor,
- 6:40Speaker 2: But what do you do? You just pick one team
- 6:42Speaker 2: to win? What do you mean to win? You just
- 6:43Speaker 2: to win? Like yeah, no spread out, So I could
- 6:46Speaker 2: pick like the Eagles, of course, and you just got
- 6:48Speaker 2: to pick a different team every week. Oh, what's the
- 6:50Speaker 2: big deal. I'll take the top teams and then I'll
- 6:52Speaker 2: figure it out later, you know. And so it's an
- 6:54Speaker 2: amazing sucker bet like that that people think that that's
- 6:57Speaker 2: it's something easy to do, and then the sucker bit
- 7:01Speaker 2: goes another level, like sometimes it's a really bad team,
- 7:04Speaker 2: like let's say Cleveland a couple of years ago, when
- 7:06Speaker 2: they were threatened to go, oh and whatever, people say,
- 7:09Speaker 2: this is easy. Just bet against Cleveland every week, right,
- 7:12Speaker 2: what could be so easy? So the fact that it
- 7:15Speaker 2: is such an incredible sucker bet is going to just
- 7:17Speaker 2: keep people playing and you're gonna have almost like an
- 7:20Speaker 2: instant edge. I mentioned Splash by the way. I mean
- 7:25Speaker 2: just take a look at some of this stuff, like
- 7:27Speaker 2: this is the Splash Lobby. Look at these prize pools,
- 7:31Speaker 2: like two point five million, one point eight million, like
- 7:33Speaker 2: some guaranteed money one million, one million. It's just craziness.
- 7:38Speaker 2: Ship a nation, oh shout out, ship a nation has
- 7:41Speaker 2: a survivor pool two hundred and fifty thousand guaranteed. Okay,
- 7:45Speaker 2: twenty five dollars entry. So this action all over the
- 7:48Speaker 2: effing place. Okay, So we're gonna talk about this. You
- 7:54Speaker 2: can feel free to ask questions. We're gonna have a
- 7:56Speaker 2: discord channel where we can, you know, tilt and talk
- 7:59Speaker 2: about whatever. But here, here's the thing. I want to
- 8:04Speaker 2: start with a right And this is gonna be really hard.
- 8:07Speaker 2: It'd be really hard for you to do. As football fans,
- 8:10Speaker 2: I presume most of your football fans, I wish you weren't.
- 8:14Speaker 2: I wish you didn't know anything about football. You'd be
- 8:16Speaker 2: much easier to teach. Okay, you have to dispense with
- 8:21Speaker 2: all of your knowledge or perceived knowledge of football, of teams,
- 8:28Speaker 2: of coaches, of players, of trends of everything. You know.
- 8:33Speaker 2: When we pull this up, I almost would rather you
- 8:38Speaker 2: just not even know what these team names mean, Okay,
- 8:41Speaker 2: that they were just dots on a scoreboard or on
- 8:43Speaker 2: a spreadsheet. Because once you start putting your own thoughts
- 8:47Speaker 2: and your own opinions on what's supposed to happen with
- 8:50Speaker 2: these teams. You are just turning yourself into dead money
- 8:54Speaker 2: really really quickly. Okay, and we'll get into that when
- 8:58Speaker 2: we get into that, all right. Okay, one other thing
- 9:03Speaker 2: before we get into this, a couple of disclaimers. Number one,
- 9:06Speaker 2: all pools are different. All your rules are different. For example,
- 9:10Speaker 2: when we get to it, like half of the big
- 9:12Speaker 2: splash pools this year require double picks in week eleven
- 9:16Speaker 2: or later, where if you go into draft game to
- 9:20Speaker 2: some of the pure sites you can have only you know,
- 9:22Speaker 2: just one pick a week. And you have to treat
- 9:25Speaker 2: all of these things differently. Okay, So what is the key?
- 9:32Speaker 2: How do you win? Survivor? All right? So there are
- 9:36Speaker 2: two numbers or two components to survive. Okay. One is
- 9:45Speaker 2: EV and for those of you that are in DFS
- 9:47Speaker 2: or anything but MATTH, just expected value. Okay. All expected
- 9:53Speaker 2: value is is a team's chance of winning as a
- 9:57Speaker 2: function of their ownership. Another words, what are you what's
- 10:01Speaker 2: the team's chance of winning today? And then you have
- 10:04Speaker 2: to factor in how many people are likely to be
- 10:07Speaker 2: playing them. It's kind of like DFS. It's kind of
- 10:10Speaker 2: like you know, sort of where it's not just who
- 10:16Speaker 2: rates to score the most points, but how many times
- 10:17Speaker 2: people are gonna play them. But it's very similar. So
- 10:20Speaker 2: all ev IS is a combination of what your team's
- 10:25Speaker 2: winning chances are and how often people rate to play them.
- 10:29Speaker 2: Because obviously you have two teams playing, they both have
- 10:31Speaker 2: seventy percent chance to win. If one's gonna be ninety
- 10:34Speaker 2: percent owned, the one's going to be forty percent owned,
- 10:36Speaker 2: you want to pick the team that's forty percent only
- 10:38Speaker 2: that's gonna have higher ev Like how much money do
- 10:41Speaker 2: you rate to win on this particular week. Okay, So
- 10:45Speaker 2: all that goes in to that calculation are the two
- 10:49Speaker 2: numbers of what the team's winning chances are and what
- 10:54Speaker 2: and how often they're likely to be picked, And we're
- 10:56Speaker 2: going to get into all them. The second concept that
- 11:00Speaker 2: goes into your survivor pick is the concept of future value.
