Yahoo Fantasy Forecast

It's position preview week at Yahoo Fantasy and the pod and of course we have to start with the glamour position: The quarterbacks. Pinch hitting for Matt Harmon as the host, Scott Pianowski is joined by Dalton Del Don to breakdown every angle of the QB position in 2024. Pianowski and Del Don attempt to identify the potential league winners, sleepers and fades at the QB position this season. Del Don also offers up multiple spicy takes on the position you don't want to miss:(1:55) - It's position preview week! First up: The QBs(3:15) - Will we see a rise in Super Flex leagues? (4:15) - Running QBs are cheat codes in fantasy(14:00) - How much stock do we buy from rookie QB's preseason performances?(17:00) - Dalton shares his spiciest takes on QBs (36:50) - QB sleepers to know (49:00) - Final piece of advice on QBsAnd check out Matt Harmon and Yahoo Fantasy on our socials:🏆 @MattHarmon_BYB: https://twitter.com/MattHarmon_BYB📷 @YahooFantasy: https://www.instagram.com/YahooFantasy⌚ @YahooFantasy: https://www.tiktok.com/@yahoofantasy🐦 @YahooFantasy: https://twitter.com/YahooFantasy🟦 @YahooFantasy: https://www.facebook.com/YahooFantasy/💸 Sign up for a Yahoo fantasy football league for a chance to win one million dollars! 🏈 Draft your team on Yahoo Fantasy before September 5th for one entry. If any players you start score a touchdown in the Week 1 games on NBC, earn up to seven additional entries per TD scored.🎟️ Enter at http://www.yahoo.com/fantasymillion Subscribe to the Yahoo Fantasy Forecast on your favorite podcast app:🎧 Apple Podcasts🎧 Spotify🖥️ YouTube📢 Check out the Yahoo Sports podcast network or yahoosports.tvAnd check out Matt Harmon and Yahoo Fantasy on our socials:📷 @YahooFantasy: https://www.instagram.com/YahooFantasy⌚ @YahooFantasy: https://www.tiktok.com/@yahoofantasy🐦 @YahooFantasy: https://x.com/YahooFantasy🟦 @YahooFantasy: https://www.facebook.com/YahooFantasy/

It's a very special edition of the pod as Matt Harmon and Scott Pianowski record from the Hall of Fame Village in Canton, Ohio. The pod is ON LOCATION at the Fantasy Football Expo, one of the biggest weekends of the year in the fantasy industry. For 'Mock Draft Monday' the two recap two very real drafts they participated in at the expo. Harmon and Pianowski share their biggest observations from their expert level 14-team snake and salary cap drafts:(3:15) - Mock Draft Monday becomes real draft monday at Fantasy Football Expo(7:25) - Biggest observations from 14-team expert league snake draft(11:00) - Draft debate: Isiah Pacheco or Kyren WIlliams?(18:10) - Draft debate: Wheres the WR cliff in early rounds?(21:15) - Draft debate: Malik Nabers or Amari Cooper?(26:40) - Late round observations of 14-team snake draft(41:15) - Salary cap draft observationsAnd check out Matt Harmon and Yahoo Fantasy on our socials:🏆 @MattHarmon_BYB: https://twitter.com/MattHarmon_BYB📷 @YahooFantasy: https://www.instagram.com/YahooFantasy⌚ @YahooFantasy: https://www.tiktok.com/@yahoofantasy🐦 @YahooFantasy: https://twitter.com/YahooFantasy🟦 @YahooFantasy: https://www.facebook.com/YahooFantasy/💸 Sign up for a Yahoo fantasy football league for a chance to win one million dollars! 🏈 Draft your team on Yahoo Fantasy before September 5th for one entry. If any players you start score a touchdown in the Week 1 games on NBC, earn up to seven additional entries per TD scored.🎟️ Enter at http://www.yahoo.com/fantasymillion Subscribe to the Yahoo Fantasy Forecast on your favorite podcast app:🎧 Apple Podcasts🎧 Spotify🖥️ YouTube📢 Check out the Yahoo Sports podcast network or yahoosports.tvAnd check out Matt Harmon and Yahoo Fantasy on our socials:📷 @YahooFantasy: https://www.instagram.com/YahooFantasy⌚ @YahooFantasy: https://www.tiktok.com/@yahoofantasy🐦 @YahooFantasy: https://x.com/YahooFantasy🟦 @YahooFantasy: https://www.facebook.com/YahooFantasy/

