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- 0:04Speaker 1: All systems go.
- 0:05Speaker 2: Clear for lift-up.
- 0:35Speaker 1: What's going on, everybody? We are back talking some UFC 333.
- 0:40Speaker 1: Not a pay-per-view, obviously, since everything's on Paramount, but would
- 0:43Speaker 1: be a pay-per-view if they were still on that schedule.
- 0:47Speaker 1: 14 fights, phenomenal for DFS. A lot of closely lined fights.
- 0:51Speaker 1: As you can see, only three fights with a favorite
- 0:54Speaker 1: minus 250 or greater. Let me make sure that's right. One, two, three.
- 0:59Speaker 1: Three fights, minus 250 or greater. That means 11 fights,
- 1:03Speaker 1: all favorites minus 250 or under. which makes it tricky
- 1:06Speaker 1: for DFS. And shout out to DraftKings. They actually did
- 1:09Speaker 1: get it right, in my opinion, making some fights priced
- 1:12Speaker 1: the same. 283,7900 fights. 284,7800 price fights. Yeah, that's what
- 1:14Speaker 1: you got to do with this many closely lined fights
- 1:17Speaker 1: and 14 on the card. Otherwise, if they just went 82, 83, 84,
- 1:19Speaker 1: there'd be way too many that are just clearly mispriced
- 1:21Speaker 1: on both sides. So Shout out to DraftKings, 10 a.m.
- 1:34Speaker 1: Eastern start time in Abu Dhabi. Make sure you get
- 1:37Speaker 1: those alarms up if you're on the West Coast. If
- 1:39Speaker 1: you'll be sleeping, get your lineups in on Friday night.
- 1:41Speaker 1: But Big Marley, I'll bring you in. How are you
- 1:43Speaker 1: doing this week and thoughts on this card?
- 1:46Speaker 2: Yeah, doing good. It's a tough card, man. 14 fights.
- 1:51Speaker 2: And I don't know if I've ever seen this many
- 1:53Speaker 2: pick-em fights on a card. I feel like I usually
- 1:57Speaker 2: try to knock out a full card of research in
- 2:00Speaker 2: a day if I can. It usually takes me two days.
- 2:03Speaker 2: This card, it took me three days to finish all
- 2:05Speaker 2: my picks and my research for this one. So I
- 2:08Speaker 2: think it's a super tough one. I don't feel very
- 2:12Speaker 2: good about a lot of the fights. So I'm kind
- 2:14Speaker 2: of hoping that ownership might sway one way or another
- 2:17Speaker 2: and that can just kind of make the decisions for me.
- 2:20Speaker 2: But I think it's going to be a rough one,
- 2:21Speaker 2: and I haven't even really messed with any Saber Sim yet.
- 2:25Speaker 2: I've kind of messed around with some hand builds, but
- 2:29Speaker 2: it's going to be tough no matter how you cut it,
- 2:30Speaker 2: I think.
- 2:31Speaker 1: Yeah, most definitely. Two five-round fights, two title fights on
- 2:35Speaker 1: this card. So both Volk, Evlov, and Jan Marab are five-rounders,
- 2:39Speaker 1: so that makes it a little difficult to get away from.
- 2:42Speaker 1: But I do think there is enough. I mean, the
- 2:44Speaker 1: mid-tier is loaded. Like my broad slate, obviously those two
- 2:47Speaker 1: title fights are great. I think the mid-tier is absolutely stacked.
- 2:50Speaker 1: And we have plenty of options in the 7K range
- 2:52Speaker 1: that have good value, money line value for their price. Again,
- 2:56Speaker 1: because there are so many short favorites. So the only
- 2:59Speaker 1: one thing I've debated, are you going to stack? If
- 3:03Speaker 1: you stack to fight, I think Jan Marab is a
- 3:05Speaker 1: clear one that you would do it. Are you going
- 3:08Speaker 1: to stack that? Would you stack Volkanovsky-Iblov? And if you would,
- 3:14Speaker 1: how many teams would you need to do so?
- 3:16Speaker 2: So I actually think if I were to stack a fight,
- 3:19Speaker 2: it would be Volkanovski, Evoev, uh, just because it's right
- 3:23Speaker 2: there in the mid range. It's the one that I
- 3:25Speaker 2: have a tough time deciding between the two. Uh, so
- 3:28Speaker 2: I would just rather stack it. I really doubt that
- 3:30Speaker 2: I would, especially with 14 fights. I feel like I
- 3:33Speaker 2: would need more than 20 lineups to even think about stacking.
- 3:38Speaker 1: Uh, but I don't know.
- 3:38Speaker 2: I haven't built too many lineups yet. I mean, I
- 3:40Speaker 2: guess if I, if I was hand building lineups and
- 3:43Speaker 2: I got to 10, 11, 12, uh, And I started
- 3:46Speaker 2: duplicating lineups that I was already doing. Maybe I would
- 3:48Speaker 2: think about stacking at that point. But I would originally
- 3:52Speaker 2: start not stacking for sure on this card.
- 3:56Speaker 1: I agree. And that's how I usually go about it. But, like,
- 3:58Speaker 1: last fight, Murab and Jan. Jan scored 119. Murab lost
- 4:02Speaker 1: and scored 90. I mean, you take 90 at 7,400,
- 4:06Speaker 1: 119 at 8,800. Both of those scores could be enough.
- 4:08Speaker 1: Not guaranteed to be enough on this card, though. What's up, Jake?
- 4:12Speaker 1: Just coming from the NBA show. Good to see you
- 4:14Speaker 1: in here. YSN always in here as well. Hope everybody's
- 4:17Speaker 1: doing well. All we ask is the like button and
- 4:20Speaker 1: subscribe button. We have 14 fights to talk about, so
- 4:23Speaker 1: there's no time to waste. Bottom to top, like always,
- 4:26Speaker 1: Yasmin Lucindo, minus 350, taking in Nicole Cagliari, plus 284.
- 4:30Speaker 1: One of the most likely fights to go the distance
- 4:32Speaker 1: at minus 250. Lucindo, plus 250 inside the distance. Cagliari,
- 4:36Speaker 1: plus 700. Totally agree with you. This would be a
- 4:39Speaker 1: one-star fight for me. I will not have any In
- 4:42Speaker 1: 20 teams or less, you can find a lot better dogs,
- 4:45Speaker 1: money line inside the distance. Then a 7K Cagliari, which
- 4:48Speaker 1: would mean Lucinda would be my preferred play of having
- 4:51Speaker 1: to choose. I mean, we just saw Chukagian or whatever
- 4:55Speaker 1: her new name is get a first-round knockout. So anything's
- 4:57Speaker 1: possible in this sport. Lucinda would be fine, I guess,
- 5:01Speaker 1: but she's 9,200. In a vacuum, when you compare hers
- 5:04Speaker 1: to others in the upper tier, it is a very
- 5:06Speaker 1: difficult click. So nothing for me in this one. I
- 5:09Speaker 1: guess Lucinda, if you're playing 50 teams or more, what
- 5:12Speaker 1: do you think?
- 5:13Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just going to X out this fight. I'm
- 5:15Speaker 2: going to act like this fight doesn't exist. I'm not
- 5:18Speaker 2: going to use either side of it. I think Cagliari
- 5:21Speaker 2: is playable just because she's cheap and she won't have
- 5:24Speaker 2: any ownership. And I guess if she were to have
- 5:26Speaker 2: any edge in this fight, it would be like submission grappling.
- 5:29Speaker 2: So maybe she could lock up a sub. And Lucindo
- 5:32Speaker 2: might be coming off a PED suspension too. So who
- 5:35Speaker 2: knows if she was on some PEDs that were really
- 5:37Speaker 2: helping her out as well. But I just really think
- 5:39Speaker 2: Lucindo is the better fighter all around. and it's the $ 9, 200
- 5:43Speaker 2: that's taken me away from her. She's got five UFC
- 5:48Speaker 2: wins for 73, 94, 85, 74, 89. All those are
- 5:52Speaker 2: probably not going to cut it at $ 9, 200. So one star,
- 6:00Speaker 2: a rare one star. I feel like I've probably had
- 6:02Speaker 2: less than 10 one stars since we've been doing this.
- 6:05Speaker 2: Maybe this is getting around 10 here, but I don't
- 6:07Speaker 2: know that any one of them has ever been on
- 6:09Speaker 2: the optimal lineup, so I'm just going to X these
- 6:11Speaker 2: ones out.
- 6:12Speaker 1: Totally agree with you on that. Easy one to start
- 6:14Speaker 1: because it is an easy fade. Yeah, like these next
- 6:18Speaker 1: two fighters I'll talk about, Cody Steele or Santos. Any
- 6:20Speaker 1: Lucindo team, I can easily play Santos or Steele. And
- 6:23Speaker 1: you could argue you're only getting more upside as they
- 6:26Speaker 1: have better inside the distance props. Let's talk about this
- 6:29Speaker 1: next fight. Cody Steele, minus 158. Noah Gugnan, plus 135.