- 11:04Speaker 2: And what future value basically means is if you don't
- 11:09Speaker 2: pick them today, how likely are going to use them
- 11:12Speaker 2: in the future. In other words, I have a chance
- 11:15Speaker 2: to pick the Arizona Cardinals today. If I don't, is
- 11:19Speaker 2: there going to be a better time to use them
- 11:21Speaker 2: in the future. Okay. Now, the cool thing about survivor
- 11:26Speaker 2: pools and why it's not completely solved yet is that
- 11:29Speaker 2: while EV is calculable and its math, and if you
- 11:35Speaker 2: know those first two numbers then you can calculate EV,
- 11:39Speaker 2: future value is not so easy. Okay. Future value is
- 11:44Speaker 2: a little more art than science. You can't just say
- 11:48Speaker 2: their future value is two or their future value is nine.
- 11:53Speaker 2: And again that's what makes it kind of cool. Okay. Now,
- 11:57Speaker 2: the other thing that makes survivor cool is that you
- 12:01Speaker 2: don't know exactly what the right combination of good EV
- 12:06Speaker 2: and low future value is. Okay, And once again it's
- 12:09Speaker 2: art and science and I'm going to kind of show
- 12:11Speaker 2: you how to work through that. But that's why it
- 12:14Speaker 2: really hasn't been solved yet. There's no number that has
- 12:17Speaker 2: taken all that into consideration yet. Okay. So the first thing,
- 12:23Speaker 2: and this is very important that we're going to talk about,
- 12:26Speaker 2: is the EV calculation. Now, what if you have here
- 12:30Speaker 2: is a tool that we put up on Ship and Nation.
- 12:32Speaker 2: It's really really easy. You could find this type of
- 12:35Speaker 2: thing elsewhere. And all this does. It lists a team's
- 12:39Speaker 2: win percentage for the week, and it also lists how
- 12:43Speaker 2: often they're likely to be picked. And then what you
- 12:46Speaker 2: can do is you can click on this button and
- 12:49Speaker 2: it calculates the EV for you. Okay, now we have
- 12:54Speaker 2: to talk about this sort of at length here and
- 12:56Speaker 2: what all this means and what you can do. So
- 12:59Speaker 2: we have this de fault number here, which takes into
- 13:02Speaker 2: account what the Vegas implied win odds are. Okay, what
- 13:07Speaker 2: you know, you take the average of of what you
- 13:12Speaker 2: have to pay for one team on the money line
- 13:14Speaker 2: versus the other team, and what basically Vegas is implied
- 13:17Speaker 2: their win chances are. And then you have these ownership projections,
- 13:22Speaker 2: which they're by default they're essentially the average of all
- 13:26Speaker 2: the different ownership projections that they're available. But what you
- 13:31Speaker 2: can do here is if you want to, you could
- 13:33Speaker 2: customize all of these numbers, like if you want right,
- 13:37Speaker 2: like if you're in a pool where you believe that
- 13:40Speaker 2: a team is going to be higher owned than another team,
- 13:43Speaker 2: you can change this and then recalculate your EV and
- 13:47Speaker 2: it will relist your EV. I think that's pretty cool,
- 13:50Speaker 2: especially if you're in some smaller pools where you could
- 13:53Speaker 2: predict ownership a little better. You get later in the
- 13:55Speaker 2: season where you know what people are going to pick
- 13:59Speaker 2: you can change, and I think that's kind of need.
- 14:02Speaker 2: So first thing is with this win percentage business, I
- 14:07Speaker 2: strongly encourage you, and I don't mean to talk to
- 14:10Speaker 2: you guys like you're five, okay, but but I strongly
- 14:13Speaker 2: encourage you to not mess with this. Okay, what what
- 14:20Speaker 2: is okay? What is New England's chance to win? Like
- 14:23Speaker 2: for real, Okay, let's not say that we have this
- 14:25Speaker 2: in front of us. What is New England's win percentage
- 14:28Speaker 2: this week? The real answer is that we don't know, right,
- 14:34Speaker 2: I mean that's that's we don't know. I mean that
- 14:36Speaker 2: there is a percent chance, Like you know, if the
- 14:39Speaker 2: entire world simulated the thing four billion times, we we
- 14:43Speaker 2: could figure it out, Okay, but we don't have that
- 14:46Speaker 2: in front of us, so we don't know. However, you
- 14:50Speaker 2: have the most liquid market in the world of NFL
- 14:54Speaker 2: betters that put billions of dollars into this, with bookies
- 14:59Speaker 2: and and people at algorithms and all this stuff, and
- 15:03Speaker 2: these win percentages, while I can't promise you they're accurate,
- 15:08Speaker 2: they are clearly the best prediction that you will get. Okay.
