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- 0:05Speaker 1: The systems going clear the lift up.
- 0:36Speaker 2: What's up number one? Tyler Tambaline here aka Totaging Tambo
- 0:40Speaker 2: back for another edition of Leverage Lane PGA DFS edition
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- 0:59Speaker 2: ton Alex. We got figured out, man, you know, at
- 1:01Speaker 2: the grandparents' house, so you know what happens. It happens,
- 1:04Speaker 2: my man, how you doing?
- 1:05Speaker 3: Kind of have it figured out? Still still wasn't able
- 1:08Speaker 3: to use my actual camera, so we're using the laptop
- 1:09Speaker 3: camera where we're standing up in a random room because
- 1:12Speaker 3: all the other rooms we're taking. My brother and his
- 1:15Speaker 3: fiance are also here, and she has what my grandfather
- 1:17Speaker 3: would call a real job. So I get booted to
- 1:20Speaker 3: finding the stranded place and here we are. It's gonna
- 1:24Speaker 3: be fun.
- 1:24Speaker 2: Anyway back to the real job. Baby, let's go. We
- 1:26Speaker 2: got the Genesis Invitational. This week, we're back to the
- 1:30Speaker 2: riv We love that, so we're gonna talk all through
- 1:32Speaker 2: the course, fit the weather. This show is not who
- 1:34Speaker 2: to play, it is how to play. We're definitely gonna
- 1:36Speaker 2: talk more about that. We'll talk about the chalk build
- 1:38Speaker 2: from a single entry perspective, how we can leverage that
- 1:41Speaker 2: a little bit. On the Scotty conversation again as usual,
- 1:44Speaker 2: we'll have one and done betting segment. At the end,
- 1:46Speaker 2: Alex and I will get to our lane for the
- 1:48Speaker 2: week and how we're handling things, and I'll start here Alex,
- 1:50Speaker 2: you know, just recapping from last week coming into this week.
- 1:53Speaker 2: You know this week still does have a modified cut.
- 1:57Speaker 2: I know a lot of people go from the no
- 1:59Speaker 2: cut now it's like this, Oh they think of it
- 2:01Speaker 2: as all it's kind of like a no cut though, right, No,
- 2:03Speaker 2: because it's we've definitely seen guys miss the cut in
- 2:05Speaker 2: this is what is it? Top fifty and ties anybody
- 2:08Speaker 2: within ten of seventy two total golfers? Got that?
- 2:11Speaker 3: Right?
- 2:12Speaker 2: Yes? Okay, what your thoughts on that?
- 2:15Speaker 3: Because go ahead, it might just be fifty without the
- 2:19Speaker 3: without the qualifier of being with intent of the lead.
- 2:21Speaker 2: I don't I can't remove that actually now that you
- 2:23Speaker 2: say that, yeah, yeah, but regardless, like we know, it's
- 2:26Speaker 2: a cut that most guys should make, but it's not
- 2:28Speaker 2: a cut that everybody is going to make.
- 2:30Speaker 3: And the fact that the cut exists, like it's just
- 2:33Speaker 3: a great addition to the tournament makes it much better
- 2:35Speaker 3: than the other signature events.
- 2:37Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll go back to last week just for a second.
- 2:39Speaker 2: We always start with this, and remember, guys, if you're
- 2:41Speaker 2: watching this on replay or playback, if you're live here
- 2:43Speaker 2: with us, we appreciate you. But if you're watching it
- 2:45Speaker 2: on playback, leave a comment. Let us know any questions
- 2:48Speaker 2: you have or anything that you got from this episode
- 2:50Speaker 2: once we get through it. That was thought provoking. This
- 2:53Speaker 2: show is meant to be evergreen with review application and
- 2:57Speaker 2: the actual slate at hands so that you can take
- 2:58Speaker 2: it into the week ahead, which is what's exciting. Single
- 3:01Speaker 2: entry GPP focused. We will have some MME coverage as well.
- 3:04Speaker 2: But just going back to it here, I do want
- 3:06Speaker 2: to just show this comment from last week. This is
- 3:08Speaker 2: the winner from last week, Mike Thomas. You can reach
- 3:10Speaker 2: out for a free week. It says there is there
- 3:12Speaker 2: an optimal number of rounds played when conducting the statistical
- 3:16Speaker 2: analysis on a golfer, so that you're grabbing the best
- 3:18Speaker 2: possible picture of what a golfer is actually doing versus
- 3:21Speaker 2: what they've done. And you chimed in right away said
- 3:23Speaker 2: love this one. I thought this was a good topic
- 3:25Speaker 2: for next week, which is this week today. What was
- 3:28Speaker 2: your thoughts on this when you first saw then? How
- 3:29Speaker 2: do you want to handle answering this? Yeah?
- 3:31Speaker 3: I really like this this question for a couple reasons.
- 3:35Speaker 3: The first is just it's it's a very like well
- 3:38Speaker 3: thought out question of okay, and a well motivated question too, right,
- 3:42Speaker 3: Like we always love the questions that are about someone
- 3:45Speaker 3: improving their own process and allowing them to do like
- 3:49Speaker 3: their own research and really come to their own conclusions,
- 3:52Speaker 3: which is a really valuable thing in dfs because it's
- 3:55Speaker 3: naturally going to put you on some contrarian things if
- 3:58Speaker 3: all you're doing is getting your information in your place
- 4:00Speaker 3: from somebody else, like you're automatically getting more popular plays
- 4:04Speaker 3: that way. So I like the motivation of this question.
- 4:06Speaker 3: I like the thought process of this question, And then
- 4:08Speaker 3: I also think it has a really interesting answer, which
- 4:11Speaker 3: is not every skill set should be treated the same.
- 4:14Speaker 3: When when people build massa A very common thing to
- 4:17Speaker 3: do is across the board. I'm going to take their
- 4:20Speaker 3: last let's say sixty rounds and blend it with their
- 4:22Speaker 3: last twelve or something like that, Right, And that's not
- 4:26Speaker 3: how golf works. Driving, especially, is more predictive in small samples,
- 4:31Speaker 3: so you can add more and more recent form into driving.
- 4:36Speaker 3: You don't want to do that with putting, because with
- 4:37Speaker 3: putting you need like at least forty four rounds worth
- 4:39Speaker 3: of data before it's even remotely stable. So it's a
- 4:43Speaker 3: really cool question and it has a really unique answer,
- 4:46Speaker 3: and that makes it really fun to talk about.
- 4:48Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's allid I mean, anything else from
- 4:51Speaker 2: last week that you wanted to bring up? I know,
- 4:53Speaker 2: you know, we sort of went through everything here on
- 4:54Speaker 2: the show. The Scotty situation again is definitely gonna come
- 4:57Speaker 2: up today, so we can kind of lean there for
- 4:59Speaker 2: a second. Is you know this is the funny part,
- 5:01Speaker 2: right Scotty. If if the whole world watches the same thing,
- 5:04Speaker 2: If Scotty just played well on Thursdays, he'd win every tournament. Right,
- 5:07Speaker 2: But there's a butterfly effect. What if he he this week?
- 5:09Speaker 2: He could play amazing on Thursday and finish worse than
- 5:12Speaker 2: the last two events. He's like, Oh, I thought if
- 5:14Speaker 2: he just played well on Thursdays he would crush it. No,
- 5:16Speaker 2: it's not how it works. There's a butterfly effect to it.
- 5:18Speaker 2: He played bad on Thursday, played amazing on Sunday and
- 5:21Speaker 2: everything in between. It's still Scotty Scheffler. But obviously the
- 5:24Speaker 2: stats with him, everything that we know, and how good
- 5:25Speaker 2: he is as a whole, it'd be great if he
- 5:27Speaker 2: played good every day for the Scottie backers. It's not
- 5:30Speaker 2: always good for the Faders, but that's why their showdown
- 5:32Speaker 2: contests as well. Right, you can get in on the
- 5:34Speaker 2: action that way. Is there anything else you want to
- 5:36Speaker 2: take away last week's thoughts? I thought, you know that
- 5:38Speaker 2: episode that had a lot of people come back and
- 5:40Speaker 2: say solid stuff around everything that we went through. There
- 5:43Speaker 2: anything just that you had that came to mind from
- 5:44Speaker 2: last week on a review purposes.
- 5:46Speaker 3: Yeah, I think. I think one of the other things
- 5:50Speaker 3: that really kind of caught me by surprise was justin
- 5:52Speaker 3: Rose's ownership. And I want to talk to this a
- 5:55Speaker 3: little bit because I I have never you know, been
- 5:59Speaker 3: on on shows of the magnitude of this one, and
- 6:03Speaker 3: with Pat Mayo that have been doing every Tuesday where
- 6:05Speaker 3: I actually have to include who I'm talking about as
- 6:09Speaker 3: a variable for my own ownership projections, right, And I've
- 6:12Speaker 3: always included like watching shows and taking note of who's
- 6:18Speaker 3: talking about which player. That has always been a part
- 6:20Speaker 3: of my ownership process. Now I just have to put
- 6:22Speaker 3: myself in that sample. And I think it's always like
- 6:27Speaker 3: really difficult to know what would Rose have been if
- 6:31Speaker 3: we didn't talk about Rose last week, if I hadn't
- 6:33Speaker 3: talked about him on Pat's show as well. My guess
- 6:37Speaker 3: is that he wasn't going to be eight percent like
- 6:39Speaker 3: we were kind of hoping for anyway, but he might
- 6:42Speaker 3: have been twelve or thirteen instead of the twenty one
- 6:44Speaker 3: percent that he got to in single actries. And he
- 6:46Speaker 3: also was like the second most popular one and done play.
- 6:50Speaker 3: So that was just an interesting thing and something I
- 6:54Speaker 3: want to talk through with you because you have obviously
- 6:56Speaker 3: been on shows of this magnitude for years, and so
- 6:59Speaker 3: how have youkind of navigated that thought of what I
- 7:03Speaker 3: say is going to affect the landscape? And just like
- 7:09Speaker 3: number one, how impactful do you think it is? And
- 7:11Speaker 3: then number two, how does it change the way that
- 7:13Speaker 3: you view ownership and what you expect from the field.
- 7:17Speaker 2: I think a couple of just you know, I'm gonna
- 7:20Speaker 2: this is why this show's funds. Guys like Buddy's talking,
- 7:22Speaker 2: you know, think about this stuff on the fly. I
- 7:23Speaker 2: think it. I think it actually impacts it way less
- 7:26Speaker 2: than we think. We do. Live in a bubble. But
- 7:28Speaker 2: I think actually what matters more is like certain angles.
- 7:30Speaker 2: And I'll say it like this because we've obviously had
- 7:32Speaker 2: deep conversations on this on this very show. The weather
- 7:35Speaker 2: angle thing is one that really drives it. Like you
- 7:38Speaker 2: have to adjust your projections, you have to adjust your ownership.
- 7:41Speaker 2: I know you do it for yourself over at FTN,
- 7:43Speaker 2: we do it over at Ship a Nation. The squad
- 7:45Speaker 2: is all over that. You know. Rest in peace to
- 7:47Speaker 2: the Big Guy in the Sky DJM. But when he
- 7:49Speaker 2: would hop on the emergency stream on Wednesday night, you
- 7:52Speaker 2: know first of all that that's the show that we
- 7:53Speaker 2: all miss and I let people talk about all the time.
- 7:55Speaker 2: There's no way to replicate James. Unfortunately, we would all
- 7:58Speaker 2: rather him be here. Trust me, I know a lot
- 8:00Speaker 2: of people saying that. It's like we were trying to
- 8:01Speaker 2: do the best we can to honor the guy and
- 8:03Speaker 2: do it through other shows and things that we're doing.
- 8:05Speaker 2: His team is still over at ship a Nation doing
- 8:07Speaker 2: the content as well. But that type of situation where
- 8:09Speaker 2: he would come on the emergency stream and say, okay,
- 8:12Speaker 2: I'm seeing this weather edge. It wasn't just the picks
- 8:14Speaker 2: and the one guy he's on all that stuff. It
- 8:16Speaker 2: was oftentimes how you're viewing the slate. Another one is
- 8:20Speaker 2: a skill set. I know you were just talking about
- 8:21Speaker 2: it in a different perspective. But if you came on
- 8:23Speaker 2: this week and it would be the blicke of effect
- 8:25Speaker 2: that somebody said that, I think that's a good one, right,
- 8:27Speaker 2: you know, if that happens. But if you came on
- 8:29Speaker 2: this week it said, look, man, it's wet. I'm taking
- 8:32Speaker 2: the easy route here. I'm just gonna target all bombers.
- 8:34Speaker 2: It's riv, it's wet, it's soaked. I'm gonna do it
- 8:37Speaker 2: this way. They should be able to hit more greens.
- 8:39Speaker 2: Around the greens not gonna be as important. I'm not
- 8:41Speaker 2: saying this is what you're gonna say, or anybody is.
- 8:42Speaker 2: I'm just saying that I find has a way bigger
- 8:45Speaker 2: effect than a pick or a play. Obviously a little
- 8:49Speaker 2: bit of a boost here, a little bit of a
- 8:50Speaker 2: boost there. It will happen. But I think to your
- 8:52Speaker 2: original point, and kind of the former point that you'd made,
- 8:55Speaker 2: was you were already taking shows into consideration even when
- 8:58Speaker 2: you weren't on certain shows or maybe not considering other ones.
- 9:02Speaker 2: I think that matters a whole lot more. And then secondly,
- 9:04Speaker 2: really quick because some of it's baked in. Yes, most
- 9:08Speaker 2: cases it is always baked in for like good projections
- 9:10Speaker 2: and ownership like you talk about, but just from a
- 9:12Speaker 2: general speaking standpoint, the projections really drive it a lot
- 9:16Speaker 2: more too. So when people say, well, how did this
- 9:18Speaker 2: value play get pumped so hard? Well, if you look
- 9:21Speaker 2: at data golf and establish the Run and all these
- 9:23Speaker 2: other sites that people are trusting, is the number one
- 9:25Speaker 2: source O, that must be the best projections. Everyone says
- 9:28Speaker 2: it is not always the case, but just noting it.
- 9:30Speaker 2: It's like for ownership specifically, certain things like that, but
- 9:32Speaker 2: those are driving factors again even more than what we
- 9:36Speaker 2: might say on the shows. That can just add to it.
- 9:39Speaker 2: So if someone was already leaning there now it can
- 9:41Speaker 2: push them a little bit further. Hopefully that gives you
- 9:43Speaker 2: some sort of context on how I think about it. Yeah,
- 9:46Speaker 2: I agree a lot there.
- 9:47Speaker 3: And I think one of the thoughts of how with
- 9:51Speaker 3: Rose was like, obviously, not everything that we say is
- 9:54Speaker 3: going to resonate with people as much as the next
- 9:56Speaker 3: thing that we say. And I think perhaps the driving
- 9:59Speaker 3: force Rose last week was the fact that we pointed
- 10:02Speaker 3: out that, like there was this very clear divide in
- 10:04Speaker 3: ownership projections where the guys who had already played really
- 10:08Speaker 3: well this year were the ones who were popular and
- 10:11Speaker 3: that really played out right. So like think of Rory
- 10:14Speaker 3: and Tommy, they both steamed or they both moonwalked to
- 10:17Speaker 3: like five percent or less in some of the bigger
- 10:19Speaker 3: single entries just because they hadn't played. And what we
- 10:23Speaker 3: pointed out about Rose was Rose actually fits the bill
- 10:26Speaker 3: of somebody who's played really good golf already this year,
- 10:29Speaker 3: but he's not being he's not projected to be owned
- 10:33Speaker 3: anywhere near as much as some of the other guys
- 10:35Speaker 3: who have played really good golf. And so I think
- 10:37Speaker 3: immediately people just like bought into that thought of, oh,
- 10:40Speaker 3: I can get the guy who's in great form playing
- 10:42Speaker 3: great golf at the ownership as if he hasn't been
- 10:46Speaker 3: playing this year. And so I think it was just
- 10:48Speaker 3: one of those things where we found something that really
- 10:50Speaker 3: resonated with people with Rose and that's why it seems
- 10:53Speaker 3: so much. And it's not just because like whatever we
- 10:55Speaker 3: say is going to catch on.
- 10:56Speaker 2: Agreed to one hundred percent. And the last thing I'll
- 10:58Speaker 2: sayd on that part is just too early in the season.
- 11:00Speaker 2: Like you've probably heard me talk about this on these
- 11:02Speaker 2: very shows in the past as well. And I don't
- 11:04Speaker 2: think last week was necessarily one, so I'm not rating
- 11:06Speaker 2: it based off of that. But there is most certainly
- 11:09Speaker 2: what I call, you know, quote unquote lazy weeks, where
- 11:12Speaker 2: it means the content is driving the picks and the
- 11:15Speaker 2: plays and that sort of stuff even more than usual
- 11:17Speaker 2: because people are saying, look, man, it's the super Bowl week.
- 11:20Speaker 2: I don't got much to do. Not last week, but
- 11:21Speaker 2: just noting like that week as an example, I'm just
- 11:23Speaker 2: gonnaice the week before a major, especially after a major,
- 11:27Speaker 2: it's like, all right, the Masters did or didn't go
- 11:29Speaker 2: my way, but I had a ton of money invested.
- 11:31Speaker 2: Most likely because the average person is putting more in
- 11:33Speaker 2: because the bigger tournaments and all that good bad or
- 11:36Speaker 2: the ugly. If you win, you're on a high, you know,
- 11:38Speaker 2: doesn't mean you sometimes when you're on a high, you
- 11:40Speaker 2: pay attention less. You're just feeling it right, that momentum
- 11:42Speaker 2: feeling if you lose a bunch or more than you
- 11:45Speaker 2: plan to lose. Like again, people can sometimes play outside
- 11:47Speaker 2: their limits. I highly recommend against that, but just noting it.
