Life is about constant evolution. Always better today than we were yesterday. Welcome to another edition of The Only Easy Day was yesterday. I'm your host, Scott Williams, and today we're gonna be talking SOAS. And we have our SOAS representative, retired CEO, Lieutenant Andrew Dow. And Andrew, we've covered this now three times. And we've talked about how to get ready for SOAS, what to expect, how to train for SOAS, all that good stuff. And then actually seeing a SOAS live in the flesh and watching as the evolutions go down. Today we're gonna talk about the aftermath. What happens when candidates have actually attended SOAS, gone through the two weeks and gone home and now they're waiting. So, tell me first, what happens after those evolutions are done from the staff perspective? Okay, all right. So we did talk about the whole pre-application. We talked about assessment week, interview week, but what happens afterwards is there's a seal panel, a seal selection panel. And every applicant that attends SOAS finishes SOAS with a SOAS scorecard. It basically explains and it tracks everything they've done during the SOAS, both interview week and assessment week. So it's their scorecard that shows how well they did on certain evolutions, instructor inputs, peer inputs, all gets compiled. And the scorecard gets forwarded to the seal selection panel. This panel happens at the end of the third block in September, there's a week long process where several O5s, O6s, and now this year alone, the two-star admiral of WarCom will be the panel president. They come together and they sit down and go through each application, their pre-application, they go through each scorecard and they determine which applicant will receive orders to buds, will receive a billet to become an 1130, excuse me, 1180. You mentioned that the flag is sitting in this time. I think that's the first time that's happened. That's correct, yeah. In the past it used to be the Commodore of Naval Special Warfare Center, but this year we're moving with having the two-star sit as the panel president. Yeah, I imagine as one of those potential selectees that I would be at home sitting thinking, who is evaluating me right now? Well, in SOAS, the evaluators and the assessors are NSW instructors and regular operators that will write down everything about you, everything you do, but on the actual panel, you're having senior leadership, O5s, commanders of SEAL teams, commanders of basic training command, the commander of advanced training command, you'll have the Commodore who's an O6, which is a captain in the Navy, sitting at the panel who used to be the panel president, but now the Naval Special Warfare Command, Admiral, two-star, will be leading that panel. So what are the big things they're looking for in that panel? Right, so it hasn't changed much in the past, except that now that Naval Special Warfare's focused is more maritime and going towards that route of operations overseas, they're looking for, either way, they're looking for the whole person approach. They wanna see candidates that have great character, great teamwork, professionalism, leadership, and able to work in different situations that they can adapt to. So what's tested at SOAS and what's presented at the board, they're looking at their cognitive abilities, their behavioral aptitudes, they're looking at their physical performance, which is very important, their comfortability in the water, as well as there will be tested on their leadership abilities, they'll be put in tough situations, so the results of those situations will be presented to the board as well. So big three are character, cognitive ability and physicality. And we've heard of the gray man concept where you kinda sneak through buds with not being the guy who's at the bottom and not the guy who's drawing attention as a star performer, but kinda blending in with the pack. How does the panel look at the gray man? Every community has a gray man, right? But in the officer community, you can't be a gray man. So if they get a, they're selecting the ones that stand out, they're not selecting the ones that do poorly, and it's becoming more and more the norm to not select gray men. So if you're the type of person who's very quiet and timid, and hey, I'm just doing this to get by, you shouldn't even come and apply because you're not gonna get selected at the bottom line. They wanna see the outgoing people, the people who aren't afraid to take risks, coordinated risks and calculated risks, excuse me. The gray man as you're talking about, Scott, as officers that really doesn't sit well with the panel. They're not gonna move forward with someone who is, I don't wanna say introverted because obviously you have to be outspoken. You need to be able to present yourself and to your subordinates. But as a gray man, they're gonna pass you by. You're probably not gonna get selected, to be honest. So maximum individual output, but also maximum teamwork? I'd say teamwork and vocalization. So they're not looking for the cheerleader who's, look at me, look, I'm the one talking all the time, just saying whatever they wanna hear. They're looking for the ones who are actually saying the things that need to be said, the ones that are actually stepping out of that comfort zone of should I say something or should I just sit back? They're looking for the ones that are like, okay, I have a plan, explaining it to their men and women that this is what we need to do and all of this is getting documented on their SOA scorecard. So the panel will see this, that who's a gray man, who's a good spoken leader, who's the ones that are just there to get a nice flair on their chip saying, hey, I made it to through SOAS. How do the quotas work?  So every year the admiral looks at the entire force and sees how many officers will be needed to fill in those ranks that are now missing. Each year, we're looking at sending two buds, roughly 80 to 95 officer candidates to go to buds. From that, their intent is to get at least 60 to 70 officer candidates to get through the pipeline and to later on check into the teams. The one other thing though is those numbers have been relatively the same each year. As we spoke in an earlier webinar, OCS specifically for being selected for buds from the selection panel, OCS, we're looking at probably 90 to 100 applications. And from that, we have about 60 to 10 SOAS. And of that 60, only about 15 or 15 to 20, I'd say, because there are some alternates that get us selected to go to buds. And each accession source has a different one, but strictly OCS, that's the number for there. Naval Academy has their own process that they select how many get through, ROTC, same thing. I can go into those numbers too, give a broad range of that so the listeners can have an idea of, okay, what are my chances? What is the percentage of me being picked up, if you want? Shoot. Okay. So we have OCS, we have ROTC. ROTC, we see about 70 to 80 applications a year. Of that 70 to 80, the board usually gets about 50 to look at and of that 50, they pick about 15 to 20 to go to buds. Naval Academy, like I said, does their whole internal down selection to see who goes to SOAS themselves, but they start with as high as 250 to 300 applications, candidates and from there, they do their own little screeners, they have two screeners a year and of that, they probably send about 100, they have about 150 that come out of the screeners. From that 150, they only send about 60. So they have a pretty intense down selection process themselves, of that 60 who attend SOAS, Naval Academy sends maybe 25 to 35 candidates to buds. So that selection process is very... Rigorous. Thank you, yeah, rigorous. We have OCS, ROTC, Naval Academy, then there's the other accession sources, which we don't see as many