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Speaker 1: Here's your hosts, Jesse Sovier and Victor Nuno Fantasy.
Speaker 3: Hockey Life back again. Jesse sphere with you, ready to
talk fantasy hockey, the game of Dynasty and Victor Nunio
and I are the co host. Victor. You will hear
him plenty on this episode, but not at this particular
moment because once again we are recording from separate locations.
But we've got a really cool show today because Victor
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Tidy the Tiered Dynasty League. And at the end of
this year of the Tier Dynasty League, we have a
roundtable today and it's going to be all the fellas
who are a part of the Commissioner team, and Victor
will be interviewing them. Their hard work has been amazing
all year long, and Timson and Ryan are all on
this episode to do some talking with Victors. So right
after this we're gonna get into the Tidy descertion.
Speaker 4: Welcome back, everyone, and I'm really excited to bring you
this episode. We have a whole team with us today.
As Jesse mentioned in the intro, we have our Tidy Team,
our Tidy commission Team, and we're gonna be talking all
things Tidy this episode. You might think that if you're
not in the Tidy this wouldn't be interesting for you,
but I would argue that you might be a mistaken.
There's a lot of good stuff that we're going to
talk about and it's a really fun league, and so
hopefully you'll stick around and listen to it. If you're
in the tity, you definitely want to listen. We're gonna
have a lot of great content for you. But before
I get to a long winded I want to introduce
everyone that we have with the team, the Tidy team here.
So we have Tim, Simon and Ryan. How are we doing? Gentlemen? Tim,
how are you? Let's start with you.
Speaker 5: I am fantastic tonight, glad to be here talking Tidy
with you.
Speaker 4: Guys. Nice? How are you? Simone?
Speaker 6: Super duper Victor just him happy to be able to
make time talk about Tidy.
Speaker 4: And our Admiral Tidy, Right, teddy, Admiral Ryan, how are
you doing with my friend?
Speaker 2: I'm great, Victor, we're here, and Simon said, we're here
making time, and indeed we are. For those of us
on the East coast, this is eleven PM. So this
is the lengths that we go to to get all
the relevant information at the Tiered Dynasty League out to you,
the listener, and hopefully a very listenable and tight more
of a note for me than anyone else's hour or so.
Thanks for joining us here today.
Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely, thanks everyone, and yes we are. My voice
might sound a little funny too. I am traveling for
work in Vancouver, actually, and so it might sound a
little bit different, but we all do we can to
make time, and I really appreciate everyone doing that. I
wanted to start with a little bit of this scene
for this league because tity is a little bit different.
It's a tiered dynasty. It has promotion relegation, and I
remember when we first set this up, a lot of
people said when you have dispersal teams and you have
to draft a new team from just the teams that
got promoted or relegated, that those teams would not be
able to compete. And I think at this point we
have pretty good evidence that is not true, that it
is possible for dispersal teams to do really well, and
so I think we should talk a little bit more
about that. What do you have to say about that, Ryan.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So before we get too deep into it, I
feel like I should set up how this works for
anyone who might be listening for the first time. This
tiered dynasty league is a league that has several tiers,
as we hear in the name here, and the way
it works is you draft your team, great, you have
your team, and you compete with your team. And there
are number of people who have been playing for a
couple of years who have had their same team since
the beginning of this league. The people who are in
the original four divisions, which we know as or Yoger, Gretzky,
and Lemieux, so we name them after those four titans
of the sport. And then we've expanded from there. We
have a lower division or tier where we call that
team tier Lidstrom. That is where kind of new managers
enter into the league. And then we have the Lord
Stanley Division which is at the top. That is our
top division, Tier one, and that's where you're fighting for
the ultimate tiered dynasty championship. And the way that this
works is if you win, you move up, if you lose,
you move down. We have promotion and relegation. So generally,
and this is very general. If you want to hear more,
you can go to Fantasy Hockeylife dot com slash tidy
and you can see the diagram that has been built
out to show exactly how this all works. But functionally,
if you win the league, you move up a tier,
and if you lose, you come in sixteenth place in
the league, you move down a tier. We also have
a mechanism called the omni fast track, which basically means
the highest point for getting team in the entire higher
tiered dynasty will automatically earn a promotion to Tier one
from whatever tier that they're in. And so you could
be entering into Tier three Lidstrom next season, and you
could be in Tier one, Lord Stanley on the back
of your incredible point scoring season, and you could end
up in that top division. So there's a lot of
ways to get up there. But that is the very
basic framework of how it works. And so now I'm
going to toss it over to Tim, who came up
with a lot of what you're going to hear next
about how we deal with the tricky and thorny matter
of Okay, now these teams are vacated, what do we
do with those players and how do we come up
with a team for the incoming managers from the lower
or higher tiers. So Tim, why don't you take it
away and tell us a little bit about the dispersal
drafts and how they helped set up these teams for
success in the tidy.
Speaker 5: So dispersal drafts. So you will have teams that are
vacated as a result of promotion and relegation, so those
players are put into a draft pool that the new
general managers into the division will select from. So it's
an interesting dynamic. So what we found this year if
I just look at simply Tier one and Tier two,
so that is Lord, Stanley, Gretzky, and Lemieux, what we
found is fifty percent of the teams, fifty percent of
the teams are currently now competing in either the championship
round or the consolation round. So they've found some success,
which is an interesting dynamic when you think that there
are half the dispersal teams or half the dispersal teams
in the dispersal draft where teams that were relegated. It's
the results this year show us that even though you're
in a dispersal draft, you can if you draft wisely,
compete in the upcoming season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Tim, it's important to mention that it's not
just our promoted and relegated teams that are part of
this dispersal pool of players. We do have managers that
for whatever reason decide that they're going to move on.
And if this is something that happens in the season
and we can't really adjust, we might elevate a manager,
certainly from Tier two to Tier one or Tier three
to Tier two based on merit. So if you're a
team that is performing very well, you'll get that promotion.