- 11:50Speaker 2: That's where sometimes people say, ah, screw it this week,
- 11:52Speaker 2: I'm just gonna play a little less, listen to a
- 11:53Speaker 2: couple podcasts and go with it. And then you see
- 11:55Speaker 2: the ownership condense that much more.
- 11:59Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think the point there it's not even
- 12:01Speaker 3: so much that it's a lazy week. But I think
- 12:03Speaker 3: we've talked about this already. But like, we have a
- 12:04Speaker 3: bunch of people with PGA DFS who are DFS players
- 12:08Speaker 3: who want to keep playing DFS or they try PGA
- 12:10Speaker 3: for the first time, Whereas like at the start of
- 12:12Speaker 3: the NFL season, it's a bunch of NFL fans who
- 12:15Speaker 3: are trying a new game. So this time it's it's
- 12:17Speaker 3: people who've already played the game just trying to apply
- 12:19Speaker 3: it to a new sport. And so they're familiar with DFS,
- 12:22Speaker 3: they're less familiar with the actual players and who's good
- 12:26Speaker 3: and what should I care about and so they hear, oh,
- 12:29Speaker 3: this is a very good player who might be low owned,
- 12:31Speaker 3: they instinctively know, okay, low owned guys who have winning equity,
- 12:35Speaker 3: that's a very valuable play. And so I again, like
- 12:37Speaker 3: I think it's it's something just about rows that really
- 12:39Speaker 3: resonate with people and less about just the fact that
- 12:42Speaker 3: we were talking about.
- 12:43Speaker 2: Yeah, just knowing this too. In high stakes, I agree
- 12:45Speaker 2: with everything you just said there, But in the higher stake,
- 12:47Speaker 2: smaller fields even like what we're talking about typically applying
- 12:49Speaker 2: it to like one hundred dollars single lutry with fifteen
- 12:51Speaker 2: K or the two hundred dollars single untry with fifty k,
- 12:53Speaker 2: like those are just contests we're playing weekly and you
- 12:55Speaker 2: know one or the other or both. And to me,
- 12:58Speaker 2: that's a setup where it's almost the opposite effect, to
- 13:01Speaker 2: be honest, because people's it's actually not as much. I
- 13:03Speaker 2: know some of the Nosebleeds players that we talk with
- 13:06Speaker 2: my guy Kenny, things like that. It's like these lineups
- 13:08Speaker 2: you can just figure out off the projection. So those
- 13:11Speaker 2: are just so built. Someone something is like how did
- 13:13Speaker 2: Bridgeman get to this percentage or whatever? Go look at
- 13:16Speaker 2: what his projection is at the most popular projection sites,
- 13:18Speaker 2: and there you go. That's your answer. So it's like,
- 13:20Speaker 2: that's the benefit of us doing a show like this
- 13:23Speaker 2: and why we wanted to do it, because we're seeing
- 13:25Speaker 2: it from all angles. We're seeing what you might not see.
- 13:27Speaker 2: Not everybody watching the show even has ownership projections or
- 13:31Speaker 2: player point projections from any site outside of maybe one
- 13:34Speaker 2: of ours or both of ours versus the competitors. So
- 13:36Speaker 2: it's like we can see it all and then talk
- 13:38Speaker 2: through it, and that's the benefit of that. I did
- 13:41Speaker 2: want to cover one more thing because I didn't have
- 13:43Speaker 2: a lot on that comment. Again, I think it was
- 13:44Speaker 2: a really good one from Mike Thomas. You handled it
- 13:46Speaker 2: quite well and liked it, so I wanted to get
- 13:47Speaker 2: your take on it. I agree on everything you said
- 13:49Speaker 2: on that one. Well we'll see we agree on everything
- 13:51Speaker 2: this week. We don't always, but just noting it before
- 13:53Speaker 2: we get to the genesis. I want to have a
- 13:55Speaker 2: quick conversation on this, and I'm trying to bring like
- 13:57Speaker 2: a DFS tip every week or like something from Mad
- 14:00Speaker 2: or good discussion I saw on the discord and did
- 14:02Speaker 2: you see I know it's a single entry show, but
- 14:04Speaker 2: have you seen last week. In this week, the five
- 14:07Speaker 2: dollars drive the Green contest on DraftKings. Did you get
- 14:10Speaker 2: a chance to check it out? It's very solid, But
- 14:12Speaker 2: I'll just get a quick talk from you on it
- 14:14Speaker 2: then I'll go into my point. What what did you see?
- 14:16Speaker 2: So what stood out to you? Well?
- 14:18Speaker 3: Why don't you actually start because I yeah, I saw
- 14:22Speaker 3: I saw a couple people in my discord actually talking
- 14:25Speaker 3: about it.
- 14:26Speaker 2: So so the main thing is it's a five dollars
- 14:30Speaker 2: mme contest, which people love. But typically in the past
- 14:32Speaker 2: it's been like twenty percent or more to first, like
- 14:34Speaker 2: really bad panel structure. Maybe sometimes they pay twenty five
- 14:37Speaker 2: to thirty percent of the field, which I'm not I
- 14:40Speaker 2: know some people like that. I'm just saying, obviously that hurts.
- 14:42Speaker 2: What can happen up top if they're going to pay
- 14:44Speaker 2: eight bucks to everybody at the bottom. So what they
- 14:47Speaker 2: kind of did. It looks like roughly around twenty percent
- 14:50Speaker 2: of the field is paid. They went with ten percent
- 14:53Speaker 2: the first thirty thousand and ten percent of first I
- 14:56Speaker 2: believe to ten for three thousand, But it's a thirty
- 14:58Speaker 2: k ten k, which I'm fine with. By the way,
- 15:00Speaker 2: I still like the brain it's like first is worth
- 15:02Speaker 2: more than second, but second and down is still really
- 15:04Speaker 2: solid tent. That's still ten of first. You're still getting
- 15:07Speaker 2: less people paid, so your min cash is more like
- 15:09Speaker 2: it's all very solid. So it's not even about structure.
- 15:13Speaker 2: Everyone knows what they like in structure by now. I
- 15:15Speaker 2: think DFS has advanced in the year twenty twenty six
- 15:17Speaker 2: enough where people kind of understand that's a good contest
- 15:20Speaker 2: based on looking at that. But I actually want to
- 15:22Speaker 2: talk about it from another angle, and I'm not I
- 15:24Speaker 2: don't want to say, like be dramatic and say this
- 15:26Speaker 2: is dangerous. I'm just noting it as like I think
- 15:28Speaker 2: there's a trap people fall into, and I wanted to
- 15:30Speaker 2: discuss it because I do one on one calls and
- 15:32Speaker 2: mentorship and things like that, and I got the Mastermind
- 15:34Speaker 2: project and all the members over at ship in Nation.
- 15:36Speaker 2: You see this in your discord, I'm sure, but I
- 15:39Speaker 2: saw a lot of people say, man, what a great tournament.
- 15:43Speaker 2: I better mme this week, And it's like, I really
- 15:46Speaker 2: do caution against that, because if you always play single entry,
- 15:50Speaker 2: I wouldn't just let a good contest structure make you
- 15:53Speaker 2: all of a sudden an mme player vice versa. I
- 15:55Speaker 2: wouldn't say if I'm an MME player, I just automatically
- 15:58Speaker 2: run and play a higher dollar single entry. I really
- 16:00Speaker 2: do think you should let the week come to you.
- 16:03Speaker 2: And I think what I mean by that is, this
- 16:04Speaker 2: is a seventy two person contest. Or like golfers in
- 16:08Speaker 2: this in this tournament, if you like three golfers in
- 16:11Speaker 2: the nine k range, three in the eight, ten, and
- 16:14Speaker 2: the seven, you could probably build a pretty solid single
- 16:17Speaker 2: entry or a three max or play it like a
- 16:18Speaker 2: single entry or whatever. You're not really you don't have
- 16:20Speaker 2: an angle you're attacking. You don't have really anything. And
- 16:23Speaker 2: I know some people say more lineups the better. I'm
- 16:25Speaker 2: not saying four or against that. I'm just saying I
- 16:27Speaker 2: actually think it can be costly to some people. Like
- 16:30Speaker 2: they get into that they actually have a decent core.
- 16:32Speaker 2: They kind of just had a structured core. They spray
- 16:35Speaker 2: and prey on their remaining spots, and their best finished
- 16:37Speaker 2: in the five dollars like one thirtieth, and it pays nothing,
- 16:40Speaker 2: and they might get back a little bit of their money,
- 16:42Speaker 2: or may lose a little bit of their money. They
- 16:44Speaker 2: could have built a really strong single entry that doubles
- 16:47Speaker 2: that same amount of money on one lineup in the
- 16:49Speaker 2: two hundred dollars single, but really gave them a shot
- 16:51Speaker 2: at fifty kN And I think that's the difference where
- 16:53Speaker 2: people don't look at that stuff enough to say, like
- 16:55Speaker 2: the fifty K could really change thirty and fifty both awesome,
- 16:59Speaker 2: ten K for second awesome. I get all that it's
- 17:01Speaker 2: all good on two hundred dollars either way, but forty
- 17:04Speaker 2: lineups in the five dollars when you have no process
- 17:07Speaker 2: for that, you don't even know how to really use
- 17:08Speaker 2: an optimizer, and you're doing it just based on contest structure.
- 17:12Speaker 2: Something can be a good contest structure, and it doesn't
- 17:15Speaker 2: mean it's good for you. So just keep that in mind.
- 17:17Speaker 2: You can find good contest structures for you. And so
- 17:20Speaker 2: I don't know, I'll get your thoughts on that, but
- 17:21Speaker 2: I just think it's something that people get caught in
- 17:23Speaker 2: a trap a little bit of letting the contest dictate
- 17:25Speaker 2: their week, but they really have the feeling of a
- 17:27Speaker 2: good single entry already built or ready in their mind.
- 17:30Speaker 3: Yes, I very much agree with your larger point, and
- 17:33Speaker 3: I think the way I would phrase it is I'm
- 17:36Speaker 3: always looking for the best contests of the of the
- 17:38Speaker 3: contest type that I already play and that I like.
- 17:41Speaker 3: And only when I don't have the kind of contest
- 17:45Speaker 3: that I actually want do I then look for, Okay,
- 17:48Speaker 3: well what else can I play this week? So it's
- 17:50Speaker 3: not about like how good the contests are outside of
- 17:52Speaker 3: what I want to do. It's just do I have
- 17:54Speaker 3: contests that I like playing in that you know, really
- 17:57Speaker 3: fit in my own strategy.
- 17:58Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'll have one more point because we try
- 18:00Speaker 2: and wrap up the first twenty minutes to get onto Genesis.
- 18:02Speaker 2: But you've said this before, and I want to rehit
- 18:04Speaker 2: this because again, not everybody goes back and watches every
- 18:06Speaker 2: episode or they think it's only for the week at hand.
- 18:08Speaker 2: We've had a ton of evergreen content. Even if you
- 18:10Speaker 2: just watched the first twenty minutes of the episode, you're
- 18:12Speaker 2: gonna get You're gonna gain a ton. But just this,
- 18:14Speaker 2: it's stuff like this. And one thing you've said too
- 18:16Speaker 2: that just you said it again in a different way
- 18:18Speaker 2: is a lot of people go after the satellites for
- 18:21Speaker 2: a MME contest and it's like you are a single
- 18:24Speaker 2: you only typically play single entry. Don't you told me
- 18:27Speaker 2: you don't feel good about mmy. You don't know what
- 18:29Speaker 2: to do, you don't have to use an optimizer, you're uncertain,
- 18:31Speaker 2: and then when you get eighteen tickets you struggle through it.
- 18:34Speaker 2: You've said this yourself. You won't even look at like
- 18:36Speaker 2: a mega necessarily for something that's a mega with a
- 18:40Speaker 2: five thousand say. I'm not saying you wouldn't do it,
- 18:42Speaker 2: but it's like that's different to you. You'd rather for
- 18:44Speaker 2: the forty four to forty four with six or seven
- 18:46Speaker 2: hundred people where you can exploit it. It's against less
- 18:49Speaker 2: pro entries, et cetera. Even though they're big boy buy
- 18:52Speaker 2: ins and their big prize pool million dollar prizes for first,
- 18:55Speaker 2: et cetera. It's still better for you to go after
- 18:57Speaker 2: the forty four to forty four ticket by the way
- 18:59Speaker 2: you typically play and sticking to your guns to not
- 19:02Speaker 2: only win that satellite, but then be able to typically
- 19:05Speaker 2: apply a very similar approach to the tournament you're about
- 19:08Speaker 2: to take it into when you do win it, are
- 19:11Speaker 2: fortunate enough to win a seat into it. I don't
- 19:13Speaker 2: if you want to add to that, but you've definitely
- 19:14Speaker 2: said that in the past, and you just kind of
- 19:15Speaker 2: said it again too.
- 19:17Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, unfortunately, like there aren't you know, large
- 19:20Speaker 3: dollars single entries that you can satellite into. But yes,
- 19:24Speaker 3: I very much try and target the megas that you
- 19:27Speaker 3: know they have that I only have to beat six
- 19:29Speaker 3: hundred seven hundred people, rather than going for like the
- 19:31Speaker 3: Wildcat where I need to beat three thousand people, or
- 19:35Speaker 3: you know, I don't do any of the like ten
- 19:36Speaker 3: cent qualifiers, ten cent satellites trying to get into the
- 19:40Speaker 3: twenty dollars you know MILLI where I have to beat
- 19:42Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty thousand or something like that. So yeah,
- 19:45Speaker 3: I very much agree with that. The second thing I
- 19:47Speaker 3: wanted to say about the five dollars there there are
- 19:50Speaker 3: things that I really like about it. So you mentioned
- 19:52Speaker 3: it's ten percent to first. The twenty five dollars, for
- 19:54Speaker 3: comparison is twenty percent to first. Now, the main effect
- 19:58Speaker 3: of that is in the twenty five dollars, you have
- 20:01Speaker 3: two hundred thousand dollars going to first place. You have
- 20:04Speaker 3: six thousand dollars going to tenth place, so a really
- 20:08Speaker 3: really small percentage. In the five dollars, you have thirty
- 20:11Speaker 3: thousand going to first, you have three thousand going to
- 20:14Speaker 3: tenth that's kind of the structure that I like. I
- 20:16Speaker 3: want to see top heavy contests, but at the top
- 20:20Speaker 3: I want them to be flat, if that makes sense.
- 20:22Speaker 3: So what we see there is tenth gets ten percent
- 20:26Speaker 3: of what first place gets. If tenth was getting ten
- 20:30Speaker 3: percent of what first place got in the twenty five dollars,
- 20:33Speaker 3: they'd be getting twenty thousand dollars. Instead they only get
- 20:35Speaker 3: six thousand. So that's an indicator of Okay, this is
- 20:38Speaker 3: really really top heavy, even at the top, and when
- 20:41Speaker 3: when you have to beat forty seven thousand other people,
- 20:45Speaker 3: that's when it becomes you know, it's nothing the expected
- 20:48Speaker 3: value changes, it is just the likelihood of actually realizing
- 20:50Speaker 3: whatever edge you have in that contest is extremely, extremely low.
- 20:54Speaker 3: So I like the five dollars more. But there are
- 20:58Speaker 3: still things about the five dollars that I don't like. So,
- 21:00Speaker 3: for example, you get two x for a me in cash. Now,
- 21:06Speaker 3: I think the casual DFS player, most DFS players, will
- 21:09Speaker 3: like that because they like, you know, making something that
- 21:13Speaker 3: seems at least a little bit significant when you me
- 21:15Speaker 3: in cash. For context, the twenty five dollars one point
- 21:18Speaker 3: six x for a me in cash, So it doesn't
- 21:20Speaker 3: feel as good when you me in cash, but in
- 21:22Speaker 3: the long run, min cashing doesn't affect you, Like your
- 21:27Speaker 3: min cash rate at the end of the year is
- 21:29Speaker 3: not going to define whether you had a profitable season,
- 21:31Speaker 3: a losing season, whatever. Your in cash rate's going to
- 21:34Speaker 3: be irrelevant. All that's going to matter is how often
- 21:36Speaker 3: did you finish in the top one percent, And when
- 21:38Speaker 3: you finished in the top one percent, did you get
- 21:40Speaker 3: lucky and get the takedown or did you have to
- 21:41Speaker 3: settle for second place and ten thousand dollars instead of
- 21:44Speaker 3: thirty thousand dollars something like that. So the point there
- 21:47Speaker 3: being when you see two x to men cash, it's like,
- 21:51Speaker 3: that feels good when you mean cash, but that's still
- 21:55Speaker 3: like a considerable amount of money that could have instead
- 21:58Speaker 3: been going to the top and going to the outcomes
- 22:00Speaker 3: that you're really chasing and optimizing your lineups for. So
- 22:03Speaker 3: maybe it could have been like thirty five thousand to
- 22:06Speaker 3: first and thirty five hundred to tenth if they went
- 22:08Speaker 3: with the one point six x men cash. Maybe it's
- 22:10Speaker 3: not that powerful, maybe it's even more you know, I'd
- 22:12Speaker 3: have to actually do the math, but yeah, it's worth
- 22:15Speaker 3: pointing out that, like is the five dollars a good contest. Yes,
- 22:18Speaker 3: Is it some like a magical contest that you're gonna
- 22:21Speaker 3: make money in just because you play it because it's structured, Well,
- 22:23Speaker 3: absolutely not. It's it's a fifteen point nine percent break.
- 22:27Speaker 3: For example, Like it's still a big rake if if
- 22:29Speaker 3: they came out with a five dollar that was like
- 22:31Speaker 3: five percent rake and now it's it's like one point
- 22:36Speaker 3: five x to men cash and there's so much money
- 22:39Speaker 3: at the top, but it's flat at the top. Now,
- 22:41Speaker 3: maybe you can make a case that even if you
- 22:43Speaker 3: don't MMM, you should play it because the rake is
- 22:45Speaker 3: less than usual and so it's more likely that you
- 22:47Speaker 3: find whatever edge you have. Sure, but as long as
- 22:50Speaker 3: the rake is the same and min cash is getting
- 22:52Speaker 3: this mighty like it again, it's it's not some magical
- 22:54Speaker 3: contest where you're you're going to profit just because you played.
