National Pastime Dynasty Fantasy League: Recent Episodes
National Pastime Dynasty
The ins and outs of NPD on a weekly basis. Who's great? Who's terrible? What stupid move did Huck make now?
You know that guy on your bench who hasn't given you anything all season? It's time to drop him.
Huck doesn't want to say that Max is stupid and/or wrong because he has too much respect for his co-host.
Huck & Max talk last week's matchups and try to pick the weak links out of the 8 3-win teams.
3 teams have started 0-3, so Huck & Max give their best advice to avoid a wasted season for those 3 poor souls.
Huck & Max discuss week 2 results and play matchmaker with a few teams that could help each other out.
Huck and Max break down the results of the week 1 matchups, tear apart a few trades, and turn the clock back 10 years with some trivia.
Max and Huck discuss week 1 matchups through Thursday and go through the first countdown of the season.
Max and Huck discuss a few sets of keepers and disagree on the value of certain members of the draft pool.
Huck gives his thoughts on how keeper forms are shaping up ahead of the Superbowl deadline.
Max sits down with Matt to discuss his second NPD championship, the draft house, and the upcoming league expansion.
Max and Shalom Y'all manager Ethan talk about where we're at in the season, have some fun with 20th century trivia, and assess trade value on some underperforming players.
Max and 2020 Champion (and father of many Brieses) Chuck review best and worst drafts, talk steals vs. HRs, and highlight the week's matchups.
Chase, Huck, and Max discuss NPD's history of rule changes and go through most of the proposed rule changes we'll be voting on the night before the draft.
Max, Ethan, Andrew, and a special late addition talk preseason trade strategy and highlight interesting keeper options for all 16 teams. 3 hour special!
Victor finally gets his due as champion, talking about the trials and tribulations of the season and highlighting what we have to look forward to for the 2023 NPD Draft.
Trevor, Chris, and Max play GM for teams in need of specific players, highlight a few matchups, and provide their Waiver Wire All Stars of the week.
Brad and I have 5 championships between us, and thus have a lot of knowledge to offer. Stay a while...and listen!
We're back! (again)
Max, Trevor, and Ethan complain into a sad echo chamber about their teams' woes, break down interesting trades, and play a little Small Sample Size Theater.
John, Huck, and Max give their thoughts on each team going in to the season, half-assedly ranking them along the way.
Max, Huck, and Ethan discuss the lockout, rank best/worst keepers, and have a little fun playing GM.
Max, John, and Andrew discuss the upcoming draft, pending rule changes, and have some fun with a hypothetical MLB expansion.
Max asks Chase about his future reign as champion, the draft house, and general baseball conversation. Last episode of 2021! Lockout looming!
Trevor and Andrew lament their semi-final losses and join Max in predicting who wins the championship between Brad and Chase.
After a lengthy intro song (you're welcome), Max and Andrew discuss playoff races for both divisions and throw some lofty accusations at the bottom of the league standings. Plus WWAS/Matchups, it's everything you've been missing the past few weeks.
Max had one job...ONE JOB, to do the podcast Monday night and tell us how John's team would lose that week. He didn't get that done.
Huck and Max discuss the current NPD trade market, identifying buyers and sellers and get us back on schedule with waiver wire all stars and matchup picks. Volume UP at 1:28:58.
Max talks with Kevin and Victor about divisions, the sad state of their seasons (as well as his own), and talk a little trade in this week's All Star Break episode.
Trevor, Levi, and Max talk about the NPD playoff races, upcoming strength of schedules, and some hot takes on this week's matchup in our most whiskey-inspired episode yet.
Ethan, Trevor, and Max discuss last week's matchups, sticky stuff, and hand out rest-of-year superlatives before predicting this week's matchups.
Huck, Brad, and Max discuss hot streaks, hard hit balls, the matchups, and a topic near and dear to Brad's heart.
Andrew and Max review the past week's matchups, predict this week's matchups, and talk about their favorite prospects from this year's NPD draft.
Trevor, Ethan, and Max discuss the current playoff outlook, waiver wire all stars, and interesting breakout projections for a player from each team along with weekly matchups.
NPD's last 3 champions (Max 2018, John 2019, Chuck 2020) discuss what it takes to win an NPD title, this week's matchups, and the Mike Trout trade that sent the group text into chaos last week.
Huck, Trevor, and Associate Commissioner Matt discuss a crazy week of trades, pick their waiver wire all stars and predict the week 8 matchups.
Max, Trevor, and Andrew discuss divisions, trades, consistent pitching and the week's matchups.
Max, Huck, and Ethan discuss low batting averages across the league, the Oakland A's potential relocation, and weekly matchups in the season's first weekly podcast. Also, Huck has no Fun With Fangraphs.
Max, John, and Huck discuss the upcoming draft (only 36 hours away!), provide some predictions for the 2021 season, and fail miserably at a few fun podcast segment ideas that Max thought would work. Like a moron.
Max, John, and Huck discuss COVID weirdness, potential 2021 rule changes, and break down the best and worst keepers leading up to draft day.
Episode five discusses the top three teams from last year, Max, Huck, and John who had picks 14, 15, and 16. Seeing as these are the three people recording the podcast, you should prepare yourself for some failed attempts at modesty while still saying, "this is why I'm awesome at this and why I will beat everyone".
Episode four goes over Matt's (12th pick) and Tony's (13th pick) teams. Yes...only two teams. It got a little long winded, who saw that coming?
Episode three begins with Andrew's team (7th pick) and ends with Trevor's team (11th pick).
Episode two begins the full draft review beginning with the first picks. This episode covers the draft from Victor's team (1st pick) to Adam's team (6th pick).
Episode one gives you such great topics as what fantastic, Oscar-worthy David Spade movies we've been watching on Netflix, and what we think should happen with keepers next year.
This one is shorter!!! By 10 minutes... This week we have a riveting discussion revisiting parts of the 2019 NPD season, some MLB division predictions that are sure to be wrong, and some coronavirus sprinkled in here and there.
The first podcast of the season was supposed to be a short intro discussing what we have to look forward to at the draft. It wound up an almost two hour discussion on everything from the Astros to debating whether OBP or OPS would be better for the league.