Monty Phan

Lead writer focusing on high-stakes fantasy football. 2017 FFPC Main Event regular season points champion. 4-time FFPC Main Event league winner. 2018 FFPC Bare Knuckle league champ.

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High Staked: The Gritting-Teeth Emoji, It Is Us

Week 2 in the NFL was the embodiment of this emoji: Before Sunday even started, among the high-profile players already declared out were Chris Godwin (concussion), Michael Thomas (ankle), Kenny Golladay (hamstring), A.J. Brown (knee) and George Kittle (knee). That led to various jokes poking fun at Zero RB practitioners – “Imagine starting your draft with Thomas, Godwin, Golladay and Brown! Your season’s basically over!”…...

High Staked: And … We’re Back!

NFL football is back. Even a few months ago, that seemed iffy at best. Since 2010, I’ve watched the Thursday night opener with friends in Las Vegas, where we would spend the weekend doing various in-person FFPC drafts. Obviously, those plans were canceled months ago. The remaining question seemed to be: Would the same thing happen to the NFL season? For now, it seems all…...

Here’s What Happened When Zero RB Converts Went RB-RB in a Main Event Draft (Spoiler: They Liked Their Team!)

For 10 straight years from 2010 to 2019, I drafted a high-stakes fantasy football team live in Las Vegas, an annual ritual that will come to end this year because huddling around a table with a bunch of strangers probably isn’t the wisest decision right now, no matter how much I look forward to it each September. Of course, logic dictates that I take the…...

When and How to Draft Running Backs in Extreme Zero RB Builds

Our writers are drafting in real events and breaking down the player picks and draft tactics for readers. In this edition, Shawn Siegele and Blair Andrews get to Round 11 of their Main Event draft without a single running back on the roster. Where will they go from here? It’s an unfortunate reality of most fantasy football leagues that running backs are a requirement. As…...

Bludgeoning Your Draft With Barkley: When to Attack the RB2 in Single-Elite RB Builds

Our writers are drafting in real events and breaking down the player picks and draft tactics for readers. In this edition, Blair Andrews and Dave Caban co-draft an FFPC team. They look to answer the key question for 2020: How long can you wait for your second RB in single-elite RB builds? When you get the second pick this season, you have two options: (1)…...

Reverse Engineering a Juggernaut – 8 Late-Round Picks to Launch Your Title Run

With high stakes drafts happening fast and furious, Shawn Siegele uses the FFPC Redraft Dashboard to reverse engineer a roster. Yesterday, I focused on the 5 Most Undervalued Players in Redraft, but these values don’t exist in a vacuum. As Curtis Patrick and I prepare for our own Main Event, we need to know not only which players to prioritize early, but also which ones we might…...

You Can’t Run Scared from the 12 Slot: Extreme Zero-RB Tactics in the FFPC Main Event

Blair Andrews and Shawn Siegele execute an extreme Zero-RB start in their FFPC Main Event draft. Can they pull it off? Shawn Siegele and I recently participated in an FFPC Main Event draft. We got the 12th pick. Although there wasn’t quite as much excitement around that pick as in the quad draft Shawn did with Ben Gretch, Pat Kerrane, and Peter Overzet on Ship…...

The 5 Most Undervalued Players in Redraft

Shawn Siegele looks at his early Main Events and breaks down the 12 drafts in the FFPC Redraft Dashboard to find the best player values. Virus testing is coming back clean for NFL players, and early FFPC Main Events are off to the races. I’ve had the good fortune to draft in two Main Events already, one with Colm Kelly and Ben Gretch for a…...

These 3 Buzz-Worthy RBs Are Pivotal Picks for Your Zero RB Roster

With drafts heating up this weekend, Shawn Siegele provides three running back selections that will be crucial to your success in 2020. On Wednesday night, I participated in an FPC draft with the Ship Chasing crew. Yesterday afternoon, Ben Gretch, Colm Kelly, and I drafted in the first live FFPC Main Event of the 2020 season. Draft season is on in a big way this…...