- 22:57Speaker 3: You're still most likely going to lose money playing.
- 22:59Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I agree with all that. That's why
- 23:00Speaker 2: I said, like people have to recognize that. But I
- 23:02Speaker 2: think just when people you know, can put themselves in
- 23:04Speaker 2: that spot, like now, I got to switch it up
- 23:05Speaker 2: this week because there's a contest I really like one.
- 23:08Speaker 2: It'll probably exist again. It was just here last week,
- 23:09Speaker 2: it's here again. Now it's filling quickly. All the contests are,
- 23:12Speaker 2: the demand is there for pgadfs. Just keep that in mind.
- 23:15Speaker 2: One other thing I'm gonna plug down and quickly note
- 23:17Speaker 2: is just that's another thing about if you are playing MMY.
- 23:19Speaker 2: We focus on single entry, but the portfolio diversification. Now
- 23:23Speaker 2: this is only in starter packages or above. But that's
- 23:26Speaker 2: another trap I'm just gonna point out is when people say, oh,
- 23:30Speaker 2: I can't believe in the twenty dollars or the twenty
- 23:31Speaker 2: five dollars mmy. You got to come, you know, at
- 23:34Speaker 2: least top five to get your money back, it's not
- 23:37Speaker 2: really true. Because anybody that's building that with an optimizer
- 23:40Speaker 2: that has some sort of you know, in this case,
- 23:42Speaker 2: there's simulations built in, and we're using portfolio diversification. Your
- 23:45Speaker 2: portfolio is probably going to be lined up to where
- 23:48Speaker 2: you're not just gonna get one strong finish. It's going
- 23:52Speaker 2: to be a portfolio of finishes. And to Alex's point,
- 23:55Speaker 2: like the min cash is the one point six X
- 23:57Speaker 2: is the things those all start to add up on
- 23:59Speaker 2: top of the big finish, you're gonna be more disappointed
- 24:02Speaker 2: that you came tenth for six thousand, and you're like, damn,
- 24:05Speaker 2: I was, you know, nine spots away from one hundred
- 24:08Speaker 2: and ninety four thousand more dollars in that tournament. Obviously
- 24:11Speaker 2: that's gonna sting more than that. All right, let's move on.
- 24:14Speaker 2: Let's get to this week. Let's talk a little bit
- 24:16Speaker 2: about this. We are back at riv We've got you know,
- 24:19Speaker 2: some weather coming in. Where do you want to kick
- 24:21Speaker 2: this thing off with course fit and weather as we
- 24:23Speaker 2: usually do. What do you got for us on that?
- 24:25Speaker 3: Yeah, let's start with course fit because I think this
- 24:27Speaker 3: is a pretty kind of fun discussion and it leads
- 24:30Speaker 3: to some interesting strategy as well. So, this course fit
- 24:34Speaker 3: model is a really strong one. It's a really reliable one.
- 24:40Speaker 3: One of the reasons why it's as strong and reliable
- 24:42Speaker 3: as it is is because we've had pretty consistent conditions,
- 24:44Speaker 3: especially over the last like three or four years here.
- 24:47Speaker 3: This is very consistently Riviera has very consistently had some
- 24:51Speaker 3: of the firmeest greens on tour, and the firmness of
- 24:54Speaker 3: those greens kind of explain the course fit model in full.
- 24:57Speaker 3: So we have a boost on driving distance, we have
- 25:01Speaker 3: a boost on driving accuracy. We have a slight knock
- 25:05Speaker 3: on approach play, a big knock on around the green play,
- 25:08Speaker 3: and then putting is pretty neutral. So why do I
- 25:11Speaker 3: say that the firmness kind of explains everything here? Well,
- 25:14Speaker 3: the greens are so firm that you need both distance
- 25:16Speaker 3: off the tee, but then you also need like height
- 25:18Speaker 3: and spin control coming into these greens, both of which
- 25:21Speaker 3: can be explained by how fast you can swing a
- 25:24Speaker 3: golf club. But it also means that you need to
- 25:25Speaker 3: be hitting fairways. So that's why you get both the
- 25:29Speaker 3: boost on the predictive value for distance and accuracy, and
- 25:32Speaker 3: then from there, because the greens are so firm, players
- 25:38Speaker 3: just have less control. They have less control about where
- 25:40Speaker 3: they miss, they have less control about whether they can
- 25:42Speaker 3: actually attack pins. A lot of the time, like even
- 25:45Speaker 3: if you are a long hitter in the fairway, if
- 25:48Speaker 3: it's a front pin, you're boll's gonna land by the
- 25:50Speaker 3: hole and bound fifteen to twenty feet past the hole,
- 25:52Speaker 3: and like that's as close as you can get. So
- 25:55Speaker 3: that's why approach play single goes down a little bit,
- 25:57Speaker 3: and then around the greens like you're just kind of
- 25:59Speaker 3: screwed sometimes, right, So you, you have less control about
- 26:03Speaker 3: where you miss when you miss, because a lot of
- 26:05Speaker 3: the time you can hit a quality shot into the green,
- 26:07Speaker 3: it just bounds through, especially and you're if you're coming
- 26:10Speaker 3: from the rough, you have no chance of stopping the ball.
- 26:11Speaker 3: It's going to go through the green. And a lot
- 26:13Speaker 3: of the time, like you hear players talk about you
- 26:16Speaker 3: know it, you'll hear them with the caddy and let's say, okay,
- 26:19Speaker 3: well we can't go long here. We can't go long here.
- 26:20Speaker 3: A lot of the time at riv you have no
- 26:21Speaker 3: control over whether or not you go long because you
- 26:24Speaker 3: either have to purposely miss short or it's going to
- 26:27Speaker 3: end up long. So you end up with guys who
- 26:31Speaker 3: are short sighted a lot more than usual here. You
- 26:34Speaker 3: end up with a lot of pitch and chip shots
- 26:37Speaker 3: where you put them on a normal golf course with
- 26:40Speaker 3: pretty receptive greens and they're going to be able to
- 26:43Speaker 3: stop the ball by the hole. But the greens are
- 26:45Speaker 3: so firm and fast here, and then also they can
- 26:47Speaker 3: you know, you can be short sighted going downhill to
- 26:49Speaker 3: a pin and you just have no chance of stopping
- 26:51Speaker 3: the ball. So that's why short game signal doesn't matter
- 26:53Speaker 3: a whole lot. This year, though, it's going to be
- 26:56Speaker 3: really soft, like the course looks like it's been flooded
- 26:59Speaker 3: almost in some places, and so we should expect more
- 27:02Speaker 3: receptive greens. And the more receptive greens mean it maybe
- 27:06Speaker 3: won't be as important to hit fairways. You're going to
- 27:09Speaker 3: be able to hold some greens even coming from the rough.
- 27:11Speaker 3: When you do have approach shots from the fairway, even
- 27:14Speaker 3: the front pins are going to be accessible. And then
- 27:17Speaker 3: when you miss around the green, number when you're gonna
- 27:19Speaker 3: have more control over where you miss. So the short
- 27:22Speaker 3: game shots that you're going to have are going to
- 27:23Speaker 3: be easier. But then second of all, you're gonna be
- 27:25Speaker 3: able to stop the ball with height around the green,
- 27:27Speaker 3: You're gonna be able to spin the ball more around
- 27:28Speaker 3: the green, so short game skill will matter more. It's
- 27:31Speaker 3: just like a really interesting puzzle of Okay, put all
- 27:33Speaker 3: this together, it's probably likely that accuracy is going to
- 27:37Speaker 3: matter a little bit less than it has. It's almost
- 27:39Speaker 3: certainly true that approach play is going to matter more.
- 27:41Speaker 3: But I really have no idea whether around the green
- 27:43Speaker 3: is going to matter more or less. Because when guys
- 27:46Speaker 3: have short game shots, it is going to be more predictable.
- 27:49Speaker 3: Whether they can get it up and down or not,
- 27:51Speaker 3: but they might have fewer short game shots because it's
- 27:53Speaker 3: going to be easier to hit and hold the greens
- 27:55Speaker 3: this week. So very interesting puzzle. Curious to hear your thoughts.
- 27:57Speaker 2: About it all. Yeah, we got our guy Matt Gannon
- 28:00Speaker 2: out of the course and it rained out the first day.
- 28:02Speaker 2: He got to get out there the second day with
- 28:03Speaker 2: a bunch of the golfers. Talked to some of the caddies,
- 28:05Speaker 2: all that stuff breaking down. He's had some interesting stuff
- 28:07Speaker 2: that kind of you know, some correlate, some maybe a
- 28:09Speaker 2: little bit different, but just on the high level. Obviously
- 28:11Speaker 2: you can go to the the sided ship and get
- 28:12Speaker 2: the Boots report boots bullets. But he said, like usually
- 28:16Speaker 2: guys are grinding around the green like crazy there. You know,
- 28:18Speaker 2: obviously he's been in the past and things like that.
- 28:20Speaker 2: He said that that wasn't really the case this year
- 28:22Speaker 2: because it's so wet right now, and obviously that's what
- 28:24Speaker 2: they're sort of the mid to long irons the wedges
- 28:27Speaker 2: and spinning them in and that sort of stuff. Kind
- 28:28Speaker 2: of said, that's what they're looking at, but said right now,
- 28:31Speaker 2: you know, as people know that have been out there,
- 28:33Speaker 2: just with how wet it is, it probably takes to
- 28:35Speaker 2: the weekend right to even get to sort of what
- 28:37Speaker 2: we would where we could get old riv or you know,
- 28:39Speaker 2: what we're used to there, which will matter because that's
- 28:41Speaker 2: where the money lines up is on the weekend. But
- 28:44Speaker 2: you know, getting the guys there first, it's sort of
- 28:46Speaker 2: that type of stuff. And I know you were you
- 28:47Speaker 2: were talking some stuff earlier with the approach game, and
- 28:50Speaker 2: you know, I'm certainly looking at that as well, Like
- 28:52Speaker 2: you said, like mid to long irons for the guys
- 28:54Speaker 2: that are back further on those par fives, the wedges
- 28:56Speaker 2: in things like that. Is there anything else that comes
- 28:58Speaker 2: to mind for you or anything with that weather report
- 29:00Speaker 2: that sort of makes you think of it in another
- 29:02Speaker 2: way or how you can look at a certain skill set. Maybe, Yeah.
- 29:05Speaker 3: So I think the other factor is the weather does
- 29:08Speaker 3: look pretty extreme for tomorrow, and it's weird because like
- 29:13Speaker 3: early on in the day it could be rainy, it's
- 29:16Speaker 3: going to be really cold, and it might not be
- 29:18Speaker 3: that breezy. And as the day progressive it does warm
- 29:21Speaker 3: up a little bit, it looks like it dries up,
- 29:24Speaker 3: but then the wind really gets there. And so I'm
- 29:26Speaker 3: really curious to see what the field ends up doing.
- 29:28Speaker 3: Don't yet have a good idea of how the field
- 29:31Speaker 3: is going to treat this. But if the field goes
- 29:34Speaker 3: one direction and says, you know, okay, I think I'd
- 29:36Speaker 3: rather have them playing in rain and cold than the
- 29:38Speaker 3: wind in the afternoon, or they say I want the warmer,
- 29:41Speaker 3: drier weather in the afternoon, that could lead to a
- 29:44Speaker 3: pretty big advantage because number one, it looks like the
- 29:47Speaker 3: weather's only going to be really impactful on one of
- 29:49Speaker 3: the four days, and so it's kind of cappedive of
- 29:51Speaker 3: how impactful it can be anyway. But number two, like
- 29:54Speaker 3: I kind of think those the elements cancel each other
- 29:56Speaker 3: out right, like the cold and rain early balances with
- 30:00Speaker 3: the higher wins late, and I don't really see an
- 30:02Speaker 3: edge either way. So if the field does, then I
- 30:04Speaker 3: think we could get some under owned guys just by
- 30:06Speaker 3: going the other direction.
- 30:07Speaker 2: Yeah, and even on day one, I guess, like, is
- 30:09Speaker 2: what a lot like what I've seen at least a
- 30:11Speaker 2: lot of people looking at like the Thursday morning stuff,
- 30:13Speaker 2: there is like that short I know, you look at
- 30:15Speaker 2: the weather report, you know this morning you're seeing like
- 30:17Speaker 2: a two to three hour window where it looks like
- 30:19Speaker 2: they can get out, but that that is the two
- 30:20Speaker 2: hour window of like the I don't know, Matsiyama goes
- 30:22Speaker 2: out at nine am or whatever, it is roughly close
- 30:24Speaker 2: to that. It's like, well, he's gonna get that window, supposedly,
- 30:27Speaker 2: but it's like, what about I don't know who's right
- 30:29Speaker 2: behind him, who's somebody at you know, Fitzpatrick, is that
- 30:32Speaker 2: ten twenty is it's an hour twenty minutes? Yes, it matters,
- 30:35Speaker 2: but how much? And you know, try to figure that
- 30:37Speaker 2: stuff out. I'm going to go back to a couple
- 30:39Speaker 2: of weeks ago real quick.
- 30:40Speaker 3: It is with noting that this is the first time
- 30:42Speaker 3: this year that we're not seeing split teas. We're just
- 30:45Speaker 3: seeing straight tea times. So the first tea time ten
- 30:47Speaker 3: to fifteen local time, last tea time three o'clock local time,
- 30:51Speaker 3: So there is a wider spread this week than than
- 30:53Speaker 3: what we've had in the past few weeks off, so obviously,
- 30:55Speaker 3: like it's just one course instead of the two courses
- 30:58Speaker 3: to start, So that I think, I think is interesting
- 31:01Speaker 3: and it does mean that like if the field does
- 31:04Speaker 3: see an advantage to one side, then they might go
- 31:06Speaker 3: with it. The other thought here and where I do
- 31:10Speaker 3: think there might be a strategy we're taking is what
- 31:13Speaker 3: if the rain early in the morning is too too
- 31:18Speaker 3: much rain for them to play through and we actually
- 31:21Speaker 3: get a weather delay and now the later tea times
- 31:25Speaker 3: they're starting the event not in the heavy winds of
- 31:29Speaker 3: Thursday afternoon, but in the calmer, no no rain, you know,
- 31:34Speaker 3: Friday morning, and maybe they get an edge that way.
- 31:36Speaker 3: So if anything weatherwise like that's probably what I'm looking at,
- 31:40Speaker 3: just to see if what if what if they get
- 31:42Speaker 3: bumped to Friday and don't have to tee it up
- 31:44Speaker 3: at all on Thursday.
- 31:45Speaker 2: Yeah, certainly possible, And I think that's part of the
- 31:47Speaker 2: you know, the plan if you're building for that roll
- 31:49Speaker 2: that way. We talk about your lane and you know
- 31:51Speaker 2: our lane. If that's your lane, run with it. I
- 31:53Speaker 2: think that's fine. But for me, I'll be blending, you know,
- 31:56Speaker 2: going back to what I was gonna say, is just
- 31:57Speaker 2: going back to the week that we looked at. It's
- 31:59Speaker 2: to me, it's unless you're getting these like severe wins,
- 32:02Speaker 2: it's just it's factored in. Like I said, it's built in.
- 32:04Speaker 2: If anything, I'm gonna look if it's being you know,
- 32:06Speaker 2: the classic pumb we alwa was used if it's being
- 32:08Speaker 2: overblown and it's actually causing somebody else to maybe moonwalk
- 32:11Speaker 2: because of this, or somebody else to steam because of this,
- 32:15Speaker 2: and be like, really do I want them at this
- 32:16Speaker 2: price or this range when I could just do this
- 32:18Speaker 2: and I know you took quite quite a solid advantage
- 32:22Speaker 2: from that last time, I would have been like, at
- 32:23Speaker 2: the end of your final thoughts, was like, man, it
- 32:26Speaker 2: makes no sense, Like these guys are like fifteen to
- 32:27Speaker 2: twenty percent higher owned than the guys I actually wanted
- 32:29Speaker 2: to play, and I just don't see it being significant enough.
- 32:32Speaker 2: And it didn't. You know, you ge ended up having
- 32:34Speaker 2: tons of those lineups that did find that week, not
- 32:36Speaker 2: just yours, but saying like other people that played that way,
- 32:39Speaker 2: So I think it's fine. The other thing is like
- 32:40Speaker 2: Scotty is one of the later Like if you look
- 32:42Speaker 2: at Rory again out on the locals in front of me,
- 32:45Speaker 2: but Rory is out almost two and a half hour
- 32:48Speaker 2: I think two and a half hours exact before Scotty
- 32:50Speaker 2: any three thousand dollars cheaper. How does that affect things?
- 32:53Speaker 2: Right now? A lot of the sites are just saying, oh,
- 32:54Speaker 2: it's gonna be kind of close between those guys. But
- 32:56Speaker 2: does this to my our original point on this episode
- 33:00Speaker 2: talking through it, does this make it where people are like, yeah,
- 33:02Speaker 2: well I'm gonna risk the weather and play the guy
- 33:05Speaker 2: in the morning, and Rory saves me three thousand bucks.
- 33:07Speaker 2: And now you see Scotty come back from what we
- 33:10Speaker 2: saw him be at versus that Scotty's history, you know, like,
- 33:13Speaker 2: is it the best? He's good, obviously, but it's not great.
- 33:15Speaker 2: So it's like things like that. I don't know if
- 33:16Speaker 2: you see anything like that. But right now, as far
- 33:18Speaker 2: as early ownership projections, you know, again we only have
- 33:21Speaker 2: a day, but it's a Callie swing, so we have
- 33:23Speaker 2: till tomorrow to tinker. I do think we still see
- 33:26Speaker 2: it pretty spread out amongst early and late tea times,
- 33:28Speaker 2: at least what I'm seeing right now.