To conclude 'rankings week' on the pod we have Yahoo Fantasy's newest member Tera Roberts join Matt Harmon to identify six make or break ADPs in 2024. Harmon and Roberts discuss six players that need to have career years to justify their current draft positions. The two specifically highlight a trio of 3rd year WRs that have major exceptions in 2024 despite rough seasons in 2023:(2:50) - Make or break ADPs: Who needs to have a career year to justify their ADP?(6:20) - Raiders RB Zamir White(17:30) - Falcons WR Drake London(27:30) - Jets WR Garrett Wilson(35:00) - Saints WR Chris Olave(44:25) - Bengals WR Ja'Marr Chase(50:00) - Patriots RB Isiah Pacheco(54:00) - Keys to winning: Identify a 3rd year breakout WRAnd check out Matt Harmon and Yahoo Fantasy on our socials:🏆 @MattHarmon_BYB: https://twitter.com/MattHarmon_BYB📷 @YahooFantasy: https://www.instagram.com/YahooFantasy⌚ @YahooFantasy: https://www.tiktok.com/@yahoofantasy🐦 @YahooFantasy: https://twitter.com/YahooFantasy🟦 @YahooFantasy: https://www.facebook.com/YahooFantasy/💸 Sign up for a Yahoo fantasy football league for a chance to win one million dollars! 🏈 Draft your team on Yahoo Fantasy before September 5th for one entry. If any players you start score a touchdown in the Week 1 games on NBC, earn up to seven additional entries per TD scored.🎟️ Enter at http://www.yahoo.com/fantasymillion Subscribe to the Yahoo Fantasy Forecast on your favorite podcast app:🎧 Apple Podcasts🎧 Spotify🖥️ YouTube📢 Check out the Yahoo Sports podcast network or yahoosports.tvAnd check out Matt Harmon and Yahoo Fantasy on our socials:📷 @YahooFantasy: https://www.instagram.com/YahooFantasy⌚ @YahooFantasy: https://www.tiktok.com/@yahoofantasy🐦 @YahooFantasy: https://x.com/YahooFantasy🟦 @YahooFantasy: https://www.facebook.com/YahooFantasy/

As any fantasy manager or stock trader knows, predicting the future is hard. That's why we rely on analysis from experts to distill complicated systems down to their most easy to understand metrics so we can get a leg up on the competition. But even then, oftentimes, fantasy analysis isn't perfect.On today's episode, Matt Harmon is joined by Ben Gretch to discuss two of fantasy football's most consumed prediction metrics: rankings and projections. How do fantasy analysts such as ourselves come up with them? What situations should you read one versus the other? And in what situations are they completely useless?Ben also helps explain four ways in which fantasy analysis and human instinct just consistently get things wrong, and how to watch out for those common pitfalls.Towards the end of the show the guys discuss two younger players out west whose disappointing 2023 campaigns are causing them to be undervalued this year in Jaxon Smith-Njigba and Javonte Williams, before sharing one rookie wideout that is certainly worth a dart-throw in a high-volume offensive situation.(4:40) - How fantasy projections are made & how rankings differ(25:30) - What four things fantasy analysis gets wrong(1:01:15) - Undervalued situations: SEA's Jaxon Smith-Njigba(1:08:00) - Undervalued situations: DEN's Javonte Williams(1:12:20) - Rookies worth a dart throw: KC's Xavier WorthyAnd check out Matt Harmon and Yahoo Fantasy on our socials:🏆 @MattHarmon_BYB: https://twitter.com/MattHarmon_BYB📷 @YahooFantasy: https://www.instagram.com/YahooFantasy⌚ @YahooFantasy: https://www.tiktok.com/@yahoofantasy🐦 @YahooFantasy: https://twitter.com/YahooFantasy🟦 @YahooFantasy: https://www.facebook.com/YahooFantasy/💸 Sign up for a Yahoo fantasy football league for a chance to win one million dollars! 🏈 Draft your team on Yahoo Fantasy before September 5th for one entry. If any players you start score a touchdown in the Week 1 games on NBC, earn up to seven additional entries per TD scored.🎟️ Enter at http://www.yahoo.com/fantasymillion🖥️ Watch this full episode on YouTubeCheck out the rest of the Yahoo Sports podcast family at https://apple.co/3zEuTQj or at Yahoo Sports Podcasts Subscribe to the Yahoo Fantasy Forecast on your favorite podcast app:🎧 Apple Podcasts🎧 Spotify🖥️ YouTube📢 Check out the Yahoo Sports podcast network or yahoosports.tvAnd check out Matt Harmon and Yahoo Fantasy on our socials:📷 @YahooFantasy: https://www.instagram.com/YahooFantasy⌚ @YahooFantasy: https://www.tiktok.com/@yahoofantasy🐦 @YahooFantasy: https://x.com/YahooFantasy🟦 @YahooFantasy: https://www.facebook.com/YahooFantasy/