But just with any league, and we're all fantasy managers
here who have been playing for a long time, we've
all been part of leagues where people have to step
back for life reasons. Maybe they're having kids and they
don't have the time, or maybe they've started a new
job or something like that. So those teams end up
vacated as well, and so you end up with a
pool of players that is very exciting to pick from.
I was just doing a little bit of research, and
we'll use this conversation to dovetail a little bit into
some of these dispersal teams that happened to have some
success this year. But I was looking at first overall
picks in these dispersal drafts that included names like Nathan
McKinnon and Connor McDavid just because the team was relegated
didn't meet doesn't mean that they didn't have good players
on them, and so I think it's important to note
that if you're someone who's coming in and you're like, Okay,
I'm going to be part of this dispersal draft, you're
going to have great players to pick from. You're not
just going to get the dregs. You're going to have
some actual quality NHL players to build your core and
then start to make moves from there and start to
build your team.
Speaker 4: I believe in Lord Stanley, which is a little bit
of a different promotion and relegation, because we typically have
at least three managers that join the dispersal every year,
whereas in some of the lower divisions it might only
be to the winner of the division below and the
loser of the division above. And Lord Stanley, we typically
had three, and we ended up having four because someone
had to leave at the end. And unless I'm mistaken
in reading this wrong, none of the dispersal teams ended
up back in the relegation playoffs this season, and so
that is a pretty that is a pretty good feather
in the cap to be able to we all ended
up in the middle. I was one of those, but
at least we didn't end up at the bottom, and
so that was an interesting note that I saw in
the top division, which is I think a little bit
different too, because in those divisions, as we talked about
previously on the show, Ryan, that there isn't really a
good as much wiggle room to trade top to bottom
because you're always worried about relegation or winning. There isn't
really like a rebuild sort of timeframe. So I thought
that was interesting that happened.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Victor, I think we saw like as the season
went on, and this is the great thing about starting
this new kind of format, as you're always learning things
about how this league actually works. I think the first
year we realized, oh, goalie scoring, that is really a
valuable to this league. So maybe goalies are very important.
I think one of the things that we learned this
year was that there's a little bit less trading than
you would think would happen, especially in Lord Stanley, because
if you're at the top, you're trying to win, if
you're at the bottom, you're trying to avoid relegation, and
so the only real trade partners are in the middle.
Victor you being one of those teams. You were fairly
active this year. I was a middle team coming into
the year, and I was fairly active this year before
we'll get to it, but we finished pretty highly. I
think the BFFs in the in the tidy hierarchy, and
we'll get to that soon. Tim, I think you had
a little bit more to share about the dispersal if
I'm not wrong.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I was going to follow up when we
were talking about managers that have moved on from the
turnover that we have in the off season. So it's
interesting in tier three, right, So Tier three is your
Jagger and your OR divisions, and they did have more
than half of the teams that were entered into this dispersal.
To your point, the player pool becomes exponentially larger. That
just gives more opportunity for new for new managers to
draft a successful team.
Speaker 2: And Tim, it's it's almost like you're a professional at
this podcasting thing, Tim, because you've given me the perfect
segue here to move to our next topic by mentioning
Tidy Yoger and OR Divisions. We're going to talk about
two managers who have been with us pretty much the
entire way here in the Tiered Dynasty, right from the beginning,
or right from the first year at the very least,
And the first one we're going to mention is someone
who is definitely joining Lord Stanley Division next year is
probably going to kick all of our butts who are
up there. So Simon and Victor and I are shaking
in our boots here because Miss Styx is finally making
their move up to Lord Stanley. Last season, Miss Sticks
won the Yoga Division undisputedly, just like a dominant performance
in last year's Tidy twenty twenty three to twenty twenty
four season, and she's well on her way this year
to winning this year in Gretzky. And it doesn't actually
matter if she wins in Gretzky or not, because she
is the winner of our Omini fast Track for the
best points four points scoring team in the entirety of
the Tiered Dynasty, so she is guaranteed her spot in
the Tiered Dynasty. But I do need to just shout
out a thirteen to two record six thousand, seven hundred
and two points, which I think is slightly higher than
one of our highest point scoring team in the Lord
Stanley Division. So certainly Mystics is going to be a
very deserving entrant into the Lord Stanley Division next year,
and I just wanted to outline a little bit of
what brought Mystics there this year, because they were a
dispersal team entering the league from Yager as the winner
last season, and she ended up with the first overall pick,
which she used on Nathan McKennon, which is a pretty
great way to start building a team. If I go
down through the next few picks, she picked Victor Headman,
Connor Hellibuck, Adrian Kempe, Charlie McAvoy, Matt Barzel, Eric Carlson,
Ryan Nugent, Hopkins, Mattias Ekholm, so working her way down
through some very solid pro picks before picking Walstead and
Stankhoven as the first two kind of young ish players
US young star prospect types. So what she did was
she established a solid core of veterans from these dissolved
teams and then guys, I did had a little bit
of a deep dive here into her team and some
of the moves that she made over the course of
the season, and just like anyone later in the draft,
you're picking up some of these depth pieces, and you're
hoping maybe some of them might work out for you,
and some of them just won't probably, And so she
had acquired Jonas Brodein, for instance, as part of her
as part of her dispersal draft. So she sent Brodine
away with Ryan Strom and brought back in Andrew man Japani,
who is having a bit of a hot streak right now,
probably helping her win her matchup right now, Anthony Manfa,
who you know hasn't done much since his injury, Josh Manson,
who is a bit injured right now. But it's those
kind of moves that kind of build. You start to
build the team based on what has provided to you,
based like in this dispersal draft. And she made a
ton of moves. I'm just gonna whip through them. Some
of them here. She did an absolute robbery here of
trading trading Ricard Raquel and Henry Thrun for Sidney Crosby,
reuniting him with Ovechkin on her team. She used the
aforementioned Justper Walstead and Denti Mattachuck to acquire Jake Gentzel.
There are a lot of moves here where you could see, oh,
she picked this player in the dispersal draft and then
she used him to upgrade to players that can help
her win now, and win now is what she's doing.
