What is up, it's the rant, my name is Jeff Racklevin, and it is Monday, August 9th.

First draft in the books, baby, first draft in the books, live draft, that is, I've been

doing best balls and mock drafts and online stuff for months now, but the first live draft

in the books this past weekend in New York City for the Flex League. It was a super flex

draft that I will talk about on today's show with some nuggets of strategy. I mean, I'm

not dramatically shifting strategy in a super flex, but there are a couple key things,

couple inflection points that we have to focus on, so I'll break down what I did and

what I thought worked in this draft and how we can adjust to our opponents based on any

draft. It doesn't have to be super flex. Also, as you probably see from the title, I do

want to talk a little bit about Michael Thomas as well, yikes, trouble in paradise and what

we're doing with him for our fantasy football drafts. By the way, to help you out with your

fantasy football drafts, which you might even have one as early as this weekend, I have

another this weekend, actually two in the same day, I will be doing a snake draft and an auction

draft with the same group of people on the same day at the NFL Hall of Fame for the Kings

Classic. That's a pretty awesome league right there. But you might have them. So to help

you out, volume three of the game plan is now officially live over at FTN fantasy.com.

Make sure you use the promo code rat pack to get that maximum discount. It's a good thing.

You don't want to do it without a discount. Let's just be honest. So that'll get you

your discount and you'll get access to that. That is my draft guide. I write a cover to cover.

It is fully updated with all the latest for you here, including updated rankings, projections,

my draft boards for all four major formats, PPR, half point PPR, none PPR, and two quarterback

flex, which will or super flex, which we'll talk about today on this very podcast. So go check

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