We continue 'rankings week' on the pod by looking at what goes into making a good ranking for draft season. 4 for 4's John Paulsen joins Matt Harmon to discuss what goes into his draft rankings and what the common flaws are when people make them. The two then identify 6 position groups that are hard to rank and project this year and 6 players Paulsen is much higher on than consensus: (4:30) - What goes into actually making good fantasy rankings(13:30) - Position group hard to rank and project: Houston Texans WRs(24:35) - Position group hard to rank and project: Chicago Bears WRs(34:50) - Player hard to rank and project: Commanders QB Jayden Daniels (42:10) - Position group hard to rank and project: Tennessee Titans RBs(45:40) - Position group hard to rank and project: Denver Broncos RBs(48:05) - Position group hard to rank and project: Buffalo Bills WRs(53:50) - 6 players Paulsen has above consensus ADPAnd check out Matt Harmon and Yahoo Fantasy on our socials:🏆 @MattHarmon_BYB: https://twitter.com/MattHarmon_BYB📷 @YahooFantasy: https://www.instagram.com/YahooFantasy⌚ @YahooFantasy: https://www.tiktok.com/@yahoofantasy🐦 @YahooFantasy: https://twitter.com/YahooFantasy🟦 @YahooFantasy: https://www.facebook.com/YahooFantasy/💸 Sign up for a Yahoo fantasy football league for a chance to win one million dollars! 🏈 Draft your team on Yahoo Fantasy before September 5th for one entry. If any players you start score a touchdown in the Week 1 games on NBC, earn up to seven additional entries per TD scored.🎟️ Enter at http://www.yahoo.com/fantasymillion Subscribe to the Yahoo Fantasy Forecast on your favorite podcast app:🎧 Apple Podcasts🎧 Spotify🖥️ YouTube📢 Check out the Yahoo Sports podcast network or yahoosports.tvAnd check out Matt Harmon and Yahoo Fantasy on our socials:📷 @YahooFantasy: https://www.instagram.com/YahooFantasy⌚ @YahooFantasy: https://www.tiktok.com/@yahoofantasy🐦 @YahooFantasy: https://x.com/YahooFantasy🟦 @YahooFantasy: https://www.facebook.com/YahooFantasy/

It's rankings week on the pod and of course that means we have to talk ADPs. Late Round QB's JJ Zachariason joins Matt Harmon to identify the top 5 best and worst ADPs this draft season. The two find a few WRs, RBs and one specific TE they love where they're currently being drafted. They also find a few high profile QBs and RBs that are going way too high:(3:50) - Best ADP: Dolphins WR Jaylen Waddle(9:05) - Worst ADP: Raiders RB Zamir White(19:15) - Best ADP: Ravens TE Mark Andrews(24:50) - Worst ADP: Lions QB Jared Goff(30:15) - Best ADP: Giants WR Malik Nabers(39:00) - Worst ADP: Lions RB David Montgomery (46:35) - Best ADP: Panthers RB Jonathon Brooks (50:45) - Worst ADP: Packers RB Josh Jacobs(55:15) - Best ADP: Bengals RB Chase Brown (1:01:15) - Worst ADP: Texans QB CJ StroudAnd check out Matt Harmon and Yahoo Fantasy on our socials:🏆 @MattHarmon_BYB: https://twitter.com/MattHarmon_BYB📷 @YahooFantasy: https://www.instagram.com/YahooFantasy⌚ @YahooFantasy: https://www.tiktok.com/@yahoofantasy🐦 @YahooFantasy: https://twitter.com/YahooFantasy🟦 @YahooFantasy: https://www.facebook.com/YahooFantasy/💸 Sign up for a Yahoo fantasy football league for a chance to win one million dollars! 🏈 Draft your team on Yahoo Fantasy before September 5th for one entry. If any players you start score a touchdown in the Week 1 games on NBC, earn up to seven additional entries per TD scored.🎟️ Enter at http://www.yahoo.com/fantasymillion Subscribe to the Yahoo Fantasy Forecast on your favorite podcast app:🎧 Apple Podcasts🎧 Spotify🖥️ YouTube📢 Check out the Yahoo Sports podcast network or yahoosports.tvAnd check out Matt Harmon and Yahoo Fantasy on our socials:📷 @YahooFantasy: https://www.instagram.com/YahooFantasy⌚ @YahooFantasy: https://www.tiktok.com/@yahoofantasy🐦 @YahooFantasy: https://x.com/YahooFantasy🟦 @YahooFantasy: https://www.facebook.com/YahooFantasy/