And so this is one of the strategies that you
can use if you're someone coming into the tiered dynasty
next season. This could be you too, with just a
little bit of elbow grease, a little bit of getting
to know some of the people in the league and
how they like to trade. And I think we'll probably
be seeing a lot of Mystics on next season's tidy
Takes as well.
Speaker 4: I would imagine so, and I think we should probably
hear from Simon and Hey, because we haven't yet. But
also I believe you were up against that free train
that was miss sticks for a bit in Gretzki.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's thank you, Victor for the segue, And that's
exactly what I was going to say. Yeah, No, what
I noticed from Mystics is that super aggressive on the
trade market. It's always good to reward or be rewarded
when you're to be aggressive on the trade block, knocking
on doors, make those moves and proofs in the pudding.
She was aggressive as soon as she got to Gretzki.
We went back and forth on a couple of trades.
I think our first attempt was at trying to pull
my stud Cam Fowler off my roster, which never ended
up coming to fruition.
Speaker 7: But she made a lot of moves right.
Speaker 6: Off the hop and ended up, like you said, with
a thirteen and two team tied with my old team
that was now finished off at thirteen and two, won
the Gretzki Division. It's a tough division. She was super
aggressive and it paid off. So that's a good reminder
to every GM that's in any fantasy league that if
you're aggressive and you make the moves, more likely than not,
you're gonna have a little bit more success.
Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure, that's a great point. And yes, I
definitely like what you said too, Ryan about the use
assets to do other things with them. You don't necessarily
need to have prospects have certain players that are going
to give you fantasy points on your team, but you
can use them as leverage. You can use them to
acquire some players to help you. So there's lots of
different ways that you can use it, and not just
to not just pick players that you like, or you
have to think about your time frame. And I think
she was very strategic with picking players that people might
be interested in or might be ready sooner than later
that she could trade and leverage. So definitely a good
point there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think if you look at some of
the teams that had less success than they were hoping for,
especially in the Lord Stanley Division, you'll find a lot
of inactive teams that were stuck in this value proposition
of do I trade away my best star to get
the star prospect or vice versa. Am I handicapping myself
going forward here and by making some of these moves.
And it's not your typical dynasty league, Victor, as you've
said countless times, because of this promotion and relegation format,
you can't have as much patience as you might have
if you're in say a thirty two team league and
you're twenty eighth and you're rebuilding. It doesn't work quite
that way here in the TIDY, I wanted to highlight
another team here, Victor. We had we have Sasha Leguard,
who's someone who won last season in Tidy to move
up to this third division and currently facing off against
friend of the show Blame, who is also the commission
of the thirty two team skole league, the victor and
I have just joined, and I'm sorry to say blame,
but Sasha is going to win up. I think last
I checked, one hundred and fifty points going into the
weekend here. Not bad, hey, blame making it to the
finals here for the first year in tidy, but Sasha
is just an unstoppable force in the exact same way
that Mystics is and just to go really quickly through
some of the decisions that they made here. Sasha also
went first overall in the dispersal, picking McDavid, Yosi, Hyman, Crosby, Wiger, Tuck, Woll, Marciasso, Carlson, Latang.
You're going down. These are all really solid NHL contributors
and built a solid core of these veterans. Fewer trades
here from Sasha, but one that stands out to me
is acquiring Alex Ovechkin for Berkeley Catton. Very simple trade
there that brought Ovi and Crosby in very productive veteran
seasons for them to his team giving up Catton, as
I said, and even this week with McDavid out and
with Crosby not competing for a playoff spot, still crushing
in their matchup against blame this week. The last thing
I want to mention with Sasha's team is tons of
goalies with this team has Charlie Lindgren, Cam Talbot, Alex Giorgiyev,
James Rymer, Joseph wool Scott Wedgwood. So getting a lot
of points from those goalie starts, which I don't think
we've mentioned this, but we do have minimum games played.
Are maximum games played of seventy five per week? Those
goalie starts do not count though, So here's a valid
strategy as well. So what do you guys think of
how Sasha has again taken over one of these dispersal
rosters via the draft and then made it their own
such that they're going to move up to the next year.
Speaker 4: Demm, you have some thoughts.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Sasha's team is interesting. Through the year, as I
tracked the weekly standings and the weekly results, Sasha's team
started off in the middle of the pack, and slowly
throughout the year began to rise. And what's the old story.
You want to peak at the right time, and Sasha's
team definitely is peaking at the right time.
Speaker 4: I will say about the goalie strategy, it's one that
I love as well. I think that when the league
was set up, one of the things we made a
conscious decision to make sure goalies were valued that way,
and because they're not included in the limit, is a
huge strategy to have goalies, and in particular paying attention
to goalies who might play on a lot of off nights,
which Washington tends to do. So you mentioned lin Gren.
When there's some other goalies that you might target, especially
ones that are in a tandem, it might be I'm
not a huge fan of tandem owning tandems in a
lot of situations, but in the tidy where you have
a games played limit for your skaters, and it really
isn't about necessarily maximizing your games played for your skaters,
it's a good way to just get extra points and
extra starts from your goalies who do not have a limit.
So getting a whole bunch of goalies is something that
I like to try to do too. And I remember
in the Dispersal draft a lot of times I was
stuck between a couple players, and my strategy whenever that
happens is just to take a goalie, because if these
two skaters seem relatively even, just take the goalie and
you get a free hopefully some free points there and
it doesn't count towards your limit. Were you a high
goalie man there, Simon.
Speaker 7: I don't.
Speaker 6: When Tidy first opened up, I faded goalies hard and
I'm finished middle of the pack in grat Ski in
the first season. And then in the offseason, we were
having these Tidy meetings to see how the league was doing,
check the health, if there's any adjustments we had to make.
And I was one of the guys that was like
complain about these goalie points.
Speaker 7: Because it was not my strategy.
Speaker 6: I sucked, but I came to the conclusion that not
every single league is going to be the same. I
think that's also part of playing fantasy sports, that it's
nice to be able to have a little bit of
a selection and how leagues are played. This one here
is a little bit different than some of my other leagues,
and I just made the adjustments. Following year, I picked
up every scrap goalie on the waiver wire i could.