- 15:15Speaker 2: So if you're thinking of changing these win percentages because
- 15:20Speaker 2: you feel that New England sucks to terminal take analytical term,
- 15:27Speaker 2: or you think that Vegas is just worse because of
- 15:31Speaker 2: blah blah blah blah blah. Right, I strongly encourage you
- 15:36Speaker 2: to not to do this. Don't think of these as teams,
- 15:38Speaker 2: don't think of these as people. Just think of these
- 15:41Speaker 2: as numbers that you really shouldn't mess with, because once
- 15:44Speaker 2: you start messing with the win percentage, then you start
- 15:47Speaker 2: messing with the EV and then you start messing with
- 15:49Speaker 2: your entire survivor life. Okay, So that is extraordinarily important
- 15:58Speaker 2: with respect to the ownership projection. Unfortunately, there's no great
- 16:05Speaker 2: ownership projection out there like this is what these ownership
- 16:09Speaker 2: projections are are based on, essentially pulling like all of
- 16:16Speaker 2: the pools that are out there as of this time,
- 16:20Speaker 2: plus some projection model, and it's mostly based on single
- 16:24Speaker 2: pick pools. Okay. So if you have a pool where
- 16:28Speaker 2: your rules are different or where there are doubles in
- 16:31Speaker 2: week eleven, these are gonna be different, Okay. And as
- 16:36Speaker 2: we go through the season, we'll we'll talk about different
- 16:39Speaker 2: adjustments that we can make. But the first for the
- 16:42Speaker 2: first week, we're going to presume for the purpose of
- 16:44Speaker 2: illustration that all of these, uh, these these ownership projections
- 16:49Speaker 2: are at least somewhat somewhat accurate. So what you do
- 16:54Speaker 2: is you calculate even for week one, and then you
- 16:58Speaker 2: have a list of highest EV teams over here, and
- 17:02Speaker 2: then you have what's key to all survivor pool players, okay,
- 17:08Speaker 2: is some kind of map, some kind of grid where
- 17:13Speaker 2: you can see what these teams are likely to do
- 17:16Speaker 2: in the future, like who they're planning on playing, what
- 17:20Speaker 2: their projected line should be, and and so on, and
- 17:26Speaker 2: also what teams in a certain week rate to be
- 17:31Speaker 2: the highest favorite team. So if I like click on
- 17:34Speaker 2: week twelve, I'll see Baltimore will be the highest in
- 17:38Speaker 2: week twelve and by maybe two points. Now, again, this
- 17:41Speaker 2: stuff changes throughout the course of the season. But again
- 17:44Speaker 2: all you can do is kind of operate on you know,
- 17:47Speaker 2: the information that you have at your disposal right away. Okay, okay,
- 17:52Speaker 2: So so what do you do here? You have these
- 17:57Speaker 2: EV calculations, and you have top EV teams, and you
- 18:01Speaker 2: have these future values these maps here. How do you
- 18:05Speaker 2: handle this? Like, what do you do here? Well, let
- 18:08Speaker 2: me first give you a little bit of caution about EV.
- 18:12Speaker 2: Remember EV basically tells you how much you rate to
- 18:16Speaker 2: win or you know, I guess like every single week. Right,
- 18:20Speaker 2: So if you have say, you know, Philadelphia and EVA
- 18:25Speaker 2: like one point one five, if you have one thousand
- 18:27Speaker 2: dollars in an entry, you know, if you play at Philadelphia,
- 18:31Speaker 2: you rate to win. You know, your your your entry
- 18:35Speaker 2: rates to have a value on eleven hundred and fifteen dollars. Okay,
- 18:38Speaker 2: So your rates to win one hundred and fifteen dollars
- 18:41Speaker 2: by playing Philadelphia, all else being equal, okay, which it isn't, okay,
- 18:45Speaker 2: but all's being equal. But I want you to think
- 18:48Speaker 2: about this. Think about when it's week fourteen or week fifteen,
- 18:56Speaker 2: where instead of everybody's entry worth one thousand dollars, we're
- 19:00Speaker 2: gonna use that as an example here now in week
- 19:03Speaker 2: fourteen to fifteen, when the pool's been decimated. Okay, Now,
- 19:07Speaker 2: let's say that every entry is worth about, I don't know,
- 19:12Speaker 2: you know, eighty thousand dollars or something like that. Now,
- 19:17Speaker 2: if every entry is worth eighty thousand dollars, and if
- 19:20Speaker 2: at that point you can get one point one point
- 19:24Speaker 2: five ev, well, now it's worth it, you know what
- 19:26Speaker 2: I mean. Now we're talking about real money here, and
- 19:29Speaker 2: a mistake I see people make quite a bit is
- 19:34Speaker 2: going for this EV when the EV isn't worth anything. Okay.
- 19:39Speaker 2: What you should be really trying to do in Survivor
- 19:43Speaker 2: is planned for a situation where the EV that you're
- 19:47Speaker 2: gonna get is worth something. And you see that if
- 19:51Speaker 2: you go back to old weeks, you'll see, like say
- 19:52Speaker 2: in week fifteen, sweet sixteen, you'll have a team that's
- 19:55Speaker 2: like a thirteen point favorite to win and their EV
- 19:59Speaker 2: is like one point four, and you're sitting there saying, boy,
- 20:02Speaker 2: I wish I had access to that team. Well, you
- 20:05Speaker 2: know what, if you planned it right, you would, Okay,
- 20:10Speaker 2: And that's what this whole thing is all about. So
- 20:13Speaker 2: don't necessarily just take the top EV team. What you
- 20:17Speaker 2: want to be doing is planning for those weeks where
- 20:19Speaker 2: the EV is actually going to matter. Okay. I kind
- 20:25Speaker 2: of call that just basically the EV trap. So let's
- 20:29Speaker 2: talk for another few minutes about what week one looks
- 20:33Speaker 2: like as as in general, you have all these teams
- 20:37Speaker 2: and these are all of their evs. Okay, And here's
- 20:42Speaker 2: an interesting question. DFS people will kind of relate to this.