- 6:33Speaker 1: Minus 215 for this fight to finish. Steele, plus 115
- 6:36Speaker 1: inside the distance. Gugnan, plus 240. Steele in round one.
- 6:41Speaker 1: opened plus 350, now plus 325. Cody Steele also to
- 6:46Speaker 1: win by KO plus 325, but in the win by
- 6:49Speaker 1: sub open plus 400 and now plus 225. So this
- 6:54Speaker 1: is one where, yeah, minus 158 money line usually would
- 6:57Speaker 1: make someone like 8,400. He's clearly overpriced money line wise,
- 7:01Speaker 1: but plus 125 inside the distance plus 225 by sub.
- 7:05Speaker 1: That's appealing to me on a way to get different
- 7:07Speaker 1: price right next to Peter Yan in between the Volk
- 7:11Speaker 1: Anovsky fight, a solid mid-tier. I will be using some
- 7:14Speaker 1: steel as ways to get difference on this card. Yeah,
- 7:17Speaker 1: I mean, the first round submission's in play. Gugnan, opposite
- 7:21Speaker 1: of what I said with steel. His money line is
- 7:23Speaker 1: great for 7,500. His inside the distance prop's good at
- 7:26Speaker 1: plus 240. Fights minus 215 to finish. And I don't
- 7:30Speaker 1: think he gets a ton of ownership just because of
- 7:31Speaker 1: the nature of this card with Marat being 100 less.
- 7:34Speaker 1: So yeah, pretty low owned fight. That's minus 215 to finish.
- 7:38Speaker 1: I plan on being overweight this one. What about you?
- 7:41Speaker 2: Yeah, I wasn't sure on this one. I'd be fine
- 7:43Speaker 2: with this being a 2-3 or a 4-star fight. I
- 7:46Speaker 2: just think both guys are well-rounded, so it might just
- 7:49Speaker 2: play out as a 15-minute pretty close fight. And I
- 7:53Speaker 2: don't know that either guy dominates anywhere, so we might
- 7:55Speaker 2: not get a big score. But I do think Steele's
- 7:58Speaker 2: the one with the higher ceiling. He has more knockout
- 8:01Speaker 2: power on the feet. I do think he's the better wrestler.
- 8:03Speaker 2: I think he's the better submission grappler of the two.
- 8:06Speaker 2: So I like him for the ceiling. I also think,
- 8:08Speaker 2: as you mentioned, his money line might bring down the ownership.
- 8:11Speaker 2: So that's pretty cool as well. But Gagnon, he makes
- 8:15Speaker 2: sense as just a live dog. I think he can
- 8:17Speaker 2: compete with Steele anywhere. I just don't think he's as
- 8:20Speaker 2: good as Steele anywhere. But I mean, maybe Steele has
- 8:22Speaker 2: an off night and argues with his fucking girlfriend the
- 8:25Speaker 2: night before. Who knows? But Gagnon could just come out
- 8:28Speaker 2: there and really compete with Steele and put up over
- 8:30Speaker 2: a 10x score here. So I am fine with him
- 8:33Speaker 2: as an underdog when I'm just kind of searching for
- 8:35Speaker 2: dogs that I need to fit into lineups. He's definitely
- 8:37Speaker 2: in play. So I got it as a three star
- 8:39Speaker 2: just because of the I don't know factor. But once
- 8:42Speaker 2: I start building lineups, maybe I'll shift these stars around.
- 8:46Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. Like, is it going to be optimal?
- 8:49Speaker 1: I mean, who knows? There's so many high like steel
- 8:52Speaker 1: could score ninety four and then still not be optimal.
- 8:54Speaker 1: Eighty seven hundred. But I'll take my chance at relatively
- 8:58Speaker 1: low ownership in a fight. Minus 215 to finish. There's
- 9:01Speaker 1: a lot of good fights to target on this card, though,
- 9:04Speaker 1: for sure. This next one, another one that seems very,
- 9:07Speaker 1: very similar to that last fight. Daniel Santos, minus 115.
- 9:11Speaker 1: Balaji Oki, minus 101. Minus 210 for this fight to finish. Santos,
- 9:15Speaker 1: plus 125 inside the distance. Oki, plus 220. Santos in
- 9:19Speaker 1: round one, plus... Wow, Oki has the better round one prep?
- 9:24Speaker 1: I guess that's just this one book, but a little surprising.
- 9:27Speaker 1: Plus 375, Oki, plus 450. For Santos, yeah, I mean,
- 9:32Speaker 1: this fight priced right next to the steel range. Steel
- 9:35Speaker 1: and Santos pretty much have the same inside-the-distance prop. Oki
- 9:38Speaker 1: Gugnan pretty much the same inside-the-distance prop. I just feel
- 9:42Speaker 1: more confident that this will be higher paced because it's
- 9:45Speaker 1: a Daniel Santos fight. Other than that, though, props look really,
- 9:48Speaker 1: really similar. So you have this one four-star, that one three-star.
- 9:52Speaker 1: So I take it you like this fight more. How
- 9:54Speaker 1: do you think it goes down?
- 9:56Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's a really fun fight. I'm looking
- 9:58Speaker 2: forward to this one. I like Oki more than Gugnan
- 10:02Speaker 2: because for the same reasons, I think he's a live
- 10:04Speaker 2: dog with the money line on his side. I also
- 10:08Speaker 2: think he's just more talented. I think he's a good wrestler.
- 10:10Speaker 2: I think he's good everywhere. My issue with Oki is
- 10:14Speaker 2: his chin, and he's dropping down from 155 pounds to
- 10:16Speaker 2: 145 pounds here. And he was a big 155 or so.
- 10:21Speaker 2: I don't even know how he's going to look at 145.
- 10:23Speaker 2: But that chin issue at 155 worries me even more
- 10:27Speaker 2: at 145. So I actually picked Oki to win almost
- 10:31Speaker 2: any time I pick an underdog to win. I'm putting
- 10:33Speaker 2: a four stars on them and two on the other.
- 10:35Speaker 2: But I am so worried about his chin that I
- 10:37Speaker 2: put as a three and three because I just think
- 10:39Speaker 2: Santos is really good everywhere as well. He can compete
- 10:42Speaker 2: with volume. I think he can mix in wrestling just
- 10:45Speaker 2: as well as Oki can. Uh, maybe I would trust
- 10:48Speaker 2: his cardio even more, especially with Okie dropping so much weight,
- 10:51Speaker 2: but I trust his durability more than I trust Okie's
- 10:54Speaker 2: and he's got knockout power. He's also got volume that
- 10:57Speaker 2: could just kind of drown Okie, uh, and knock him
- 11:00Speaker 2: out late. So I just like both sides of this fight. Um,
- 11:03Speaker 2: this is actually closer to a five star than a
- 11:06Speaker 2: three star for me. So I'm going to be pretty
- 11:08Speaker 2: heavy on both sides of this fight. Uh, I'm not
- 11:11Speaker 2: really sure which one I like more. I would imagine
- 11:13Speaker 2: if I'm hand-building Okie, I would like Oki more since
- 11:16Speaker 2: he's a dog I'm picking to win. So that's probably
- 11:18Speaker 2: where I would start with other favorites that I really
- 11:20Speaker 2: like more as well. But, man, I just think Santos
- 11:23Speaker 2: is alive to knock him out in any round and
- 11:25Speaker 2: put up 110 points.
- 11:28Speaker 1: Yeah, this one's definitely tough. Let me check his submission
- 11:32Speaker 1: prop too in Daniel Santos. Plus 450 to win by sub. So, yeah,
- 11:37Speaker 1: on the feet, it's going to be really pretty competitive.
- 11:40Speaker 1: Oki and Santos, if it does get to the mat, though,
- 11:42Speaker 1: Santos definitely– A big advantage. Yeah, I mean, like in
- 11:46Speaker 1: the vacuum, give me Oki for 1K less at pretty
- 11:48Speaker 1: much a coin flip. But I do think ownership will
- 11:51Speaker 1: lead that way. And Santos will be relatively low owned
- 11:54Speaker 1: at 8,600 because he's only minus 115 money line. But again,
- 11:57Speaker 1: we're hunting for upside. Both of these guys have a
- 12:00Speaker 1: ton of upside in what should be a very high
- 12:02Speaker 1: paced and fun fight. So I like this fight a lot.
- 12:04Speaker 1: I do like this fight more than Steel Gugnan. But
- 12:07Speaker 1: I also think this fight's higher owned than that fight
- 12:10Speaker 1: as well. All right, keep rolling. Next fight on the card.
- 12:15Speaker 1: Abubakar Vagiev minus 149 taking on Jacob Malkun plus 127
- 12:22Speaker 1: plus 195 for this fight to finish both guys plus
- 12:26Speaker 1: 385 inside the distance yeah you can see I put
- 12:29Speaker 1: these odds up on Tuesday Vagiev was minus 172 yesterday
- 12:34Speaker 1: he opened minus 275 now he's all the way down
- 12:37Speaker 1: to minus 149 a day later I'm a big Jacob
- 12:40Speaker 1: Malkun guy I don't know if I've ever picked against
- 12:43Speaker 1: him So I like to see the money coming in
- 12:45Speaker 1: on him. I'm picking Jacob Malkoon in this fight. He's $ 1, 600 cheaper.