Struggling with Zero RB? You’re Probably Not Drafting Enough WRs

Wednesday evening, I had a chance to draft an FPC championship team with three of my favorites, Ben Gretch, Patrick Kerrane, and Peter Overzet. Live streaming a draft with the Ship Chasing team was one of my favorite all-time fantasy football experiences. We celebrated receiving the 12 slot, despite the horrific returns when drafting late. It was a lot of fun to draft with three…...

Swimming with Sharks: Breaking Down the General Trends and Roster Construction Tactics From a Staff FFPC Draft

Fantasy football is about picking the right players. If you had Christian McCaffrey last year, chances are you did very well. If you had Patrick Mahomes the year before, you were probably near the top of your league. That’s why so much fantasy content these days focuses on which players to choose. Which sleepers will break out. Which early-round players will bust. You get the…...

The FFPC Command Center and Controversial Early Picks: Why We Almost Went Even Wilder in Our Co-Owned FFPC Draft

Dave Caban and Blair Andrews put the RotoViz tools and research to the test, drafting a single-elite-RB FFPC team for a chance at $500,000. While I always relish an excuse to draft a Zero-Running-Back team, it is a good idea to diversify sometimes. Drafting a team with a pick in the early first round makes such diversification a possibility. It’s hard to recommend an RB-heavy…...

FFPC Strategy Sessions: Breaking Down the Main Event Draft, Round By Round

I’ll be honest: I’m a sucker for average draft position charts. When looking at how best to attack the high-stakes Main Event, the FFPC’s flagship contest, I base my draft plan on what appear to be the tendencies of those who have gone before me: how others have reacted to the previous season’s results, which draft positions seem better than others, how to adapt if…...

3 Players RotoViz Rankers Are Higher on Than FFPC Drafters: AFC North

Zachary Krueger and I have been going division by division to find players that RotoViz rankers are higher on than FFPC drafters. For the complete series, you can find them all here: 3 Players RotoViz Rankers Are Higher on Than FFPC Drafters: AFC East 3 Players RotoViz Rankers Are Higher on Than FFPC Drafters: NFC East 3 Players RotoViz Rankers are Higher on Than FFPC Drafters: NFC…...

It’s Kind of Crazy What the Right Kicker Strategy Does for You in Superflex Best Ball

Blair Andrews continues his look at FFPC Superflex best ball strategy. In this installment, we turn our attention to the all-important kicker position. It’s not quite right to say that kicker is the forgotten position in fantasy football. But that’s only because kicker is increasingly not a position in fantasy football. The FFPC is becoming a rarity in the fantasy industry as a format that…...

Title Quest 2020: Pros vs Joes Best Ball Championship Part 1 – Planning the Draft

Curtis Patrick shares a look behind the curtain as he openly lays out the planning and execution of his 2020 FFPC Pros vs Joes Draft in hopes of adding another trophy to the RotoViz vault. This is Part 1 of a two-part series. 2020 marks my third year competing in the FFPC’s Pros vs Joes Best Ball Championship. Each year I’ve partnered with my good…...

High-Stakes Drafters are Bullish on Top Rookie RBs — Should You Be?

Under normal circumstances, drafting rookie running backs in the FFPC Main Event is a complete minefield. The 2017 class likely ruined expectations for years after, as the likes of Kareem Hunt, Christian McCaffrey and Leonard Fournette finished in the top nine, a tidy profit on their third-round ADPs – and that’s not counting Alvin Kamara, who was drafted much later and finished as the overall…...

Swimming with Sharks: 7 Players RotoViz Analysts Let Fall in a Best Ball Mock Draft

Earlier this week, we went over seven players who went well ahead of ADP in a recent staff FFPC best ball mock draft. Rankings are cool and all, but it’s helpful to see which players RotoViz analysts are actually willing to reach for in an actual draft situation. Today, we’ll look at the flip side: Which players did our writers let fall? Who finally grabbed…...

3 Players RotoViz Rankers Are Higher on Than FFPC Drafters: AFC West

Zachary Krueger and I have been going division by division to find players that RotoViz rankers are higher on than FFPC drafters. You can find all the previous articles here: 3 Players RotoViz Rankers Are Higher on Than FFPC Drafters: AFC East 3 Players RotoViz Rankers Are Higher on Than FFPC Drafters: NFC East 3 Players RotoViz Rankers are Higher on Than FFPC Drafters: NFC South 3…...