- 20:45Speaker 2: When you think about DFS, what you're trying to find
- 20:48Speaker 2: are people that project really really well that no one
- 20:52Speaker 2: else is going to play, right, That's that's daily fantasy
- 20:55Speaker 2: sports nearvana is finding a player that nobody is gonna
- 20:59Speaker 2: play that still projects really well. And we all know
- 21:03Speaker 2: that that's I mean, it's like theoretically impossible, right, because
- 21:07Speaker 2: if they projected really, really really well, then people just
- 21:10Speaker 2: would play them. So to be able to find that
- 21:13Speaker 2: is very, very difficult. And when you're here in week one,
- 21:16Speaker 2: it's kind of similar here. You know, like you really
- 21:20Speaker 2: are not going to find teams that have incredible chances
- 21:24Speaker 2: to win that nobody is playing. Okay, however, and this
- 21:30Speaker 2: is something, this is a real key. What if I
- 21:34Speaker 2: told you that in week fifteen and week fourteen and
- 21:38Speaker 2: week sixteen, for example, there are going to be many
- 21:43Speaker 2: teams that have extraordinarily chances to win, but no one's
- 21:49Speaker 2: going to be playing them. You might think, how is
- 21:52Speaker 2: that possible? Like why wouldn't they play them if they
- 21:55Speaker 2: have such great chances to win? Well, the key word
- 21:58Speaker 2: that you don't really get see get thrown around in
- 22:01Speaker 2: Survivor content is the concept of scarcity. Okay, it's not
- 22:07Speaker 2: as if people don't want to play the thirteen point
- 22:10Speaker 2: favorite team in week fifteen, it's that they don't have
- 22:14Speaker 2: them available. Okay, it's because all the same people that
- 22:19Speaker 2: wanted to play the thirteen point favorite in week fifteen
- 22:22Speaker 2: just really got scared and needed to play something good
- 22:25Speaker 2: in week two or three because they didn't want to
- 22:27Speaker 2: gamble on a low EV spot. And now in week thirteen,
- 22:31Speaker 2: they have this team that they that is worth a
- 22:34Speaker 2: fortune okay, that now they just don't have access to.
- 22:38Speaker 2: So the thing is is that when you go deeper
- 22:41Speaker 2: and deeper into the season, the concept of scarcity just
- 22:46Speaker 2: completely multiplies. Okay, And that's what you should be really
- 22:51Speaker 2: planning for this whole year is Yet you want to
- 22:55Speaker 2: be planning for good EV, but you want to really
- 22:59Speaker 2: be playing for good EV when it really matters, meaning
- 23:02Speaker 2: later in the season when all the good teams, not
- 23:05Speaker 2: all of the teams, and when a lot of the
- 23:07Speaker 2: good teams have been used and you'll be able to
- 23:10Speaker 2: get that great deal of leverage. So that's like the setup, Like, like,
- 23:16Speaker 2: that's the concept. Okay, don't worry too much about EV
- 23:20Speaker 2: early if you can really hammer on that late. Okay,
- 23:27Speaker 2: I think that this is probably a good time to
- 23:32Speaker 2: get into like this week right, and and use a
- 23:39Speaker 2: couple of teams as examples. Now, again, there are many
- 23:42Speaker 2: different pools, many different rules, so and we'll as we
- 23:48Speaker 2: go through the season, we will talk about the differences
- 23:50Speaker 2: between what good picks are for single pick pools, what
- 23:54Speaker 2: good picks are for double pick pools, depending on when
- 23:57Speaker 2: the double picks happen. And I will talk about Circa
- 24:01Speaker 2: all right, And that's actually rule number one A is
- 24:04Speaker 2: that there are pools that are important except for Circa. Okay,
- 24:08Speaker 2: And when you go on to X, all you hear
- 24:10Speaker 2: about is Circuit. This circle that twenty million is okay, yeah, okay,
- 24:14Speaker 2: that that's that's certainly fine. But there are zillions of
- 24:17Speaker 2: other pools except for Circa that we're that we're going
- 24:20Speaker 2: to be talking about. And what's what's cool about this
- 24:24Speaker 2: year with Splash is that most not most all of them,
- 24:27Speaker 2: but a lot of these really big pools, like the
- 24:29Speaker 2: Big Splash two point five million dollar Survivor pool contest.
- 24:33Speaker 2: We'll take a look at that one, for example, under
- 24:36Speaker 2: where are the rules details? This one has double picks
- 24:42Speaker 2: starting week eleven, for example, and that changes everything, right,
- 24:52Speaker 2: the Ship and Nation pool, same thing. Actually, that one,
- 24:56Speaker 2: I think has double picks starting week twelve. Okay, But
- 25:01Speaker 2: but the point is is that those types of pools
- 25:05Speaker 2: are to be treated differently than the regular single pick pools.
- 25:08Speaker 2: Like here on DraftKings, like DraftKings like a million dollars,
- 25:12Speaker 2: uh I deleted or whatever, But on the pools page
- 25:15Speaker 2: for DraftKings, it's like a million dollars or first. And
- 25:18Speaker 2: there's all kinds of them, but I think they're mostly
- 25:20Speaker 2: all single pick pools, and they're all going to chop
- 25:23Speaker 2: like one hundred and fifty ways at the end, and
- 25:25Speaker 2: that's fine, okay, But but it's just kind of a
- 25:27Speaker 2: different way to play. Okay. So if those have been
- 25:31Speaker 2: kind of following this, you know, and trying to try
- 25:33Speaker 2: to piece together kind of a plan based on what
- 25:36Speaker 2: I said, all right, how would you think about planning
- 25:42Speaker 2: a single pick pool as opposed to planning a double pickpool?
- 25:47Speaker 2: For example, you know, if you're thinking of using a
- 25:50Speaker 2: team now, if this were a single pickpool, you'd have
- 25:54Speaker 2: to think, Okay, when am I going to use them
- 25:57Speaker 2: in the future? Right, And as long as you know
- 25:59Speaker 2: I'm not too hell bent on using them in the future,
- 26:03Speaker 2: then I can use them now. But if you're in
- 26:05Speaker 2: a double pick pool, and that team is available for
- 26:09Speaker 2: you in weeks eleven through seventeen, when it gets almost impossible,
- 26:13Speaker 2: then it's even more important to fade that team now.