- 12:49Speaker 1: Both guys are primary wrestlers though. And man, I do
- 12:52Speaker 1: not see Jacob Malkoon get out wrestled very often. Even
- 12:55Speaker 1: his loss to Brendan Allen. Like Malkoon won that fight
- 12:58Speaker 1: in my opinion. I don't know how he lost. Vagiev
- 13:01Speaker 1: wants to wrestle. Malkoon wants to wrestle. Vagiev $ 1, 600 more expensive.
- 13:07Speaker 1: This fight exposed or expected to go the distance. All
- 13:10Speaker 1: of this leads to Malkoon or bust in my opinion. Um,
- 13:14Speaker 1: with that being said though, I guess like, do you
- 13:16Speaker 1: think that gives a better wrestler? Is it possible? Can
- 13:18Speaker 1: he get three, four, five, six takedowns for 13 minutes
- 13:21Speaker 1: of control time? Cause that was my worry that I
- 13:23Speaker 1: wasn't going to fully X them out. And maybe just
- 13:26Speaker 1: Malcolm met, met his match in terms of a better wrestler.
- 13:29Speaker 1: But I do like to see line movement going the
- 13:31Speaker 1: way that I wanted Malcolm, my preferred play, but definitely
- 13:33Speaker 1: ears on this one.
- 13:36Speaker 2: Yeah, this is my, my threes all the way around.
- 13:38Speaker 2: I just don't know on this fight. They're both wrestle
- 13:41Speaker 2: heavy type of fighters. Um, I do think we're going
- 13:45Speaker 2: to get a full 15 minutes of this one where
- 13:47Speaker 2: both guys do land takedowns. I don't know who the
- 13:50Speaker 2: better wrestler is, but I think the guy have probably
- 13:52Speaker 2: is the better wrestler. He looks like the stronger wrestler
- 13:54Speaker 2: to me. I also think he is the, um, maybe
- 13:58Speaker 2: the more dangerous striker just based on his flurries on
- 14:01Speaker 2: the feet. And then Malcolm looks like the better minute
- 14:03Speaker 2: winner just over the course of 15 minutes on the feet.
- 14:06Speaker 2: And that is my worries that just two wrestlers turn
- 14:08Speaker 2: into a striking match and it's going to be a
- 14:10Speaker 2: boring 15 minutes. Um, then I would rate it under
- 14:13Speaker 2: a three star. I really wouldn't want to touch either side.
- 14:16Speaker 2: It would be dog or pass because I do think
- 14:18Speaker 2: Malcolm's just live in a striking match. But the only
- 14:20Speaker 2: way this fight ends up on the optimal lineup is
- 14:24Speaker 2: if one of these guys wins with wrestling and it
- 14:27Speaker 2: could be either one. So I'm just not sure. I
- 14:29Speaker 2: guess I would rather side with the underdog, but, uh,
- 14:32Speaker 2: I am picking the guy up to win. I just
- 14:34Speaker 2: think he is the Um, more, I don't know about
- 14:39Speaker 2: more proven just cause it's the first UFC fight, but
- 14:41Speaker 2: he's had a lot more UFC fights and he just
- 14:43Speaker 2: looks like the, the fighter that ends in a V that,
- 14:47Speaker 2: that would wrestle heavier than, than, uh, an Australian.
- 14:51Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, I can't argue that last point, but man,
- 14:53Speaker 1: Jacob Malcolm, he, he knows his body weight and, um,
- 14:58Speaker 1: his opponent's body weight and how to maneuver that so well. He's,
- 15:02Speaker 1: which is not someone that I pick against nowadays. But
- 15:04Speaker 1: I don't know much about this Vagiev. What I do know, though,
- 15:07Speaker 1: is Malkun's $ 1, 600 cheaper. Money's coming in on him, and $ 82, 000
- 15:12Speaker 1: might be enough for him, whereas $ 82, 000 is not enough
- 15:14Speaker 1: for Vagiev. So definitely Malkun. Or pass for the most part,
- 15:18Speaker 1: but maybe I'll keep him in the pool, cap him
- 15:20Speaker 1: at like 10%, since both these guys do want to wrestle.
- 15:23Speaker 1: And if I am wrong, Vagiev does have some upside there.
- 15:27Speaker 1: Let's get to the biggest favorite and highest-priced fighter on
- 15:31Speaker 1: the card. Asav Shapiro minus 600, taking on Kobe Thickness,
- 15:35Speaker 1: plus 451. Minus 210 for this fight to finish. Shapiro
- 15:39Speaker 1: minus 210 inside the distance. Thickness plus 1150. Shapiro round
- 15:44Speaker 1: one plus 150. I mean, I'm definitely not playing Kobe
- 15:47Speaker 1: Thickness on this card. It is Shapiro or pass. The
- 15:51Speaker 1: problem is, though, he's 9,500, which is the most on
- 15:54Speaker 1: the slate. Now, you can fit 9,500, I think, a
- 15:56Speaker 1: lot easier on this card than most cards. I just
- 15:59Speaker 1: worry that a lot of when you plug in Choparov,
- 16:01Speaker 1: when you plug in both five-round fights, and if you
- 16:04Speaker 1: go to like Blagi, Oki, or something, a lot of
- 16:07Speaker 1: those lineups will look similar. So definitely can play him.
- 16:11Speaker 1: When you play him, though, still try and get different
- 16:13Speaker 1: in some way. Leave money, mix in a low-owned fighter
- 16:16Speaker 1: or two, fade a five-round fight. But yeah, I think
- 16:19Speaker 1: we have money on this card to do it. Since
- 16:20Speaker 1: I like the mid-tier and enough dogs, I definitely will
- 16:22Speaker 1: be playing some of him. How do you compare him
- 16:25Speaker 1: versus Yakyev? For $ 100 less, and then, yeah, what do
- 16:28Speaker 1: you think? How do you think this fight goes down?
- 16:31Speaker 2: See, I have this as a four-star because I like
- 16:34Speaker 2: him less than Yakyaev, and he's $ 100 more. Makes sense.
- 16:37Speaker 2: I mean, he's a smaller guy. I think Chaparov is
- 16:42Speaker 2: a solid-looking fighter. I think he looks like kind of
- 16:45Speaker 2: the full package. He looks good everywhere. I do imagine
- 16:48Speaker 2: he's going to be the better striker in this one,
- 16:50Speaker 2: the better submission grappler. Both guys can wrestle, though, and
- 16:55Speaker 2: I would play some thickness if I was MMEing on
- 16:58Speaker 2: this one because $ 6, 700 is really cheap. I mean, usually,
- 17:01Speaker 2: I mean, we've already marked out Lucindo and Vagayev at
- 17:05Speaker 2: big prices. Usually when you're paying $ 6, 700, it's because you're
- 17:08Speaker 2: trying to get up to these guys that are expensive.
- 17:10Speaker 2: So I might not need him, but if thickness wins
- 17:13Speaker 2: this fight against an unproven Chaparov, thickness is a wrestler
- 17:18Speaker 2: and I think it would come with a lot of
- 17:19Speaker 2: takedowns throughout the three rounds. So I would keep him
- 17:23Speaker 2: in my player pool. But I do like chopper off
- 17:27Speaker 2: just to be better everywhere. I just don't trust him
- 17:29Speaker 2: as much as this minus five, five, five line here.
- 17:32Speaker 1: It's minus 600 now.
- 17:35Speaker 2: I feel like it was even lower when I was
- 17:38Speaker 2: doing it. When I was doing it, it was, I
- 17:41Speaker 2: gotta find it.
- 17:42Speaker 1: Yeah. He opened minus two 75. Uh, let's see. Just
- 17:46Speaker 1: a couple of days ago was minus four 75. I mean,
- 17:49Speaker 1: money's only gone against them. I'll say Kobe thickness is
- 17:52Speaker 1: a really, really tough click on this slate. Yeah. I mean,
- 17:55Speaker 1: I agree. Love over him. Cree love has a better
- 17:58Speaker 1: money line by like almost a full dollar. And like
- 18:02Speaker 1: it Cree love like a plus 1150 for thickness inside
- 18:05Speaker 1: the distance. Cree loves plus four 50. Like that's a,
- 18:08Speaker 1: and their ownership will be similar, but you said a
- 18:11Speaker 1: thickness with, do you think it'll be heavy wrestling? So.
- 18:13Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that would be his only real path
- 18:16Speaker 2: would be to wrestle and keep a lot of top control.
- 18:19Speaker 2: I mean, in DraftKings, that's what you want. But yeah,
- 18:21Speaker 2: my hand builds, I doubt it would be him. It
- 18:23Speaker 2: would probably be Choperov. And I think you can get
- 18:25Speaker 2: Choperov and Yakiaev both into lineups this week. No problem.