applications for and we don't see as many selected from. That's inner service transfers when you have like your Marine Corps, your Army officers, your Air Force officers that attend, apply for SOAS and attend. We see probably about from each one of those, probably about five to 10 a year and the selection panel maybe picks one to two, maybe, as long as they have everything we're looking for and that their service is willing to let them go to cross over to the Navy. We also see Merchant Marine Academy. I remember we've even in the past, seen a couple of Coast Guard officer candidates come through quite some time ago. Since I've been working in this seat, I've seen probably three Coast Guard and strictly enlisted, Coast Guard enlisted apply that would like to go enlisted to officer, so OCS enlisted category. Before I touch on the Coast Guard specifically, the OCS enlisted side basically that's anyone who is active duty in service from your Seaman, Seaman recruit, your E3 to, I've seen an E6, actually an E7 this year. We have an E7 which is a chief applying. That is probably the hardest road any candidate accession source has because they're competing against Trident Wears. They're competing against SEALs who are enlisted that want to become officers. So they fall in the same pool as those at the selection panel. So any enlisted sailor that applies for SOAS, that goes to SOAS and goes to the selection panel is actually competing against Trident Wears. So it's a very, very challenging route. We get about 10 to 15 of those applications a year and probably about one to two is selected each year to go to Buds, right? It's a risk that the panel takes because they obviously are presenting or showing something that the community is interested in. But back to the Coast Guard, they fall in the same category but they would be inner service transfers. But once again, they would actually have to take one of the spots of the OCS enlisted. So I've seen two or three, I'm not sure what it is. Maybe it's the Coast Guard in general. They're not sending or allowing to send that many applicants because I believe several years ago we actually had an officer get through and has a Trident. Sum it up, I haven't seen many because I think the Coast Guard is keeping close hold on who's being allowed to leave their service. Yeah. Well, it's always about the needs of the service first. Right. So we do have male and female candidates go to SOAS. Yes. And then those results are sent to the panel. How does the panel evaluate candidates in a gender-neutral manner? As candidates apply, right, both male, female, they go through a down-selection panel with the CLOCM and then they themselves, the applicant and the application moves forward through SOAS.  To keep everything straight and professional, they keep it, the gender identifiers, they remove everything, right? So they keep it gender-blind. So all the panel is seeing is their scores, comments that are made about the candidate, they specifically say rather than he or she, they'll say the candidate, there's no picture, there's no identifier, so it's just strictly how well did this candidate perform at SOAS and any input that assessors may have had or if they wanna look further, they'll look at their application, their actual application, but all that is scrubbed and keep the gender bias. So they're looking at quantitative data and qualitative data that is scrubbed of gender identifiers. Exactly, yep. So that sounds good. So they go through a process of selecting candidates. Now they have their list that they've chosen to attend Buds. How do they get the word out?  And what form does that take? Is it an email, a phone call, who's it to? Okay, so in September when the SEAL selection panel convenes and they finish deciding from which accession source will be selected to go to Buds, they honestly create a master kind of notification sheet and this sheet has every candidate that applied, if who was selected. This gets sent out to the SEAL officer community manager who then will make the formal notifications of who was selected. The SEAL OCM will notify the ROTC higher headquarters with the list who will then shrink it down to all the units to let their candidates know if he or she made it or was selected or not. The Naval Academy, same thing. The Naval Academy and I think ROTC have a specific, it's called service selection night where they're notified if they, what service selection they'll be going to. So I believe that happens in November or December for Naval Academy and ROTC. Everyone else is usually notified, usually middle of October, end of October, sometimes early November if they've been selected or not. So they'll be notified usually through email, through the SEAL OCM, the officer community manager, if they've been selected or not. Sometimes for OCS specifically, the SEAL community manager will notify the recruiters, CNRC and they will once again, trinkle it down to their, each individual recruiting stations who will then notify their applicant if they've been selected or not. So usually about a month after selection they're notified. That sounds good. So if I'm that candidate and I get the bad news, that I didn't make it, what can I do to start getting ready for the next cycle? I still wanna take another crack at this. I know where I can improve, but I want some more insights. What's really neat with this process is every candidate gets two attempts at SOAS. You can apply as many times as you want, but you get two boots on the ground. You're at SOAS attempts. The, at the end of SOAS, if you find out you weren't selected and this was your first attempt, you can reapply and try again the following year. The SEAL, the SOAS, the SEAL officer assessment selection officer in charge, he usually in the past has done a debrief for each candidate before the panel itself. So you'll know leaving SOAS before the selection panel happens what your strengths and weaknesses were. And you'll also get a copy of the scorecard that the selection panel's looking at. We'll see all your greens and your reds, right? Your goods and your beds. So you'll be walking away with, okay, if I'm not selected, this is what I need to work on. So you have some homework to do. So you can go back and train harder or work on the things that the SOAS staff saw that you needed to work on. Another resource you have is, a side component of my job is also I host six webinars a year. It was based around the NRTC schedule. So we did three in the fall semesters, three in the spring semester, and that maintains, but instead of just ROTC, I've opened it up to OCS and any other candidate that is interested in going the SEAL pipeline as an officer to attend. It's as easy as just shooting me an email and I'll add you to a distro list. I have an email distribution list that I send to all interested candidates and this gives them the schedule of when I'll be running these webinars. The webinars, I think it's a great resource. It's very informal. It's just me up there. I'll have a topic to talk about. It's the main purpose of these webinars are so candidates can meet other candidates that are interested in doing what they wanna do and it gives them another resource. It could potentially give them a swim buddy to train with if they find out they're in a town next to each other or they're from the same town. But it also gives them like that social network that the Naval Academy has because the Naval Academy, I mean, all the candidates are sleeping in the same dormitory. So they're constantly getting feedback from each other and they have that access of having SEALs on the Naval Academy campus grounds. So I'm trying to give that to them and someone they can reach out to to ask all those questions that they may not feel comfortable asking active duty SEALs