- 33:31Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I very much agree with that. I
- 33:33Speaker 3: think part of that is because at this point of
- 33:35Speaker 3: the week, like people haven't even really dug into Okay,
- 33:37Speaker 3: well who's teeing off when? And so that that's the
- 33:39Speaker 3: kind of thing that usually gets reflected Wednesday night. But
- 33:44Speaker 3: let's talk about Scotty and Rory ownership because I don't
- 33:50Speaker 3: want to like beat a dead horse by having this
- 33:52Speaker 3: exact same conversation week after week. But it's true that
- 33:55Speaker 3: getting the top of the board right in ownership is
- 33:58Speaker 3: crucial to getting literally everything else right ownership wise. So
- 34:02Speaker 3: if we can't nail down the top, we're going to
- 34:04Speaker 3: be wrong at least in some key areas the rest
- 34:07Speaker 3: of the way. And so last week what ended up
- 34:09Speaker 3: happening was the field kind of viewed Rory, even though
- 34:13Speaker 3: he was the defending champion, as this kind of no
- 34:17Speaker 3: man's land where we mentioned it, like I think in
- 34:20Speaker 3: the two hundred dollars single he ended up three point
- 34:23Speaker 3: six percent owned er something like insanely insanely low like that,
- 34:27Speaker 3: and Scotty was pretty much right where we had him
- 34:29Speaker 3: around twenty six percent over at FTN, and it was
- 34:33Speaker 3: because the guys who had been playing and playing well
- 34:37Speaker 3: this year just soaked up all the ownership, and people
- 34:40Speaker 3: preferred balanced builds. I really don't know what people are
- 34:45Speaker 3: gonna do with Rory this week, So I think my
- 34:48Speaker 3: question is kind of twofold for you. Number one. Do
- 34:51Speaker 3: you think his ownership this week steams back up because
- 34:54Speaker 3: people saw how low owned he was last week and
- 34:56Speaker 3: they think, oh my god, if he's going to be
- 34:58Speaker 3: that low owned again, I have to use it. Or
- 35:01Speaker 3: number two, do you think that his ownership was just
- 35:03Speaker 3: that low because he hadn't played yet in the US
- 35:06Speaker 3: this season, and now that people saw him one week,
- 35:09Speaker 3: he played pretty good golf, made some bad mistakes, but
- 35:11Speaker 3: you also made a ton of birdies. Then now they're
- 35:13Speaker 3: just back in and he's going to be as owned
- 35:15Speaker 3: as we expect him to be last week. Or do
- 35:17Speaker 3: you see like the exact same thing happening, because the
- 35:21Speaker 3: weird thing about these signature events is it's pretty much
- 35:24Speaker 3: like the exact same logical puzzle that it was a
- 35:26Speaker 3: week ago, right, Like the vast majority of guys are
- 35:29Speaker 3: playing again, the vast majority of guys are really similar
- 35:32Speaker 3: price text to what they were last week. You've got
- 35:34Speaker 3: guys like Morikawa, who jumped way up in price since
- 35:36Speaker 3: he won, but like the Scotty Rory, Tommy Shoffley, Henley Hideki,
- 35:43Speaker 3: like they're all basically the exact same price. The guys
- 35:45Speaker 3: who were in the sevens are pretty much the exact
- 35:47Speaker 3: same guys. So is it just going to be that, Okay,
- 35:50Speaker 3: Rory's the odd man out when its price like this?
- 35:52Speaker 2: Yeah, one thing, I'll say for sure. Again, just feels
- 35:55Speaker 2: like it early on at least is you know, people
- 35:58Speaker 2: have seen enough from Scotty now Y and Tommy stuff.
- 36:01Speaker 2: We kind of called that last week of like it's
- 36:02Speaker 2: just one of those things where you know, sometimes at
- 36:04Speaker 2: those prices and the first time out and all that
- 36:07Speaker 2: type of thing. But with Scotty now I've just heard
- 36:09Speaker 2: way too much of like there's you know, if he
- 36:10Speaker 2: just plays a good Thursday, it's Scotty's he's been. He's
- 36:13Speaker 2: been able to finish third and stuff without doing anything else.
- 36:16Speaker 2: And the other thing is with Scotty is just going
- 36:18Speaker 2: down the board. I had it here a second ago. Apologies,
- 36:20Speaker 2: but if you look down, it's like whoever you want
- 36:23Speaker 2: to bring into the mix, Stevens, Final, Bridgeman, Berger, Thigala, Rogers,
- 36:28Speaker 2: some projection sites like you know, if you got Girard
- 36:31Speaker 2: is only seventy two. Scotty lines are easy to build,
- 36:33Speaker 2: so I actually I would, and we're gonna get there
- 36:36Speaker 2: in a second day. I'm not like trying to go
- 36:38Speaker 2: against your question or avoid it. I'm saying, but like,
- 36:40Speaker 2: I think the chalk build is Scotty this week, because
- 36:43Speaker 2: I think he fits fine with the you do Scotty
- 36:45Speaker 2: Gerard and then let's go from there. But to me,
- 36:47Speaker 2: like those two just fit in so easily, and people
- 36:50Speaker 2: are more comfortable with some of these six k guys.
- 36:52Speaker 2: There's also people again who think of this as a
- 36:54Speaker 2: non cut, even though it is not the case. Like
- 36:56Speaker 2: we talked about off the top, it's just just noting
- 36:58Speaker 2: that stuff, So just thinking about it off the top,
- 37:01Speaker 2: that's part of it. I think Rory still comes along
- 37:04Speaker 2: a little bit more, maybe even more than Tommy. I
- 37:06Speaker 2: think there's always that thing of like Tommy, you know,
- 37:09Speaker 2: the best buy pricing, he needs to be like ninety
- 37:11Speaker 2: nine hundred or less to be chok. If Tommy's ninety
- 37:13Speaker 2: five hundred or ninety four hundred this week, he's really
- 37:17Speaker 2: chalk because then he fits almost any type of build.
- 37:18Speaker 2: At ten three, he's gonna garner ownership. It's just how
- 37:22Speaker 2: much and how many people spending up to him. Don't
- 37:25Speaker 2: just find the one thousand for Rory. There's a lot
- 37:27Speaker 2: of ways to find the Rory money. I think the
- 37:29Speaker 2: bigger decision is when people have to do almost like
- 37:31Speaker 2: the week, you know that I was against you on this,
- 37:33Speaker 2: Now I'm all in on this with you. It's like
- 37:35Speaker 2: if you go if you go Scotty, Gerard and Stevens,
- 37:40Speaker 2: that's like Rory Hideki and someone in the higher sevens.
- 37:45Speaker 2: It's like a serious difference where more people would side
- 37:48Speaker 2: to that. But because they're building the full lineup out
- 37:51Speaker 2: and they've already got Scotty and Girard and feel so comfortable,
- 37:54Speaker 2: it's I think they still lean that way more than
- 37:56Speaker 2: the other one. Well, I think it's better, and you
- 37:58Speaker 2: probably think it's better. It's also are not as comfortable
- 38:01Speaker 2: for people for the overall build when they're like, now
- 38:03Speaker 2: I'm leaving off Scotty or I'm not playing Gerard advice
- 38:06Speaker 2: and whatever they end up doing so long way of
- 38:08Speaker 2: saying it, but I definitely think Scotty is the chalk
- 38:10Speaker 2: build this week.
- 38:12Speaker 3: Okay, So then here's my next question, because I'll kind
- 38:15Speaker 3: of read you the names that we have between let's
- 38:18Speaker 3: say like fifteen and twenty five percent over at FTN.
- 38:21Speaker 3: So far we've got Scotty and Rory just under twenty,
- 38:24Speaker 3: Tommy Shoffley, HITDECKI pushing twenty, can't lay see WU got
- 38:29Speaker 3: her up? Jake Knapp, Matt Fitzpatrick. If you are right
- 38:33Speaker 3: that Scotty is the chalk build, then we are too
- 38:36Speaker 3: low on him at eighteen percent for single entries. If
- 38:39Speaker 3: he's twenty five to thirty percent, then some or most
- 38:42Speaker 3: of the guys that I just rattled off are going
- 38:45Speaker 3: to come in lower than we currently have projected. Of
- 38:47Speaker 3: the names that I just mentioned, and I can read
- 38:50Speaker 3: through them again if you need me to, who do
- 38:52Speaker 3: you think slips through the cracks and ends up ten
- 38:54Speaker 3: percent because the Scotty steam just makes them like? The
- 38:58Speaker 3: field can't use all these guys right, And so essentially
- 39:00Speaker 3: what our projections are saying right now is the field
- 39:03Speaker 3: has too many guys in the eight K, nine K,
- 39:05Speaker 3: even low ten K range that the field really like,
- 39:09Speaker 3: really wants to play with conviction. There are too many
- 39:12Speaker 3: of those guys to then also allow for Scotty to
- 39:15Speaker 3: be the chalk building, to be thirty percent owned in
- 39:17Speaker 3: sing lentry something like that. If we're wrong about that,
- 39:21Speaker 3: then Scotty ends up being higher. Who do you think
- 39:23Speaker 3: we're most likely wrong about?
- 39:25Speaker 2: What are the names that I can use?
- 39:27Speaker 3: Rory, Tommy Softley, Hitdecky, Can't lay Sea Wu, got her up,
- 39:33Speaker 3: Nap Fitzpatrick.
- 39:35Speaker 2: I think like Tommy Sea Wu got Her Up, I
- 39:38Speaker 2: think Nap holds, but I think those other three could
- 39:41Speaker 2: just be like guys people want to get to, but
- 39:43Speaker 2: maybe not as much. Like I said, the hard part
- 39:45Speaker 2: for me with just going here for a second with
- 39:48Speaker 2: Tommy is it's only a thousand bucks more like there's
- 39:50Speaker 2: so many ways to find Rory money there, so I
- 39:53Speaker 2: can't get away. I can't use Rory in that example,
- 39:55Speaker 2: but I can definitely use Tommy see wu. I think
- 39:58Speaker 2: the problem there is too many people. I mean, can't
- 40:00Speaker 2: lay you gotta play? Can't They look at what he
- 40:02Speaker 2: did on Sunday and you know what his RIV record
- 40:03Speaker 2: looks like. So can't lay is a big one and
- 40:05Speaker 2: done pick, which we'll get too later. I know he's
- 40:07Speaker 2: gonna be big because of that. And then you got
- 40:09Speaker 2: other guys around him like Xander's just above, Marikawa off
- 40:12Speaker 2: the wind Hideki who people sometimes like, or going down
- 40:15Speaker 2: and then going down. Well, I see it kind of
- 40:18Speaker 2: balanced right now between got Her Up and Nap. I
- 40:20Speaker 2: think people still choose like Nap Fitzpatrick. I think they
- 40:24Speaker 2: go down to McNeely Harris English like those. I know
- 40:27Speaker 2: those are quite different in price six seven hundred now,
- 40:29Speaker 2: but just noting it. That's where I see that happening.
- 40:31Speaker 2: So those will be three at least to me that
- 40:33Speaker 2: stand out as and not saying they get no ownership,
- 40:35Speaker 2: but a little bit more held in check. I think
- 40:36Speaker 2: you can see a ten to fifteen range, depending maybe
- 40:39Speaker 2: even lower in single entry versus what we currently see
- 40:42Speaker 2: and see. Wu would be one where people have been
- 40:44Speaker 2: playing him. Man, are they really gonna stick with him here?
- 40:47Speaker 2: He's got Cantley, Morikawa, Headeki Xander, cam Young, got her
- 40:51Speaker 2: up Nap, He's in between all of them.
- 40:53Speaker 3: I think that they will. I'll tell you this. If
- 40:55Speaker 3: they don't, I'm gonna be really interested because he still
- 40:57Speaker 3: projects really well and there are few players who like
- 41:01Speaker 3: you mentioned it briefly, this is a golf course where
- 41:04Speaker 3: you end up with fewer wed shots one hundred tow
- 41:06Speaker 3: hundred and fifty yard shots than usual and basically all
- 41:09Speaker 3: of those shots go to the mid and long irons,
- 41:12Speaker 3: and Seawu is dominant with his mid irons, He's dominant
- 41:15Speaker 3: with his long irons. He's like barely above average with
- 41:18Speaker 3: his wedges. So he really benefits in the course fit
- 41:22Speaker 3: from that perspective. So if he is one of the
- 41:26Speaker 3: guys who's slipping into the cracks. I'll be interested. It's interesting.
- 41:29Speaker 3: My thought is, actually, if I'm wrong about Scotty and
- 41:33Speaker 3: Scotty does come in twenty to twenty five to thirty,
- 41:36Speaker 3: I think it's coming mostly from Rory and shoftly, because
- 41:40Speaker 3: I do think that there's just this there's a possibility
- 41:44Speaker 3: that this current pricing where you have Rory is like
- 41:48Speaker 3: this very clear tear break above all the other guys
- 41:52Speaker 3: except for Scotty. And then if you're and then there's
- 41:56Speaker 3: like this mindset of Okay, well, if I'm already gonna
- 41:58Speaker 3: go to this different tier of pricing, I may as
- 42:02Speaker 3: well just go to Scotty because at that point it's
- 42:04Speaker 3: only another three thousand, and obviously like three thousand dollars
- 42:08Speaker 3: matters a lot. But in the minds of many, I
- 42:10Speaker 3: think if they're going outside of just the you know,
- 42:13Speaker 3: the low nine, mid nine, super balanced builds, then they
- 42:17Speaker 3: may as well get to Scotty. And so I think
- 42:18Speaker 3: there's a chance that we're just going to see as
- 42:20Speaker 3: long as the pricing stays this way, that Rory's ownership
- 42:23Speaker 3: is kind of capped. And and that's really intriguing, especially
- 42:26Speaker 3: because yeah, he played last week, but it's not like
- 42:28Speaker 3: he was dominant, it's not like he played really really
- 42:31Speaker 3: good golf. So I do think there's a chance that
- 42:34Speaker 3: Rory is the guy who's who's just super low and
- 42:37Speaker 3: compared to where he's currently projected. If we're wrong about Scotty,
- 42:41Speaker 3: I think Xander could get the same sort of thing,
- 42:42Speaker 3: because like, Xander hasn't shown us much of anything except
- 42:46Speaker 3: for the Zozo or whatever he won in the fall.
- 42:49Speaker 2: So the difference is, yeah, I agree, but the difference
- 42:52Speaker 2: is for Xander's projections Darling. So he's gonna show up,
- 42:55Speaker 2: and especially in the balance builds, you'll be I mean,
- 42:57Speaker 2: I think for sure, I honestly think if people go,
- 43:00Speaker 2: if the people don't go Scotty or Rory, I also
- 43:03Speaker 2: think they're more likely to start with Zander just because
- 43:06Speaker 2: he's ninety eight hundred dollars and you can do whatever
- 43:08Speaker 2: you want after that.
- 43:10Speaker 3: Is he a projection Starling?
- 43:11Speaker 2: Oh yeah yeah for us he excites right now, and yeah, data.
- 43:17Speaker 3: Golf does have him projected as one of the stronger values.
- 43:20Speaker 2: So yeah, this is a balance build with those guys.
- 43:25Speaker 2: So I guess that's the other thing is like if
- 43:27Speaker 2: you if you are going the balance build. I actually
- 43:30Speaker 2: think it's more likely to start with Zander than anybody else.
- 43:33Speaker 2: But the thing about Rory is how much that three
- 43:36Speaker 2: K gets you, So that could be what keeps Scotty
- 43:39Speaker 2: in check by the end of it all. But it's
- 43:41Speaker 2: like you know, from the chalk builds we have, this
- 43:43Speaker 2: is the shitty part and by the way, the funniest
- 43:45Speaker 2: thing ever last week with the no Scottie market and
- 43:47Speaker 2: everyone thinking I think I mentioned in the last one,
- 43:49Speaker 2: but like I literally never lobbied for that. It was
- 43:51Speaker 2: a joke, and then they gave it to this. I
- 43:52Speaker 2: think it's actually defeats the purpose of the game we
- 43:54Speaker 2: play and why this conversation is usually so interesting between it.
- 43:57Speaker 2: But we almost have to have both of those. There's
- 43:59Speaker 2: gonna be y chalk Scottie build again, because it feels
- 44:02Speaker 2: like it's that way. But then when you look at projections,
- 44:04Speaker 2: I could easily see where the opposite build is like
- 44:07Speaker 2: Xander with one other and then it's you can fit
- 44:11Speaker 2: English strok Uh whatever else you want to put in there,
- 44:14Speaker 2: picking eight k guy Nap got her upper fifth, like
- 44:16Speaker 2: you can fit all that. So to me, I think
- 44:19Speaker 2: there's like the two builds there that will pull a
- 44:21Speaker 2: little bit from each other. But that what's interesting about
- 44:23Speaker 2: that is Rory and Fleetwood could get squeezed again in
- 44:28Speaker 2: the balance versus the Scotti builds. So I just I
- 44:31Speaker 2: don't know how it actually ends up going, but I
- 44:32Speaker 2: think it's between those two. Yeah.
- 44:35Speaker 3: Actually, now that you mentioned how well Xander projects, like,
- 44:39Speaker 3: there's there's a chance that it's Tommy who who's moonwalks,
- 44:43Speaker 3: just like he did last week along with Rory. And
- 44:45Speaker 3: last week Tommy was the fourth most expensive if I
- 44:47Speaker 3: recall correctly, not the third most expensive. Maybe I'm wrong
- 44:50Speaker 3: about that, maybe it was the same, But yeah, that
- 44:54Speaker 3: could be really interesting because we like at FTN, we
- 44:57Speaker 3: have Tommy projected as the second best play in this
- 45:00Speaker 3: field and by a somewhat considerable margin, just based on
- 45:05Speaker 3: how well he played at the end of last season
- 45:06Speaker 3: now starts super well again this year. So if that's
- 45:10Speaker 3: the case, if he's the one who's who's moonwalking, help
- 45:13Speaker 3: me in I'd be on Tommy.