It's another edition of 'Mock Draft Monday' and this time we dive deep into our latest staff mock: A 12-team, full PPR, 3 starting WR format. Dalton Del Don joins Matt Harmon to identify the biggest observations for the draft. Both found interesting trends in rounds 2-4 and identified a steep cliff for one position after the sixth round:(1:30) - Programming note: The pod is now five days a week!(2:55) - Mock Draft Monday: 12-team, full PPR, 3 starting WR format(4:00) - Dissecting Dalton's team: Malik Nabers in the 3rd, James Conner in the 6th(5:40) - The second round has ambiguity at WR and intrigue at RB(10:30) - Dissecting Matt's team: AJ Brown over Garrett Wilson, 4th round blunder(40:45) - WRs rule the early rounds(49:30) - Elite QBs are losing value in one QB leaguesAnd check out Matt Harmon and Yahoo Fantasy on our socials:🏆 @MattHarmon_BYB: https://twitter.com/MattHarmon_BYB📷 @YahooFantasy: https://www.instagram.com/YahooFantasy⌚ @YahooFantasy: https://www.tiktok.com/@yahoofantasy🐦 @YahooFantasy: https://twitter.com/YahooFantasy🟦 @YahooFantasy: https://www.facebook.com/YahooFantasy/💸 Sign up for a Yahoo fantasy football league for a chance to win one million dollars! 🏈 Draft your team on Yahoo Fantasy before September 5th for one entry. If any players you start score a touchdown in the Week 1 games on NBC, earn up to seven additional entries per TD scored.🎟️ Enter at http://www.yahoo.com/fantasymillion Subscribe to the Yahoo Fantasy Forecast on your favorite podcast app:🎧 Apple Podcasts🎧 Spotify🖥️ YouTube📢 Check out the Yahoo Sports podcast network or yahoosports.tvAnd check out Matt Harmon and Yahoo Fantasy on our socials:📷 @YahooFantasy: https://www.instagram.com/YahooFantasy⌚ @YahooFantasy: https://www.tiktok.com/@yahoofantasy🐦 @YahooFantasy: https://x.com/YahooFantasy🟦 @YahooFantasy: https://www.facebook.com/YahooFantasy/

Small, subtle, instinctual biases in our heads affect our everyday decisions. Many of them are helpful: don't go into the woods alone at night. Some of them can be less helpful. The fact of the matter is that human psychology is with us everywhere we go: especially when it's fantasy draft season.On today's episode, Matt Harmon welcomes professor of brain and cognitive science Dr. Renee Miller onto the podcast to discuss how psychology affects our draft decisions, how to be aware of when our brains are lying to us and how to recognize when they're telling the truth.Common offseason situations that all fantasy managers experience have a correlated cognitive bias that can be explained, and if you know how to take advantage of your awareness, it can give you a leg up on your leaguemates. Matt and Renee discuss how your brain gets excited about pre-season hype, overvalues the first few weeks of the regular season and doesn't take variance into account with rookies.Give the show a listen — we promise you'll learn something about yourself that will help you make better decisions this draft season.(2:30) - What is cognitive bias and how does it relate to fantasy football?(12:45) - What are some strategies to combat your biases in draft season and beyond?(35:00) - Specific player/team situations where you might fall into bias traps🖥️ Watch this full episode on YouTubeCheck out the rest of the Yahoo Sports podcast family at https://apple.co/3zEuTQj or at Yahoo Sports Podcasts Subscribe to the Yahoo Fantasy Forecast on your favorite podcast app:🎧 Apple Podcasts🎧 Spotify🖥️ YouTube📢 Check out the Yahoo Sports podcast network or yahoosports.tvAnd check out Matt Harmon and Yahoo Fantasy on our socials:📷 @YahooFantasy: https://www.instagram.com/YahooFantasy⌚ @YahooFantasy: https://www.tiktok.com/@yahoofantasy🐦 @YahooFantasy: https://x.com/YahooFantasy🟦 @YahooFantasy: https://www.facebook.com/YahooFantasy/