I was pretty aggressive on the trade block and I improved.
Speaker 7: I think I was.
Speaker 6: I ended up getting finishing second last, and I drafted
Fan Tilly and the following year I ended up just
one spot shy of the championship playoffs, so huge rocket
up the standings and then proofs in the pudding. As
soon as I saw, like how awesome I had increased
my fan point production that year that that was pretty
much a viable strategy for the Tidy. So even when
I moved up to Stanley, that was something I noticed
that was a hole in my roster right off the hop.
Speaker 7: Goalies need more goals, simone.
Speaker 2: I couldn't agree with you more about having to adjust
your strategy to play in a league like this, and
ultimately I do think it makes you a better fantasy player.
It makes you just consider different options to score points.
I think we talk most of the time about okay,
you got it, Like for those of us in redraft leagues,
I think we're really talking a lot about scheduled maximization,
which players are playing four games this week, get rid
of the players who are playing two games, and that
is a great way to play. Having something like the
Tidy where you have to consider we also have points
for Fenwick, give away takeaway percentage, we have other things
that make some of these defensive defensemen more valuable. So
it just makes you think about players and their output
in a different way, and I think it just does
as they say, the rising tide lifts all boats. It
just makes you a better fantasy player because you're considering
all sorts of different ways to play.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree, and I just want to say a
little bit more about that. There are some people who
maybe play in one or two leagues, and I get
and I'm definitely on the high end of that, and
I probably need to cut down a number of leagus
because I'm all over twenty. But I do think that
there's a sweet spot where in a lot of situations,
if you play in one fantasy hockey league, you probably
only have context for that one league because every league
is so different. It's not like some of the other
sports that are similar minderstanding from football and some of
the other ones, that there's some standardization. This is definitely
not the case, and so when you see these different
valuations and there's a learning curve. But also, as Ryan said,
it makes you a better player because it makes you
just pay attention to the settings and the rules, and
as Simon said, you have to make adjustments and really
the best strategies are just to cover up the players'
names because we all have biases, and just look at
what are they doing in this league? What is the production?
What was it last year? What is their points per game?
Are they consistent? Are they not injured? Like, just look
at the facts of what they're producing and not be
thinking about he plays for my favorite team or he
plays for my rival team or any of those things,
and just really learn the rules and what and who's
doing what based on the settings for that league. I
think that's a really important lesson. And you only learn
that if you play in different leagues, and if you
only play in your one home league or something like that,
it doesn't really help you that much. So that's another
reason too, diversify your leagues. I think Simon had his
hand up there.
Speaker 6: Yeah, unless he's a Toronto maple leaf, and obviously you
pick him up immediately.
Speaker 2: All right, Okay, Yeah, I knew I was going to
get some heat here for that. Thanks for that, Simon
knew I had a feeling something like that was going
to come up during this podcast record. Just talking Victor
about the different ways to play in the different ways
to evaluate players. It also forces you to think about
different ways to get an edge, right in this league,
we do have five ads or drops we can use
every week, but the waiver wire is not exactly the
most ripe place to pick off good talent. And so
one way that I think a lot of our managers
get around that is they stream from their miners pool,
and so they'll have players who are under one hundred
games played in the NHL and they are eligible to
be put into your miners and you can bring them
up like you're streaming them in from the waiver wire,
but you get to just own them forever. And I
think if you look at any of the high end
teams in the Tidy this year, or any of the
teams that are high in the Omni Track, which we're
going to segue into talking about here in just a second,
you'll notice a lot of miners eligible players who are
able to make their way up and down from the
lineup and give you those extra points in a week
where maybe maybe you've used all your ads or maybe
there's just not much left on the waiver wire. For
me this year, that player was Marco Casper, who is
giving Simon a bit of a fit today as we
are facing him in the Tidy third place game, and
so a player like that, who maybe I wouldn't use
a move on him in a redraft all the time,
but I just have him for free on my team
right now, and I can just bring him up as
part of the roster anytime I want to. Did you
guys find a lot of success this year with kind
of streaming from the firm?
Speaker 5: Yeah? I kept, oh boy, anywhere between three to five
players who were miners eligible but playing in the NHL.
Going back to that whole goalie thing. The reserve spots
in the toddy and we have twelve reserve spots, so
the reserve is actually quite deep, which is also helpful.
So you can stream players in and you can maybe
carry a couple extra spot that you would break out
typically allocate to different positions to help bump up your
fantasy points.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and I'm going to comment on my old roster,
my Teddy Gretzky roster, because I built that team from
the ground up, and one I handed it off to
the next manager. I had a full plethora roster miners
that were playing and supplementing my team, the guys that
had hold on for a while or that I had
just picked up in the miners. The year before when
I was selling off guys like Mitch gov that I
picked off Victor at the trade deadline the year before Zellweger,
Drew Ellison, A Svetchkov, yet Lecramachi and then Goldie Hoarding
I was I had asked Rob Levi primo all in
the minors, right, So these guys are just not even
taking up any sort of roster spots. They're just sitting
there and I could flex them up and down. Just
what ends up happening is you end up in a
sweet spot where maybe you had too many guys that
are graduating, and then that bottom kind of starts. You
have to pick and choose on who you want to
cut off and cut bait. Right, let's ended up what
was happening on that roster. It was peaking at a
very good point. Like Tim said, you try and planet
so everybody's peaking at the right time and then you
and then hopefully that leads you to a championship run.
Otherwise you end up having to cut bait potentially with
some prospects that maybe they're good, but they haven't hit
their peak yet.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that the minor streaming in this league
is good for a couple of reasons. One, as you said, Ryan,
there isn't really a whole lot on the wire, and
because you're limited by games played, and some of the
guys on the wire could end up giving you negative
points or very few points, and if you're getting one
or two fantasy points and a game's played wasted, it's
almost like why did I even bother? So that isn't
always that helpful. On the other hand, sometimes it's a
bit different than some of the other leagues that don't
have a limit, because you just want as many games
as possible. So sometimes the mayor guys that you have
might actually not be worth it in certain games or
certain situations to put them in. But it's really good
to have that option because oftentimes, as young players will do,
they go through cycles and they might get hot for
a few games or a week and they might they
might want to put them in, or if there's specific
off days that are helpful for you to get them in.
