The Dynasty Stash: Recent Episodes
Chris Hatcher
The Dynasty Stash is a weekly fantasy football podcast that focuses on strategies, often outside the box, to succeed in the dynasty league format.
Former Jaguars' Video Intern Steve Friend joins us again, this time as a guest host, as we recap the 2018 Reese's Senior Bowl's offensive players and interview hopeful pros Baker Mayfield, Kalen Ballage, James Washington, Marcell Ateman, Dallas Goedert and Wyatt Teller. Chris also teaches the method to cure hiccups, talks about a fantasy league with offensive linemen, and teases future guests.
The Dynasty Stash Podcast returns, and Chris outlines the plan for the new direction of the podcast--including dropping the news that The Dynasty Stash will be attending the 2018 Reese's Senior Bowl, and announcing a future guest.
Mike Woellert of 4for4.com (http://www.4for4.com/fantasy-football/articles/author/Mike%20Woellert) joins us to talk about Individual Defensive Players (or IDPs), who he likes from the 2016 rookie class and who he thinks fantasy footballers should target in 2016, Chris rants about Hitler, Michael Vick, Bruce Arians and the Arizona Cardinals from the Amazon original series, All or Nothing, and considers a podcast about root beer.
The manager of Never Manage Alone, SB Nation's Fantasy Soccer blog, joins us to talk about the crossover from fantasy soccer to fantasy football, Chris recounts his trip to ODT16 and provides several anecdotes from previous years, including Ian Eagle and Larry Foote stories, and details (sparingly) his recent bout with food poisoning.
In a segment that Chris teased several episodes back, he is joined by his girlfriend, who is not afraid to let the facts fly about his fantasy football playing habit. They discuss her favorite and least favorite players on his team, rank The Spice Girls, how to live/put up with a fantasy football zealot, and Chris vents about X-Men: Apocalypse and promotes his new Rotoviz piece on Kevin Hogan: http://rotoviz.com/2016/06/88080/
Justin Winn of Rotoviz (http://rotoviz.com/author/rotovizjustin/) joins us to discuss some of the potential sleepers in this year's rookie draft, the concept of market share, how Robert Griffin III benefitted because of the draft, how rookie running backs stack up and which ones to go with, the epic class of wide receivers in the 2014 Draft, and what would have been if someone other than Ezekiel Elliott was selected to be Dallas' running back of the future.
Brian Malone of Dynasty League Football (http://dynastyleaguefootball.com/author/jules/) and Rotoviz (http://rotoviz.com/author/bmalone/) joins us to talk about off the wall dynasty strategies such as stacking and buying in bulk, Chris explains why you should never let your significant other into your league and then issues a challenge to fans to name his/their favorite SNL Celebrity Jeopardy contestants.
Ryan Allen, GM of the Detroit Lions of the Canton Dynasty Football League, joins us to talk about stirring the pot in the league while still maintaining camaraderie, trade raping, drafting rookies vs. veterans, depth vs. a core of stars, and the benefit of activity and having a Trade Review Committee.
This week on The Dynasty Stash Rotoviz writers Neil Dutton (http://rotoviz.com/author/ndutton/) and Tyler Buecher (http://rotoviz.com/author/tylerbuecher/) join us to discuss the Dynasty Stock Report, detailing who were the winners and losers of the NFL Draft from a fantasy, and particularly dynasty standpoint. Chris also goes on a British comedy monologue and chases his dog into a closet.
In the second episode of our 2-for-1 NFL Draft week special, Rotoviz writer Anthony Amico (http://rotoviz.com/author/aamico/) joins us on The Stash to discuss why he thinks analytics is the best way to evaluate players on the field, and how he thinks it can be used to analyze players for fantasy purposes.
In this, our inaugural episode, former Jacksonville Jaguars Video Assistant and author of the Pittsburgh Steelers scouting blog Forging Steel (forgingsteel.wordpress.com), Steve Friend, joins us to talk about scouting at the Senior Bowl, how scouting can be used within the dynasty league format, his opinions on the dynasty league format and the place of scouting vs. analytics in dynasty leagues.