- 18:29Speaker 2: Usually they're higher than these prices, I feel like, lately anyways.
- 18:33Speaker 2: So I still like both guys. I only put him
- 18:35Speaker 2: as this fight as a four-star because Yakiaev is cheaper
- 18:39Speaker 2: than him. But, yeah, give me Chopperov. I think he
- 18:42Speaker 2: does win inside the distance. He could get a knockout,
- 18:45Speaker 2: could be a submission. I also think it could be
- 18:47Speaker 2: a fun 15-minute fight, and he could put up a
- 18:49Speaker 2: competitive score in the decision. But I think we do
- 18:52Speaker 2: need a finish for him to really put a stamp
- 18:55Speaker 2: on the optimal lineup. But give me Chopperov. I think
- 18:57Speaker 2: he's a good prospect to watch.
- 19:00Speaker 1: I like it. Definitely Chopperov or pass for me. Next
- 19:04Speaker 1: fight on the card, Grant Dawson taking on Nur Aliyev.
- 19:07Speaker 1: Pretty much a coin flip. I'm seeing minus 107 Dawson,
- 19:10Speaker 1: minus 109 Aliyev. Plus 150 for this fight to finish. Dawson,
- 19:14Speaker 1: plus 275 inside the distance. Aliyev, plus 375. This is
- 19:19Speaker 1: the first fight that we're talking about in the mid-tier. Again,
- 19:22Speaker 1: it is expected to go the distance. We have a
- 19:24Speaker 1: lot of great mid-tier fights. Abus Kamraustin, expected to finish mid-tier.
- 19:28Speaker 1: Piko Keita, mid-tier fight, expected to finish. Volkov Kunyev, I think,
- 19:32Speaker 1: is a bust. And then we have Temurov Lani. Mid-tier
- 19:36Speaker 1: fight expected to finish Volkanovskiy, Evlov, obviously with five rounds
- 19:40Speaker 1: and wrestling upside. So I think we need big boy
- 19:43Speaker 1: upside in the mid-tier. You can see yesterday this was
- 19:47Speaker 1: minus 120 plus 103, and now Aliyev's a small guy. favorite,
- 19:50Speaker 1: so he's taking money. For me, though, it's Grant Dawson
- 19:53Speaker 1: or pass, I think, and mainly will probably be a pass.
- 19:56Speaker 1: If I just think I need 100 plus in the mid-tier,
- 19:58Speaker 1: I think Dawson has more outs due to his heavy
- 20:01Speaker 1: wrestling style and grappling style to get that. Aliyev also
- 20:04Speaker 1: a wrestler as well, as you can see, but I
- 20:07Speaker 1: think he's going to probably keep it on the feet more.
- 20:09Speaker 1: I just think Grant Dawson's the better wrestler. Tell me
- 20:11Speaker 1: if I'm wrong, though, because I want the guy who
- 20:14Speaker 1: I think's the better, more willing wrestler in this fight
- 20:17Speaker 1: if I'm going to play anyone. But I don't love
- 20:19Speaker 1: it relative to most mid-tier fights.
- 20:22Speaker 2: I do like it just because both guys are wrestlers,
- 20:25Speaker 2: and I do expect both of them to want to
- 20:27Speaker 2: get the fight to the ground and might just be
- 20:29Speaker 2: first one to get it there. I think round one,
- 20:32Speaker 2: Aliyev is the better wrestler. Um, and maybe he can
- 20:36Speaker 2: continue that for three rounds, but I do like just
- 20:40Speaker 2: Dawson's pace and cardio more than Alia's. I think Alia
- 20:43Speaker 2: wins round one, but Dawson's not going to make it
- 20:46Speaker 2: easy on him. He's going to make him scramble. He's
- 20:48Speaker 2: going to be getting back up, making Alia get multiple
- 20:50Speaker 2: takedowns in that first round. And I think Dawson can,
- 20:54Speaker 2: can keep that same pace for three rounds, but I
- 20:56Speaker 2: expect Alia to start to slow down as the fight
- 20:59Speaker 2: moves along. If it stays standing, um, Uh, maybe Ali
- 21:03Speaker 2: is more, uh, skilled striker, but Dawson's got like that Marab, uh,
- 21:09Speaker 2: type of pace where he could just not stop and
- 21:12Speaker 2: just keep throwing strikes. I think that would be better
- 21:14Speaker 2: than Ali of striking. Cause I don't think either one
- 21:17Speaker 2: of these guys are getting a knockout and same thing
- 21:19Speaker 2: as the guy of Malcolm fight. If we're stuck with
- 21:22Speaker 2: a 15 minute striking match here, it's just going to suck.
- 21:25Speaker 2: So we do need these guys to grapple, not only
- 21:27Speaker 2: for a good score, but for a good time. Uh,
- 21:30Speaker 2: and I, I like Dawson's overall pace and cardio for
- 21:34Speaker 2: 15 minutes more. I think rounds two and rounds three
- 21:37Speaker 2: start to shift to Dawson. And maybe you're right. Maybe
- 21:40Speaker 2: he is the better wrestler. Maybe he wins all three rounds.
- 21:42Speaker 2: So I prefer Dawson. I'm probably going to be overweight Dawson.
- 21:47Speaker 2: And then I don't want to get burned on Aliyev as,
- 21:49Speaker 2: I mean, he could be a possible favorite by the
- 21:51Speaker 2: time the fight kicks off at $ 7, 700 as a primary
- 21:55Speaker 2: wrestler himself. So I probably want to be around the
- 21:57Speaker 2: field on Aliyev.
- 22:00Speaker 1: Sounds good. You have a little more interest in this
- 22:02Speaker 1: fight than me, but it makes sense when both guys
- 22:04Speaker 1: average about three and a half takedowns per 15 minutes.
- 22:08Speaker 1: All right, we're going to keep it rolling. Next fight
- 22:09Speaker 1: on the card, good mid-tier fight. Abus Magomedov, minus 123.
- 22:13Speaker 1: Cam Roustan, plus 105. Minus 190 for this fight to finish. Roustan,
- 22:18Speaker 1: plus 170 inside the distance. Abus, plus 175. I mean,
- 22:23Speaker 1: this fight is really difficult for me because I think
- 22:26Speaker 1: they're both very similar in a lot of ways. The
- 22:28Speaker 1: one thing I'm kind of confident in is I think
- 22:31Speaker 1: Roustan has better cardio and the fight can favor him
- 22:35Speaker 1: the longer it goes. But, I mean, Abus, he hasn't
- 22:38Speaker 1: gassed too much. And we saw it in the Strickland fight,
- 22:40Speaker 1: but Strict Daddy always puts on a pace on guys.
- 22:43Speaker 1: But both guys, their sub props, their KO props, their
- 22:46Speaker 1: round one props are all very, very similar. So it
- 22:50Speaker 1: looks like two pretty evenly matched guys. I'm on the
- 22:53Speaker 1: Roustan side of choosing just because he's $ 600 cheaper. Any
- 22:57Speaker 1: of Booth's team, I can just go to Roustan. I'm
- 22:59Speaker 1: not giving up anything. That's about the only reason, though,
- 23:01Speaker 1: that I'm favoring him. Because, again, I look at both
- 23:05Speaker 1: these guys as very similar, as do the books. Talk
- 23:08Speaker 1: me into one side of this one, Big Marley, or
- 23:10Speaker 1: how you think the fight goes.
- 23:13Speaker 2: So I think both sides are playable in this one.
- 23:17Speaker 2: Because round one, I do like Magomedov. I think he's
- 23:20Speaker 2: the more talented fighter. I think he's more dangerous in
- 23:23Speaker 2: round one. I think he's probably just a better all-around
- 23:26Speaker 2: striker in round one. I think he's a better wrestler,
- 23:29Speaker 2: more likely to get a submission. And then I think
- 23:32Speaker 2: he's more likely to guess. So round two and round three,
- 23:35Speaker 2: I start to think the talent everywhere starts to shift
- 23:37Speaker 2: to Ralston. Ralston might be more likely to get the knockout,
- 23:40Speaker 2: more likely to get the submission. So if Abus wins
- 23:44Speaker 2: in round one, he's going to put up a big score.
- 23:46Speaker 2: If Ralston wins in general, he can compete for the
- 23:49Speaker 2: optimal lineup. So I just like both sides. My worry
- 23:52Speaker 2: would be that it is mainly a striking match and
- 23:54Speaker 2: it goes the distance. I just don't know that either
- 23:58Speaker 2: side will put up a big score. So I think
- 24:00Speaker 2: four stars is pretty solid in this one. And just
- 24:03Speaker 2: the case for both guys made me put it three
- 24:05Speaker 2: and three. I really don't even know who I picked
- 24:08Speaker 2: to win this one. I did it on Saturday. Let
- 24:11Speaker 2: me check.