- 45:15Speaker 2: So well, we'll talk about that, I'm sure, but yeah,
- 45:18Speaker 2: let's let's uh.
- 45:19Speaker 3: You know, well, I think I think that's kind of
- 45:20Speaker 3: like a large theme for me at the top is
- 45:23Speaker 3: there's there's just not a whole lot of separation between
- 45:27Speaker 3: most of the nine K range and plus Tommy plus Rory.
- 45:30Speaker 3: Where you you tell me that any of these guys
- 45:33Speaker 3: are gonna end up low owned, and I'll be interested
- 45:36Speaker 3: just because I don't think the odds of success for
- 45:38Speaker 3: any of them are really drastically different from any other.
- 45:40Speaker 3: So if one guy is is being owned in such
- 45:43Speaker 3: a way that his odds of success as if they
- 45:46Speaker 3: were lower than everyone else's, then yeah, I'm in on
- 45:49Speaker 3: that guy.
- 45:49Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I'm going to get to it later when
- 45:51Speaker 2: I get to my lane. But just noting like, I
- 45:53Speaker 2: definitely think this is the balance build I see as
- 45:55Speaker 2: well with projections, And that's why I said earlier, like
- 45:57Speaker 2: someone asked about Henley, Henley squeeze for sure here I
- 46:01Speaker 2: think Henley could be the lowest owned guy in the
- 46:02Speaker 2: entire range actually, to be honest, just because the way
- 46:04Speaker 2: the other stuff fits. Also, like I said, and if
- 46:07Speaker 2: you like Seawoo and have those those numbers and notes,
- 46:09Speaker 2: that's something I really look for. I think that's strong.
- 46:11Speaker 2: I think Seawoo's fine based off of that. I've heard
- 46:13Speaker 2: everything man like he oh six weeks in a row,
- 46:17Speaker 2: terrible course history in the past, all these different factors.
- 46:20Speaker 2: The guy's playing phenomenal golf right now, had a bad week,
- 46:23Speaker 2: it happens, but he could easily bounce back here and
- 46:24Speaker 2: this could set up really well for him. Also, So
- 46:27Speaker 2: if I'm in the nine K range, I'm gonna be
- 46:28Speaker 2: thinking about some of those guys versus some of the
- 46:30Speaker 2: chalkier options. But I will say, when you get to
- 46:33Speaker 2: the balance stuff or however you're setting up your builds,
- 46:35Speaker 2: Xander Decky can't like even like Cam Young and some
- 46:39Speaker 2: of those guys like they're getting projecting boosts that could
- 46:42Speaker 2: lead to ownership boosts. And that makes for the nine
- 46:45Speaker 2: K range being popular in a bunch of different ways,
- 46:47Speaker 2: because you can still a Rory in a nine K
- 46:49Speaker 2: or like Tommy in a nine k as well. So
- 46:51Speaker 2: there's nine K guys gonna be used in a lot
- 46:54Speaker 2: of places. So I think it's at least somewhat interesting.
- 46:56Speaker 2: When we get to for my lane later on, I'll
- 46:58Speaker 2: talk through it then. But as far as leveraging the
- 47:01Speaker 2: chalk bill, what are some of the first things that
- 47:03Speaker 2: come to mind, or like, who are some of the
- 47:04Speaker 2: other guys I guess that you see fitting into these
- 47:06Speaker 2: chalk bills. I mentioned Ryan Girard, think he's a super
- 47:09Speaker 2: likely candidate down there. But you know some of the
- 47:12Speaker 2: other guys, the familiar names I talked about English, Straka,
- 47:16Speaker 2: minmu Lee, Kirk, Kidiama, like some of those projection darlings
- 47:20Speaker 2: are the guys that are fitting in and making the
- 47:21Speaker 2: Scotti lineups work. And then in the six case, I
- 47:24Speaker 2: think you've got final Stevens Berger, Bridgeman, some of those,
- 47:29Speaker 2: maybe McGreevy again, like some of those names can pop
- 47:31Speaker 2: up there.
- 47:32Speaker 3: But what do you think you already said it. But
- 47:35Speaker 3: like I think when we have this conversation about chalk bill,
- 47:37Speaker 3: like we have to have two different chalk builds, one
- 47:39Speaker 3: with Scotty, one without and with Scotty is definitely the
- 47:42Speaker 3: first place to start. You're left with seventy one forty
- 47:45Speaker 3: for the last five spots if you click Scotty first.
- 47:47Speaker 3: So immediately when someone clicks Scotty, they're going to go
- 47:50Speaker 3: look in the range around seventy one seventy two hundred.
- 47:53Speaker 3: And you mentioned Ryan Gerard. I think he's going to
- 47:55Speaker 3: be very popular. I think Pierson Cootie is going to
- 47:58Speaker 3: be really popular. So that's probably the most popular start
- 48:03Speaker 3: for Scotty is Scotty Coody Gerard, and then that means
- 48:07Speaker 3: they're going to have to go into the six K
- 48:09Speaker 3: range at least once. And so I think the Gala
- 48:11Speaker 3: Bridgeman Hasatine, fen Now and Stevens all could get you know,
- 48:17Speaker 3: somewhat decently owned down there, especially if again, like you know,
- 48:21Speaker 3: so right now we have we have all five of
- 48:23Speaker 3: those guys with the Gala Bridgeman Hasatsina few and Stevens
- 48:27Speaker 3: between like six and ten percent. If Scotty is twenty
- 48:32Speaker 3: eight percent instead of eighteen percent, now those guys could
- 48:35Speaker 3: be eleven to sixteen percent instead of six to ten.
- 48:38Speaker 3: So just yet another reminder of like ownership is so
- 48:43Speaker 3: so so connected. Ownership is always connected, but it's never
- 48:46Speaker 3: been more connected than it is right now because we
- 48:49Speaker 3: have such extreme Scotti pricing. You know, it's like if
- 48:53Speaker 3: in NFL DFS, if they priced McCaffrey at twelve thousand
- 48:57Speaker 3: dollars and thirty percent of the field still wanted to
- 49:00Speaker 3: McCaffrey every week, It's like, okay, well, then what three
- 49:02Speaker 3: K wide receiver and what minimum price tight end is
- 49:05Speaker 3: everyone going to because they're going to get on they
- 49:07Speaker 3: have to be owned for McCaffrey to get that much ownership.
- 49:09Speaker 3: So it's, like you mentioned it, it's this really really
- 49:12Speaker 3: cool variable that we have to deal with each week
- 49:14Speaker 3: now and it does affect everything.
- 49:16Speaker 2: But well that's a good point though, too, because like
- 49:18Speaker 2: that's the hard part. Like again, this show is to learn,
- 49:21Speaker 2: including ourselves, Like we literally go through this stuff. It's
- 49:24Speaker 2: real conversation of us thinking through it and then talking
- 49:27Speaker 2: about reviewing the information we have in front of us
- 49:29Speaker 2: and how we're going to apply it. I think the
- 49:31Speaker 2: most interesting thing is, like Scotty comes in at twenty
- 49:33Speaker 2: percent and then everyone's like summer victory lapping. Oh, I
- 49:36Speaker 2: thought he was going to be sixteen. I knew he'd
- 49:38Speaker 2: be more than others are saying, well, everyone, these people
- 49:40Speaker 2: were showing twenty seven and he ended up dropping to twenty.
- 49:44Speaker 2: We're saying to be prepared for that, and then we're
- 49:46Speaker 2: working on those numbers on our own teams behind the
- 49:48Speaker 2: scenes to try and get to that because the closer
- 49:50Speaker 2: you can get to figuring it out, the more you
- 49:51Speaker 2: know about the rest of the build to your point.
- 49:54Speaker 2: And so like with Scotty, it's not rocket science to
- 49:56Speaker 2: know that you're gonna have to fit in those seven
- 49:58Speaker 2: K guys in one of the six k's, et cetera.
- 50:00Speaker 2: But it's figuring out what that looks like and then
- 50:02Speaker 2: where do where do those variables move if the number moves,
- 50:06Speaker 2: Because in that example, if Scotty does finish out up
- 50:08Speaker 2: to say twenty percent, it's it's not just about like
- 50:11Speaker 2: seventeen versus twenty five that he could have been and
- 50:14Speaker 2: somewhere in between he finished in between that range. It's
- 50:16Speaker 2: a wider range these days because of how the field's
- 50:18Speaker 2: interpreting and what we're talking about. But if Xander comes
- 50:22Speaker 2: in at twenty, it's like, well, that's exactly what we
- 50:25Speaker 2: talked about. It's like it was kind of like one
- 50:27Speaker 2: or the other, and now you start to know and
- 50:28Speaker 2: you know what either of those builds look like. It
- 50:31Speaker 2: doesn't mean you have to sway completely off of either build.
- 50:34Speaker 2: It just means you have to think about it and
- 50:36Speaker 2: what you're doing within that build. So one of the
- 50:38Speaker 2: things we talk about when how to leverage the chalk build, Well,
- 50:40Speaker 2: when you're leveraging the Scotty chalk build, and I've talked
- 50:42Speaker 2: about this a ton, if you're going to do that
- 50:44Speaker 2: in single entry, and it's in a larger field single entry.
- 50:48Speaker 2: I'll use like the twelve dollars whatever in the in
- 50:50Speaker 2: the three thousand dollars or the what's a good example,
- 50:53Speaker 2: like the I don't know, the Thunderdome with thirty people.
- 50:57Speaker 2: It's a single entry kind of do whatever you want
- 50:59Speaker 2: because others can make mistakes and you can kind of,
- 51:01Speaker 2: you know, leap on top of that and say, okay,
- 51:03Speaker 2: I got my angle, but in something else. But there's
- 51:05Speaker 2: gonna be a bunch of different versions of it. You
- 51:06Speaker 2: playing Scotty, Girard and Bridgeman is basically the same start
- 51:11Speaker 2: as a majority of the Scotty lineups. And so when
- 51:13Speaker 2: there's a thousand lineups in that tournament, and let's say
- 51:17Speaker 2: you were like, wow, Scotty came in at seventeen, Well
- 51:19Speaker 2: there's still one hundred and seventy lineups, and there's a
- 51:22Speaker 2: bunch of those that have Girard and have Bridgeman or
- 51:25Speaker 2: one of those guys where you have like a one
- 51:27Speaker 2: v one or a two v two in a certain spot.
- 51:29Speaker 2: So it's like you're not really doing that much different
- 51:31Speaker 2: by doing that. So when I go with Scotty in
- 51:33Speaker 2: those builds, one of the things I like to do
- 51:35Speaker 2: is try and find good opportunities or options down below
- 51:38Speaker 2: that not as many people are on. That's why since
- 51:41Speaker 2: talking with you that one week to every other week
- 51:43Speaker 2: so far, I've liked the approach of more Scotty in mme,
- 51:47Speaker 2: where I can just start flinging this stuff around him
- 51:49Speaker 2: whatever I want to get these random options, different types
- 51:52Speaker 2: of Scotty builds, different plays and options with him for
- 51:56Speaker 2: overall construction differences versus in single entry trying to peg Scotty.
- 52:00Speaker 2: You know, Yatzi Cheflin, Like we talked about you got
- 52:02Speaker 2: to just pick the other five and get it right.
- 52:04Speaker 2: But so many people are already on the most common
- 52:06Speaker 2: versions of what that looks like, which makes it really challenging.
- 52:10Speaker 3: Yeah, there's something you talked about there which I think
- 52:13Speaker 3: is awesome, which is this idea of like you should
- 52:15Speaker 3: always be preparing for a range of outcomes in ownership.
- 52:19Speaker 3: And I think this is really important to note because
- 52:23Speaker 3: and hopefully this doesn't come across as like an excuse
- 52:26Speaker 3: to someone who's doing ownership projections for being wrong about
- 52:29Speaker 3: ownership sometimes, but like when we talk about Scotty ownership,
- 52:33Speaker 3: for example, it's not that we might be wrong. It's
- 52:37Speaker 3: that we are acknowledging the fact that we can't possibly
- 52:41Speaker 3: know where he's going to come in right. And the
- 52:44Speaker 3: way that I'll illustrate this is like anyone watching ask yourself,
- 52:48Speaker 3: are you one hundred percent sure yet whether you're using
- 52:50Speaker 3: Scotty or not in your main lineup? And if you're mmmying,
- 52:53Speaker 3: are you one hundred percent sure exactly what your exposure
- 52:55Speaker 3: is going to be for him? It's like we're less
- 52:58Speaker 3: than twenty four hours from the start of the golf tournament.
- 53:00Speaker 3: If you don't know what you're going to do with Scotty,
- 53:03Speaker 3: how could we possibly know what the entire field is
- 53:06Speaker 3: going to do with Scotty. So it's it's less about like, well,
- 53:11Speaker 3: we could be wrong, and I think it's more about
- 53:13Speaker 3: just understanding his range of outcomes exists, just his range
- 53:18Speaker 3: of outcomes for ownership exists, just like his range of
- 53:21Speaker 3: outcomes for actual golf performance exists. And understanding that when
- 53:27Speaker 3: we are low on him, it's going to affect who
- 53:30Speaker 3: elsewhere we're too high on or too low on. That's
- 53:33Speaker 3: a really key point when you're lying a building, because,
- 53:36Speaker 3: as you just mentioned, like when you use Scotty. Okay,
- 53:38Speaker 3: you want to find some low on guys. If you
- 53:41Speaker 3: use Scotty and you say, okay, well Max Holmes projected
- 53:43Speaker 3: at seven point six percent, so he's going to be contrarian. Well,
- 53:47Speaker 3: if Scotty's actually thirty percent instead of the eighteen percent
- 53:51Speaker 3: that we have, then Homa might be twelve percent instead
- 53:53Speaker 3: of seven and a half percent. Now is he contrarian
- 53:55Speaker 3: enough for you? Did you need him to be eight
- 53:58Speaker 3: percent or less to really feel good about him? So
- 54:00Speaker 3: understanding how that is all connected, and the fact that
- 54:03Speaker 3: like it's this legitimate range of outcomes and it's not
- 54:06Speaker 3: just about whether all those uh you know, analysts, whether
- 54:12Speaker 3: they were wrong or right about him. Understanding that there's
- 54:14Speaker 3: actually this very real range of outcomes that affects everything.
- 54:17Speaker 3: I think is as just a really key part of
- 54:19Speaker 3: lineup building. And it's it's awesome that you kind of
- 54:21Speaker 3: pointed to it right there.
- 54:22Speaker 2: Yeah. I think it's also important to remember, like we
- 54:24Speaker 2: we as we stayed on the top of every show,
- 54:26Speaker 2: it's not who you play, it's how you play them.
- 54:28Speaker 2: It's not who you you know. It's not just who
- 54:29Speaker 2: you play, it's who you don't play. It's all the
- 54:30Speaker 2: things that we've mentioned along the way. But that's where
- 54:33Speaker 2: people get caught up. It's Scotty Scheffler. Like anyone sitting
- 54:35Speaker 2: there that has a prediction, it's Scotty Scheffer. You don't
- 54:37Speaker 2: have to do any conversation beyond that. It's all noticed
- 54:39Speaker 2: with our conversation. It's all If Scotty Scheffler, then this.
- 54:43Speaker 2: If not Scotty Scheffler, then this. What does that look like?
- 54:46Speaker 2: How can you use that to your advantage? Different styles
- 54:48Speaker 2: of tournaments, all these different factors. In single entry, you'll
- 54:52Speaker 2: have the golfer that is the favorite to win the tournament.
- 54:55Speaker 2: It's the best golfer in the field. It doesn't matter
- 54:56Speaker 2: what the past, the present, any of that. It's just
- 54:58Speaker 2: that's what you'll have the facts. But you do still
- 55:01Speaker 2: have to fill out five other spots, and you really
- 55:03Speaker 2: still got to get them there right, and then you
- 55:05Speaker 2: got to get them there with some sort of separation
- 55:07Speaker 2: because it can't be the only guy with the same
- 55:09Speaker 2: lineup as everybody else, So you're not gonna want to
- 55:11Speaker 2: be backed into that corner. So there's just a lot
- 55:12Speaker 2: of different ways and variables to look at it. I think,
- 55:16Speaker 2: you know, we'll get there later when I get to
- 55:17Speaker 2: my lane. But I think there's some other interesting points
- 55:19Speaker 2: to this. Is there anything else you want to talk
- 55:20Speaker 2: about with the chalk build builds in this case plural
- 55:24Speaker 2: or how to leverage them and that sort of stuff,
- 55:26Speaker 2: because I got some stuff later, but I think it's
- 55:28Speaker 2: a better conversation when we get there.
- 55:30Speaker 3: So the next thing to talk about then is what
- 55:33Speaker 3: does the non chalk Scottie bill look like? And to me,
- 55:36Speaker 3: it's not about figuring out which of the you know,
- 55:38Speaker 3: nine K guys or use. It's the idea that, okay, well,
- 55:41Speaker 3: a lot of people are gonna use Fitzpatrick at eighty four,
- 55:43Speaker 3: a lot of people are gonna use god her up
- 55:44Speaker 3: at eighty eight, and then it's going to be a
- 55:48Speaker 3: pretty healthy mix of different nine K guys. And to me,
- 55:52Speaker 3: this is why I expect Scotty to still be around
- 55:55Speaker 3: twenty percent, maybe even a little bit less in single entries,
- 55:59Speaker 3: maybe capped it like twenty five percent for singles, because
- 56:02Speaker 3: there are just so many more options for people to
- 56:04Speaker 3: be really enthusiastic about when you go to the non
- 56:07Speaker 3: Scotti built, because in the Scotti build like again, you're
- 56:11Speaker 3: immediately pointed to the like seventy one hundred dollars range.