so they can ask me anything regarding the SEAL application or what are some strength and weaknesses. So the bottom line is it's just kind of a gathering point for candidates who wanna become SEAL officers to get to know each other because the webinar lasts probably an hour each session but I leave it open after I leave. I leave it open for the candidates to just have small talk and discuss amongst themselves. Hey, what are you writing on your application or different tips or tricks that you've learned throughout the process? Even for those individuals who are applying a second time they may be able to give feedback to these other interested candidates about their application, what was strong, what was weak even before going to SOEA so they know or even before submitting an application so they know, okay, I should watch out for this and learn from each other from trial and error. What's a typical SOEA's topic? Like what did you talk about the last time? So I break it down, I try to, one of my intent is I try to reach out to some of the SEALs I know to come on and give their experience whether they've been through SOEA's, whether they're experienced as a junior officer in the teams, they're experienced in Buds, they're experienced in SQT, leadership experiences. I try to touch on everything with these speakers to come and talk about and it's an open forum so they'll give their 10, 15 minutes speech on leadership or mental toughness and then the guest speaker will open it up to questions and that's the opportunity for candidates to ask any question they want to an active VDCO officer. I also try to bring in SEAL Enlisted to get the enlisted point of view to kind of talk on what they look for in their junior officers and officers being groomed in the community what these enlisted operators want to see in their officers, right? To get a little poll on each type of SEAL officer that's coming into the community. So I try to hit senior enlisted as guest speakers. I try to get junior officers, mid-grade officers. I try to get just people who've been in the pipeline enough to speak on SOEA's but also the ones who are past that to speak on their time in the teams as junior officers and through the ranks. I mean, I'll also hit on, I'll have a specific webinar on the SOEA's application process. I'll have one on mental toughness, different tricks that can help compose yourself while you're going through the entire process as well as we'll discuss the ethos and the SEAL creed just so because a lot of these candidates might not know about the whole community. So I try to give them an NSW 101. That's some great intel and I thank you for joining us. This has been a very informative four part series about SOEA's. Hopefully we've covered all the bases that candidates need to hear when they're considering a career as an NSW SEAL officer. We're going to get together again, I'm sure, in the future and talk more officer issues but for now, that's gonna wrap it up for today. I'm Scott Williams. Thanks for joining us, Andrew Dow. Thanks again. For another edition of The Only Easy Day, was yesterday.


It's a slate tonight of MLB DFS where I actually kind of don't hate some of the value pitchers Which for me is a very weird spot to be in because if you are a longtime viewer, you know I don't tend to like the value pitchers that much because if they were good they'd have a high salary But I think for today we've got at least three exceptions who I truly don't mind you could be talking into fourth as well So let's dive on in and get you set for tonight's slate This is the FanDuel live Q&A right here on the FanDuel YouTube, Twitch, Facebook and Twitter pages My name is Jim Sonnis I am a senior writer and analyst for numberfire.com here to take your questions live on air for the next half an hour As always no matter where you are watching you can get your questions in We'll take them via Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Twitch no matter where you're watching you can get them in We'll take them live here on the air to get you set for tonight's slate As always make sure you're subscribed to the platform of choice, too And check out our heat check fantasy podcast and the solo shop which do stream live on YouTube each day Let's start things off on YouTube by talking to John. John says what about an angel's stack? The angels are not on the main slate for today So that is a pretty easy cross-off for them. They were playing earlier and I think Shohei Otani went deep So Otani like Homer number 41 or so If you were asking about the Dodgers meant to ask about them instead facing you Darvish coming up the IL But I still not super inclined there So it is an LA free day for me outside of Max Scherzer as a pitchers talk to DJ and Facebook thoughts on LEAs or Hernandez Miles Miclus and Brad Keller Hernandez hasn't looked as good this year to the last year a lot of strikeouts last year It's a good matchup in his two-stars back 82 and 68 pitches I would expect given all the injuries Hernandez to have a pretty low pitch count So that's a cross-off for him. Miclus has not looked good this coming back. He's gotten some strikeouts, but You know a lot of hard contact a lot of fly balls in that first game back So pretty low on him, but I do like Brad Keller Keller's facing the Mariners That's a bump up for him 26% strikeout rate for the Mariners versus righties this year based on their current active roster And Keller has been doing something fun because he is a pitcher who has a bad pitch that he's a lot That's a sinker, but as you can see here the usage on that sinker is getting lower In fact, it was the second lowest it has been all year in his most recent starts We look here over his past. Let's do his past six starts the sinker use in there 23% compared to 31% of the whole season. It's a bad pitch. He is Increasing his four simmer usage increasing his slider usage and that's a good thing because those are pitches that do get whiffs And in this time we want to expand this look at when he's had his sliders being up We're gonna see an increased strikeout right here 25% for Brad Keller and in these It starts he's had at least eight strikeouts three times. He had seven and one other So he also goes pretty deep in games. I like Brad Keller a pretty decent amount I think that among the value guys among the ones DJ listed he is definitely number one I think he's up there with Alex Wood and Zach Gallin Pushing for the top spot among the value plays and among the non-sherzer pitchers overall for tonight So DJ I do like Brad Keller a pretty decent amount. Savanna is asking about a Yankees stack for today Basin James Caprele in Caprele in Doesn't let up a ton of hard contact It's a revenge game if that matters for you Caprele in a former I believe he's drafted by the Yankees like maybe 15th overall somewhere on there either way a former Yankee at least in their system and He does let it fly balls doesn't get a ton of strikeouts We generally like that, but this game is in Oakland pretty big park factor downgrade for the Yankees So I think it's pretty neutral and Savanna also has been Oakland. I think that's actually a very similar situation Basin James and Tyone Tyone Let's up a lot of fly balls some more to Caprele in some more strikeout rates and we're still interactive VRA They're very similar across the board if I had to stack one of these two teams I'd probably give the edge to Oakland just because they're not getting the park factor downgrade therefore, they're probably not going to be as Oversalaryed as the Yankees are not super anxious to get to either one But I wouldn't at least consider them preferring the Yankee or the athletics over the Yankees Savanna is asking about you say Kikuchi as a pitcher I said that there were three value plays I liked