- 24:11Speaker 1: Let's see. You're a boost guy, I feel like.
- 24:15Speaker 2: Cam Roustan by Split.
- 24:17Speaker 1: All right. I mean, Split's decision is not going to
- 24:19Speaker 1: be optimal. We know that. So if this fight does
- 24:21Speaker 1: go the distance, but it is minus 192 finish. I'm
- 24:25Speaker 1: excited for this one. I think it's a very solid
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- 25:54Speaker 1: get back to the fights. Abdul, Yakiaev, second biggest favorite
- 26:01Speaker 1: and second highest price on the card at minus 475,
- 26:03Speaker 1: taking on Nikita Krylov, plus 371. Most likely fight to
- 26:07Speaker 1: finish at minus 1,000. Yakiaev, minus 400 inside the distance. Krylov,
- 26:12Speaker 1: plus 450. Yakiaev, round one, open plus 100, now minus 175.
- 26:19Speaker 1: What I will say is if Yakiaev gets a knockout
- 26:22Speaker 1: or submission or whatever in a minute and eight seconds,
- 26:24Speaker 1: I would much rather... go with, what's his nuts? Shapiro
- 26:30Speaker 1: for 100 more. If he gets end of round one
- 26:34Speaker 1: knockout or submission, you probably prefer Yakiev. He's definitely way
- 26:38Speaker 1: more alive for that first minute bonus. But I'm worried
- 26:40Speaker 1: he just starches them or puts them out in just
- 26:42Speaker 1: over a minute. And that's not necessarily what you want
- 26:45Speaker 1: on this card. But yeah, he should dominate Krylov, who
- 26:48Speaker 1: I definitely am worried about his durability nowadays. Yakiev looks
- 26:52Speaker 1: like a monster. Krylov, I'm not playing Krylov or thickness
- 26:57Speaker 1: with 20 teams or less. They're just way other dogs
- 26:59Speaker 1: I prefer that I think are more likely to win.
- 27:01Speaker 1: But if Krylov does win, Yakov teams go down. Krylov
- 27:05Speaker 1: has to pretty much be optimal, I think. What do
- 27:07Speaker 1: you think of this one?
- 27:09Speaker 2: I think I might be all in on Yakov. I
- 27:11Speaker 2: have just $ 9, 400 going into this. I kind of figured
- 27:14Speaker 2: he would be like a 96, maybe even $ 9, 700 like
- 27:20Speaker 2: I guess you can't with all the pick'em type of fights,
- 27:22Speaker 2: but based on the salaries we've had lately, these big
- 27:25Speaker 2: favorites are usually really expensive. I like $ 9, 400. I mean,
- 27:29Speaker 2: he averages 120 plus points. 124 points on DraftKings in
- 27:36Speaker 2: three fights. I think he's super alive for a first
- 27:39Speaker 2: round knockout. Krylov's last three losses, all by knockout. I
- 27:45Speaker 2: think this is just a fight that the UFC wants
- 27:48Speaker 2: Yakiaev to win. I think there's really nothing that we've seen.
- 27:52Speaker 2: There's no flaws on this guy yet. I mean, maybe
- 27:55Speaker 2: cry love can expose them a little bit here, but
- 27:57Speaker 2: I just don't think this is the case. I think
- 27:59Speaker 2: Yaki I have to get a takedown, finish them on
- 28:01Speaker 2: the ground in the first round or get a knockout
- 28:03Speaker 2: in the first 60 seconds, grab up another quick win bonus.
- 28:06Speaker 2: So I, um, hand building, I'm starting probably every lineup
- 28:11Speaker 2: with Yaki. I have, that's, that's my plan on this card.
- 28:13Speaker 2: Not going to play any cry love. If I was
- 28:15Speaker 2: going one 50, uh, Sure, I'll keep Krylov and thickness
- 28:19Speaker 2: in play, but I feel like I need more than
- 28:21Speaker 2: 20 lineups to get there. And I doubt I do that.
- 28:24Speaker 2: I doubt I do it on this card, but who knows?
- 28:26Speaker 2: I mean, with all these pick them fights, maybe I'll
- 28:28Speaker 2: just have no good lineups I can hand build. And
- 28:31Speaker 2: I just got to, you know, leave it up to
- 28:33Speaker 2: the optimizer, but we'll see.
- 28:36Speaker 1: Yeah, you definitely have way more interest in Yakov than
- 28:39Speaker 1: I do. But I also just think like any Yakov team,
- 28:42Speaker 1: I'm fine going to Mirzakhanov. I'm fine going to A boost,
- 28:46Speaker 1: I'm fine going to... Man, that's the hard part. When
- 28:50Speaker 1: I don't go that, I guess I'm just spamming mid-tier,
- 28:53Speaker 1: like Peter Jan, Volk, the Pico fight. I guess it
- 28:58Speaker 1: really comes down to, yeah, Yaka is going to be
- 29:01Speaker 1: higher owned than probably people expect, just because Lucindo is
- 29:05Speaker 1: not really appealing, and there's just not that many 9k options,
- 29:09Speaker 1: and it's relatively easy to fit on this card. So
- 29:11Speaker 1: they're going to be higher owned than usual, That almost
- 29:15Speaker 1: might make me actually like Choperov more than Yakiaev, since
- 29:19Speaker 1: I do think Yakiaev is going to be a bit
- 29:21Speaker 1: higher on due to his 100 savings and a much
- 29:25Speaker 1: better inside the distance prop. But yeah, I got no
- 29:27Speaker 1: holes to poke in Yakiaev. Really just comes down to
- 29:29Speaker 1: building good lineups when you do play him. Next fight
- 29:33Speaker 1: on the card, another solid fight. Definitely excited for this
- 29:37Speaker 1: one in real life. Asmat Merzakanov, minus 205. 205, Dominic
- 29:40Speaker 1: Reyes plus 173, minus 400 for this fight to finish.
- 29:44Speaker 1: Merzakanov minus 150 inside the distance. Reyes plus 265, Merzakanov
- 29:49Speaker 1: round one plus 170. I do think more than likely
- 29:53Speaker 1: we probably need a first round finish from Merzakanov to
- 29:56Speaker 1: be optimal. Plus 170, that was 37%. And I wouldn't
- 30:00Speaker 1: be surprised if Mirzakhanov came in about half of that
- 30:03Speaker 1: or somewhere around like 20%. So just because of that,
- 30:07Speaker 1: and like I said, not as many 9K options that
- 30:09Speaker 1: I love, Mirzakhanov will be a play for me. He
- 30:12Speaker 1: hits like a truck, and Dominic Reyes has been knocked
- 30:14Speaker 1: out in four of his five losses. So the path
- 30:17Speaker 1: is very clear. And I like Dominic Reyes too. And actually,
- 30:20Speaker 1: I like Reyes more than Mirzakhanov just because he's 1,800 cheaper.
- 30:24Speaker 1: And he's a live dog that I think is going
- 30:26Speaker 1: to be pretty low owned. But if he wins, he
- 30:28Speaker 1: has plenty of upside since then. Yeah, he is 36 nowadays,
- 30:32Speaker 1: but he can still hit like a truck. It takes
- 30:34Speaker 1: one straight left to put anyone down. So yeah, both
- 30:39Speaker 1: guys in play for me. Both live for knockout at
- 30:42Speaker 1: any time, but neither are going to wrestle. And there's
- 30:44Speaker 1: a chance they both respect each other's power. And if
- 30:47Speaker 1: this fight gets into the second round, for sure the
- 30:49Speaker 1: third round, it's probably going to bust on both sides.
- 30:52Speaker 1: So I just think ownership's low for a fight that's
- 30:55Speaker 1: minus 400 to finish. So I'm going to play some
- 30:57Speaker 1: naturally that way, but Plenty of routes, Mirzakhanov gets a
- 31:01Speaker 1: second-round finish and is an optimal. So don't go too all-in.
- 31:07Speaker 1: What do you think?
- 31:07Speaker 2: Yeah, I actually think capping Mirzakhanov at his round one
- 31:10Speaker 2: odds makes sense to me. I wouldn't want him if
- 31:13Speaker 2: I knew the fight was going to make it at
- 31:14Speaker 2: a round one. I mean, he's almost done nothing but win.
- 31:17Speaker 2: He's only got one UFC loss.
- 31:20Speaker 1: Great fight last one against Costa, too. Costa looked career best. Yeah, true.
- 31:25Speaker 2: I mean, Mirzakhanov didn't look great, I guess.
- 31:28Speaker 1: No.
- 31:29Speaker 2: Um, really one, two, three, six wins in the UFC. Uh,
- 31:34Speaker 2: he's got one Oh one, one 12, a hundred 73, 96,
- 31:37Speaker 2: 72 at nine K. I feel like only that one
- 31:43Speaker 2: 12 is the only one that's really not even guaranteed,
- 31:46Speaker 2: but likely to be on the optimal lineup. And that
- 31:50Speaker 2: was a first rounder. Um, so yeah, I just would
- 31:52Speaker 2: not want him at all. If it got out of
- 31:54Speaker 2: the first round. And I think Reyes is more talented,
- 31:57Speaker 2: more athletic, uh, Then Mirza kind of, I think he
- 32:00Speaker 2: could be light on his feet and, and look good.