- 56:14Speaker 3: So people might feel really good about Cootie, they might
- 56:16Speaker 3: feel really good about Gerard, but it's also clear those
- 56:18Speaker 3: guys are going to be popular. So the highest probability
- 56:21Speaker 3: plays are clearly the most owned plays down here. It's
- 56:25Speaker 3: hard to feel like really excited about, you know, a
- 56:28Speaker 3: low owned Wyndham Clark or JT. Poston or Max Grazerman.
- 56:32Speaker 3: There are just fewer names down here that people are
- 56:34Speaker 3: going to have like genuine conviction on that are also
- 56:37Speaker 3: low owned. So I think people are going to be
- 56:40Speaker 3: drawn once again more towards these balance builds where you
- 56:43Speaker 3: just have so many options of players that you can
- 56:46Speaker 3: feel really good about, really excited about, and they're actually
- 56:51Speaker 3: low owned, and so you know they there are all
- 56:53Speaker 3: guys that people can really feel good about having in
- 56:56Speaker 3: their lineups and feel like the lineup as a whole
- 56:58Speaker 3: is good and not just the play itself. So just
- 57:03Speaker 3: looking at the two builds next to each other, again,
- 57:06Speaker 3: I don't expect Scottie to be the Chuck build.
- 57:09Speaker 2: Yeah, after talking through it a little bit more, I
- 57:10Speaker 2: would say one of the things that stands out is
- 57:12Speaker 2: for sure what you just said is like again, I
- 57:14Speaker 2: still think it's I'm personally gonna lean that it's the
- 57:16Speaker 2: Xander side, but that's why I brought it back into play,
- 57:18Speaker 2: because I think it's like Xander somebody else in the
- 57:21Speaker 2: nine K two eight K guys and then you can
- 57:24Speaker 2: land on whatever you want after that. If it's Bridgeman
- 57:26Speaker 2: and up, if it's seven k is ever, I actually
- 57:28Speaker 2: think that's gonna be more of the chalk build and
- 57:32Speaker 2: that's great for what I'm thinking on this slate because
- 57:34Speaker 2: that you know it's gonna have one to two nine
- 57:36Speaker 2: K guys are gonna be in the chalk build most
- 57:39Speaker 2: likely too, to be honest, just from breaking that down quickly,
- 57:41Speaker 2: but you could see some three eighths or whatever it
- 57:43Speaker 2: is like that, but I think the most common is
- 57:45Speaker 2: gonna be something like that, and so yeah, I'm good
- 57:48Speaker 2: to keep it rolling. I would say to this, like,
- 57:50Speaker 2: I don't know if you have any comment on this,
- 57:51Speaker 2: but like I don't know, like a second moment stat
- 57:55Speaker 2: in your projections, like Scotty it twenty eight percent plus.
- 58:00Speaker 3: So that's that's plus minus six percent. Yes, I have
- 58:02Speaker 3: thought about doing this sort of thing. It's it's really
- 58:06Speaker 3: hard because for the majority of players, the range is
- 58:10Speaker 3: just going to be plus minus the same amount. And
- 58:16Speaker 3: so I find that it's actually a little bit more
- 58:18Speaker 3: effective to just talk through the guys who have a
- 58:20Speaker 3: wider range of outcomes than most. And the other thing is, like,
- 58:26Speaker 3: if we're talking about the key being that you need
- 58:28Speaker 3: to understand how the plus minus for Scotti is connected
- 58:31Speaker 3: to the plus minus for Ryan Girard. I don't just
- 58:35Speaker 3: want plus minus on every single guy because that kind
- 58:37Speaker 3: of it creates this picture that they all could be
- 58:41Speaker 3: lower or higher and there's no real connection between them.
- 58:44Speaker 3: So I want to draw the connections and make it
- 58:46Speaker 3: easier for people to understand the connections. And I think
- 58:49Speaker 3: it's easier to just then put in my article for
- 58:51Speaker 3: FTN or or in my you know slight thoughts for
- 58:54Speaker 3: my discord of Okay, if Scotty's wrong, what is that effect?
- 58:58Speaker 3: If he's wrong in this direction, this guy is gonna
- 59:00Speaker 3: be higher, this guy's gonna be higher, these guys are
- 59:02Speaker 3: going to be lower. If he's lower than we expect,
- 59:04Speaker 3: it's gonna be the opposite. And so actually drawing those
- 59:06Speaker 3: connections out, it'd be interesting to try to like actually
- 59:09Speaker 3: map that out with numbers on the on the ownership page.
- 59:13Speaker 3: But if that's probably a project for another day. But
- 59:16Speaker 3: but that's why I don't do the plus minus because
- 59:18Speaker 3: I think it's just that'd be like a lot of
- 59:21Speaker 3: information overload, where the key information is not just the
- 59:25Speaker 3: plus minus for each player, it's how the connections work
- 59:29Speaker 3: between everybody.
- 59:30Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna show this quick because I you know,
- 59:32Speaker 2: for two seconds to tell people better. Like I'm not
- 59:33Speaker 2: getting into the fold obviously if you want, I give
- 59:35Speaker 2: away my full optimizer process of what I actually do.
- 59:38Speaker 2: But in somewhere in this vicinity of what Aaron's talking about,
- 59:41Speaker 2: like it talks about my rules settings, all that stuff.
- 59:43Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, mostly in PGA,
- 59:46Speaker 2: I'm not I'm not doing that. What I'm doing is
- 59:49Speaker 2: the if this then that if I think Scotty's gonna
- 59:51Speaker 2: be less and I adjust that, well, it's not just
- 59:53Speaker 2: that Scott he's less. That's where I think the people
- 59:55Speaker 2: miss a step, especially when you're using contest sims, which
- 59:57Speaker 2: I know you sometimes are looking at and you guys
- 59:59Speaker 2: have over we've got them via sabersim. But I'm using
- 1:00:03Speaker 2: the stone. I'm getting my player pool from there, and
- 1:00:05Speaker 2: then I'm looking at the ownership. Our ownership is great,
- 1:00:08Speaker 2: but it's also a great place to start because you're
- 1:00:10Speaker 2: not gonna do this yourself. Much like your own ownership,
- 1:00:12Speaker 2: you've got it to where you want it. Now, it's
- 1:00:14Speaker 2: different because you do your own. Our team does ours.
- 1:00:17Speaker 2: And then I can finaggle it a little bit here
- 1:00:19Speaker 2: and there if I want to, but just noting it,
- 1:00:20Speaker 2: I would never just adjust Scott. First of all, it's
- 1:00:23Speaker 2: going to add up to six hundred. So it's like
- 1:00:25Speaker 2: when I take five, if I take five from Scotty,
- 1:00:26Speaker 2: that five has to go somewhere. But here's a problem
- 1:00:29Speaker 2: most people go through and they just go, Okay, five
- 1:00:32Speaker 2: off Scotty, give that to Rory. Well, what do you
- 1:00:35Speaker 2: mean like it changes everything? Like if you Scotty's three
- 1:00:38Speaker 2: thousand dollars more, doesn't just change that. So I think
- 1:00:41Speaker 2: for me, the main notice is like I not only
- 1:00:44Speaker 2: get my player pool first and put it into Saber
- 1:00:47Speaker 2: sim then I'm adjusting these things. Then I'm building the
- 1:00:50Speaker 2: field lineups off the most accurate owner what I believe
- 1:00:53Speaker 2: to be the most accurate ownership, and then I'm building
- 1:00:55Speaker 2: my lineups against that. Again, that's where the differences lie,
- 1:00:59Speaker 2: and depending on the package you have or what you
- 1:01:01Speaker 2: use for your own stuff. But that's the most beneficial
- 1:01:04Speaker 2: thing to your contest sims is when you have very
- 1:01:07Speaker 2: accurate ownership, the player projections are all median projections. It's
- 1:01:11Speaker 2: like a Homa can say fifty right now if he
- 1:01:13Speaker 2: has a home a week at Riviera. It's not likely
- 1:01:16Speaker 2: the way he's been playing, but it's possible. It's Homa
- 1:01:18Speaker 2: and any given time, look more cow showing up in
- 1:01:21Speaker 2: won last week. If he has that kind of week,
- 1:01:23Speaker 2: it's gonna be a hundred plus points. If he has
- 1:01:24Speaker 2: a bad week and missus the cut, it could be
- 1:01:26Speaker 2: thirty points. So it's like it's I'm looking way more
- 1:01:29Speaker 2: at what the field's doing and then adjusting for that
- 1:01:32Speaker 2: before going in and feeling good about it. So I'm
- 1:01:34Speaker 2: fine with adjustments, but I would look at it more
- 1:01:35Speaker 2: from that perspective in my own perspective. So right on
- 1:01:40Speaker 2: what else you mentioned.
- 1:01:41Speaker 3: You mentioned contestims there and like how important it is
- 1:01:44Speaker 3: for accuracy in terms of ownership. Like I'll take it
- 1:01:47Speaker 3: a step further and I'll say contessms are completely useless
- 1:01:51Speaker 3: if you can't predict ownership accurately, because in order to
- 1:01:56Speaker 3: have like any you know, real use from contestim you
- 1:02:00Speaker 3: need to be simulating versus lineups that are similar to
- 1:02:04Speaker 3: what your competition is actually gonna use. And you have
- 1:02:07Speaker 3: zero chants of building accurate field lineups if you can't
- 1:02:11Speaker 3: even predict ownership correctly, Like ownership is just step one
- 1:02:14Speaker 3: of building field lineups. Well it's not the full piece.
- 1:02:17Speaker 3: But if you can't even do step one, well you
- 1:02:19Speaker 3: certainly can't then do step two well to build field lineup.
- 1:02:22Speaker 3: So so yeah, really good point there on contest sums.
- 1:02:26Speaker 2: Yeah, Also why this stuff doesn't matter. I love Aaron's
- 1:02:29Speaker 2: participation here in engagement and stuff like means they're so
- 1:02:32Speaker 2: limited already the sample sizes or whatever. There's been different
- 1:02:34Speaker 2: courses of all different field size, different other players get
- 1:02:37Speaker 2: better now than they were back then, and so on
- 1:02:39Speaker 2: and so forth. It's like, yeah, it's a good thing
- 1:02:41Speaker 2: to lean on when it's all said and done, But
- 1:02:43Speaker 2: that's no different than when somebody says I'm buying a
- 1:02:44Speaker 2: Marvin Mims jersey because he scored a touchdown today. I mean,
- 1:02:47Speaker 2: we have you got some great calls on Marvin Mims
- 1:02:49Speaker 2: this season, but is noting that It's like maybe it's
- 1:02:51Speaker 2: the defender that slipped and made it. So Marvin Mims
- 1:02:53Speaker 2: got to the house, you should be buying their jersey
- 1:02:55Speaker 2: and thanking them. They're the ones that caused it. Marvin
- 1:02:57Speaker 2: Mims was dead if that guy doesn't fall. So it's
- 1:02:59Speaker 2: like little things like that that I just don't All
- 1:03:01Speaker 2: I care about is all the other stuff we talked
- 1:03:04Speaker 2: about when people dig into the picks plays and oh,
- 1:03:06Speaker 2: what's the recency bias of this guy? All the shit
- 1:03:08Speaker 2: at all. It's all something, but it's all part of
- 1:03:11Speaker 2: the puzzle. And at the end of the day, to
- 1:03:12Speaker 2: Alex's point that he just made, if you have good projections,
- 1:03:15Speaker 2: specifically ownership projections, even if you don't have contest sims,
- 1:03:19Speaker 2: they're really, like you said, almost useless without that for
- 1:03:21Speaker 2: those But for the other side of it is like
- 1:03:23Speaker 2: trying to build good lineups. If you don't have any
- 1:03:25Speaker 2: clue what the field's doing and how the pieces go together,
- 1:03:27Speaker 2: you're gonna be way behind what other people are doing.
- 1:03:29Speaker 2: It's not a sales pitch. It's a fact. Go look
- 1:03:31Speaker 2: the leaderboards, the same people at the top of them.
- 1:03:33Speaker 2: It's not even than the top poker players that spend
- 1:03:36Speaker 2: hours and hours in solvers and prepare themselves for these situations.
- 1:03:39Speaker 2: Some are good at playing live and still holding up
- 1:03:42Speaker 2: the live side of it, because then you still have
- 1:03:44Speaker 2: to hold a poker face or bluffing or what you
- 1:03:46Speaker 2: do in your tels and all that stuff. People are
- 1:03:48Speaker 2: practicing that now too. It's like you know that at
- 1:03:50Speaker 2: the end of the day, if you're working on your
- 1:03:51Speaker 2: game and you're trying to get better, there's a lot
- 1:03:53Speaker 2: more to it that goes with it. So I don't
- 1:03:55Speaker 2: have too much else to add on that. Do you
- 1:03:56Speaker 2: have anything else you want to talk about with anything? Outside?
- 1:04:00Speaker 2: One and done the betting breakdown, and then we'll get
- 1:04:02Speaker 2: to our lane.
- 1:04:04Speaker 3: Very fun betting breakdown this week. I will say that
- 1:04:06Speaker 3: I have many more outrights this week than I might
- 1:04:09Speaker 3: have as many outrights this week as I've had, like
- 1:04:11Speaker 3: combined in the last four weeks or something like that.
- 1:04:15Speaker 3: Very much recommend going back and watching the show that
- 1:04:18Speaker 3: Pat and I did yesterday. We talked about a specific
- 1:04:22Speaker 3: each way type that's now available on bet three six five.
- 1:04:25Speaker 3: Actually I shouldn't say now available. There's a chance that
- 1:04:27Speaker 3: it's been available and I just never scrolled far and
- 1:04:30Speaker 3: up right on the each way market to find it.
- 1:04:31Speaker 3: But Pat asked me about a specific each way that's
- 1:04:35Speaker 3: one fifth of the odds for three spots. And so
- 1:04:38Speaker 3: the way in each way bet works is, let's say
- 1:04:41Speaker 3: you're betting fifty dollars on a player. Fifty dollars is
- 1:04:44Speaker 3: going to go to the outright, just as you usually
- 1:04:47Speaker 3: do it. Then an additional fifty dollars will be added,
- 1:04:50Speaker 3: this time on the placement bet, So the fraction is okay,
- 1:04:54Speaker 3: if he was fifty to one, I'm now getting one
- 1:04:56Speaker 3: fifth of that fifty to one, and then I'm getting
- 1:05:00Speaker 3: three spots, so that'd be ten to one for a
- 1:05:02Speaker 3: top three as the second half of the bet that's
- 1:05:05Speaker 3: added on to the original bet. And the reason why
- 1:05:08Speaker 3: this one is so intriguing is because it actually takes
- 1:05:10Speaker 3: the outright number and boosts it up. So like Scotty is,
- 1:05:15Speaker 3: let's say he's three to one in this each way market,
- 1:05:19Speaker 3: he might be four and a half to one or
- 1:05:21Speaker 3: something like that, and so you get a better number
- 1:05:24Speaker 3: on the actual outright itself. And I did all the
- 1:05:28Speaker 3: math Pat and I talked about it turns out it's
- 1:05:30Speaker 3: really good, and so I have a bunch of those bets.
- 1:05:32Speaker 3: This week, and I think my favorite one is probably
- 1:05:35Speaker 3: Sepstraca at seventy. The guy is just continues to show
- 1:05:41Speaker 3: us that when he plays his A game, he can
- 1:05:44Speaker 3: beat this type of field, not with ease, but like
- 1:05:49Speaker 3: he's going to be in contention and just has to
- 1:05:51Speaker 3: play his A game. He doesn't need to do something
- 1:05:53Speaker 3: special for himself, something super rare for himself, like an
- 1:05:55Speaker 3: out of body experience type thing to beat one of
- 1:05:58Speaker 3: these fields. And he's also one of those guys who
- 1:06:01Speaker 3: the more approach play matters this week, the better chance
- 1:06:04Speaker 3: he has to win. So the fact that there that
- 1:06:07Speaker 3: they should be softer greens this year than what we've
- 1:06:09Speaker 3: seen in the past, I think really benefits him and
- 1:06:12Speaker 3: from in terms of like mid iron and long iron player,
- 1:06:15Speaker 3: there are very very few in the world who are
- 1:06:16Speaker 3: better than he is. So I really like him this week.
- 1:06:18Speaker 3: And that number seventy to one is just crazy, crazy high.
- 1:06:22Speaker 3: And to show that point just a little more, let
- 1:06:25Speaker 3: me bring up our prop shop over in FTNL. Let's
- 1:06:27Speaker 3: see what the best available in market is just for
- 1:06:29Speaker 3: the traditional outright fifty to one. Fifty to one is
- 1:06:34Speaker 3: the best available in the traditional market. I don't know
- 1:06:36Speaker 3: if the if the number has moved in that specific
- 1:06:39Speaker 3: each way market over on bet three six five. But
- 1:06:41Speaker 3: for anyone who's trying to find this number, you go
- 1:06:43Speaker 3: to bed three six y five, you go to the tournament,
- 1:06:45Speaker 3: you have to actually switch from main markets to each
- 1:06:49Speaker 3: way markets and then scroll to find that one fifth
- 1:06:52Speaker 3: for one through three spots, and that's where you'll find
- 1:06:55Speaker 3: the better number. So sepstrak is seventy to one. That's
- 1:06:57Speaker 3: my outright of the week.