Kikuchi was the one the fourth one you could talk me into facing the Royals They're not a great offense, but they're also not a high strikeout offense And that's why I wasn't super high on Kikuchi initially and that's why I wanted to go with Keller Gallin and wood over him, but again He's a pretty good overall pitcher has had a couple of huge many walks recently The Royals not a big force good park factor for tonight So I think that he's a consideration savon He's not at the top of my list among the value plays, but I do think he is at least worth considering I probably won't get there, but if your process led you there, I think that is okay Let's talk to Andrew over on YouTube. What is your favorite under the radar stack for tournaments for tonight? Okay, I like this question. So The stacks I like overall would be I like the I like Cleveland a lot. I like The Red Sox pretty decent amount. I like the Cardinals pretty decent amount, too I think one that's probably gonna go a bit overlooked is the Giants they're facing Carlos Carrasco and Carrasco's advanced numbers are pretty good, but the results have not been and You know the peripherals although good are not great. We know the Giants are a very good team I was on them last night. It did not work out Maybe there were some other people who may have gotten burned as well So I think if you're looking for it under the radar stack Andrew I would say the Giants are a team to consider there because I wouldn't expect a lot of people to be on them for tonight Good question now. Let's talk to Salvatore. I lost on pitchers today. Not sure where to go that's probably because like Like sure as there's like the one dude you feel good about Chris sale low pitch count We're not gonna feel good about that. I think it might be more of an innings count than a pitch count He's gone five innings both times Probably in part because they had big leads both times, but there's only a five run lead the second time He's at 70 pitches if he weren't on an innings limit I would have expected him to go back out there and he didn't so sale gets downgraded for me quite a bit as a result of Just the concerns around the length there So that's why it's hard for me to consider sale. Sherser is good and I like Sherser But he's facing the Padres and I understand if you don't want to go there because the Padres are a tough matchup They're not the best offense right now, and they definitely struggle, but they don't strike out a whole lot a 21% strikeout rate I'm fine using Sherser, but he's not as like no brainer number one as he usually would be So that's the reason why I would agree with you Salvatore that it's a tough slate of pitcher for sure I think that that Sherser is still one. I put Alex wood to Good overall pitcher facing the Mets whose offense is struggling right now Going deep enough in games right now to feel good about him I do like Gallon against the Phillies a lot of strikeouts recently the Phillies not a big force versus righties Temperature there is a little bit scary. That's why I do like Brad Keller too against the Mariners So I would say the four guys I'm most into our Sherser Gallon wood and Keller, but I understand Salvatore why it's conflicting and it is tough to find something You really feel good about for today Let's talk to Kyle target st. Louis or targets for a st. Louis stack is newt bar usable for value I try not to use Lars because he doesn't tend to have a lot of upside. Let's see if the lineup is out here for st. Louis and It is not yet I would first say Lars is not a lock to play for them because he's kind of in and out there Even against right. He's not always locked But just to kind of a low upside guy who I don't tend to use I think st. Louis is interesting today and I do have them in my top four stacks. The reason I'm not like falling over myself to use them is that Keller did just see them last week. He shut them down. He changed up his pitch mix a bit Trying to lean more in as good pitches and less on his bad ones. So That's why I'm not like slobbering over them, but they do work So if we're looking at targets within a stack here Tyler O'Neill is banged up So not sure if he'll be able to play but if he does O'Neill is the guy I feel good or best about on this team great bad at ball data and swipes and bags does strike out But also who cares so I think that O'Neill would be number one for me followed by Aronato followed by Goldschmidt Dylan Carlson gets bumped up here because we do see Keller let up a lot more a lot More impactful contact to lefties Carlson a switch hitter So he goes there or he gets bumped up there So it would be O'Neill Aronato Goldschmidt Carlson as the rankings there And then you're kind of seeing what breaks elsewhere So hopefully the lineup does come in before we close up for today, but overall at new bar. I'm not really anxious to get there I know that the numbers for him early on are decent against righties with a 220 ISO but the minor league number is pretty bad. So I'm skeptical. He keeps that That that good ISO up so Vaughn any sticks get stacks the operator downgraded not yet Do kind of want to see what the Line-up looks like for st. Louis because that I think they could move They're the team I'm most willing to use I'd probably be moving them down if anything But they're the team I'm most willing to shift around there. So Vaughn is asking about a goldschmidt home run Yeah, I think that that that could work. He's not the most likely guy would send the team probably Aronato over him or O'Neill, but I Think O'Neill actually if we're gonna go with the Cardinals guy Give me O'Neill if he plays who's getting he is banged up Salvatore says I like Seattle They're facing Keller again who I like as a pitcher for today But he's not like infallible by any means reason. I would be down on stacking against him is The the Mariners not the best offense 92 WRC plus pretty rough park factor Keller gets some ground balls So that's that's the reason I wouldn't be going there personally And as part of the reason why I do like Keller as a pitcher as well Let's talk to you blizz on Facebook most lopsided matchup for tonight I would say it's probably if we're talking about like in terms of wins Probably It's a good question. I Mean it's probably the the Red Sox of the Twins if we're talking about lopsided in terms of wins lopsided in terms of like matchup for Daily fantasy, I think wood against the Mets is probably a pretty good one in terms of Favoring the pitcher gallon versus the Phillies Keller against the Mariners not a ton of lopsided ones We're talking about like the win. I would say the Red Sox today are going to be number one on that list Washington or a savannah asking is Washington a secondary stack Facing Hernandez, I know I was saying I wasn't super jazzed to use him But he was pretty good last year and he's looked okay. It is too certain to be back So Washington also pretty bad offense. So not seeking out Washington myself Let's talk to Kenneth. I'm thinking about going to Minnesota stack But then that lineup came out besides the socks. Who do you like? I would not stack Minnesota sales been awesome since he came back 33% strikeout ray 2.43 skill interactive. Yeah, Ray I know the Red Sox bullpen has been struggling recently But that's not quite enough for me to be fully interested there besides the Red Sox I do like Cleveland a lot facing Jordan Liles think that they're in a great spot like the Cardinals And I also like the Giants the Giants are strictly for tournaments only It's a riskier spot to go to because Tarasco can show up at times But they would be number four for me So outside of the Red Sox give me Cleveland give me St. Louis and give me the Giants Savon best picture and stacks for single entry Picture for single entry. I might actually