High Staked: The Gritting-Teeth Emoji, It Is Us

Week 2 in the NFL was the embodiment of this emoji: Before Sunday even started, among the high-profile players already declared out were Chris Godwin (concussion), Michael Thomas (ankle), Kenny Golladay (hamstring), A.J. Brown (knee) and George Kittle (knee). That led to various jokes poking fun at Zero RB practitioners – “Imagine starting your draft with Thomas, Godwin, Golladay and Brown! Your season’s basically over!”…...

High Staked: And … We’re Back!

NFL football is back. Even a few months ago, that seemed iffy at best. Since 2010, I’ve watched the Thursday night opener with friends in Las Vegas, where we would spend the weekend doing various in-person FFPC drafts. Obviously, those plans were canceled months ago. The remaining question seemed to be: Would the same thing happen to the NFL season? For now, it seems all…...

Here’s What Happened When Zero RB Converts Went RB-RB in a Main Event Draft (Spoiler: They Liked Their Team!)

For 10 straight years from 2010 to 2019, I drafted a high-stakes fantasy football team live in Las Vegas, an annual ritual that will come to end this year because huddling around a table with a bunch of strangers probably isn’t the wisest decision right now, no matter how much I look forward to it each September. Of course, logic dictates that I take the…...

When and How to Draft Running Backs in Extreme Zero RB Builds

Our writers are drafting in real events and breaking down the player picks and draft tactics for readers. In this edition, Shawn Siegele and Blair Andrews get to Round 11 of their Main Event draft without a single running back on the roster. Where will they go from here? It’s an unfortunate reality of most fantasy football leagues that running backs are a requirement. As…...

Bludgeoning Your Draft With Barkley: When to Attack the RB2 in Single-Elite RB Builds

Our writers are drafting in real events and breaking down the player picks and draft tactics for readers. In this edition, Blair Andrews and Dave Caban co-draft an FFPC team. They look to answer the key question for 2020: How long can you wait for your second RB in single-elite RB builds? When you get the second pick this season, you have two options: (1)…...

Reverse Engineering a Juggernaut – 8 Late-Round Picks to Launch Your Title Run

With high stakes drafts happening fast and furious, Shawn Siegele uses the FFPC Redraft Dashboard to reverse engineer a roster. Yesterday, I focused on the 5 Most Undervalued Players in Redraft, but these values don’t exist in a vacuum. As Curtis Patrick and I prepare for our own Main Event, we need to know not only which players to prioritize early, but also which ones we might…...

You Can’t Run Scared from the 12 Slot: Extreme Zero-RB Tactics in the FFPC Main Event

Blair Andrews and Shawn Siegele execute an extreme Zero-RB start in their FFPC Main Event draft. Can they pull it off? Shawn Siegele and I recently participated in an FFPC Main Event draft. We got the 12th pick. Although there wasn’t quite as much excitement around that pick as in the quad draft Shawn did with Ben Gretch, Pat Kerrane, and Peter Overzet on Ship…...

The 5 Most Undervalued Players in Redraft

Shawn Siegele looks at his early Main Events and breaks down the 12 drafts in the FFPC Redraft Dashboard to find the best player values. Virus testing is coming back clean for NFL players, and early FFPC Main Events are off to the races. I’ve had the good fortune to draft in two Main Events already, one with Colm Kelly and Ben Gretch for a…...

These 3 Buzz-Worthy RBs Are Pivotal Picks for Your Zero RB Roster

With drafts heating up this weekend, Shawn Siegele provides three running back selections that will be crucial to your success in 2020. On Wednesday night, I participated in an FPC draft with the Ship Chasing crew. Yesterday afternoon, Ben Gretch, Colm Kelly, and I drafted in the first live FFPC Main Event of the 2020 season. Draft season is on in a big way this…...

