Grinding The Variance (A Davis Mattek Fantasy Football Pod)
Audio from Davis Mattek’s various YouTube fantasy football, Best Ball, and DFS streams across the internet.
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Thursday Aug 07, 2025
Thursday Aug 07, 2025
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Timestamps:00:00 Best Ball Fantasy Football Introduction22:40 Preseason NFL DFS Pick Em on UD 38:00 Best Ball Mania Draft Begins 1:15:00 Drafters Main Event Draft Begins
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Monday Aug 04, 2025
Monday Aug 04, 2025
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Timestamps:00:00 Best Ball Fantasy Football Introduction2:00 Best Ball mania draft begins 14:00 Home League Team Review 19:30 Keaton Mitchell 33:00 Best Ball Mania Draft #2 Begins 45:20 Kyle Pitts 1:03:00 Shaidy Advice Joins The Show To Draft A Best Ball Mania 1:07:30 The Sims Explain Themselves 1:15:00 How sims change when you put your own rankings in it 1:37:30 Best Ball Mania Draft Begins with a Bayesian process
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Friday Aug 01, 2025
Friday Aug 01, 2025
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Timestamps:00:00 Best Ball Fantasy Football Introduction5:45 Elite or delete BEGINS 1:11:00 The Goldest Gold Star Of All time2:00:00 Jared Smola Joins The Stream To Draft On Drafters!!! 2:09:20 The Chiefs passing game without Rashee Rice 2:13:30 Jauan Jennings Injury Breakdown
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Friday Aug 01, 2025
Thursday Jul 31, 2025
Thursday Jul 31, 2025
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Timestamps:00:00 Best Ball Fantasy Football Introduction3:45 The Value Of Real Time ADP Value In Fantasy Football7:30 Predictive Value of ADP later in fantasy football drafts 9:30 Differences in strategy from 2024 to 202512:30 3 TEs vs 3 QBs 18:40 Best Ball Mania draft starts with Bijan Robinson at 2 32:00 Donte Thornton vs Jack Bech 42:50 Jacksonville Jaguars Backfield 1:06:00 Leone peaces out, Best Ball Mania draft starts 1:48:00 Best Ball Mania Draft Starts With Chase at 2 2:29:30 Final BBM Draft of the stream
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Thursday Jul 31, 2025
Thursday Jul 31, 2025
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Timestamps:00:00 Best Ball Fantasy Football Introduction1:45 Liam's favorite 18th round pick 4:00 Best Ball Mania Draft with Davis and @ChessLiam Starts 12:45 Jaylen Waddle 17:00 Kaleb Johnson 49:00 Best Ball Mania Draft Starts with ARSB over CMC 58:00 Joe Mixon 1:08:40 Isiah Likely Injury 1:16:30 Tahj Brooks 1:29:30 Drafters Main Event Draft Starts 1:37:15 Rashee Rice In marathon scoring 1:48:10 David Njoku 2:11:30 Drafters Main Event Draft Number 2 Starts 2:53:00 Liam leaves the stream, BBM Starts! 3:00:00 July 30th, 2025 Training camp News Update 3:32:30 Best Ball Mania Draft Starts HERE 4:06:30 My 75th Best Ball mania draft begins now 4:37:30 Badge Bros Brawl Draft Strategy
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Tuesday Jul 29, 2025
Tuesday Jul 29, 2025
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Tuesday Jul 29, 2025
Tuesday Jul 29, 2025
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Timestamps:00:00 Best Ball Fantasy Football Introduction5:15 Jeanty is falling into RD2? 9:30 I do not think Terry McLaurin will be traded 12:20 Joe Mixon 16:45 Tier Breaks at rb 18:30 Cam Skattebo vs Tyrone Tracy 24:30 More Mixon Chatter 33:50 Keaton Mitchell and team recap37:45 Best Ball Mania Draft STARTS 45:20 George Kittle 50:20 Courtland Sutton Extension 1:01:30 What is the highest you would take Emeka Egbuka 1:14:45 Best Ball Mania #3 STARTS 1:34:30 Tight End Thoughts 1:45:00 FAST DRAFT on the fast draft app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fastdraft-fantasy/id6478789910 2:15:00 Best Ball Mania #4 STARTS 2:17:30 Cowboys Backfield 2:24:30 Anthony Richardson 2:55:00 My 69th Best Ball Mania Draft Starts
Thursday Jul 24, 2025
Thursday Jul 24, 2025
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Timestamps:00:00 Best Ball Mania Draft w/ Pat Kerrane @legendaryupside 5:30 Jeanty vs Henry vs Achane 13:20 How the sidekick handles positional runs 16:30 Daniel Jones vs Anthony Richardson 23:40 Tucker Kraft and the Packers passing offense 27:00 The Kerrane mission statement on the 2025 Patriots offense 37:00 Favorite 18th round Picks from Pat Kerrane43:00 Fannin vs Gadsden 47:00 DRAFTERS Main Event Draft Starts: https://drafters.com/refer/davis 49:30 Jacksonville Jaguars Backfield Breakdown and deep Bhayshul Tuten Analysis 58:40 Justin Fields Injury Update 1:01:30 Kyle Pitts 1:03:33 Kenneth Walker 1:10:00 Loveland vs Burden 1:12:30 Demario Douglas 1:25:00 Travis Hunter in training camp 1:30:30 BADGE BROS BRAWL 2:00:00 ADAM LEVITAN JOINS THE STREAM 2:06:00 Bijan or Saquon At 3? 2:15:30 Making Levitan Taking Hunter 2:20:00 Matthew Golden 2:28:00 Tyler Warren from a Penn State Homer's Perspective 2:32:20 Isaac Guerendo
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Wednesday Jul 23, 2025