But a lot of times, certainly on the busy days,
you aren't putting those guys in anyways, so you're not
really worried about that. But it is nice to have
the option, and you don't have to go searching the
wire and you can just put them in on those
light days.
Speaker 2: And I'm going to use this conversation to segue a
little bit into the omni track discussion by just pointing
out that the second place team on our Omni Track
fast Track ranking here was Scott Deter. Scott Deter, who
is our friend from Tidy Lidstrom, and he came in
second with six six hundred and eighty four point seventy
two points and part of some of the players that contributed.
I'm looking right now this week at his finals matchup
where it's looking like he's he's got it in the
bag to be moving up from Lidstrom to a higher division.
And if I just look at his roster for today,
there are guys like Leon Bicks, Stixel, Mark del Gaizo,
Wyatt Kaiser, Caden korjak Sam Belinski who are all minors
eligible and all contributing in a really tangible way. Scott
is up right now one hundred and five points or so,
and forty five of those points are coming from these
minors eligible guys who maybe they're not going to feature
on your redraft team, like I think if Wyatt Kaiser
is your fourth defenseman on a redraft team, you're probably
doing something wrong. But if you can just get those
free five points from the four shots one to hit
three blocks that he had today and thirty two minutes
on time on IOW Chicago, they're in trouble. But if
you can get a player like that just and get
those free points, that is something that can that you
can Really it's a strategy that is viable when it
comes to teams that are moving up, and Scott used
this to great effect this year in the Omni Track race.
He didn't close it out. He was short on Mystics
by about eighteen points, which is just how tight the
margins are here in the tidy. He was ahead of
Sea Bass from Tidy Lemieux by about eight points, who
was in turn ahead of Pishes Puddles from Lidstrom by
about seven points. And so these four teams were very
tightly knotted in the battle here at the top of
the Omni Track. And so, Victor, what do you make
of yet another strategy, viable strategy to move up in
a way that people can focus their energies here.
Speaker 4: I wanted to give an extra shout out for Scott
A tour as he is on the scored. I'm actually
up here in Vancouver, as I mentioned, and he lives
not far and I mentioned I was coming up and
we actually threw some discs today, played some disc golf.
He ended up he's pretty good. He's going to be
a player, so that was fun and actually blame me
was there too, who We won't comment on his disc
golf skill level, but yeah, Scott is. And I will
say one another thing about Scott. I think he probably
uses his access to me as a patron more than
anyone else. And whether or not that's the reason he's
so successful or not, I'm not going to claim credit
for that, but he get He runs a lot of
things by me, which I think is helpful, like why
not why not use it if you have access to
get a second opinion. And I will say also that
he was super aggressive and pushing all your chips in,
and I think when you're pushing your chips in like that,
you better better win, and he did. He didn't win
the Omni Track, but I think he would tell you
that he wanted to earn it the hard way, and
so that's what he's doing. He's going up tier by tier,
well at least this year anyways, and then we'll see
what happens after that. But no, I think that that
aggressive style and pushing all your chips in has been
really fun to watch. And I kept telling them with
every suggestion he put in front of me, I said,
you better win. That's all I have to say is
you better win because this team is going to be
terrible if you don't. It's old and you're going to
have a hard time if it doesn't work out this year.
Speaker 2: Maybe we won't get into every move that Scott made,
but I do want to shout out how this kind
of minor streaming strategy works for some of these teams.
And what I've done is I actually went and I
looked at our service time on fan tracks. They have
this great feature where you can look and see which
games you actually had players in your roster for and
how many active slots you had at any given time
in the season. And so I just want to go
through these teams here. Mystics at the top had used
a one hundred and eighteen unique players in the Tidy League.
This year, we only have space on our rosters I
think for forty nine, right, Victor it's around that numbers,
not much more than that, and so to have mystics
our omni track winner with one hundred and eighteen roster
players should tell you what the viable strategy is there.
Just going down through the list here, Scott used one
hundred and thirteen roster players, SeaBASS used ninety, which is
the I would say the median with players coming in
from the waivers. I'd say ninety is pretty close to
the average. And I want to shout out Pish here.
Pish is one of our most entertaining discord members. A
lot of great conversations start with Pish and finish with Pish,
but I want to shout out the Pish used. Get
ready for this one hundred and forty six separate roster
players and finishing fourth in Lidstrom and so you can
really volume your way to it. I did actually pull
all of our roster players as well, and I'm just
going to shout it out here before talking about our
tidy champion mat as well. Simon you used eighty four
roster players, the BFFs, myself and Edward used eighty nine
roster players. Tim used ninety roster players, and Victor comes
in at the top of our four our quartet of
hosts here with one hundred and eighteen roster players. And
so this is certainly the strategy that these teams were
trying to employ to move up the standings. And it's
a way that you can play as well if you
joined us at the tier Dynasty.
Speaker 7: And let's not forget that Scottisher.
Speaker 6: Might be finishing second in the Ami Chak, but he's
arguably winning one of the best divisions Listroam Division came
in and they have three players in the Omni Track
and from what's supposed to be the worst division, they
finished second in fan points per division behind Stanley, And
what's supposed to be the bottom sure doesn't look like
it because that division cut it up this year. Top
players super regressive and wildly entertaining in the chat room too.
Speaker 4: If I do say, yeah, for sure, I think we're
gonna talk a little bit more about Tidy List from later.
But why don't we take our break right now and
we're gonna come back and talk about a couple of
more really interesting topics about the Tidy and stay with us.
We'll be back and just to sec with the Tidy
Commission team welcome back nuveryone. We're talking all things Tidy
on this episode with our Tidy Commission team, Ryan Simoon
and Tim and we've covered a lot of good stuff
from the first segment. We've got a couple of other
really interesting things to talk about, including some of the
happenings in our top division, our Lord Stanley Division, and
some teams that are really improved and hopefully give you
some more strategies that you can help in your own
league as well. Ryan, did you want to take it away?