- 26:17Speaker 2: So the idea of balancing this ev versus future value
- 26:22Speaker 2: thing is extremely dependent on the pool that you're in. So, like,
- 26:27Speaker 2: if you're in a pool that's got doubles in week
- 26:29Speaker 2: eleven and twelve, future value and maximizing it is everything,
- 26:34Speaker 2: okay everything. If you're in a single pick pool where
- 26:37Speaker 2: it's just you know, even a big buying or like
- 26:40Speaker 2: with your friends or whatever, then maximizing future value as
- 26:43Speaker 2: secondary and it makes your pick a lot different in
- 26:47Speaker 2: week one. So let's take a look at some of
- 26:50Speaker 2: these and let's let's see how you kind of like
- 26:52Speaker 2: screw around with this map here. So and we'll take
- 26:56Speaker 2: a look. We're gonna just for fun, we're going to
- 27:00Speaker 2: look at I will look at both single pick and
- 27:02Speaker 2: double picks. So here's Philadelphia. Philadelphia, they're ev again. That's
- 27:08Speaker 2: that's what we're looking at, is one p. Fifteen. We've
- 27:11Speaker 2: already factored in their win ons. We've already factored in
- 27:13Speaker 2: that there at home, we've already factored in that Dallas
- 27:17Speaker 2: had a trade. We already factored in that it's weather.
- 27:19Speaker 2: We always factored in that we don't like number two.
- 27:22Speaker 2: We'll factored in that it was a division game. Don't
- 27:25Speaker 2: let all of this nonsense that you hear in content
- 27:29Speaker 2: sway you from any of that. Don't say that, well,
- 27:32Speaker 2: I know they're a ten point favorite, but it's division game. Okay,
- 27:36Speaker 2: you know what that means. They're a ten point favorite.
- 27:38Speaker 2: I know they're a ten point favorite, but this coach
- 27:41Speaker 2: is seventeen and thirteen as an underdog on Thursdays during
- 27:46Speaker 2: a hailstorm. You know what I mean? Just accept the
- 27:49Speaker 2: numbers aren't what they are. Philadelphia is EV one point
- 27:53Speaker 2: one five. If you don't believe that, then you can
- 27:55Speaker 2: go change the win percentage or the ownership of percentage
- 27:58Speaker 2: and kind of deal with that. So, if you were
- 28:01Speaker 2: just gonna worry about EV, take your fifteen percent of
- 28:03Speaker 2: your thousand dollars entry feed, you win one hundred fifty
- 28:06Speaker 2: dollars that way. However, as you might imagine, okay, Philadelphia,
- 28:12Speaker 2: and you can look at this from what you might
- 28:15Speaker 2: call it from like your color perspective, like they're green
- 28:19Speaker 2: so many times this season. Okay, So they are minus
- 28:24Speaker 2: seven against the Giants, minus ten against the Giants again
- 28:27Speaker 2: against the Judge, minus seven against Chicago, where else we
- 28:32Speaker 2: gotta we gotta fix this a little bit so it
- 28:35Speaker 2: fads a little bit better, and then minus ten against Vegas. Okay,
- 28:43Speaker 2: So there's plenty of opportunities to play them in the future.
- 28:47Speaker 2: And more to the point, you look at say week fifteen,
- 28:50Speaker 2: they are three points bigger favorite than the next one,
- 28:55Speaker 2: and that's worth something. Okay, Like in week thirteen, they
- 28:58Speaker 2: are the top team again by only by one point,
- 29:01Speaker 2: but that's gonna change week eight. Will take a look
- 29:05Speaker 2: at week eight, Week eight, Okay, there they're the top
- 29:07Speaker 2: team by three points, okay, as opposed to this week
- 29:11Speaker 2: they're only the top team by maybe one point or
- 29:14Speaker 2: minus to be ninety five or three eighty. So so
- 29:18Speaker 2: Philadelphia like for me, like this week, I mean, I
- 29:23Speaker 2: can't imagine a single pool structure where I would play them. Okay,
- 29:29Speaker 2: their future value is just so big throughout the course
- 29:33Speaker 2: of the year. It's not even just one week that
- 29:36Speaker 2: there's just no reason to take the fifteen cents. Okay,
- 29:40Speaker 2: you'd rather just hold them, push them back, and then
- 29:44Speaker 2: one week hopefully you're still in later and when that
- 29:47Speaker 2: fifteen cents is gonna be not worth fifteen, you know,
- 29:50Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty dollars or whatever, but it's gonna
- 29:53Speaker 2: be worth like eight seventy thousand, Like, that's when you
- 29:55Speaker 2: want to want to play them. So Philadelphia to me,
- 29:58Speaker 2: is not particularly relevant this week at all. Okay, Okay,
- 30:04Speaker 2: Denver they're next. They're at one point zero six again,
- 30:09Speaker 2: ev is fine, Okay, they're they're you make a little
- 30:12Speaker 2: bit of money. But you have to then just take
- 30:15Speaker 2: a look and see what what else is up right?
- 30:18Speaker 2: So where else might you be able to use Denver? Well, here,
- 30:22Speaker 2: week six they're playable, Week seven, they're playable. I'd like
- 30:29Speaker 2: to just look at thet the colors here. Week eight
- 30:33Speaker 2: not as much, week nine not as much. But week
- 30:37Speaker 2: ten they're the top option on the board, you know,
- 30:42Speaker 2: so and even the week sixteen, which you certainly should
- 30:44Speaker 2: think about, they're they're they're an option there as well.
- 30:48Speaker 2: So Denver definitely is better than Philly. But but for Denver,
- 30:57Speaker 2: I think that they're a team I'm probably only use
- 31:01Speaker 2: in single pick pools. Okay. I think their value later
- 31:06Speaker 2: in the season is just too big. Okay, And not
- 31:10Speaker 2: only that's not just that they you know there, it's
- 31:14Speaker 2: not even that that it's the double pick weeks that
- 31:17Speaker 2: you need them, but I'd like to get rid of
- 31:20Speaker 2: them in other weeks so to again push those teams
- 31:24Speaker 2: that are really relevant weeks eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen to
- 31:27Speaker 2: fifteen out there. So I think with a team like
- 31:30Speaker 2: Denver again, it's gonna be a depend on your pool week.