Struggling with Zero RB? You’re Probably Not Drafting Enough WRs

Wednesday evening, I had a chance to draft an FPC championship team with three of my favorites, Ben Gretch, Patrick Kerrane, and Peter Overzet. Live streaming a draft with the Ship Chasing team was one of my favorite all-time fantasy football experiences. We celebrated receiving the 12 slot, despite the horrific returns when drafting late. It was a lot of fun to draft with three…...

Swimming with Sharks: Breaking Down the General Trends and Roster Construction Tactics From a Staff FFPC Draft

Fantasy football is about picking the right players. If you had Christian McCaffrey last year, chances are you did very well. If you had Patrick Mahomes the year before, you were probably near the top of your league. That’s why so much fantasy content these days focuses on which players to choose. Which sleepers will break out. Which early-round players will bust. You get the…...

The FFPC Command Center and Controversial Early Picks: Why We Almost Went Even Wilder in Our Co-Owned FFPC Draft

Dave Caban and Blair Andrews put the RotoViz tools and research to the test, drafting a single-elite-RB FFPC team for a chance at $500,000. While I always relish an excuse to draft a Zero-Running-Back team, it is a good idea to diversify sometimes. Drafting a team with a pick in the early first round makes such diversification a possibility. It’s hard to recommend an RB-heavy…...

FFPC Strategy Sessions: Breaking Down the Main Event Draft, Round By Round

I’ll be honest: I’m a sucker for average draft position charts. When looking at how best to attack the high-stakes Main Event, the FFPC’s flagship contest, I base my draft plan on what appear to be the tendencies of those who have gone before me: how others have reacted to the previous season’s results, which draft positions seem better than others, how to adapt if…...

3 Players RotoViz Rankers Are Higher on Than FFPC Drafters: AFC North

Zachary Krueger and I have been going division by division to find players that RotoViz rankers are higher on than FFPC drafters. For the complete series, you can find them all here: 3 Players RotoViz Rankers Are Higher on Than FFPC Drafters: AFC East 3 Players RotoViz Rankers Are Higher on Than FFPC Drafters: NFC East 3 Players RotoViz Rankers are Higher on Than FFPC Drafters: NFC…...

It’s Kind of Crazy What the Right Kicker Strategy Does for You in Superflex Best Ball

Blair Andrews continues his look at FFPC Superflex best ball strategy. In this installment, we turn our attention to the all-important kicker position. It’s not quite right to say that kicker is the forgotten position in fantasy football. But that’s only because kicker is increasingly not a position in fantasy football. The FFPC is becoming a rarity in the fantasy industry as a format that…...

Title Quest 2020: Pros vs Joes Best Ball Championship Part 1 – Planning the Draft

Curtis Patrick shares a look behind the curtain as he openly lays out the planning and execution of his 2020 FFPC Pros vs Joes Draft in hopes of adding another trophy to the RotoViz vault. This is Part 1 of a two-part series. 2020 marks my third year competing in the FFPC’s Pros vs Joes Best Ball Championship. Each year I’ve partnered with my good…...

High-Stakes Drafters are Bullish on Top Rookie RBs — Should You Be?

Under normal circumstances, drafting rookie running backs in the FFPC Main Event is a complete minefield. The 2017 class likely ruined expectations for years after, as the likes of Kareem Hunt, Christian McCaffrey and Leonard Fournette finished in the top nine, a tidy profit on their third-round ADPs – and that’s not counting Alvin Kamara, who was drafted much later and finished as the overall…...

Swimming with Sharks: 7 Players RotoViz Analysts Let Fall in a Best Ball Mock Draft

Earlier this week, we went over seven players who went well ahead of ADP in a recent staff FFPC best ball mock draft. Rankings are cool and all, but it’s helpful to see which players RotoViz analysts are actually willing to reach for in an actual draft situation. Today, we’ll look at the flip side: Which players did our writers let fall? Who finally grabbed…...

3 Players RotoViz Rankers Are Higher on Than FFPC Drafters: AFC West

Zachary Krueger and I have been going division by division to find players that RotoViz rankers are higher on than FFPC drafters. You can find all the previous articles here: 3 Players RotoViz Rankers Are Higher on Than FFPC Drafters: AFC East 3 Players RotoViz Rankers Are Higher on Than FFPC Drafters: NFC East 3 Players RotoViz Rankers are Higher on Than FFPC Drafters: NFC South 3…...