- 32:02Speaker 2: It's just that he, he hasn't looked good in a while.
- 32:05Speaker 2: I think Reyes is actually washed. Mirza kind of just,
- 32:09Speaker 2: he looks more durable, more powerful, more trustworthy. I am
- 32:12Speaker 2: picking Mirza kind of to win by knockout or a
- 32:16Speaker 2: boring decision, which I really wouldn't want them in that case.
- 32:20Speaker 2: But I do think Reyes is live. Reyes is the cheapest.
- 32:24Speaker 2: I would want to be overweight on though. So I
- 32:26Speaker 2: am cool getting Reyes exposure. even if I was making
- 32:29Speaker 2: 10 or less lineups, I would still probably want to
- 32:32Speaker 2: squeeze in a Reyes lineup in there. Cause I do think,
- 32:35Speaker 2: I think he's really, really live in this fight. I mean, what,
- 32:39Speaker 2: like what? Four years ago, I'm picking them to win
- 32:42Speaker 2: this fight.
- 32:43Speaker 1: Right.
- 32:43Speaker 2: I mean, I, I, I liked Reyes a lot back
- 32:46Speaker 2: in the day. It's just, it looks like, I mean,
- 32:48Speaker 2: it looks like Krylov now, I guess, but yeah, give
- 32:51Speaker 2: me a Mersa Kanov to get a knockout.
- 32:54Speaker 1: I think Reyes has a little more juice left in
- 32:56Speaker 1: the tank than Krylov, but, We'll see this week. Good strikers, Matt. But, yeah,
- 33:01Speaker 1: the longer the fight goes, the more it's going to
- 33:03Speaker 1: hurt Mirzakhanov for sure for DFS. Needs that first-round knockout.
- 33:07Speaker 1: More than likely, that's why I'm capping him there. But
- 33:09Speaker 1: 37% is his chance at a first-round knockout. Again, that
- 33:12Speaker 1: will be a lot higher than his ownership. Let's get to, ooh,
- 33:16Speaker 1: a five-star. Big Marley's second five-star fight, and he only
- 33:20Speaker 1: has four on this card. Two of them are the
- 33:22Speaker 1: five-round main and co-main events. So this is the other
- 33:25Speaker 1: one besides Yakayev. We got Aaron Pico sitting at minus 130,
- 33:29Speaker 1: losing Kata plus 111, minus 190 for this fight to finish. Kata,
- 33:35Speaker 1: the underdog, better inside the distance prop at plus 135
- 33:38Speaker 1: versus Pico, who's plus 225. I mean, I like that too. Kata, 7,900
- 33:43Speaker 1: as the better inside the distance prop. If he wins,
- 33:46Speaker 1: he's probably knocking out Pico and doing it probably pretty violently.
- 33:50Speaker 1: On the other side, even though Pico has the worst
- 33:52Speaker 1: inside the distance prop, He's going to be smart if
- 33:54Speaker 1: he puts on the wrestling shoes to avoid the striking
- 33:57Speaker 1: with Keita, and that leads to a lot of upside.
- 34:00Speaker 1: In addition to Pico also, if he feints takedowns, comes
- 34:03Speaker 1: in with an overhand right, he also has a lot
- 34:06Speaker 1: of power himself, absolutely jacked. It's a great fight. I
- 34:10Speaker 1: see why you have it as a five-star. I will
- 34:13Speaker 1: not make a rule for Volk Evo to have 100%.
- 34:16Speaker 1: Part of that reason is, I think this Pico fight,
- 34:19Speaker 1: I think Roustan Abus, and I think Okie Santos can, uh,
- 34:25Speaker 1: can outscore those fights. So, um, yeah, I think this is,
- 34:28Speaker 1: if you aren't playing Evlov or Volk, I think this
- 34:31Speaker 1: is a fight you most definitely want to get to
- 34:32Speaker 1: great fight. Who do you think wins? How do you
- 34:34Speaker 1: have it?
- 34:36Speaker 2: I love this fight, uh, real life DFS wise. I
- 34:39Speaker 2: can't wait for this one. I think it's an awesome fight. Pico,
- 34:43Speaker 2: one of the most talented fighters really in the UFC.
- 34:45Speaker 2: I love his striking, his boxing, his, his power on
- 34:48Speaker 2: the feet. Um, and, He's an even better wrestler. It's
- 34:52Speaker 2: just that his biggest flaw has always been his chin.
- 34:56Speaker 2: And Kieta is a disgusting striker where he can knock
- 35:01Speaker 2: out anybody. I mean, one shot could be all it takes.
- 35:04Speaker 2: He could knock out Pico in the first 60 seconds,
- 35:07Speaker 2: and you know he's on the optimal lineup. So Kieta's
- 35:10Speaker 2: live for a knockout just with one punch in any
- 35:13Speaker 2: given round. So he's in play as an underdog. For
- 35:18Speaker 2: that reason, for sure. He is a good striker, too.
- 35:20Speaker 2: Not just power. He's a good striker, too. But Pico, man,
- 35:24Speaker 2: if we're turning knockouts off, I think Pico could definitely
- 35:27Speaker 2: hang with him in a striking match and maybe even
- 35:29Speaker 2: win it. Pico's live to get a knockout of his own, too.
- 35:32Speaker 2: I just if I'm his coach, we're not striking in
- 35:35Speaker 2: this matchup. Pico, we're striking in the next matchup. But
- 35:38Speaker 2: this is the one we're going to go out there
- 35:40Speaker 2: and wrestle and look like a minus 400 favorite. Um,
- 35:44Speaker 2: and if we don't even need to worry about our chin,
- 35:46Speaker 2: if we're on the ground here. So, uh, that's what
- 35:48Speaker 2: I'm picking to happen is Pico actually wrestles in this
- 35:51Speaker 2: fight rather than comes out and looks for a fight
- 35:54Speaker 2: of the night paycheck. Uh, so I do want to
- 35:56Speaker 2: be overweight to Pico, but his range is like zero
- 36:00Speaker 2: points to 120. Uh, so I, I put it as
- 36:04Speaker 2: a three and three for that reason. And I do,
- 36:06Speaker 2: I am so worried about that knockout. Um, And, I mean,
- 36:09Speaker 2: at 8,300, any favorite with zero points, you might as
- 36:12Speaker 2: well just chalk that 25 bucks up or whatever. It's
- 36:14Speaker 2: 25 this week. I mean, it'll be gone at that point.
- 36:17Speaker 2: So three and three, but in my heart of hearts,
- 36:20Speaker 2: it's a four-stars Pico, two-stars Kieta, and that's how I
- 36:23Speaker 2: will be hand-building.
- 36:24Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, yeah, but if Pico loses, you're probably
- 36:27Speaker 1: not winning that line if you're getting zero back. That's
- 36:29Speaker 1: why I think MMA is an MME game because if
- 36:31Speaker 1: you had 20 lineups and you really love this fight,
- 36:34Speaker 1: want to go all in and go 10 and 10,
- 36:35Speaker 1: 10 of your lineups are dead, but 10 of them,
- 36:38Speaker 1: if the fight goes how you think are absolutely looking
- 36:40Speaker 1: really good. And that'd be over like 50% of your
- 36:44Speaker 1: lineups being live is, is always good. So yeah, I
- 36:48Speaker 1: think it's a great fight. I'm not going to make
- 36:49Speaker 1: rule to have a hundred percent with how good the
- 36:51Speaker 1: mid tier is and the two, five rounders later, but
- 36:54Speaker 1: it is one of my favorite fights to target on
- 36:55Speaker 1: the card for sure. And easy to leave money when
- 36:58Speaker 1: you do. So one of my favorite fights to one
- 37:02Speaker 1: of my least favorite fights, Alexander Volkov minus one 21
- 37:05Speaker 1: Rizvan Kina Kunia plus one Oh four Plus 160 for
- 37:09Speaker 1: this fight to finish. Both guys plus 340 inside the distance.
- 37:13Speaker 1: Two heavyweights in a fight expected to go the distance
- 37:16Speaker 1: on a card like this. Yeah, no thanks. Zero for me.
- 37:20Speaker 1: In 20 entry and below. If I had to pick one,
- 37:22Speaker 1: it'd be Kuniev because he's 600 cheaper. This fight, if
- 37:26Speaker 1: it's optimal, though, I'll be moving on to next week gladly.
- 37:28Speaker 1: Nothing for me. You?