- 31:33Speaker 2: Like for me, I think that I don't know, I
- 31:37Speaker 2: think that if you played any of these big splash pools.
- 31:41Speaker 2: I mean, for me, I'll tell you what my exposure
- 31:43Speaker 2: is gonna be. I'm gonna have very little Denver, Okay,
- 31:47Speaker 2: in in the pools where you need to pick. Think
- 31:51Speaker 2: about this, if you have to go through doubles weeks
- 31:53Speaker 2: eleven through eighteen, that's what eight sixteen, that's twenty six teams.
- 32:00Speaker 2: You know what kind of awfulness you have to play
- 32:03Speaker 2: to play twenty six teams. I mean, I'm not in
- 32:05Speaker 2: some big rush to use a team like Denver, okay,
- 32:09Speaker 2: when I can use them coming up. On the other hand,
- 32:15Speaker 2: let's take a look at Arizona. Arizona, they're even is
- 32:20Speaker 2: a little bit worse. So okay, you win a few
- 32:22Speaker 2: dollars less or whatever. When you look at their viability
- 32:26Speaker 2: in the future, it's not quite as good. Right. Where
- 32:30Speaker 2: do you even see Arizona as a seven point favorite
- 32:33Speaker 2: at all this year? I mean not that much at all.
- 32:37Speaker 2: I mean you see them week two at four and
- 32:40Speaker 2: a half, Week five at five and a half, fourth best.
- 32:48Speaker 2: But I mean aside from that, yeah, we're gonna have
- 32:50Speaker 2: to fix this. So this scrolls a little bit better. Again,
- 32:55Speaker 2: the tool is okay, we have to definitely clean that up.
- 33:00Speaker 2: But even going out into week eighteen, where are you
- 33:02Speaker 2: going to use Arizona? So this is like a really
- 33:06Speaker 2: really nice combination of good enough right ev in week one,
- 33:11Speaker 2: and while they have some viability later, it's really very minimal. Okay.
- 33:18Speaker 2: So Arizona, as far as I'm concerned, relative to at
- 33:22Speaker 2: least the teams that we you know, taken a look
- 33:24Speaker 2: at already, I mean, is clearly the best. Like it
- 33:27Speaker 2: would take me many many picks in double pick pools
- 33:30Speaker 2: for me to not play Arizona as opposed to say, Philly,
- 33:33Speaker 2: you're Denver, okay, going down the list Washington again, same
- 33:40Speaker 2: concept they're ev I mean, it is fine, okay, but
- 33:45Speaker 2: let's take a look at what their future values, what
- 33:47Speaker 2: does their their path look like? Well, Week three, very
- 33:51Speaker 2: very strong, seven and a half point favorite. Okay, you
- 33:56Speaker 2: have a five and a half point favorite over here,
- 33:59Speaker 2: four and a half here, and now you have this
- 34:01Speaker 2: really big one where they're a five and a half
- 34:03Speaker 2: point favorite. But in week seventeen. Now look at this.
- 34:06Speaker 2: If you're playing these double pick pools, okay, you this
- 34:11Speaker 2: is what you want, like you want to have a
- 34:15Speaker 2: Week seventeen hammer. Okay, that could make you a fortune
- 34:20Speaker 2: as opposed that. You know what, here I'll play in
- 34:23Speaker 2: the week one, I'll take my two cents on the dollar. Okay.
- 34:28Speaker 2: These are the teams that you want to push and
- 34:30Speaker 2: push and push back, so Washington again. They go on
- 34:36Speaker 2: my note playlist just right along with Philly, Denver, maybe
- 34:41Speaker 2: single picks Arizona clearly like strong players. All right, let's
- 34:46Speaker 2: just clear. Let's go through a couple of more Cincinnati.
- 34:51Speaker 2: You know they're evy as what fair one sentence, basically
- 34:55Speaker 2: break even this week. You play this out a million times,
- 34:57Speaker 2: you'll basically break even. However, let's take a look at
- 35:01Speaker 2: their future value here. So okay, so next week, Week
- 35:03Speaker 2: two sort of playable, right, so week eight, I don't
- 35:10Speaker 2: want to give everything away this week, but you know,
- 35:13Speaker 2: let's let's get into it. So week eight, A lot
- 35:16Speaker 2: of people would look at Week eight and you would think, Okay,
- 35:23Speaker 2: they're they're You probably want to save them for week
- 35:25Speaker 2: eight because you know what, with the exception of Philly,
- 35:29Speaker 2: who people are probably going to push back, especially in
- 35:31Speaker 2: Circa talking about that some other time, Cincinnati looks really
- 35:35Speaker 2: really good. The problem here is that because Cincinnati is
- 35:40Speaker 2: going to look so good here and people are going
- 35:42Speaker 2: probably going to want to save Buffalo and Baltimore, Cincinnati
- 35:46Speaker 2: is probably going to be kind of popular, and so
- 35:49Speaker 2: as a result, you might not even want to play
- 35:52Speaker 2: them in week eight. You might, but you might not.