Speaker 2: I'd love to Victor as potentially the top finishing team
out of the four of us here, and I'll let
Simo and chop back at me if he wants to
a little bit there. I do want to just highlight
what's been going on in our Tidy Lord Stanley Division
this year and just give people a little bit of
context as to how we got to this point. And
so we started the league back in I think, Victor
correct me if I'm wrong. Twenty twenty two was our
first year of operations as the Tiered Dynasty League here,
and we started with those four divisions I mentioned earlier,
Or Yager, Gretzky, and Lemieux and the whole idea being Okay,
we're going to have a top division, we're going to
have a bottom division, and these four divisions, we will
take the top four teams from each of these divisions
and make that as the top Lord Stanley Division. So
to become part of that top division, you just had
to be one of the top four teams. It's the BFFs,
myself and my co manager, Edward Swan, graphic designer extraordinary.
You've probably seen some of his work if you're a
Fantasy Hockey Life Discord member kicking around on that discord
in the form of team avatars and that kind of thing.
We won in the tidy or league in the first
season there to secure our way there, but we've all
kind of made it there in our own different ways.
Victor is a competitor in the in the top Division,
as is Simon. Why don't you guys just set up
a little bit how you guys got to this league,
and then we'll talk about how everything's been going so
far this year.
Speaker 4: I'll mention mine because I think it's probably the easiest.
I was in Gretzky for the last couple of years,
and with Simon and we I like Simone did not
do the first year, and even though I set up
the league, I still had to figure out how to
compete well in it, and it wasn't clear. I had
to imagine some of my strategy. But then last year
I really did well, put it together and won. In fact,
I think I knocked you out in the semi semo
if I remember correctly. He doesn't remember all of a sudden,
but yeah, So I was able to win that division,
and that's what earned my birth in Lord Stanley, Jim,
what about.
Speaker 5: You, Lord Stanley. So it was a short lived time
and when I first looked at the team, I took
over a team January is timeframe. The team was lower
in the standings. I take stock of the take stock
of the roster. And then because of the Lord Stanley
relegation terms, right, you'll have the relegation round robin, three
of those four teams will get relegated. So I had
to be really aggressive on the trade front to try
and upgrade my team and take a shot at finishing
first in that round robin. It's an interesting division. It's
a difficult division. There are a lot of shrewd gms
in that division. It is the ultimate test, definitely competing
with that group of people. So to get in, to
gain into that division, and to stay in that division
and stay relevant and compete, you definitely have to be
a top notch GM.
Speaker 2: And Simone you were one of those top notch gms
that we elevated as well from Tidy Gritzky. At Gretzky,
why don't you tell us a little bit about how
you made your way to Lord Stanley and how you've
been finding it this season.
Speaker 6: Yeah, shout out to Tim. Though you went in there
last year like a wrecking ball.
Speaker 7: You you made some dog trains man.
Speaker 6: There are some predators out there that very opportunistic one
of them and maybe got an ecohesh here in this
from Stanley and your team, right, I didn't go in
there quite the same circumstances. I took over a team
after battling it out for a couple of seasons in
Gretzky and yes, the victor. You did kick me out
of the playoffs in that first year, and then the
second year you we had that big, big break before
you a major run to winning Gretzky. We made that
big trade and you got that was the bomb year
from Boucher right, he was swimming, really broke out. I
think it was somewhere my ten plus fan points that season,
and he was easily one of the top fantasy players
in Gretzky and I had him in my roster and
I picked him.
Speaker 7: High in the inaugural draft. But I'll trade.
Speaker 6: Anybody on a roster, and I think that's how anybody
has to be if you want to get to a
championship level and sustain it, Like Victor noted before you
try and had that name, even it's a favorite player,
look at what the return is, Look what you're trying
to achieve, and in your game plan. It's not like
Bouchard was an old guy. But I'd got a huge package.
And then this coming season, those assets that I got
from Victor that year before ended up launching me to
I ended up being nine and oh to start the season,
and after one of the Stanley managers was couldn't had
to drop out, couldn't couldn't keep a whole of his
roster anymore. I was just ended up being one of
the one of the better the teams in TIDY at
that time, being nine and oh and just taking care
of business and obviously I jumped up in Stanley to
take his spot.
Speaker 7: Yeah, what's up, Bryan.
Speaker 2: It was an obvious choice I think for us to
make to bring you up to Lord Stanley after how
strong you had been. And one of the things we
should mention is that Lord Stanley, we're not just going
to throw anyone in there to take over a team.
We really want to make sure that if we have
the circumstance where someone has to leave in the middle
of the season and give up their team, that we're
going to make sure it's the highest quality managers from
the lower leagues who move up. And Simon, you took
that team all the way to fourth place, probably maybe
third place, depending on how the next two days goes.
If you haven't figured it out by now, dear listener,
Simon is facing the BFFs Ajax Tidy Nights versus the
BFFs in a knockdown, drag them out match here. It
has been fairly close, a bit of a nailbier over
the past couple of weeks, been a separation. I actually, Simon,
maybe you can, maybe we can have a live reveal
here on the podcast, but I actually haven't looked at
anything yet. From tonight. So you could very well be
ahead and I could just be talking out of I
you know what.
Speaker 6: I've taken a look because I was gonna I was
going to organically bring it up obviously that I was ahead,
But no, you still got nice little lead on me.
That's going to be a pretty good weekend. But yeah, no,
thanks for saying that. Yeah, it was having a pretty
good year.
Speaker 7: And even when you.
Speaker 6: When it was brought up that maybe I should be
the one, my first reaction was, oh, maybe not me,
just because I am part of a tidy commission team.
But yeah, it was having an awesome year in Gretzki.