go Brad Keller I feel like no one's gonna use him because people kind of want to stack against him. I don't think people Care that he's gotten better recently, which might be fair I like going on a limbs for single entry. So I think that for me it might be Brad Keller If not probably Scherzer, I think Keller and Scherzer are the top two guys for me in terms of single entry for today As far as stacks go, I probably avoid the Red Sox So Cleveland and the Cardinals probably my favorite options for a single entry for today Just lop off the most popular team, which will be the Red Sox. So for single entry like Keller I like the Cardinals and I like Cleveland Let's talk to Kenneth Scherzer should have a longer leash since the bullpen was taxed last night He tends to have a pretty long leash anyway So yeah, I think that I would agree with that as well when 103 pitches last time out 109 a couple stars before that So I think that that's a Correct intuition by you there Kenneth John. How would you stack Boston tonight? I'm gonna rank the lefties higher here because John Gantt is someone who doesn't get as many ground balls versus lefties as he does versus righties No Red Sox lineup out yet, but Schwerber is number one. Oh, Devers. Let's go Schwerber one Devers, too If I'm considering salary I might put Alex Erdogan up there just because He does save you a lot relative to other guys at $3,100. So to me, let's go with Schwerber one Devers, too And I might I might just go for do go number three just because the salary savings are so nice there So let's go for do go three and then among the other options among the righties I've been using mostly JD Martinez recently. I don't I think I constantly under raid Xander Bogarts I don't give him as being a big power hitter, but like he does say for power a 218 ISO versus righties So maybe I'm too low on him. That's possible, but I'll say Martinez then Bogarts and then Kike Hernandez after that So I think that the lefties are what who you want to bump up for today for the Red Sox Hopefully their lineup does come out before we close up for today Dita says I've had the good luck lately with Ernie Clement Would you put him in your lineup for tonight's game in a Cleveland stack? Is he batting seventh again? No lineup yet for Cleveland. Let's go over here and check out their numbers versus righties The guy I feel best about in Cleveland. He was not like a quote-unquote stud is Daniel Johnson He might not play cuz he's kind of like a part-time dude, but He had a lot of power in triple A said some dingers already in the big league So I like Daniel Johnson a lot Clement 79 played appearances 0 56 ISO. That's not enough for me Not a lot of hard contact so I passed there But I do like Daniel Johnson in terms of a salary saver on Cleveland for tonight Michael says the St. Louis lineup is out and there's no O'Neill once again That is a bummer because again, he is my the guy I am most excited to use in that team New bars batting sixth kind of annoying there too. So I would say ranking the Cardinals Let's go Aronato Goldschmidt Carlson Chuck check out Yadir Molina and Tommy Edmond here. Edmond is a guy I'd prefer versus lefties instead of righties. I know it does take away some of the stolen base upside, but It's from a bad at ball perspective. He's not very good against Righties Edmond. Yeah. Oh 88 ISO pretty underwhelming Molina 095 ISO Let's take a deeper look here at mr. Newt bar to see if we actually want to use him here So I I might just be holding on to this prior where I looked at his his minor league numbers that there wasn't a lot of Power there and kind of refused to change my tune 188 ISO is actually not terrible, but just a 3.7 percent barrel rate so far in the majors 37% our hit rate 34% fly ball rates His x-wobas lower than his actual Woba Yeah, that's that's not I don't know. I'm not super Jazz about using him. So he might wind up being fourth by default, but it's not because I'm actively seeking him out there Edmundo Sosa 101 ISO Bader batting pretty low in the order. So I'm going to move the cardinals down based on this lineup I would say we're gonna go red sox one will go Cleveland two Giants three cardinals four based on that lineup. That is annoying Jerry what players are? Are we thinking will be popular for today? I'm guessing to be all the red sox. Let's pull up the Heat map over here at number fire, which will show the implied totals And it'll show that the red socks have a massive massive implied total So Jerry if you're trying to avoid the chalk for tonight, I would say The red sox are going to be that team 617 implied total whereas things get pretty flat after that. So yeah, I think that If you're looking to avoid the chalk Jerry avoid the red sox for today Kyle a one-off position player at 2.9 a thousand dollars or lower. Okay, let's go over here Let's go to utilities scroll down to 2900 dollars Try to think of teams that I would be Looking towards here with guys around this range Potentially one of the Giants guys No, no, no, no, no No No Let's see here. Who is? Washington starting Patrick Corbin. So that means we get haste is Aguilar against the lefty That's that could be worse. There are Stupider plays I've made before Could talk me into that Lowe is facing a lefty. I'm not super jazzed about that. Herrera is facing Gallin Guided Hernandez facing Hernandez. Ooh, Ellie Acer. Oh, so lefty or uh, Hernandez on Hernandez match up there Victor Robles Yeah, this is not It's pretty grim right in on right around 2900 dollars. So I feel like maybe Alex Dickerson. I know he does occasionally leave pretty early for a pinch hitter. So there is a definite risk in using him, but I don't mind him So I guess if we're looking around here, it might wind up being haste is Aguilar just because He's got some power facing Corbin. Corbin has had a pretty rough year Also, there's some buzz around Corbin on the twitter streets today. So it's possible Corbin winds up being on some roster so um Yeah, let's go haste is Aguilar there Kyle. Let's do that DJ thoughts on a Mets Phillies royal stack with Corbin pitching. Do not like Corbin pitching Maybe that's where I saw the buzz there. Just not enough strikeouts. I know the matchup is great It's tremendous But like he's just been really rough a 20 strikeout rate in the past seven certain since Zavila went back up That's rough. I'd rather go for value elsewhere. Uh, savon. What does ISO mean? What does WRC plus mean ISO is isolated slugging? So it is Your slugging percentage minus your batting average. Basically, it's how how much power do you hit for and we want to maximize that number So we want guys you get for power because Like we don't care about a single singles are bad for daily fantasy even though not actively bad, but they're not helpful either So we want to maximize power Which means we want to maximize ISO like 200 or so is a really good ISO or it's a good ISO That's where you want to live in for DFS and like if you can get a guy like a 300 ISO for DFS pretty sweet WRC plus is weighted runs created plus which is something that Counts their park factor. It accounts for what you expect for the league average. So like a WRC plus of 100 is exactly the average WRC plus of 150 is like 50 percent above average A WRC plus of 50 is like 50 below or 50 percent below league average so You want to maximize WRC plus and ISO I care more about ISO because WRC plus accounts for like walks and stuff like that and walks like singles not the best for DFS I want to maximize power. So for me, it's ISO over WRC plus and ISO does stabilize more quickly as well Let's talk to morgan over on facebook. Do you look at uh, whoopsie I scroll past it Do you look at single entry close to cash play? No, um, I don't personally because I'm still trying to Like for every tournament