- 37:31Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I don't like it because... I picked
- 37:35Speaker 2: Volkov to win the fight. He's $ 8, 400. I don't really
- 37:38Speaker 2: like him at that price tag. I think he would
- 37:40Speaker 2: just be the better striker at range and be more
- 37:44Speaker 2: likely to win in a decision, but not score at
- 37:47Speaker 2: all in DraftKings. So I really don't like Volkov as
- 37:49Speaker 2: the favorite in DFS. So I put the four stars
- 37:51Speaker 2: on the Kuniev side because he is live. He could
- 37:54Speaker 2: knock out Volkov. I also think he could wrestle. It's
- 37:57Speaker 2: just that who controls the distance in this one? If
- 38:00Speaker 2: it's at range, I like Volkov. But if Kuniev can
- 38:02Speaker 2: get on the inside, and clinch up or land some
- 38:05Speaker 2: powerful shots on the inside or land takedowns, which would
- 38:09Speaker 2: be even better, I think he is allowed to not
- 38:12Speaker 2: only win but put up a decent score. So I
- 38:14Speaker 2: think Kuniev makes sense as an underdog. I will get
- 38:16Speaker 2: a little bit of him. But I think Volkov is
- 38:19Speaker 2: probably an X out for me.
- 38:21Speaker 1: Yeah, both of these guys are X outs for me.
- 38:23Speaker 1: Let's get to a little better fight right in that mid-tier.
- 38:26Speaker 1: As well, Lonnie Kavanaugh, minus 118. Ramazan Tamarov, plus 101.
- 38:31Speaker 1: Minus 155 for this fight to finish. The underdog in Temurov,
- 38:34Speaker 1: better inside the distance prop at plus 150. Versus Kavanaugh,
- 38:38Speaker 1: who is plus 260. The big difference between these two,
- 38:41Speaker 1: the round one props. Temurov, plus 350. Lonnie, plus 750.
- 38:46Speaker 1: Temurov is a scary, scary dude early. He hits hard,
- 38:49Speaker 1: but as the fight goes, he usually fades a little bit. Lonnie, very,
- 38:53Speaker 1: very good. Just very technical. Good light kicks, good striking.
- 38:58Speaker 1: Absolutely pieced up Morono. but I think he's more likely
- 39:00Speaker 1: to win a decision or a late finish. Whereas Tamarov,
- 39:03Speaker 1: if someone is scoring a hundred plus, I do think
- 39:05Speaker 1: Tamarov is the more likely one to do so. So
- 39:08Speaker 1: by default, Tamarov, my preferred play again, since I'm playing
- 39:11Speaker 1: for ceiling outcomes and I think he's more likely for that,
- 39:14Speaker 1: but on my pick is Lonnie and if he wins,
- 39:17Speaker 1: I don't think this fight probably scores great. So not
- 39:19Speaker 1: my favorite in the mid tier. It is expected to finish.
- 39:22Speaker 1: So I'll have a little bit of both, but I
- 39:24Speaker 1: prefer others that we've talked about a lot more. So.
- 39:27Speaker 1: What's your thoughts on this one and how would you
- 39:29Speaker 1: compare it? you have dawson aliav as higher star so
- 39:33Speaker 1: i assume you like that fight more.
- 39:35Speaker 2: Yeah i like that fight more because they're they're both
- 39:37Speaker 2: wanting to get the fight to the ground where these
- 39:39Speaker 2: guys are both strikers uh looking forward to this more
- 39:42Speaker 2: from a watching perspective though just because it'll be more
- 39:45Speaker 2: exciting with two guys who are good strikers one guy
- 39:48Speaker 2: all power and timorov and one just talented technical striker
- 39:52Speaker 2: in Kavanaugh. Yeah, I think you said it great. I
- 39:55Speaker 2: think Kavanaugh's live to win late or by decision at 7,900.
- 39:59Speaker 2: I just don't really love that very much, but Timurov's
- 40:02Speaker 2: live to win by knockout in any round, but it
- 40:04Speaker 2: could be round one and put up a big score
- 40:07Speaker 2: at $ 7, 300. So Timurov definitely my preferred play in this fight.
- 40:11Speaker 2: I went back and forth on picking a winner, though.
- 40:13Speaker 2: I don't know which way it's going to go. I
- 40:16Speaker 2: think I picked Timurov there. Yeah, I picked Timurov by
- 40:19Speaker 2: KO just because I didn't even know who would win
- 40:22Speaker 2: in a decision. So I'll go overweight to Timurov here.
- 40:27Speaker 2: I do think Kavanaugh, I'll be underweight to him just
- 40:31Speaker 2: because I think he's similar to like a Gugnan, an Oki.
- 40:36Speaker 2: These guys who are alive to win, really close in
- 40:38Speaker 2: money line, but they're both cheaper than Kavanaugh. I think
- 40:41Speaker 2: there's another one, or Aliyev as well. So I just
- 40:44Speaker 2: don't think I'll be able to get to too much Kavanaugh.
- 40:47Speaker 2: so it'll probably be Timurov or pass for me.
- 40:52Speaker 1: I agree. I will say I might have a little
- 40:55Speaker 1: just because he's plus 260 inside the distance, which is solid,
- 40:58Speaker 1: but I do prefer Gugnan, Oki for sure. I do
- 41:01Speaker 1: prefer Overlani for cheaper. All right, last two fights, both five-rounders,
- 41:07Speaker 1: both title fights, two sick, sick fights when we're talking
- 41:10Speaker 1: real life. Peter Jan, minus 160. Murad Bivalishvili, plus 136.
- 41:15Speaker 1: Plus 215 for this fight to finish. Jan plus 285
- 41:19Speaker 1: inside the distance. Murab plus 650. So in their first fight,
- 41:23Speaker 1: Murab shoots, what, 49 takedowns or something crazy. Wins a
- 41:26Speaker 1: unanimous decision. Looks absolutely unstoppable for a long time. Rumors
- 41:31Speaker 1: Jan was sick in that fight. Who knows? Comes back
- 41:34Speaker 1: as a good-sized underdog in the last fight. And absolutely
- 41:37Speaker 1: dominates Murab. Stuffing most takedowns. Outworking him on the feet.
- 41:42Speaker 1: Just looked way ahead of the game. Looks levels above Jan.
- 41:46Speaker 1: Now he finds himself as a favorite in this one
- 41:48Speaker 1: at minus 160 in the trilogy. Again, I mentioned at
- 41:51Speaker 1: the top, but Jan scored 119 in that win. Marab
- 41:54Speaker 1: scored 90 in a loss, which does bring in a
- 41:58Speaker 1: lot of different outcomes. It brings in a fight stack possibility.
- 42:01Speaker 1: It brings in Jan winning a decision, but not being
- 42:04Speaker 1: optimal because he might score 108, which probably is optimal,
- 42:08Speaker 1: but not guaranteed on this card. And Marab's 93 in
- 42:11Speaker 1: a loss is enough at 7,400. There's so many different
- 42:14Speaker 1: ways this fight can go for DFS, which makes it tricky.
- 42:18Speaker 1: What I do know is, I think I'm going to
- 42:21Speaker 1: make a rule to have at least 100%. I feel
- 42:25Speaker 1: like even when Jan wins, again, 119, he did good.
- 42:28Speaker 1: He didn't do anything crazy. Murad just pushes such a pace.
- 42:32Speaker 1: In terms of a pick, I've got the first two
- 42:34Speaker 1: fights wrong, so I would just probably fade whatever I
- 42:37Speaker 1: say in this one. But nothing that I watched in
- 42:39Speaker 1: that last fight can tell me that Murab's going to
- 42:42Speaker 1: win this fight. It just looks like Jan was levels
- 42:45Speaker 1: above and he had Murab figured out. So again, that's
- 42:49Speaker 1: crazy for me to say, especially again, I've been wrong
- 42:52Speaker 1: in the last two fights. It's almost like I'm just
- 42:54Speaker 1: going with confirmation bias on what happened last time, which
- 42:57Speaker 1: is the wrong way to play DFS, sports bet and
- 43:00Speaker 1: all of that. But yeah, I just, I can't pick against,
- 43:03Speaker 1: I can't pick Murab over Jan after that last fight
- 43:06Speaker 1: since it was clear, clear domination. You have more stars
- 43:09Speaker 1: on the Marab side. Is that because of his DFS
- 43:11Speaker 1: style or you think he wins?
- 43:14Speaker 2: Both. I mean, I think it's just closer to a
- 43:16Speaker 2: pick and fight. So I picked Marab to win for
- 43:19Speaker 2: that reason because Jan's a decent sized favorite. But also
- 43:26Speaker 2: because Marab has three UFC losses and in those losses,
- 43:31Speaker 2: he averages 88 DraftKings points. I mean, at $ 7, 400, that's,
- 43:37Speaker 2: I might just be all in on Rob. I mean,
- 43:40Speaker 2: even in a loss in his last time to Yanni,
- 43:42Speaker 2: he probably flirted with the optimal lineup if he wasn't
- 43:44Speaker 2: on it, but he was, uh, I would imagine he
- 43:47Speaker 2: was a favorite or expensive that time. Now we're getting
- 43:50Speaker 2: them $ 7, 400. That's like unheard of. So I probably just
- 43:54Speaker 2: lock in Marab and maybe that does lead me to
- 43:57Speaker 2: a couple of stats. I was actually building a couple
- 43:58Speaker 2: of lineups as we were talking and it, I left,
- 44:02Speaker 2: I was left with 8,800 for my last shit. And
- 44:05Speaker 2: maybe I will be stacking this fight. So I do
- 44:08Speaker 2: think the stack makes sense. But since I'm picking Merab
- 44:10Speaker 2: to win, I'm going to be overweight Merab, underweight Jan.