Whoever took over the team ended up kept that train
going as well. And it's also hard when you're obviously
things happen. There's managers that drop out, that happened throughout
the season. There's more than one manager that drop out,
and we always try and give the opportunity to somebody
that is having a good season somewhere else in a
lower tier to be able to move up. But it's
happened in some of these other dropouts that hey, I
don't want to let go with my team. Some managers say, hey,
I am my roster is looking really good. It's a
championship team. You're running the risk of, hey, I'm going
to pick up this roster maybe in a higher division.
In this roster, Wow, no wonder the manager left this
team sucks, so they might not want to let go
of their awesome roster. And it was hard for me
at first, for sure, because that Gretzky roster. It's three
years and now I'm just about to start reaping the
rewards of that investment that I made on this roster,
and then I'll go draft. I was one of those
guys that was trading away high prole players for higher
minor picks right the more so I could get more
high end prospects, so that I was going for the
long game right off the hop so finally to get
the rewards and then let go.
Speaker 7: Of that roster to get a crack at Stanley.
Speaker 6: I did do it, and I am facing the BFS
in third place championship match, which I didn't even think
I was gonna make.
Speaker 7: Sometimes your roster just gets hot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, And well, I promise we'll stop just
talking about our fantasy matchups soon. But I do think,
like what you said about earlier about trading and trying
to find some value from some of these these maybe
under owned players. Personally believe that the only way to
improve in this tiered Dynasta league is to trade roster
players for other roster players, or to trade really good
prospects for veterans who can help you. Right now, we
do have a little bit of an interesting wrinkle in
that you can trade draft picks, but only prior to
our entry draft for the year. So we do get
our draft picks at the beginning of the off season,
we're allowed to trade them from that point on to
improve our team in whatever way we want to. So
if that's trading for Jasper Bratt, for instance, someone to
be at the top of your roster instead of taking
a swing on someone like a James Hagen's this year,
or maybe a Michael Misa, maybe that's something you do, right.
But we do have a number of different avenues to
improve your team, but trading is number one. And I
just want to say with the BFFs this year, not
to just talk about our team the whole time, but
we started this year in twelfth place in the tiered
Dynasty Lord Stanley Division, and we ended probably in third
or fourth. However, this weekend works out, and I think
it's all to do with trades that we made last season,
acquiring Niko Heisher and Mikhail Sergachev, and trades we made
this season, acquiring Bobrovski from Victor, getting Foresling and Raquel
in their primes from another manager. And these were players that,
you know, yeah, we gave up a lot. We gave
up just for posterity sake. Dawson, Mercer, Axel Sandi Pelica,
Cole Eiserman and Hampis Lindholm is a throw in. We
gave up some players off our roster, some prospect players,
and we acquired these veterans who are every night players
for us, and that's what catapulted us up to finishing
probably in third or fourth. And probably we're all going
to stay here because these two teams ahead of us, Victor,
why don't you set it up for us a little
bit here? But the two teams ahead of us are
in a league of their own.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh. Since the very beginning of this league,
I think Jacks n and Mason Black have basically been
in a league of their own. They are in a
league with other managers, but they might as well not
be because their Fantasy points is so much higher than
everybody else's. I'm just looking at the right now, and
you and Simon are in a pretty pretty good matchup,
and you have way more points than just about everybody
else at six fifteen and six thirty three. And Jack
Ze is losing right now to Mason at six seventy four,
and Mason has seven hundred and thirty points. It's not
even it's not even close, like he's He's one hundred
points almost up on you, right, It's ridiculous. So, yeah,
these two, it's been fun to watch their battle. And
I think you can learn a lot from looking at
what these really smart people do and the moves that
they make and the players that they go for, And
so I think that's a really good that's a really
good lesson for all of us to learn. And I
think that's true in any league. Look at the top
teams in your league. What are they doing, how are
they successful? And I've tried to look at what Jack
and Mason are doing and learn as much as you
can from them. I think sometimes it isn't always obvious,
but looking at the players and it seems like they
either have a crystal ball or they just they know
that these players who it's always it's all about picking
the player who maybe had a down season and are
prime for a rebound. That's I think a lot of
what I've seen, especially in Jack's drafting and picking, and
so that's a big part of it too. And then
having the right timeframe of your players maturing, and then
I think they're at the stage now where how do
you keep this going? And that's really about making shoot
trade trades. Getting some of my conversations, a lot of
the trades didn't happen with Jack, but I think he
was very smart in what he was trying to do,
which is stay at the top, and so he was
willing to trade like a B player for or like
a C plus player for maybe two of them for
maybe a player that's a little bit higher. So roster
consolidation essentially is what he was looking at. I ended
up not pulling the trigger on those because of the
players that I was getting, I didn't think had too
much rebound potential in them. But I think that's the
real testament to not only what they built, but they
what they've maintained because that's winning and getting there is
one thing, but then keeping it going for years is
really hard.
Speaker 2: And keeping it going for years is something that Jack
has been doing. Because those who maybe have been listening
to us for a little while talking about the tidy
would know that Jack versus Mason is a rematch of
last year's finals, which Jack won by one hundred and
twenty five points last year, so anything can still happen
with two days left to go here, and they both
approached this season differently. I just made a few notes
just looking at their rosters. Jack made a very few
trades this year, nothing really of note, actually, just upgrading
an early in his career Cole Profetti to a solid
boone Jenner. He sold a few veterans for younger pieces
that feature into his minor strategy. But when you're the
first place team, you don't really have a whole lot
you can change. Mason, on the other hand, we've referred
to him on previous podcasts as the trade King, and
for good reason, because he reworked his roster this year
in a way that I haven't seen many managers do,
especially in a dynasty like this. Just a quick snapshot
he acquired this year in several different trades, Sam Bennett, Ridley,
Greg Toamash Hurdle, and Marcus Petterson, J G. Pajo, Ryan
Hartman some decent depth options. Especially you look at a
guy like Ryan Hartman for this past matchup, who had
eight games or something like that over the past two weeks.
Making these forward thinking moves to get players who are
going to help you at this time of year. He
sent out pieces like Alex Colorn, who we picked up
off of waivers, clearly doesn't have a whole lot of
value in this league. Jackson Blake is someone he sent out.