lineup. I want to win because that's the way the payout structure skews is is You want to put yourself in position? To get that top prize if I if I don't cash a single entry It's fine And I think that people do have more of a cash ask mindset for single entry because like, okay I've got one lineup. I don't want to miss out on player x whereas for me. I don't I don't mind missing out So that's why like brad keller for single entry. He doesn't have a good floor could go very poorly But that's okay. I'm very okay having a bad lineup So for me it very much skews tournament For a single entry and I'm hoping people play things more conservatively when they are playing that format Good question though. We're gonna like that one savon. Uh, best value pick is a batter again. I like daniel johnson I haven't seen the Cleveland lineup yet. Uh, if it is out if he's not in there. Oh, well, I'll be sad later Not out yet. Uh, so Don't know that. Oh, tell me listella's baton second for the giants He does tend to stay in the game for the entire time I'm guessing brandon belz probably going on the bereavement list, which is probably why he's not in there right now I do like listella though when we're flores actually underrated against righties, I would say So I like flores dickerson works, but I'd rank both flores and listella above dickerson So listella flores both pretty good value plays there and then daniel johnson on cleveland The guys I would highlight in terms of that rude name is asking for the best value on cleveland ramos zimmer chong Uh Ramos and chong might not play a chong tends to be more in there versus lefties They're facing a righty tonight. They face like 17 000 lefties in a row So he's been in there a bunch, but Again, I think that daniel johnson's the best value play if he winds up being in there Uh salvator dodgers does the padres bullpen play a factor? Since the game went 16 innings last night, so they're facing darvish and um, let's see here darvish Probably going to be around 75 pitches giving this coming off the il. I know they may ask them to go longer just because You know what you mentioned where the bullpen was pretty taxed last night, but it's still you darvish So not really into the dodgers personally savon. I don't really like st. Louis when I stack them Uh, they don't give me enough points sometimes might use them as a one-off But I think I'm gonna do cleveland plus the giants in a sprinkle of boston or new york Yeah, I mean, I think they do get downgraded to savon with the uh with no o'neill in there So I think that's a fair assessment to make Uh, let's talk to dj jerry winters. I'll look at mariefields on fire. Okay, um savon How would you stack the giants? Okay, and michael did put the giants in there as well Uh, if I'm looking at stacking the giants, I'm gonna go Crawford one wade two brine three I probably want to go don't want to go flores or listella Probably going to go wilmer flores over listella here. Let's pull up the giants lineup Just make sure i'm not crossing off listella too early. I don't think his iso is super high so far so Um, I think I'll be okay putting him behind flores flores a 221 iso versus righties. That's pretty sweet So I will go with flores Yastremsky's kind of high salaried, which is annoying, I guess, um Given that he's been hitting lower in the order, but still his good numbers overall, so Yeah, let's go with crawford wade bryant And then we'll go with Uh wilmer flores. I think I said it was next in terms of that stack. Yeah wilmer flores Dickerson listella yastremsky the ranking for the giants for today savannah asking if we're going to get a Javier Baez homerun Facing alex wood wood gets a lot of ground balls. So I would not be betting on that one there. Mitch hannigar homerun for salvator I get basic brad keller another big, uh ground ball guy. So I would not be super enthused about a Uh hannigar homerun either savannah asking if Philly is under the radar. They They have a high implied total higher than I would think it would be And I like gallant as a pitcher. He's pretty good. So I would say no They're personally let's talk to Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do um Let's talk to twitch. Uh, we got nearly eight ever over on twitch. Um, yeah So it's saying that brand of belt is not in the lineup for the giants tonight again I think it's grandma passed away like two nights ago So likely on the bereavement list, which you know, he should be so uh, hopefully Things going well for Brandon belt and uh, you can get back soon because we do like Brandon belt as always Let's talk to jerry. Why do it? Why is the bottom of the lineup that produces the most points in games? Your players are supposed to produce jerry. I understand your tilt. I've been there before it is so frustrating Like you have a stack where they score 10 runs and you get nothing out of it because the bottom of the order comes through It happens baseball is a high variant sport. It doesn't make it less frustrating though. I feel your pain DJ, how would you rank hobby or bias? We're swinging lv history last night compared to his running play earlier this season in Pittsburgh Uh, are you talking about the one where he had like that amazing play where he Made the the pirates like go Just like absolutely not so, uh, I think that's the one you're probably referring to which was awesome Javi is never boring is the way I would phrase that always exciting. Uh, let's talk to jerry and facebook How do you think wood will do? I think he'll do pretty well jerry I think that uh, I've got pretty high expectations For him here. He is pitch count got back up to 96 last time out The nets as alluded to with the hobby or bias question not swinging the best sticks right now 24 strikeout right. I think wood will do pretty well. I think it's a safe play Decently high upside. I've got him number two behind cherser. So jerry. I do like him for tonight DJ thoughts on jordan liles for tonight. He does go deep in games he's The way I'd view jordan liles is like as a sacrificial lamb They're kind of just having having me to eat innings even when he's bad So he'll get you six innings but he also might have six earn runs and Each earn run is the same amount as as one inning So if you go six innings, that's with six earn runs at zero points there Kind of leaning just on a strikeout So I would avoid despite the fact that he goes deep in games But in general dj does good look good to look at uh, how deep guys go All right, dj's home run call is dylan carlson like that one again. He does get bumped up here because of Uh, because of the platoon splits for mitch keller. So into it. I like it nearly eight ever over on twitch Hunter ren fro his place in the bereavement list. So he is not in the lineup for today for boston Let's see if the lineup is out yet Might be given that we know the ren fro news now And it's not quite yet So yeah, keeping the same rankings for the red sox there because he was not as high for me either way diffuse scherzer for cash It's a good question diffuse I think it depends on what you want to do like I would feel pretty good trying to get to the red sox for cash games In which case I would go wood. I think wood's an option for cash games But probably a situation where I don't want to overthink it and go scherzer. So I would say either scherzer plus cleveland Or wood plus a red sox cleveland stack there Leaning right now towards scherzer because that's the way I tend to play things for cash games But I would not talk you out of wood if you wanted to go there for cash games instead Ah savon interested in any pittsburgh versus arizona bats. Uh pittsburgh is let's see here Facing miles nicholas Nicholas didn't look great in his first game back. So it's not like a terrible idea I just don't like using