- 1:06:59Speaker 2: Yeah, very interesting converce station two. Just because you know,
- 1:07:01Speaker 2: for those like me being Canadian and those that always
- 1:07:04Speaker 2: had access to bed three six five, we've always been
- 1:07:06Speaker 2: looking at these each way markets markets. I remember back
- 1:07:08Speaker 2: in the day with my buddy Kenny Kim on the
- 1:07:10Speaker 2: Fantasy Golf Degenerate's podcast, he'd be like, yeah, you of
- 1:07:12Speaker 2: course get these each ways, and now he's got them,
- 1:07:14Speaker 2: so I see him betting them all the time. But
- 1:07:16Speaker 2: they were always there. They changed it up on us,
- 1:07:18Speaker 2: so it used to be only one quarter top five
- 1:07:22Speaker 2: and that was still fine, I'm said, but that that's
- 1:07:23Speaker 2: all you could get, And then all of a sudden
- 1:07:25Speaker 2: they started bringing in all these columns of different markets
- 1:07:28Speaker 2: you could bet on, so you guys digging into that,
- 1:07:29Speaker 2: it's just like us digging into dfs here, very exciting
- 1:07:32Speaker 2: and just unique, sort of a unique blend of sports
- 1:07:35Speaker 2: betting mixed with DFS mixed with everything, kind of putting
- 1:07:38Speaker 2: it all together across these shows for yourself. But yeah,
- 1:07:40Speaker 2: if you know Straka one's nice and he's seventy eight
- 1:07:43Speaker 2: hundred on DraftKings, So you know, if you don't want
- 1:07:45Speaker 2: to play them there and you want to just bet
- 1:07:46Speaker 2: them or vice versa, play them both, you can do that.
- 1:07:49Speaker 2: But I like to call it, and I like the
- 1:07:50Speaker 2: number seventy to one, And.
- 1:07:52Speaker 3: The other thing is like, I think this is a
- 1:07:55Speaker 3: really unique thing to PGA, it seems, which is really
- 1:07:58Speaker 3: cool that there's more of an overlap between guys who
- 1:08:02Speaker 3: play PGA dfs and guys who bet on PGA than
- 1:08:05Speaker 3: there is in basically any other sport like NBA for example.
- 1:08:09Speaker 3: I don't even play NBA dfs anymore, but I do
- 1:08:11Speaker 3: a lot of betting in football. I do both, but
- 1:08:16Speaker 3: I find fewer other people who do both, you know,
- 1:08:18Speaker 3: Like even in my discord, there were there are a
- 1:08:20Speaker 3: lot of a lot of guys who just were there
- 1:08:22Speaker 3: for the NFL d discussion, and then there were also
- 1:08:25Speaker 3: guys there for the NFL props and pick them discussion.
- 1:08:30Speaker 3: In PGA, it seems like everyone is in on both,
- 1:08:33Speaker 3: and that's, to me, is one of the really cool
- 1:08:35Speaker 3: things about this PGA industry.
- 1:08:37Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a way to get a ton of action
- 1:08:39Speaker 2: on something that you feel strongly about if you're putting
- 1:08:41Speaker 2: in the time and all that sort uff. Again, bet responsibly, now,
- 1:08:43Speaker 2: don't just say it. There's no waiver disclaimer, just a
- 1:08:46Speaker 2: note like I really do. I don't want people putting
- 1:08:48Speaker 2: out putting up more money than they can afford to lose.
- 1:08:50Speaker 2: That's you know, that's the problem that people run into
- 1:08:52Speaker 2: in these discords and things like that, where they're freaking
- 1:08:54Speaker 2: out and overtilting and all that. Chances are, don't mean
- 1:08:58Speaker 2: to be rude, but you probably have too much money
- 1:08:59Speaker 2: on the line. I've got thousands on the line. It's
- 1:09:01Speaker 2: not a brag. I'm just saying, but it's like I
- 1:09:03Speaker 2: can afford to lose that. It's what part of my
- 1:09:05Speaker 2: bankroll is. It's how I've always built things. I literally do.
- 1:09:08Speaker 2: I'm playing with my family. I'm about like today, I'm
- 1:09:10Speaker 2: gonna before I even get the rest of my work done,
- 1:09:12Speaker 2: I'm gonna go watch the rest of the Canada game
- 1:09:13Speaker 2: for the Olympics. When golf is on tomorrow, and throughout
- 1:09:16Speaker 2: the weekend, there'll be more Olympics on. I'll be watching that.
- 1:09:18Speaker 2: Like it's not make or break. I'm trying to make
- 1:09:21Speaker 2: money and planning to it and hoping I do. Like
- 1:09:23Speaker 2: NFL season was awesome, golf season has not started as awesome,
- 1:09:26Speaker 2: but it could be good. Who knows. There's a ton
- 1:09:28Speaker 2: of time left. If you're playing all season, you have
- 1:09:31Speaker 2: to factor in and you can't just sit back and say, oh, well,
- 1:09:34Speaker 2: there's thirty events, I'm playing thirty weeks. No, there's thirty events,
- 1:09:37Speaker 2: but that could be four slates a week or more
- 1:09:40Speaker 2: to you because if you're just playing round two, Round three,
- 1:09:42Speaker 2: Round four, and you're skipping round one, I get it,
- 1:09:44Speaker 2: but you're still playing classic for a bunch and those
- 1:09:46Speaker 2: other three slates. That's four slates per week. Now, let's
- 1:09:50Speaker 2: say it's forty events on the year with swing season
- 1:09:52Speaker 2: and everything. Now you're playing one hundred and sixty slates.
- 1:09:54Speaker 2: You're gonna lose a ton of those slates. So you
- 1:09:56Speaker 2: just gotta be prepared for that. You can't be putting
- 1:09:58Speaker 2: up money you can't afford to lose. So you know,
- 1:10:01Speaker 2: sometimes people release the beast, and sometimes the beast gets released,
- 1:10:04Speaker 2: but that's what happens. You gotta be careful tilting in
- 1:10:06Speaker 2: that discord and coming after people on that stuff because
- 1:10:09Speaker 2: it's like it's your money. You clicked send on the
- 1:10:11Speaker 2: money and submit it. We don't want you spending more
- 1:10:14Speaker 2: than you could afford to lose. So all right, one
- 1:10:16Speaker 2: and done, let's talk about that. I think one of
- 1:10:19Speaker 2: the most interesting things I did want to bring this up.
- 1:10:21Speaker 2: I know you don't want to spend too long here today,
- 1:10:23Speaker 2: but the difference in the Mayo Cup, which is important
- 1:10:26Speaker 2: because I'm in all these, but the Mayo Cup and
- 1:10:29Speaker 2: Rick's Splash Sports one are quite different because of the segments. Right,
- 1:10:34Speaker 2: this first segment in the Rick Run Good one is
- 1:10:37Speaker 2: nine tournaments, but I believe there's only three or four left,
- 1:10:41Speaker 2: and like this is a big one, obviously being another signature.
- 1:10:44Speaker 2: Last week was big, but not as many people are
- 1:10:46Speaker 2: on calling. I just am curious before we get to
- 1:10:48Speaker 2: like who you like for this week as a general
- 1:10:51Speaker 2: one and done or with that involved, with or without
- 1:10:53Speaker 2: that involved, what do you think about involving the segment
- 1:10:56Speaker 2: in the conversation. Meaning, let's say you've hit duds, are
- 1:11:00Speaker 2: you're at three hundred thousand bucks and we're already in
- 1:11:02Speaker 2: the segment one. You know, then do you want to
- 1:11:05Speaker 2: go use a Scotti or a Rory or something like that.
- 1:11:07Speaker 2: I mean, I think I know the answer. I'm just saying,
- 1:11:09Speaker 2: like for others asking that, it's like, they gotta be
- 1:11:11Speaker 2: cognizant of that, because it's important to note that there's
- 1:11:14Speaker 2: other segments that you could just stack the four best
- 1:11:17Speaker 2: players you have for and still get out of this
- 1:11:20Speaker 2: thing with some money. But well, what's your thoughts on that?
- 1:11:22Speaker 2: And then we'll talk one and done in general?
- 1:11:24Speaker 3: Yeah, I love this question. I don't know if I'm
- 1:11:27Speaker 3: in anyone and Done's that that really segment? It like that,
- 1:11:30Speaker 3: but it's it's an it's a really good question, and
- 1:11:34Speaker 3: absolutely I think you need to take it into account.
- 1:11:36Speaker 3: And so if you're in good shape and you have
- 1:11:38Speaker 3: a chance to, you know, wrap up a nice payout
- 1:11:40Speaker 3: from segment one, go take advantage of that. Because it's
- 1:11:44Speaker 3: a long season. You have no idea how you're gonna
- 1:11:46Speaker 3: do the rest of the way. If you're in a
- 1:11:47Speaker 3: position where you could end up with a really nice
- 1:11:49Speaker 3: payout from segment one. Go hammer that as hard as
- 1:11:52Speaker 3: you can, you know, right, and so maybe that's using
- 1:11:54Speaker 3: Scotty this week if it goes through the players, maybe
- 1:11:56Speaker 3: you save Scotty for the players or something like that.
- 1:11:58Speaker 3: But if you're if you thinking it up this week
- 1:12:01Speaker 3: or this year so far, and you're way behind in
- 1:12:03Speaker 3: this segment, no, you should absolutely not use use those
- 1:12:06Speaker 3: guys unless you think that doing so is going to
- 1:12:10Speaker 3: be contrarian enough this week where like it could help
- 1:12:13Speaker 3: you actually get back into the mix for the season
- 1:12:16Speaker 3: long race. So in that case it'd be fine, But
- 1:12:19Speaker 3: from a segment perspective, it would certainly not be worth
- 1:12:23Speaker 3: doing because you know there are guys ahead of you
- 1:12:25Speaker 3: who are going to use him as well. So you
- 1:12:27Speaker 3: have absolutely no chance to go win the segment or
- 1:12:29Speaker 3: finish well in the segment if you go and use
- 1:12:31Speaker 3: those studs right now. So, really good question, don't I
- 1:12:35Speaker 3: don't think I have any strong feelings yet this week
- 1:12:38Speaker 3: for one and done in terms of who I want
- 1:12:40Speaker 3: to use.
- 1:12:40Speaker 2: Do you all have a thought here to say? I
- 1:12:42Speaker 2: like Aaron Cott this one, so shout out to him.
- 1:12:44Speaker 2: Be cognizant the week before. Yeah, the tournament's upcoming, so
- 1:12:46Speaker 2: that's gonna be part of the segment as well. But
- 1:12:48Speaker 2: I think that at the end of the day, you
- 1:12:50Speaker 2: said a really good point there that was added on.
- 1:12:52Speaker 2: And also like if you have capitalized on a segment,
- 1:12:54Speaker 2: meaning you got more how right, and you got something
- 1:12:56Speaker 2: else going in your favor, you got to get after
- 1:12:59Speaker 2: it this week. Not only is it great anyway to
- 1:13:00Speaker 2: Aaron's previous point, I'm like, this this week is huge
- 1:13:03Speaker 2: prize pool and you know, basically it's like the players,
- 1:13:05Speaker 2: but that's for any one and done. We're talking mao
- 1:13:08Speaker 2: coup like you said, and it's like every event counts. Yeah,
- 1:13:10Speaker 2: get who you think's gonna win the money. But most
- 1:13:11Speaker 2: certainly if you're in a segment contest like Rick run
- 1:13:14Speaker 2: Goods Big one on Splash, you should be focused on
- 1:13:17Speaker 2: where you stand right now. And I wouldn't burn anybody
- 1:13:20Speaker 2: if you're way behind. Save it for bigger segments, and
- 1:13:22Speaker 2: you're still gonna need somebody that does well. You want
- 1:13:24Speaker 2: to collect money, don't get me wrong, but I'm just
- 1:13:25Speaker 2: saying you don't need to pick the top tier that
- 1:13:27Speaker 2: you might be able to use to your favor later
- 1:13:29Speaker 2: vice versa. If you're in a good spot, you got
- 1:13:32Speaker 2: Collin right, you got other stuff right. I would try
- 1:13:34Speaker 2: and get as much as you possibly can. Roll it
- 1:13:36Speaker 2: out that way. Where do you I guess my question
- 1:13:39Speaker 2: is where are you thinking early that people are landing.
- 1:13:43Speaker 2: I definitely think people are landing on Cantley. I brought
- 1:13:45Speaker 2: that up earlier just because of history and all these
- 1:13:47Speaker 2: other factors, and he definitely showed some signs. But by
- 1:13:50Speaker 2: the way, I'll just note this, because you brought the
- 1:13:52Speaker 2: Rose thing earlier. Can't lay to me is like a
- 1:13:54Speaker 2: little bit reminiscent of the Rose thing. Like Rose, it
- 1:13:58Speaker 2: was like age and different factors playing good. Now, when
- 1:14:01Speaker 2: are we gonna save him for it makes sense? Et cetera,
- 1:14:03Speaker 2: et cetera. Can't. Hey, he just had himself a good week.
- 1:14:07Speaker 2: He had a really good round four. He crushes it here,
- 1:14:09Speaker 2: He's been fine before. Let's jump on him now. I'm
- 1:14:12Speaker 2: not saying it's a bad thing, just noting why it's
- 1:14:14Speaker 2: a popular thing. It does sort of bring that into play.
- 1:14:18Speaker 2: I think, almost like how the Rose situation did last week.
- 1:14:21Speaker 3: Yeah, and his iron play has really been surging so
- 1:14:23Speaker 3: far this year, so I'm with you. I think he's
- 1:14:27Speaker 3: gonna be one of the most popular one and done
- 1:14:29Speaker 3: picks that to me like kind of excludes him because
- 1:14:32Speaker 3: he's not popping at all in our models, particularly in
- 1:14:36Speaker 3: our simulations, like his his projection is solid, but he's
- 1:14:39Speaker 3: one of the lower volatility players now among the best
- 1:14:42Speaker 3: players in the world, So the win odds the top
- 1:14:44Speaker 3: five bots just don't compare to some of his peers
- 1:14:47Speaker 3: up there, at least in our simulations, So I won't
- 1:14:50Speaker 3: be going there. But like I said, I don't have
- 1:14:54Speaker 3: anyone that I feel like really good about. I think
- 1:14:57Speaker 3: maybe the guy who's the most interesting to me is
- 1:14:59Speaker 3: Russell Henley because he is so like polar opposite of
- 1:15:05Speaker 3: the type of player that you think of when you
- 1:15:07Speaker 3: think of a riv specialist. But he's just a good
- 1:15:11Speaker 3: enough player to have real win equity, and we've seen
- 1:15:14Speaker 3: him win on courses or at least contend on courses
- 1:15:16Speaker 3: where like his game just doesn't fit what most guys
- 1:15:19Speaker 3: have to do well to play well there, because he
- 1:15:22Speaker 3: can play his own game and just play it that
- 1:15:24Speaker 3: well that he actually contends and even wins like he
- 1:15:27Speaker 3: did at bay Hill. So you mentioned the fact that
- 1:15:30Speaker 3: he could slip through the cracks and be one of
- 1:15:31Speaker 3: the lowest owned guys in DFS. I think he could
- 1:15:34Speaker 3: also do the same and be one of the really
- 1:15:36Speaker 3: low owned like stars from a one and dumb perspective too.
- 1:15:41Speaker 2: Yeah, another thing I wanted to add too, though, and
- 1:15:43Speaker 2: that's a great call. I like that one. Another guy,
- 1:15:45Speaker 2: just an example, would be like Sam Burns. He showed
- 1:15:48Speaker 2: up last week, Mike Cantley. Did you know he's been
- 1:15:50Speaker 2: you know, two years ago in there here he was
- 1:15:52Speaker 2: tenth Like, he's obviously a guy that I guess. My
- 1:15:55Speaker 2: thoughts on guys like Henley and Burns. I know we
- 1:15:58Speaker 2: had the conversation earlier in the season, so I'm interested
- 1:16:00Speaker 2: or your rebuttal to this. But like everyone that got
- 1:16:02Speaker 2: the gotterr Up wins now plural right, It's they weren't
- 1:16:05Speaker 2: for the biggest money, but they were wins. That's for
- 1:16:07Speaker 2: the biggest money you could possibly get that week. The
- 1:16:09Speaker 2: way to get after those people now is to get
- 1:16:12Speaker 2: got her Up winning on a week like this for
- 1:16:14Speaker 2: all the money. But outside of that, let's say a
- 1:16:16Speaker 2: guy like got her Up, who we just talked about,
- 1:16:19Speaker 2: or Nap, It's like they're gonna probably get tournaments down
- 1:16:22Speaker 2: the stretch where they are the favorite or like the
- 1:16:24Speaker 2: two to one or three. You know, they're like they're
- 1:16:26Speaker 2: sort of the top two or the top three favorite
- 1:16:28Speaker 2: in the tournament. You're not always I know sometimes you will,
- 1:16:31Speaker 2: but like with Henley and Burns and that sort of stuff,
- 1:16:33Speaker 2: it's not always guaranteed because sometimes they don't always play
- 1:16:35Speaker 2: in those crossovers where like those other guys will. So
- 1:16:38Speaker 2: I'd be more likely to go with to your point, Henley,
- 1:16:43Speaker 2: you could go with the Burns, another guy you could
- 1:16:44Speaker 2: go with through people usually don't go back to the well,
- 1:16:46Speaker 2: but is more Kawa right, just just go right back
- 1:16:49Speaker 2: to the well? MORCW he won last week, there's no
- 1:16:50Speaker 2: way he can win again this week, So I don't
- 1:16:52Speaker 2: know what's your thoughts on that. But he also only
- 1:16:54Speaker 2: plays big Boy events too, so when else.
- 1:16:58Speaker 3: I I was bringing up Moricawa next. So I think
- 1:17:02Speaker 3: we should probably go ahead and toss Morikawa in for
- 1:17:05Speaker 3: our joint entry because I think it's a really sharp play,
- 1:17:09Speaker 3: and I also think he's potentially good on DraftKings like
- 1:17:12Speaker 3: that was another kind of thing I actually meant to
- 1:17:15Speaker 3: bring up earlier, and we should have touched on is
- 1:17:17Speaker 3: do you foresee the Morikawa like post win ownership discount
- 1:17:22Speaker 3: coming for him, especially considering the fact that his price
- 1:17:25Speaker 3: went up by what was it like sixteen hundred dollars
- 1:17:28Speaker 3: first last week? So do you think he's going to
- 1:17:31Speaker 3: be really lowaned or are people now just totally backing
- 1:17:34Speaker 3: in on him.