Maybe he's regretting that one, but send out Matty Benier's
I wouldn't be regretting that one. Samuelson, Jordan Spence, some
of these guys that have some upside but are not
going to help him beat Jack right now, which I
think is goal number one for fir Mason, our trade king.
So both of these teams approached it in different ways,
and here they are at the end, and they are
still both the undisputed top two teams in this league
without question, although I do think we might have a
bit of a challenge from Mystics next season.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I can't wait to see how she and all
the other promoted teams play into this fold. It's going
to be a really exciting team process and it's really
fun to learn out from the how she's going to
adapt to. I think what's going to be a very
unique situation for her because it's all a bit different
when you get into Lord Stanley. It's not I think
none of those other leagues are easy. I think it's
a little bit easier when you have a clear, clearer
path and some teams that can sell off those assets
and rebuild.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and how Toddy works too. With the top six
teams making the championship playoffs and the two teams getting
a buy from the first round, those guys were in
such a lead for such a long time that they
were able to make trades of the deadline and target
the two rounds that they were actually going to participate in.
It's tough when you're going into a playoff matchup and
you got sick. We do two week playoffs. That's the
whole six weeks that you have to POTENTI you have
to try and plan for. You're not going to get
matchups exactly how you want, and potentially trading for guys
that are going to play more in those six weeks,
you're going to maybe target your first couple of rounds
at least at least I do for them. It's hey,
I got to concentrate for four weeks of playoff hockey.
Mason claubed my roster by one hundred and fifty fan
points and his games played was way higher than mine,
even when he was on the podcast not too long ago.
That's the strategy that he employed. And when you're finishing
top two and you have the ability to consolidate who
you gotta target for those, you have one less matchup
that you gotta face, and it makes.
Speaker 7: It a lot easier.
Speaker 6: And they were way clear, right, They were like two
hundred points higher than the next closest person steel Cee
Stars four hundred and forty points. Then the third place
finished Tom Tron, who's been a pretty his team's on
the up and up right, so just dominant, right. These guys,
they got a pretty awesome rivalry going on. So it's
nice to watch and they're having a pretty sick matchup
this year. It's always good to try and poke the
banter on the discord and see if to see if they're.
Speaker 7: Gonna give it back.
Speaker 6: Those those guys are so humble, they don't say too much.
It's nice to just sit back and enjoy the show.
Speaker 2: So we hope that this episode has been very helpful
in kind of unmasking some of the intricacies about this
type of format. I think I speak for all of
us here, but it's definitely one of the more fun
leagues that I participate in on a week to week basis.
It's the one I think about almost the most, certainly
out of my dynasty leagues, it's number one, and it's
just because of how unique this format is. And I
just had to thank you, Victor for giving us the
opportunity here to contribute in a meaningful way to what
is a very exciting Fantasy Hockey League format and one
that we hope will continue for many years to come.
And listeners, if this is intriguing to you, you can
reach out to any of us, Simon, Tim, myself, Victor,
and we're happy to answer any questions for you about
the lead. But Victor, thanks for having us. It's just
so fun to be a part of this team and
to have a place in this league.
Speaker 4: I just appreciate you guys. It has definitely elevated the
quality of the league. It has elevated especially Tim, who
tracks a lot of the storylines and the points and
gives these little recaps, and it's just it's so helpful,
it's so interesting, and I hope people appreciate it. And
I think that's where bennisi Hoki is about having fun,
and that's the whole point is to have fun. And
I think it's you have a little bit more fun
when you have these interesting storylines and you can understand
some of the nuances of what's going on behind the scenes.
So that's what we're hoping to provide. And you all
have helped so much with the running of the league
and the logistics and the dispersal, and Tim, it was
a huge hope in this last year tracking all the
teams and just getting it all in one place, figuring
out where who's left, who's still here, and who needs
to be put where. It's a giant puzzle and you
did that exceptionally well.
Speaker 2: Tim, Tim is our Heart Trophy winner. He's our MVP
of this commissioning team. By far.
Speaker 5: Those are kind of words I can't It's a team, right,
we do what we have to do. I will tell
you there are a lot of lessons learned from last
offseason that we will apply this year. Will be more organized,
a little bit and a lot stronger because of it.
I think, like you guys said, it's a great league.
To Ryan's point, it is actually my number one dynasty
that I go to to check out when I'm in
twenty leagues. This year, it's a great league, and we
just want to do what we got to do to
keep making it greater and greater.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Tim, to your point, we are a team, but
on every team there's all stars and there's fourth liners. Okay,
you're the all Star. Okay, Yeah, No, it was a
shout out to everybody who worked really hard to get this, Tim,
you did a lot of work. You did a lot
of work as well with the Tidy trades and then
doing participating in the app. There was everybody pitched in
here now and then, and thanks to everybody who I
was super patient throughout the season too. And I think
my favorite part of Fantasy Tidy is the banter in
the chat rooms.
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Speaker 6: Life, a little bit of banter in that chat room
and participates and talks to the end of managers and
smacks talks just for the fun of it, and honestly,
just that's the whole. To me, that's the funnest part.
A guy like Tom shown who has just as much
smack talk for more. If smack talk was fan points,
he would be right up there, if not higher than Mason.
If the guys that can contribute in that manner, guys
like Marcus and guys in the list room. I think
that's why the listener to me was one of the
most entertaining. The banter in there was awesome, and it's
all in good fun, right, So it's everybody having a
good time, and I can never get enough of that.
Speaker 4: For sure, everyone did. It's such a great job and
we really appreciate it. Couldn't do it without you. And
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It's one of the I think one of the main
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really fun and interesting, cool league that you can learn
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just have a lot of fun with. So that's the
goal with that, and just to tease what's coming up
in the future, we do hope to have a bunch
of these people who actually won their divisions and we're
successful to come on and have a discussion about that,
so you'll hear from them and how they did it,
what worked. So that's coming up. But until then we
will say thanks so much for everyone for joining, and
we will talk to you again next time.
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This week, we're going to talk about some college baseball players.
That's a little bit of a curve, but never too
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as far as I'm concerned. And then in top of
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