any of the guys on pittsburgh. So that's the main drawback for me If you like any pittsburgh uh batters, you know, yeah, I could see it but uh for for me not as in there savon also asked to repeat uh the Um order of the value starting pitchers Uh, so again for me that the order is wood one keller two Gallon three Then if you want to talk yourself into kukuchi, I think that's okay. Um, I can definitely get behind that I probably won't get there myself, but I understand it Jerry's homerun calls are schwerber and rays. I think both those are great jerry. Uh, from meal rays was My uh boring homerun call on the solo shot this morning So, uh, I'm on board with that one The fun one was daniel johnson if he's in line up for for cleveland for today Schwerber was the homerun call yesterday finally got his first dinger with the red sock So I like both those for you jerry dj says effins on a pitch count. Yeah, he went like 31 In his first rehab start So I'd probably project efflin around like 50 or so pitches for tonight and that's not enough for dfs. So If you were considering zack efflin, I would avoid that for sure dj says that uh, gregory polanco back with pittsburgh and He is batting six for today still don't really want to go there but uh You know, I see him back. It's been a bummer to see the career trajectory there and hopefully he can turn things around Pretty soon That is all that we have here for today on the fan duo live q&a, but do not fret We are back once again tomorrow to break down a full 15 gain slate if you want to sneak peak at the pitchers for tomorrow actually a lot of situations that are not decided yet so um But there's your sneak peak at tomorrow should be a pretty fun one erin nola against diamond backs Should be a lot of fun salvator says see you in the top five salvator Good luck and your luck to the rest of you as well If you have questions for me. I am on twitter at jim sanis j i m s a n n e s big Thank you to joy athlec for our video producer for running the video side of things here today Thank you joy as always and thank you to everyone for tuning in good luck to you tonight We'll talk to you once again tomorrow. This has been the fan duo live q&a


Hello everybody and welcome back to... Well it's not too anything really because today we're going to be talking about a bit of a controversial subject surrounding the Jurassic Park slash world toy community and that is the most recent uh, Mattel Kickstarter. It's not really a Kickstarter they call it Mattel Creations but for all intents and purposes it's a Kickstarter with various goals that unlock different rewards and the rewards being just a better thing that you back. So I saw this not too long ago. This is what they call the Jurassic World The Gates crowdfund. Well I don't know why they call it Jurassic World The Gates when it's got nothing to do with Jurassic World. Already off to a strong start. And basically I saw this not too long ago and it was just mind-boggling to me because for a start it was originally only for US customers. So everyone else in the rest of the world and if you have anything to do with the Jurassic toy community you'll know that America or the US because you know Mattel's based in the US I'm pretty sure anyway uh they get a lot of the toys that the rest of the world doesn't. Me being from the UK and then living in Japan now uh I find it very hard to find certain toys uh around because they just don't exist. Now Mattel have sent me things in the past and as of speaking and recording this right now I do have a thing a box waiting for me in Japan that Mattel have sent me. I highly doubted this though. The image shows a Ford Explorer a Jurassic Park gate with electric fence some of the um the little signage that you can get of like the raptor pens the galamite messuno some nice authenticity sort of things you can have Lex Tim and as well as a goat and not only you know this is Jurassic Park but there is a T-Rex here but you might be thinking well that looks like not rexy it's green well that's because this is the book T-Rex not from Jurassic Park but from the lost world so already I'm kind of thinking why is that here okay so let's just have a look you're celebrating Jurassic Park's 30th anniversary with awe-inspiring crowdfunding it starts with the enormous fan demanded a motorized entry gates and a first ever Ford Explorer number five so if you know of Jurassic Park there was two explorers one was 05 one was 04 I'm assuming all of the ones that they made so far have been 04 so this one's 05 difference being the number no expenses have been spared on recreating the details and the collector level execution extends to all the extras you can unlock from each tier save the magic word fund all the extras and return with us to a time when dinosaurs ruled the earth sounds great on paper now already they need 5000 in order to achieve I think funding like if this gets 5000 backers actually they do call them backers then it will go into production but what do you get for your 300 pound now it could be different in dollars if it's $200 you're actually cheaper now you get a Ford Explorer you get the electronic gates and that's it this this one right you see what's here you don't get like that car you get you get the car and you get the gates uh now let's if we ever look at the gate it's well done it's it's got like an embossed Jurassic Park logo it has the flames that are some sort of you know clear plastic that might have light bulbs around it if we look at the back you've got a speaker so I'm assuming that it might play the Jurassic Park theme tune uh you know when you open it you can actually charge it I'm assuming because there's a couple of different plugs there there's an on and off switch and also a little bit of level to detail you've got Dennis Nedry's you know any sort of like over overhauled it to manual power and then just drove through it um would be cool if that worked but um if I'm going to be honest it looks kind of shoddy it looks like it's been back in folding and it's back in molded and they just kind of put a little bit of paint of it there you go now as far as the Explorer goes we have a quick look at that yeah but that's very true to the Jurassic Park Explorer that we've seen in the movies you've got some details you've got the tour program that's been printed onto the plastic as well as some extra detail there and as you can very clearly see only one thousand three hundred sixteen people have pledged to it me not being one of them and we'll get into that and reasons why in a second so overall what are you getting for your money it's not worth it it's not worth it the thing is five thousand is the biggest milestone they need to make um then it's six thousand which gives you an electrocution or post electrocution tim figure um and two enclosure fences so it's just mind boggling so this fence that you see this thing I mean I can't really see it must be if we scroll down there we go we can see a better version of you got the the gates opening there um stay in the car there's a better shot I should have just scrolled to these my bad um and there's the fence now the fence it I don't know what it's made out of it looks like it's made out of some sort of like an actual metal cable which is interesting um the fence itself also has lights uh tim doesn't fly off it the way they've shown it but it looks like it does have some sort of light uh flashing the only thing is this doesn't look anything like the lights that flashed in the original anyway and then the biggest one you want to unlock I assume is the book t-rex from the lost world now I don't really know too much about the the model or the animatronic that they used when it comes to the lost world but I have the only reason why this isn't rexie is because we've had five