High Staked: The Gritting-Teeth Emoji, It Is Us

Week 2 in the NFL was the embodiment of this emoji: Before Sunday even started, among the high-profile players already declared out were Chris Godwin (concussion), Michael Thomas (ankle), Kenny Golladay (hamstring), A.J. Brown (knee) and George Kittle (knee). That led to various jokes poking fun at Zero RB practitioners – “Imagine starting your draft with Thomas, Godwin, Golladay and Brown! Your season’s basically over!”…...

High Staked: And … We’re Back!

NFL football is back. Even a few months ago, that seemed iffy at best. Since 2010, I’ve watched the Thursday night opener with friends in Las Vegas, where we would spend the weekend doing various in-person FFPC drafts. Obviously, those plans were canceled months ago. The remaining question seemed to be: Would the same thing happen to the NFL season? For now, it seems all…...

Here’s What Happened When Zero RB Converts Went RB-RB in a Main Event Draft (Spoiler: They Liked Their Team!)

For 10 straight years from 2010 to 2019, I drafted a high-stakes fantasy football team live in Las Vegas, an annual ritual that will come to end this year because huddling around a table with a bunch of strangers probably isn’t the wisest decision right now, no matter how much I look forward to it each September. Of course, logic dictates that I take the…...

When and How to Draft Running Backs in Extreme Zero RB Builds

Our writers are drafting in real events and breaking down the player picks and draft tactics for readers. In this edition, Shawn Siegele and Blair Andrews get to Round 11 of their Main Event draft without a single running back on the roster. Where will they go from here? It’s an unfortunate reality of most fantasy football leagues that running backs are a requirement. As…...

Bludgeoning Your Draft With Barkley: When to Attack the RB2 in Single-Elite RB Builds

Our writers are drafting in real events and breaking down the player picks and draft tactics for readers. In this edition, Blair Andrews and Dave Caban co-draft an FFPC team. They look to answer the key question for 2020: How long can you wait for your second RB in single-elite RB builds? When you get the second pick this season, you have two options: (1)…...

Reverse Engineering a Juggernaut – 8 Late-Round Picks to Launch Your Title Run

With high stakes drafts happening fast and furious, Shawn Siegele uses the FFPC Redraft Dashboard to reverse engineer a roster. Yesterday, I focused on the 5 Most Undervalued Players in Redraft, but these values don’t exist in a vacuum. As Curtis Patrick and I prepare for our own Main Event, we need to know not only which players to prioritize early, but also which ones we might…...

You Can’t Run Scared from the 12 Slot: Extreme Zero-RB Tactics in the FFPC Main Event

Blair Andrews and Shawn Siegele execute an extreme Zero-RB start in their FFPC Main Event draft. Can they pull it off? Shawn Siegele and I recently participated in an FFPC Main Event draft. We got the 12th pick. Although there wasn’t quite as much excitement around that pick as in the quad draft Shawn did with Ben Gretch, Pat Kerrane, and Peter Overzet on Ship…...

The 5 Most Undervalued Players in Redraft

Shawn Siegele looks at his early Main Events and breaks down the 12 drafts in the FFPC Redraft Dashboard to find the best player values. Virus testing is coming back clean for NFL players, and early FFPC Main Events are off to the races. I’ve had the good fortune to draft in two Main Events already, one with Colm Kelly and Ben Gretch for a…...

These 3 Buzz-Worthy RBs Are Pivotal Picks for Your Zero RB Roster

With drafts heating up this weekend, Shawn Siegele provides three running back selections that will be crucial to your success in 2020. On Wednesday night, I participated in an FPC draft with the Ship Chasing crew. Yesterday afternoon, Ben Gretch, Colm Kelly, and I drafted in the first live FFPC Main Event of the 2020 season. Draft season is on in a big way this…...

Struggling with Zero RB? You’re Probably Not Drafting Enough WRs

Wednesday evening, I had a chance to draft an FPC championship team with three of my favorites, Ben Gretch, Patrick Kerrane, and Peter Overzet. Live streaming a draft with the Ship Chasing team was one of my favorite all-time fantasy football experiences. We celebrated receiving the 12 slot, despite the horrific returns when drafting late. It was a lot of fun to draft with three…...

