Is he sort of a misunderstood player and a player that can help us a lot with our rosters?

Definitely, and the reason I put him on there is, A, he's probably reasonable to buy.

Now, you have to understand your format.

I think if you're in a heavier tight end premium, so let's go at least 1.5 or probably more applicable to 1.75, two extra points for, or two points for a tight end reception.

You're really looking at Ferguson as there's multiple outs.

So I'll get to his situation here in a second.

But he's cheap enough that if you told me I could add him and I can flex him, I mean, he's probably one of the six to eight tight ends you can project to get 100 targets just based on the team that he's on.

Uh, what are your thoughts on Drake May, and is this a cash out situation? Like, what i- what are, what is your, your argument here for, for selling a player that so many are completely bullish on and convinced this is the long-term answer for many dynasty managers at the quarterback position?

What do you guys think about something like this? Scott, give me your thoughts, man.

Yeah, I mean, I, I see your point.

I think one thing to remember about best ball, and Jose, you kinda mentioned this, but if you really think about best ball, it is just a giant algebra equation.

And the good news is we have some variables that aren't going to change.

We have four positions.

Generally, most leagues are 12 teams.

When you're getting into 10 and 16 and 14, that changes the math a little bit, but I would say the majority of best ball leagues are 12 teams, right? So the 12 is a variable that's not gonna change.

Availability, amount of discounts and savings, and eligibility vary by state.

What do you guys think about something like this? Scott, give me your thoughts, man.

Yeah, I mean, I see your point.

I think one thing to remember about best ball, and Jose, you kind of mentioned this, but if you really think about best ball, it is just a giant algebra equation.

And the good news is we have some variables that aren't going to change.

We have four positions.

Generally, most leagues are 12 teams.

When you're getting into 10 and 16 and 14, that changes the math a little bit.

How are you utilizing this trend change here for this in our best ball teams here, Scott?

Describe the game that you're playing and why you've chosen to play this way.

It, it's such a big question.

So I try to zoom out, and if someone asks me, like literally, "Sell me on your perspective on the Dynasty game," you have to actually zoom out further than even Dynasty.

It's, "Sell me on your perspective of just sports today." And then you maybe zoom in a little bit and you say just the NFL.

'Cause then the next layer is you get into Dynasty.

Then the next layer is you get into the specifics of your Dynasty league.

Like, there's literally layers to this, and I'll give a shout-out to Ray, 'cause he has said this from the beginning.

Um, how, how does that play out in portfolio play like actionably, especially the symbiotic ones? Because I think that there are certain strategies that probably feed really well, uh, in parallel to yours to where you guys can both accomplish your goals, right? So as you scale up, as the, the listeners scale up to let's say 50 leagues, um, are there certain types of strategies or moves that you see people make where you're like, "This is the type of person that I need to work with because we can help each other out here"?

Yeah

... or C.J. Stroud? And the reality is, like, we don't really know.

You know, the first thing you're looking for at quarterback is, is the guy going to make it? Is he gonna be in the conversation for a second contract? Is he gonna be in the conversation for this is the guy the team is building around? Once you hit that mark, we're gonna talk tons this weekend about the quarterback landscape and where it's going in the future.

We've talked about that a lot in 2027.

But he's quarterback 15.

If you told me he ends up as a top eight quarterback or better and he's just an elevator or a truck, then fine.

And if you told me he's down in the Bryce Young, C.J. Stroud, Jared Goff range, that wouldn't surprise me either.

They need a tight end of the future.

Right.

Or at least 10 or 11 teams.

They may not love it, but they look at their room and they go, "You know what? I have Bo Nix and Jared Goff." They're good with that.

They don't need a QB3, especially with the prevalence of how many backups start games, how many other quarterbacks there are that are out there, you know, the popularity of the any quarterback on a two-deep strategy.

I don't know if you've heard about that, but I've talked about that for a long time, that backup quarterbacks.

Last year, 30% of the starts in the NFL were by quarterbacks that were not starting week one, and that wasn't counting like Jaxson Dart.

This is pure just replacement backup QBs.

He's co- The bottom line is there is a shred of uncertainty whether any of these guys come out, and that's more now than there, there used to be because of this NIL money dump.

Right.

Then we went through a period where a lot of sites popped up, started doing Dynasty content.

I think about Player Profiler and DLF.

Like, they started...

Dynasty Nerds.

Like, they had dedicated Dynasty content, right? But then you think about where that's morphed into today, all of that still exists.

Like, a lot of those sites are still doing their thing.

Right.