- 1:17:35Speaker 2: I think I think you're out on him. I think
- 1:17:37Speaker 2: it's good he won. Good for him. Now his price
- 1:17:39Speaker 2: went through the roof. It's like he's definitely not gonna
- 1:17:41Speaker 2: win again. And then the problem is just where he
- 1:17:42Speaker 2: is Xander DECKI can't just use Xander and can't lay
- 1:17:46Speaker 2: wrapped around him. I don't care about the rest, like
- 1:17:48Speaker 2: Deki could be in there too, but just use Xander
- 1:17:50Speaker 2: and can't lay alone. He's in between them, So how
- 1:17:52Speaker 2: can people get to it? Then you've got the Rory ownership,
- 1:17:55Speaker 2: the Scotty ownership that won't just dip right to him.
- 1:17:57Speaker 2: It's not gonna be You're not gonna see a bunch
- 1:17:59Speaker 2: of Marikala lineups, you know what I mean something like that.
- 1:18:02Speaker 2: So yeah, I just don't see how he gets out
- 1:18:04Speaker 2: of control. Will he get ten percent? Maybe? Yeah? But
- 1:18:07Speaker 2: does he Where do we go? Is it eight to
- 1:18:09Speaker 2: twelve or something?
- 1:18:10Speaker 3: Is it?
- 1:18:11Speaker 2: Is it nine to fourteen? Like, I don't know what
- 1:18:13Speaker 2: range you want to give him, but I don't see
- 1:18:14Speaker 2: a world where he gets like pumped up or anything.
- 1:18:17Speaker 3: It also means like you could go Henley Morikawa for
- 1:18:20Speaker 3: basically the same price as Shoffley Can't lay. I think
- 1:18:24Speaker 3: they probably project slightly better for us now ever's so
- 1:18:29Speaker 3: slightly worse, but you're getting a massive ownership discount compared
- 1:18:32Speaker 3: to that that chalk you're pairing, So that's a that's
- 1:18:35Speaker 3: a really cool angle at the top. I think Maricaw
- 1:18:37Speaker 3: is a really sharp play, particularly for dfs, but I
- 1:18:39Speaker 3: think he also works here for one and done.
- 1:18:42Speaker 2: Yeah, I like that call man, all right, what I'll
- 1:18:44Speaker 2: do my line first because I feel pretty strongly about it.
- 1:18:46Speaker 2: So it's good. No nine K in my in my
- 1:18:50Speaker 2: main single entry, and the main thing is like everything
- 1:18:51Speaker 2: we've been talking about, Like I said, it actually feels
- 1:18:54Speaker 2: even better knowing that is if you know it'll be
- 1:18:57Speaker 2: one of Scottie, Rory or Tommy that I'm using. Obviously,
- 1:19:00Speaker 2: in this case, I'm not just gonna go all eight
- 1:19:01Speaker 2: K guys or something. I'm talking about using a guy
- 1:19:03Speaker 2: above them. But when you've got Xander Decki Kawa can't
- 1:19:07Speaker 2: lay young. All these guys that we talked about, I
- 1:19:09Speaker 2: could see a bunch of them being fifteen to twenty percent,
- 1:19:12Speaker 2: and some of them even higher when you get to
- 1:19:13Speaker 2: the single entry stuff, like we kind of figured out
- 1:19:15Speaker 2: what the chalk build stuff there. So I'm happy just
- 1:19:18Speaker 2: to skip that range and you know, go down. Whether
- 1:19:21Speaker 2: I do Fleetwood and multiple eights and land in just
- 1:19:25Speaker 2: a completely different zone, or if I do Scottie with
- 1:19:27Speaker 2: the build that I like and I find something down
- 1:19:29Speaker 2: there where I can get upper six or upper sevens,
- 1:19:32Speaker 2: mid sixes or something like that. There's a ton of
- 1:19:34Speaker 2: different ways you can go here that I feel comfortable
- 1:19:37Speaker 2: with this week, so I'll alleviate myself of the FOMO.
- 1:19:41Speaker 2: There's definitely always gonna be a fear of missing out
- 1:19:43Speaker 2: when you're leaving out all those nine k guys, But
- 1:19:45Speaker 2: in my main two hundred dollars single entry, I'm not
- 1:19:47Speaker 2: going to play any of them. I've got multiple builds
- 1:19:49Speaker 2: I've looked at this morning that don't require any of
- 1:19:51Speaker 2: those guys for.
- 1:19:53Speaker 3: My leverage lane. I'm going to test my luck with
- 1:19:55Speaker 3: this with the thought that we kind of started with
- 1:19:58Speaker 3: on the Rose team last week. We're gonna see how
- 1:20:01Speaker 3: much of an impact we actually have here because I'm
- 1:20:03Speaker 3: going right back to two by low guys, JJ Spawn
- 1:20:07Speaker 3: Corey Connors. These are two guys who if you started
- 1:20:10Speaker 3: this season back in January and let's say DraftKings like
- 1:20:15Speaker 3: released all of the pricing for the next two months
- 1:20:18Speaker 3: every single week, you'd look at the pricing this week
- 1:20:20Speaker 3: and you'd say, Wow, why would they put Connors and
- 1:20:23Speaker 3: Spawn at seven seventy five hundred dollars. They're going to
- 1:20:27Speaker 3: be thirty percent of to each by the time we
- 1:20:30Speaker 3: get to that part of the schedule. But they haven't
- 1:20:32Speaker 3: played well and Spawn heading the injury concern. So here
- 1:20:37Speaker 3: he is at this low ownership. But the thing with
- 1:20:39Speaker 3: Spawn is he his ball striking was really really good
- 1:20:41Speaker 3: last event. His ball speed is actually up compared to
- 1:20:44Speaker 3: his baseline, so that to me says, you know what,
- 1:20:47Speaker 3: he's healthy. So I'm very much in on him at
- 1:20:50Speaker 3: seventy five hundred dollars. And then Connor's it's not the
- 1:20:52Speaker 3: same story, but it's a similar story in the fact
- 1:20:54Speaker 3: that he hasn't played well. But the thing with Connor's
- 1:20:57Speaker 3: is he's only played three times this year he started
- 1:20:59Speaker 3: the Sony, his irons were spectacular. Now he's had two
- 1:21:02Speaker 3: straight events, six total rounds where the irons haven't been good.
- 1:21:07Speaker 3: No part of his game has been good. The putting
- 1:21:09Speaker 3: has predictably been bad, but we know that sometimes he
- 1:21:12Speaker 3: isn't going to put horribly and usually when he does that,
- 1:21:15Speaker 3: the ball striking is good enough that he gets in contention.
- 1:21:18Speaker 3: And I just think that the last six rounds pale
- 1:21:21Speaker 3: in comparison to the long, extensive history that we have
- 1:21:24Speaker 3: from Connors as being one of the better iron players
- 1:21:26Speaker 3: in the world, one of the better drivers of the
- 1:21:29Speaker 3: golf ball, at least from an accuracy perspective. So I'm
- 1:21:32Speaker 3: in on Corey Connors this week in what I think
- 1:21:34Speaker 3: is as much of a bi low opportunity as we
- 1:21:37Speaker 3: get on players of his caliber at price tags this cheap.
- 1:21:41Speaker 3: So that's probably that's my levige lane is the combo
- 1:21:44Speaker 3: of spawning Corey Connors and more just like the idea
- 1:21:47Speaker 3: of buying low on players that we have extensive histories
- 1:21:50Speaker 3: that we know these guys are significantly better players than
- 1:21:54Speaker 3: their current price tag and their current play And in
- 1:21:57Speaker 3: addition to the price discount, we're also getting in ownership.
- 1:22:01Speaker 2: We're gonna coin it the blickle trickle. We'll see if
- 1:22:03Speaker 2: the trickle effect you hops in where people follow you
- 1:22:06Speaker 2: and you know, each little trickle of ownership gets added
- 1:22:09Speaker 2: on and eventually man spawn and connors can't get ownership
- 1:22:11Speaker 2: here unless they do and so that's the case that
- 1:22:14Speaker 2: would have to be from you. So I love it.
- 1:22:16Speaker 2: I like the bold call. It's you know, you're hitting
- 1:22:18Speaker 2: on two value plays that people can use in many
- 1:22:20Speaker 2: different ways. You could play them again, don't. You don't
- 1:22:23Speaker 2: have to pick. You could play them with Girard. You
- 1:22:24Speaker 2: could play them instead of Girard. They're all right there,
- 1:22:26Speaker 2: but he's putting them together and building something out for you.
- 1:22:28Speaker 2: So I like that. I like the breakdown everything you
- 1:22:31Speaker 2: did there, anything else to.
- 1:22:32Speaker 3: Add Yeah, I love the blickle trickle because hopefully it
- 1:22:35Speaker 3: is just a trickle. As long as it's just a
- 1:22:37Speaker 3: trickle of ownership that's coming in, I don't care at all.
- 1:22:39Speaker 3: And that just don't give me the you know, the
- 1:22:41Speaker 3: the big waterfall of additional ownership on those guys, because
- 1:22:44Speaker 3: if if I open the DraftKings app on on tomorrow
- 1:22:47Speaker 3: morning and see fifteen percent of those guys, I'm gonna
- 1:22:50Speaker 3: throw my phone across the room.
- 1:22:52Speaker 2: Yeah, I gotta say again thank you to Aaron. He
- 1:22:54Speaker 2: was the comment we talked about a couple of weeks ago.
- 1:22:56Speaker 2: But I mean, you're not new here by this point.
- 1:22:58Speaker 2: If you're looking for picks and plays, absolutely the wrong place,
- 1:23:01Speaker 2: and the show just quite well every week. I think
- 1:23:03Speaker 2: people are starting to understand the game that we play.
- 1:23:05Speaker 2: But who cares. They're just people that are going into
- 1:23:07Speaker 2: lineups like you're gonna put them in, put them in.
- 1:23:09Speaker 2: I'm gonna build lineups and whoever lands in them is
- 1:23:12Speaker 2: who lands on them. But I think that's important to remember.
- 1:23:14Speaker 2: You know, worry about a pick or a play is
- 1:23:16Speaker 2: a result effect after the fact. If they have good weeks,
- 1:23:19Speaker 2: you needed them. But build your lineups accordingly and think
- 1:23:22Speaker 2: about this stuff. Go ahead, But this is also not
- 1:23:24Speaker 2: the not the show for course history. We're we're gonna
- 1:23:28Speaker 2: talk much about courtse history.
- 1:23:29Speaker 3: So and look, I think it's not surprising. It's actually
- 1:23:34Speaker 3: a really interesting combo of guys that you just brought
- 1:23:37Speaker 3: up because Cam Young and Victor Holind historically are two
- 1:23:40Speaker 3: of the best drivers of the golf ball on tour.
- 1:23:43Speaker 3: As we've talked about, though Victor Hovelin, at least right now.
- 1:23:46Speaker 3: Is not that Hovelin's driving is really what's holding him back.
- 1:23:50Speaker 3: Right now, we actually have Hoblin projected to lose strokes
- 1:23:52Speaker 3: to this field in both driving distance and driving accuracy.
- 1:23:56Speaker 3: We still have Cam gaining in both. He's still great
- 1:23:59Speaker 3: off the tee, so his course fit by no means
- 1:24:02Speaker 3: is bad this week. It is interesting though, he's not
- 1:24:06Speaker 3: very good with his long iron, so it's surprising that
- 1:24:09Speaker 3: that hasn't hurt him as much now. That can be
- 1:24:12Speaker 3: a factor of he hits the ball so far that
- 1:24:14Speaker 3: maybe he gets fewer long irons than most, and he's
- 1:24:17Speaker 3: mostly in the mid iron category where he's very capable,
- 1:24:20Speaker 3: So that part's interesting, But the Hoblin one, especially historically,
- 1:24:26Speaker 3: he has been a great fit for this golf course. Also,
- 1:24:28Speaker 3: remember the fact that around the green is significantly less
- 1:24:31Speaker 3: predictive than usual here. That makes Hoblin a great fit.
- 1:24:34Speaker 3: So in that regard he's still very solid. But you
- 1:24:37Speaker 3: need to drive the ball well here, even though it's
- 1:24:39Speaker 3: going to be softer this year, I expect that to
- 1:24:41Speaker 3: still be true at least to some degree. So Hoblin
- 1:24:44Speaker 3: is definitely not the same fit this year for the
- 1:24:47Speaker 3: golf course that he's been in the past because he
- 1:24:49Speaker 3: just can't figure out the driver. I mean last week
- 1:24:51Speaker 3: he spent like three hours on the range after one
- 1:24:53Speaker 3: of his rounds, trying twenty different drivers or something like that,
- 1:24:56Speaker 3: and then still stunk the next day off the tee.
- 1:24:59Speaker 3: I don't think it's a driver issue. I think it's
- 1:25:00Speaker 3: a swing issue. And until I see him driving the
- 1:25:04Speaker 3: ball well again, I think he's going to struggle because
- 1:25:07Speaker 3: the worst he drives the ball, the less he can
- 1:25:10Speaker 3: take advantage of the fact that he's probably the second
- 1:25:12Speaker 3: best iron player in the world, only behind Scotty. And
- 1:25:16Speaker 3: on top of that, the worst he drives the ball,
- 1:25:18Speaker 3: the more situations he's going to put himself in where
- 1:25:22Speaker 3: he can't hit the green and he does have to
- 1:25:23Speaker 3: rely on his poor short game. So I really need
- 1:25:26Speaker 3: to see him driving the ball before I'm back in
- 1:25:28Speaker 3: on him.
- 1:25:28Speaker 2: Yeah, our man mack in and at the course again
- 1:25:30Speaker 2: checked out a little Victor hobbling La to day. You
- 1:25:32Speaker 2: guys can find if you're a member at the site
- 1:25:34Speaker 2: under Boots bullets. You want to know exactly what it says.
- 1:25:36Speaker 2: These are bullet points, so it's very straightforward, not at
- 1:25:39Speaker 2: all in control with the driver, so still still not there.
- 1:25:43Speaker 2: Whether that matters or not, we'll see it's anything. I
- 1:25:45Speaker 2: think an interesting thing would be to your point of
- 1:25:47Speaker 2: the around the green game, with Victor usually being a
- 1:25:49Speaker 2: thing and something that's important, Well it's not for the
- 1:25:51Speaker 2: first couple of days. We could easily see Victor start
- 1:25:53Speaker 2: hot and then fall apart over the weekend as the
- 1:25:56Speaker 2: things for them up a little bit or whatever it
- 1:25:57Speaker 2: might be. If that happens, you know where, that would
- 1:25:59Speaker 2: be a bit of a problem. But yeah, like I said,
- 1:26:01Speaker 2: it's not gonna be a course history thing or anything
- 1:26:03Speaker 2: like that that we're looking at it from that perspective.
- 1:26:05Speaker 2: Look at your builds, play your lane. If I was
- 1:26:07Speaker 2: looking at the you know my stuff, I would probably
- 1:26:09Speaker 2: include them in the pool. But for my main sigle Adrio,
- 1:26:12Speaker 2: I'm gonna be skipping right over that range particularly goes
- 1:26:14Speaker 2: to you know. If I in that range, I definitely
- 1:26:17Speaker 2: like some of the other guys better anyway. So just
- 1:26:19Speaker 2: little things like that throughout. So all right, I don't
- 1:26:23Speaker 2: have too much else to add. Man, if you guys
- 1:26:24Speaker 2: want to go over to ship at Nation, you can
- 1:26:26Speaker 2: get in. We got the early word special include Sabersim
- 1:26:28Speaker 2: for the entire season. You can go into the discord.
- 1:26:30Speaker 2: You get the projections ownership, the Stone Boots Bullets, Boots
- 1:26:33Speaker 2: on the Ground report that Matt will have out later today. Alex,
- 1:26:36Speaker 2: did you have anything else you want to add? Obviously
- 1:26:38Speaker 2: you got your discord FTN. Hit him up where the
- 1:26:40Speaker 2: people can find you and then we'll get out of here.
- 1:26:42Speaker 3: Yeah, find me at Alex Plicka one on Twitter and
- 1:26:45Speaker 3: you can get all FTN stuff or my discord stuff
- 1:26:48Speaker 3: from there. Promo code leverage for my discord ten percent
- 1:26:50Speaker 3: off forever, Promo code blick at FTN Fantasy for ten
- 1:26:53Speaker 3: percent off the.
- 1:26:55Speaker 2: BLIKEL trickle Baby, We're back on it. That's another one too.
- 1:26:58Speaker 2: A good bullet actually brought his dad with him this week.
- 1:27:03Speaker 2: Obviously he's they always talk about it. What is like
- 1:27:05Speaker 2: Sleepy Hollow or the course pro I forget the name
- 1:27:07Speaker 2: of the course now, but it's something like that in
- 1:27:09Speaker 2: New York and all these different factors. But one other,
- 1:27:12Speaker 2: just funny thing I saw while we were on here.
- 1:27:14Speaker 2: I think it was forget who posted it, but anyway,
- 1:27:17Speaker 2: Brendan Pora, Yeah, I think you know it was a
- 1:27:19Speaker 2: Brendan Porath or whatever his name is, the golf reporter guy.
- 1:27:22Speaker 2: But anyway, he posted it, and Vic Hovland posted on
- 1:27:25Speaker 2: his Instagram like smh, dot dot dot shake in my
- 1:27:29Speaker 2: head and there's a huge tree on fifteen now where
- 1:27:32Speaker 2: he used to come through the trees all up there
- 1:27:35Speaker 2: now it's like, you ain't doing that this week. That'd
- 1:27:36Speaker 2: be a very bad idea. No, maybe he'll try and
- 1:27:38Speaker 2: fly it over, but highly doubt it. So right on, guys,
- 1:27:41Speaker 2: Appreciate you always a lot of fun doing these shows.
- 1:27:44Speaker 2: Appreciate Alex for hopping on with me every week and
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