Swimming with Sharks: Breaking Down the General Trends and Roster Construction Tactics From a Staff FFPC Draft

Fantasy football is about picking the right players. If you had Christian McCaffrey last year, chances are you did very well. If you had Patrick Mahomes the year before, you were probably near the top of your league. That’s why so much fantasy content these days focuses on which players to choose. Which sleepers will break out. Which early-round players will bust. You get the…...

The FFPC Command Center and Controversial Early Picks: Why We Almost Went Even Wilder in Our Co-Owned FFPC Draft

Dave Caban and Blair Andrews put the RotoViz tools and research to the test, drafting a single-elite-RB FFPC team for a chance at $500,000. While I always relish an excuse to draft a Zero-Running-Back team, it is a good idea to diversify sometimes. Drafting a team with a pick in the early first round makes such diversification a possibility. It’s hard to recommend an RB-heavy…...

FFPC Strategy Sessions: Breaking Down the Main Event Draft, Round By Round

I’ll be honest: I’m a sucker for average draft position charts. When looking at how best to attack the high-stakes Main Event, the FFPC’s flagship contest, I base my draft plan on what appear to be the tendencies of those who have gone before me: how others have reacted to the previous season’s results, which draft positions seem better than others, how to adapt if…...

3 Players RotoViz Rankers Are Higher on Than FFPC Drafters: AFC North

Zachary Krueger and I have been going division by division to find players that RotoViz rankers are higher on than FFPC drafters. For the complete series, you can find them all here: 3 Players RotoViz Rankers Are Higher on Than FFPC Drafters: AFC East 3 Players RotoViz Rankers Are Higher on Than FFPC Drafters: NFC East 3 Players RotoViz Rankers are Higher on Than FFPC Drafters: NFC…...

It’s Kind of Crazy What the Right Kicker Strategy Does for You in Superflex Best Ball

Blair Andrews continues his look at FFPC Superflex best ball strategy. In this installment, we turn our attention to the all-important kicker position. It’s not quite right to say that kicker is the forgotten position in fantasy football. But that’s only because kicker is increasingly not a position in fantasy football. The FFPC is becoming a rarity in the fantasy industry as a format that…...

Title Quest 2020: Pros vs Joes Best Ball Championship Part 1 – Planning the Draft

Curtis Patrick shares a look behind the curtain as he openly lays out the planning and execution of his 2020 FFPC Pros vs Joes Draft in hopes of adding another trophy to the RotoViz vault. This is Part 1 of a two-part series. 2020 marks my third year competing in the FFPC’s Pros vs Joes Best Ball Championship. Each year I’ve partnered with my good…...

High-Stakes Drafters are Bullish on Top Rookie RBs — Should You Be?

Under normal circumstances, drafting rookie running backs in the FFPC Main Event is a complete minefield. The 2017 class likely ruined expectations for years after, as the likes of Kareem Hunt, Christian McCaffrey and Leonard Fournette finished in the top nine, a tidy profit on their third-round ADPs – and that’s not counting Alvin Kamara, who was drafted much later and finished as the overall…...

Swimming with Sharks: 7 Players RotoViz Analysts Let Fall in a Best Ball Mock Draft

Earlier this week, we went over seven players who went well ahead of ADP in a recent staff FFPC best ball mock draft. Rankings are cool and all, but it’s helpful to see which players RotoViz analysts are actually willing to reach for in an actual draft situation. Today, we’ll look at the flip side: Which players did our writers let fall? Who finally grabbed…...

3 Players RotoViz Rankers Are Higher on Than FFPC Drafters: AFC West

Zachary Krueger and I have been going division by division to find players that RotoViz rankers are higher on than FFPC drafters. You can find all the previous articles here: 3 Players RotoViz Rankers Are Higher on Than FFPC Drafters: AFC East 3 Players RotoViz Rankers Are Higher on Than FFPC Drafters: NFC East 3 Players RotoViz Rankers are Higher on Than FFPC Drafters: NFC South 3…...

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