- 35:56Speaker 2: And then in week twelve sort of playable and double
- 35:58Speaker 2: So I think the Bengals are are fine, you know
- 36:02Speaker 2: what I mean. I think the Bengals, at least to
- 36:06Speaker 2: this point. I mean, especially in double pick pools, I
- 36:10Speaker 2: think that they're below Arizona, but I definitely think they're
- 36:15Speaker 2: above these others Philly, Denver, in Washington. So I think
- 36:18Speaker 2: since is is very really strong, let's look at some
- 36:23Speaker 2: of these others and we'll get back to Jacksonville in
- 36:24Speaker 2: a second case. Now, now we're looking at at negative
- 36:28Speaker 2: EV teams, right, so case if you play them this week,
- 36:32Speaker 2: you're gonna lose six cents on the dollar. And you
- 36:34Speaker 2: know it's even worse, you're gonna want to play Kansas
- 36:37Speaker 2: City many times this season. Like look at all the
- 36:40Speaker 2: green here, minus nine and a half, minus nine and
- 36:42Speaker 2: a half minus seven. This is probably the worst play
- 36:46Speaker 2: on the board because it's a combination of bad EV
- 36:51Speaker 2: and and plenty of future value. So let's talk about
- 36:58Speaker 2: Jacksonville for a few minutes. In my opinion, I don't
- 37:03Speaker 2: even I don't even really think it's opinion. Like, in
- 37:08Speaker 2: double pick pools, whether they start in week eleven, week twelve,
- 37:13Speaker 2: I think Jacksonville is clearly the best play like on
- 37:19Speaker 2: the board. Okay, and we'll talk about why in a minute.
- 37:26Speaker 2: So Jacksonville in single pick pools, yeah, they're they're fine.
- 37:29Speaker 2: Uh maybe, But in double pick pools, where you've got
- 37:32Speaker 2: to pick twenty eight teams and you really want to
- 37:35Speaker 2: maximize EV in the future, this is the type of
- 37:39Speaker 2: team that you have to risk. You see point nine
- 37:43Speaker 2: to five. You know what that means. That means that
- 37:44Speaker 2: you're gonna lose money I mean, you're almost certain, almost certainly,
- 37:48Speaker 2: theoretically you're going to lose money this week. You're you're
- 37:50Speaker 2: gonna lose five cents on the dollar, assuming again all
- 37:53Speaker 2: these numbers are right. But what you're doing with that
- 37:55Speaker 2: five cents is you're investing in something. And what you're
- 37:59Speaker 2: int in is all of this Red. Okay. You look
- 38:03Speaker 2: at Jacksonville and they are literally like zero future value.
- 38:10Speaker 2: You want to squint and maybe week fifteen doubles maybe,
- 38:18Speaker 2: I mean, sure, I guess. But aside from that, this
- 38:22Speaker 2: is a full red team. Okay. So the idea is
- 38:27Speaker 2: that ninety five cents is not great, but if you
- 38:32Speaker 2: get away with this, you are you're the strength of
- 38:36Speaker 2: your entry is going to be is going to be amazing. Okay,
- 38:41Speaker 2: And that's really what this is all about, is is
- 38:46Speaker 2: creating strong entries. Now you saw by the way, I
- 38:49Speaker 2: don't know if you saw this, but I posted on
- 38:52Speaker 2: x ones a few weeks ago, Hey, I signed up
- 38:55Speaker 2: for circu just so you know, no chops. Sorry, sorry
- 38:58Speaker 2: to advance no chops, And a couple of people thought,
- 39:00Speaker 2: you know, said, why why wouldn't you chop? It's not
- 39:04Speaker 2: because it's you know, hashtag too rich. It's not hashtag
- 39:07Speaker 2: I you know, I don't feel like it. The reason
- 39:09Speaker 2: why I don't think I would ever chop in this
- 39:11Speaker 2: thing is because the way I play, if I'm alive later,
- 39:16Speaker 2: it's gonna be because I have such strong entries that
- 39:20Speaker 2: they're gonna be worth so much more than everybody else's.
- 39:23Speaker 2: And the problem is that they're not gonna probably the
- 39:26Speaker 2: people aren't even gonna realize that my entry is so
- 39:30Speaker 2: much stronger, and so I wouldn't get a fair deal anyway,
- 39:33Speaker 2: you know. So that's that's why if I, if I
- 39:35Speaker 2: make it to the end of these things, it's gonna
- 39:37Speaker 2: be because I have all these late night hammers to
- 39:39Speaker 2: turn dfs phrase ready to drop on people at the end. Okay,
- 39:44Speaker 2: so teams like Jacksonville, you really have to get used
- 39:49Speaker 2: to playing. Okay, and will you win a lot? I mean,
- 39:53Speaker 2: will you first of all, you lose money this week.
- 39:54Speaker 2: In the long run and you're gonna lose your pool,
- 39:57Speaker 2: You're gonna lose the entry what forty percent of the time.
- 40:01Speaker 2: I mean, I know what, you know. I don't want
- 40:03Speaker 2: to get out, nobody wants to get out. But but
- 40:05Speaker 2: I had this argument with somebody on one of the
- 40:08Speaker 2: podcasts the other day because they I made fun of them.
- 40:10Speaker 2: Someone said, you know what, I really want to make
- 40:12Speaker 2: a play at the end of the day that makes
- 40:14Speaker 2: me sleep at night, that lets me sleep at night.
- 40:16Speaker 2: And I just kind of laugh and I'm like, Okay,
- 40:18Speaker 2: I guess Survivor's not dead if that's what people are
- 40:21Speaker 2: still saying stuff like that. And he pushed back at
- 40:23Speaker 2: me a little bit and he's like, no, I mean
- 40:25Speaker 2: like there's some some value in that and like having,
- 40:27Speaker 2: you know, being comfortable with who you have and this,
- 40:30Speaker 2: that and the other thing. Let me tell you what's
- 40:31Speaker 2: comfortable to me, like making the right EV decision, Like
- 40:35Speaker 2: if I don't make the right EV decision or the
- 40:38Speaker 2: right long term decision, that will get me up in
- 40:41Speaker 2: the middle of the night, like that will make me
- 40:43Speaker 2: lose sleep. Okay, I have no problem, you know, doing
- 40:46Speaker 2: what's right and then end up, you know what, you
- 40:49Speaker 2: bust out early. You know, it's great that you don't
- 40:51Speaker 2: stress as much as everybody else does. But teams like
- 40:54Speaker 2: taxon the other ones you have to play, especially in
- 40:57Speaker 2: these double pick pools. To that point, I mean, like
- 41:01Speaker 2: you could make arguments for in double pig pools for
- 41:05Speaker 2: a lot of this bologne, Like, let's take a look
- 41:08Speaker 2: even at we want to look at Pittsburgh just for funzies,
- 41:12Speaker 2: like Pittsburgh. They are their three point favorite on the road.