- 44:14Speaker 2: I don't think Jan has any chance to make the
- 44:16Speaker 2: optimal lineup in a loss. So let me just make
- 44:20Speaker 2: Merab my favorite underdog on the entire card.
- 44:23Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's going to be the highest zone. There's
- 44:25Speaker 1: no hot take on that. Again, he can get there
- 44:28Speaker 1: in a loss. He's definitely going to get there in
- 44:30Speaker 1: a win. So when you just do that, if you
- 44:31Speaker 1: plug in plus 139, which is his money line right now, 41.8%.
- 44:37Speaker 1: If you do believe those odds are efficient, he's 41%
- 44:39Speaker 1: chance to win. You should have at least 41% Marab
- 44:42Speaker 1: in DFS because he's not winning and not being optimal,
- 44:46Speaker 1: at least not in any situation that I can think of.
- 44:48Speaker 1: All right, last fight, the closest line fight, the closest
- 44:53Speaker 1: price fight. It's a main event. It's Alexander Volkanovsky. It's
- 44:57Speaker 1: Mazhar Evlov, minus 110. Volk, minus 106. It's Evlov plus...
- 45:02Speaker 1: 195 for this fight to finish. Volk plus 330 inside
- 45:06Speaker 1: the distance. Evlov plus 450. Are you going to have
- 45:11Speaker 1: 100% of this fight is my first question. My second
- 45:13Speaker 1: question is, how does this fight play out? I mean,
- 45:16Speaker 1: obviously you'd expect Evlov to put on the wrestling shoes
- 45:19Speaker 1: and try and wrestle hard and right from the get-go
- 45:23Speaker 1: and hard for 15 minutes if he can keep the pace.
- 45:26Speaker 1: Not easy to do that against Volkanovski. How do you
- 45:28Speaker 1: think he approaches this fight? Yeah, are you going to
- 45:31Speaker 1: have 100%?
- 45:33Speaker 2: I want to be, I'm not going to make sure
- 45:35Speaker 2: that I have a hundred percent. I'm not going to
- 45:37Speaker 2: make a rule that I have a hundred percent, but
- 45:40Speaker 2: when I'm hand-building, I really want to be clicking on
- 45:42Speaker 2: one of these guys. And I'm okay making it one
- 45:46Speaker 2: of the last ones I'm clicking on kind of, can
- 45:49Speaker 2: I even afford Volkanovski type of thing instead of starting
- 45:53Speaker 2: my lineup there. But I just think that they both
- 45:56Speaker 2: have such high ceilings. I mean, they're both great wrestlers.
- 45:59Speaker 2: You got to give Evlo of the wrestling edge because
- 46:01Speaker 2: he's never lost. He is younger, can fight at a
- 46:05Speaker 2: big high pace. He's landed nine takedowns in his last fight,
- 46:09Speaker 2: put up like 120-something points. If Evloev wins, it has
- 46:14Speaker 2: to be with wrestling, and it's got to be lots
- 46:16Speaker 2: of wrestling. Volkanovski could land his own takedowns, but he
- 46:20Speaker 2: is the better striker. He is more dangerous. He's less durable, though,
- 46:25Speaker 2: so I think maybe just his durability could lead to
- 46:27Speaker 2: an Evloev knockout, but that's just not the type of
- 46:30Speaker 2: fighter Evloev... Evloev has never been.
- 46:34Speaker 2: I think he's been to a decision in every single
- 46:36Speaker 2: one of his fights in the UFC, if I'm not mistaken.
- 46:38Speaker 1: I don't think you're right.
- 46:39Speaker 2: Finished or gotten a finish. So I just, I gotta,
- 46:43Speaker 2: I mean, it's really the 8.2 K and the AK
- 46:49Speaker 2: that makes you got to go all in on this
- 46:50Speaker 2: fight just because they both have 120 point upside with
- 46:56Speaker 2: their styles, with their paces and with five rounds to
- 47:00Speaker 2: work with. I just don't really have a strong feeling
- 47:03Speaker 2: on who's going to get the win. I really went
- 47:05Speaker 2: back and forth, and it was like a pick-and-fight when
- 47:08Speaker 2: I was doing it. It was minus 115, minus 105,
- 47:11Speaker 2: so there was no help there. If there was a
- 47:12Speaker 2: plus on either side, I would have picked that person.
- 47:16Speaker 2: Minus 105 is less than minus 115. I picked Morzynowski.
- 47:23Speaker 2: But I really have no lean on this fight, man.
- 47:25Speaker 2: I'm just looking forward to it. I think it's going
- 47:27Speaker 2: to be a fun fight. high-paced, well-rounded UFC-level fight. I mean,
- 47:34Speaker 2: championship level, sorry.
- 47:36Speaker 1: Such a great fight. Really, really hard to bet, predict.
- 47:39Speaker 1: If I had to pick, gun to my head, I'm
- 47:41Speaker 1: going Evlov due to the six years younger and he's
- 47:46Speaker 1: more dominant if he does wrestle and have success that way. Again,
- 47:49Speaker 1: confidence is very low. I think if all of Evlov's wins,
- 47:54Speaker 1: I feel like almost have to be optimal, whereas probably
- 47:56Speaker 1: 93% of Volk's wins are, but There still is that
- 48:00Speaker 1: 7% possibility if he just does stuff all the takedowns
- 48:03Speaker 1: or wins 3-2 in his rounds that he loses. He's
- 48:07Speaker 1: on his back, and then he wins three striking. So
- 48:10Speaker 1: I think there's just paths where Fultz can win, not
- 48:13Speaker 1: be optimal, and that mainly comes down to he only
- 48:15Speaker 1: scores 100, but the other mid-tier guys score 102, 103, whatever,
- 48:20Speaker 1: since there's a lot of upside there. Are you going
- 48:22Speaker 1: to have any fight stacks of this one? Do you
- 48:24Speaker 1: still think this is the better fight stacking fight than
- 48:26Speaker 1: Yann and Marab?
- 48:28Speaker 2: I mean, after that last build, I'm not sure if
- 48:31Speaker 2: it is or not. But now that I think about it,
- 48:34Speaker 2: I don't even know if I clicked on either one
- 48:35Speaker 2: of these guys when I was doing that one. So, man,
- 48:38Speaker 2: I don't know, dude.
- 48:39Speaker 1: It's a hard card.
- 48:40Speaker 2: I have no idea. You can hit me up in
- 48:43Speaker 2: Discord on Saturday or Friday night. I guess this is
- 48:46Speaker 2: a 10 a.m.
- 48:46Speaker 1: Start.
- 48:47Speaker 2: So hit me up once my lineups are built and
- 48:49Speaker 2: I'll know more. But my plan is to not stack
- 48:53Speaker 2: any fight. and just pick a side in this one.
- 48:57Speaker 2: And I would imagine, dude, if I have a Volkanovski
- 49:00Speaker 2: lineup that I really like, I'm probably just going to
- 49:04Speaker 2: duplicate it and throw in Evloev. So that's probably my plan.
- 49:07Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't hate that at all. Again, I think
- 49:09Speaker 1: a really hard DFS card, but really hard is good.
- 49:12Speaker 1: Like I would not be surprised to see a unique shipper,
- 49:16Speaker 1: less than five dupes because, yeah, you can actually make
- 49:19Speaker 1: viable case to fight stack either five round fight or both.
- 49:23Speaker 1: And then you also have 12 other fights on the
- 49:25Speaker 1: card with a lot of them expected to finish with
- 49:27Speaker 1: a lot of them appropriately priced in the mid tier,
- 49:30Speaker 1: a lot of live dogs with upside. It's just a
- 49:33Speaker 1: great card all the way around. So all of our
- 49:34Speaker 1: content projections, ownership breakdowns will be up. Tomorrow or not tomorrow.
- 49:39Speaker 1: We're doing the show Wednesday. So we'll be up Friday.
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- 50:15Speaker 1: final thoughts before we get on out of here.
- 50:18Speaker 2: Yeah, man, I'm looking forward to this card. The last
- 50:21Speaker 2: handful of cards we've had, I was done watching as
- 50:25Speaker 2: soon as I knew I couldn't win the optimal. I
- 50:27Speaker 2: was like, I don't give a shit if I even
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- 50:34Speaker 2: I'm going to stick it out even if I know
- 50:36Speaker 2: I'm done early. I think it's a really good card.
- 50:39Speaker 2: Lots of fun matchups, lots of exciting matchups, but I
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