Tomorrow we flip the calendar to August a.k.a. the holy month of the fantasy football calendar. Draft season is here and we are here to help. With it being strategy week on the pod, Andy Behrens joins Matt Harmon to identify the 12 do's and dont's when drafting this season or any season in fantasy football. Consider this pod your blueprint to having the most successful draft possible this August.(1:10) - Full disclosure and introducing Fantasy U(3:55) - Do: Win the month of September(11:42) - Do: Know your opponents (and get out of your fantasy bubble)(16:17) - Don't: Over plan or over anticipate(22:25) - Don't: Be over confident with your picks past round 5(27:30) - Do: Take big swings in the draft on potential league winners(31:10) - Do: Keep an eye on rookie WRs but don't get attached(35:11) - Don't: Interrupt an opponent while they're making a mistake(39:44) - Don't: Worry about your RBs backups(42:54) - Do: Get to know your league settings before the draft(45:15) - Do: Be sure to compliment your roster(48:33) - Don't: Take draft rankings as written in stone(54:58) - Don't: Cross off entire teams when drafting Subscribe to the Yahoo Fantasy Forecast on your favorite podcast app:🎧 Apple Podcasts🎧 Spotify🖥️ YouTube📢 Check out the Yahoo Sports podcast network or yahoosports.tvAnd check out Matt Harmon and Yahoo Fantasy on our socials:📷 @YahooFantasy: https://www.instagram.com/YahooFantasy⌚ @YahooFantasy: https://www.tiktok.com/@yahoofantasy🐦 @YahooFantasy: https://x.com/YahooFantasy🟦 @YahooFantasy: https://www.facebook.com/YahooFantasy/

Can you smell it? Fantasy football season is HERE and so is another round of Mock Draft Mondays to help you get prepared for the 2024 season. Kicking off a fresh month of mock draft episodes, Matt Harmon is joined by Nate Tice to break down the results of a 10-team dynasty mock draft they participated in with the rest of the Yahoo Fantasy staff last week.They chat about Nate selecting Justin Jefferson with the first overall pick (and if Bijan Robinson should've been considered there), the ceiling of DeVonta Smith, if Puka Nacua's ADP should be even closer to 1.01, the evenly dispersed arrangement QBs drafted in this mock and a few dynasty sleepers to get hyped on this August.(1:00) - Why dynasty leagues?(12:15) - Nate's team & the argument for Justin Jefferson first overall(24:05) - Matt's team & is Garrett Wilson entering the elite WR tier?(28:30) - Where did QBs go in this dynasty draft?(34:20) - Why you should try to win your dynasty league every year(37:40) - 4th Round WRs: Devonta Smith, Tank Dell, Zay Flowers, George Pickens & Rashee Rice(49:30) - Should Puka Nacua be drafted higher than his current ADP?(55:45) - Other sleepers to consider🖥️ Watch this full episode on YouTubeCheck out all the episodes of the Yahoo Fantasy Forecast and the rest of the Yahoo Sports podcast family at https://apple.co/3zEuTQj or at Yahoo Sports Podcasts Subscribe to the Yahoo Fantasy Forecast on your favorite podcast app:🎧 Apple Podcasts🎧 Spotify🖥️ YouTube📢 Check out the Yahoo Sports podcast network or yahoosports.tvAnd check out Matt Harmon and Yahoo Fantasy on our socials:📷 @YahooFantasy: https://www.instagram.com/YahooFantasy⌚ @YahooFantasy: https://www.tiktok.com/@yahoofantasy🐦 @YahooFantasy: https://x.com/YahooFantasy🟦 @YahooFantasy: https://www.facebook.com/YahooFantasy/