- 41:17Speaker 2: I know people will go go play them on the road, right,
- 41:21Speaker 2: and you're gonna lose twelve cents this week. But now
- 41:26Speaker 2: this has getting a little more advanced. There's a lot
- 41:28Speaker 2: of red here on the board. Well you know people
- 41:30Speaker 2: are gonna say, well maybe not because week six, look
- 41:33Speaker 2: at week six leak week six, you probably want to
- 41:36Speaker 2: save them because there'll be a six and a half
- 41:40Speaker 2: point favorite hashtag off of buy right against Cleveland. But
- 41:45Speaker 2: you can't tell you something about what's gona happen with
- 41:47Speaker 2: Pittsburgh in week six. Pittsburgh in week six is gonna
- 41:50Speaker 2: be like forty percent. Want to know why because people
- 41:55Speaker 2: want to save Philly. People are gonna see that Pittsburgh
- 41:57Speaker 2: this is their last opportunity to play them and they
- 42:00Speaker 2: will get jammed. Okay, so you get rid of them.
- 42:03Speaker 2: Now you basically have a whole red screen. Right, So
- 42:08Speaker 2: these types of teams like Pittsburgh, New England swort of Okay,
- 42:15Speaker 2: you can play this stuff, and if you're playing multiple
- 42:17Speaker 2: entries and you're in these double pick pools. You could
- 42:20Speaker 2: play some of this nonsense like what about even like
- 42:24Speaker 2: I want to get this, you'd be that crazy. But
- 42:26Speaker 2: something like that, like you in Vegas as an underdog,
- 42:29Speaker 2: you know, teams that are just never gonna play again
- 42:32Speaker 2: as part of your portfolio, I like the Jets or
- 42:34Speaker 2: somebody like that that teams look totally red that you're
- 42:38Speaker 2: never well you're reds, never gonna play again. There are
- 42:41Speaker 2: three point lousy underdog at home, and they're gonna win
- 42:44Speaker 2: forty percent of the time. So if you play the
- 42:46Speaker 2: Jets forty percent of the time, you know what you have.
- 42:49Speaker 2: You have a nut entry. Okay. So uh that's a lot, Okay,
- 42:55Speaker 2: And that's that's that's definitely a lot to think about.
- 42:58Speaker 2: But that's the way you really have to handle the
- 43:03Speaker 2: survivor pool business. Okay. You have to figure out where
- 43:06Speaker 2: where in the in the tournament you are, Okay, week one?
- 43:11Speaker 2: You know, you know, people say, well, you can't win
- 43:13Speaker 2: a tournament in week one. You can only lose in
- 43:15Speaker 2: week one. Okay, So that's why I don't want to
- 43:17Speaker 2: play Jacksonville. Okay. Well, you know, you know, it's a
- 43:21Speaker 2: real good way to lose by taking stuff like Philadelphia
- 43:25Speaker 2: too early. Okay, because there's plenty of ways to to
- 43:28Speaker 2: bleed EV. There's either the aggressive way where you actually
- 43:31Speaker 2: have a chance, you know, to to take down the
- 43:34Speaker 2: hole cheese, or just survive in advance. Survive in advance,
- 43:38Speaker 2: and then you know what happens. You get to week
- 43:39Speaker 2: eleven and you're no one left to play and then
- 43:42Speaker 2: you complain that somebody you know didn't make a field
- 43:45Speaker 2: goal or something. I think I would like to end
- 43:54Speaker 2: it right now for this week. We're gonna talk about
- 43:59Speaker 2: a lot lot of other stuff as we go on,
- 44:03Speaker 2: and I'll listen. I don't know if I'll be able
- 44:05Speaker 2: to talk. I'll talk about my entries. I guess when
- 44:08Speaker 2: when they're done. But the idea is each week we're
- 44:12Speaker 2: gonna go through this process of learning how to balance
- 44:16Speaker 2: EV and future value, learning how to use these tools,
- 44:19Speaker 2: learning how to use these maps and uh, and just
- 44:27Speaker 2: learn something that's pretty much it. I didn't want. I
- 44:30Speaker 2: don't want to get into the circum Million stuff yet
- 44:32Speaker 2: against the spread stuff, except to say that as bad
- 44:36Speaker 2: as people play Survivor, I think people play circum Million's
- 44:39Speaker 2: words because people are just so confident, so constraint. I'm
- 44:45Speaker 2: beating the spread and not beating the field. But that's
- 44:47Speaker 2: that's another story. Okay. So I think I think it's
- 44:54Speaker 2: how much is it ninety nine dollars or something for
- 44:56Speaker 2: the year it's gonna be it's gonna be five hundred,
- 45:00Speaker 2: I think if I, if I do what I want. So,
- 45:02Speaker 2: so make sure that that that you get in this
- 45:04Speaker 2: year and learn everything you know. Uh, we're gonna talk
- 45:09Speaker 2: about March madness. We're going to talk about other kinds
- 45:12Speaker 2: of stuff, but but Survivor pool and NFL Survivor is
- 45:15Speaker 2: is going to be the main focus. Hopefully this helps. Uh,
- 45:19Speaker 2: the discord channel will be open. I will do my
- 45:21Speaker 2: best to stay in there. And that's it. Good luck, everybody, h.
- 46:02Speaker 3: S mother and speak most moths, mother mons, most and
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