million rexies before so in order to maybe get us to you know want to buy the kit um they're giving us the book t-rex which we've wanted for a while in fact we did get it ages ago I think in a legacy set I could be wrong um but I mean this it has better articulation more articulation a higher level of detail it's very reminiscent of hold on I'll go get it oh this t-rex this being oh the the big daddy of the lost world play set I mean you had the RV of course but this thing oh it was going it's all like it's almost a hundred percent rubber except for the arms and the uh legs which you can see a very clear cut for the plastic there but you know you could open its mouth to do whatever you wanted it to do it would eat something and eat the guy that came with it and you could fish it out of its belly there it was also electronic obviously what's inspired this coloring because I don't really know if the book t-rex had a defined color to it in the movies Kenner that's it I was trying to think of who who made this for Kenner they decided to go with this lovely color scheme and Mattel have faithfully recreated it all from the tiger stripes down the back to the the tiger stripes there but in terms of this set it doesn't really make too much sense and let's get into that so for 300 300 pound you're getting at the moment you're not getting anything because it's not getting funded but you're getting the gate and you're also getting the explorer now let's say oh let me tell you why that's a terrible idea not too long ago we got the explorer so it boggles the mind so here is the explore I mean I've unboxed these you can find this on my channel but it is almost exactly the same explorer that came out with freaking Tim and this Tim is very good quality the jacket the face everything about this is top notch so I'm assuming they're just using this and changing the head sculpt and I mean if you don't own a tim and you don't own the explorer there's no reason for you to back this 300 pound project when you can buy this or you know you can probably find an eBay or second hand or somewhere it exists now the biggest differences or should I say the similarities are that they didn't have the paint applications for the windows they'd be more accurate because they've added the black trim around the windows and stuff but this really isn't something that begs the extra money because you can just get a paint brushing as you see me do when it painted the friggin colossal giganautosaurus nails because they didn't paint them so what else do you get well you actually get the pelican briefcase that the flares and the searchlight were in now I don't even know if this thing opens in the boot it shows it but that's about it also as you can tell this is an 04 and that one's gonna be an 05 as far as interior in the front goes well it's it's verbatim the same okay so they've painted the side mirrors they've actually added an in you know rear view mirror onto the the actual car itself but as far as the the screen goes and the dash they've kept that all the same they've painted it to be more accurate they've actually printed a tour program screen onto it but for all intensive purposes this guy right here with its opening doors it's amazing paint application with its fading uh you know even the lights on the front they haven't changed in this one yes they've got the bf goodridge all terrain ta's you know this new one has this one doesn't but to a kid it's really only going to be a collector that's going to notice those differences and if we're a collector you might as well just paint it and save yourself the cost speaking of what else you get you get the Jurassic Park gate that you know opens that in itself is very good i can't see a reason to knock that other than you know you could probably find if you wanted a Jurassic Park gate on ebay or the secondhand shops you know where someone's traded in the original Jurassic Park Kenner compound and you've got a gate with that um and you know like i said when it comes to tim we've already had tim all you're getting for the uh the backer reward what is it at 6000 backers your extra 300 you know if this is fully funded even then it's still a stretch to say is it worth 300 because i don't know if it is because you've already we've already got him we've already got the explorer we have a gazillion t-rexes i don't know like yes it's it's the book t-rex its paint application looks different but as far as the head sculpt goes maybe it's a little bit different i i'm not really going to notice yes there's more articulation for the arms but there's been so many of these turtle neck you know t-rexes that i'm not really going to notice the difference and if i wanted to if i really wanted to i could paint this t-rex to look like that if i thought that would be a good project wouldn't it i've got my paints i paint warm i'm already probably like okay let's let's paint this let's see if i can do a better job than the uh you know already as close to as the metal and save myself the money the only real exclusives here are the electric fence which we can see on this image actually just cuts off so it's not like you know you can string them all together for some reason they've cut it diagonal so you can't even link the fences together if you wanted to make a full compound not that you would but if you had spent thousands and you got two links of these fences you might be able to make a fully you know working the blinks and stuff or fence compound but if i'm honest i don't think you'd be able to do that because the reason why this this drastic part gate has the bottom bit here with that you know the other connection i think is to do with the electric fences i think you plug in the electric fences to that and that's how they work i don't think the electric fences have their own outlet or charge i think that's probably why they are you know cut to the gate so already thinking about using the electric fences to make a compound or put them somewhere else have them blink i think you need that drastic part gate there in order to make them blink i could be wrong i could be wrong i don't know anyway your real exclusives if we're gonna be honest are lex and the goat because we have not had a lex figure so i i don't know what to say this is targeted exclusively towards collectors let's be honest because a bit of plastic like this is all a kid needs they don't need realistic realism they don't need a flashing light their imagination takes over it's almost like well you know as an adult we're having to pay extra to fill in the void that our imagination can't do anymore if we're honest people who are collecting these sorts of things have imagination anyway so we don't need to spend an extra 100 200 300 pound they're flashing lights or a car with black window trims on it so in conclusion is it worth 300 no i don't think so and i'm not the only one it shows that pretty much everybody else has the same idea that's why it has not been backed if they had not released the fold explorer tin and a million and one t-rex is beforehand i don't think the paint application to turn a t-rex into the book an exclusive lex and goat even you know that's not guaranteed is worth it unfortunately i think this is going to be one of the first metel creations to go extinct and maybe this is something that they really need to reconsider i think in this video i've laid out all my critiques but if i was to you know be head of metel and if i was to put myself in their shoes and think about a project that would have been the strongest to start with honestly the rv from the lost world you've already got the t-rex book you just needed to make the rv because apart from the compound which it seems though they've got tunnel vision and they're just focused on the first movie lost world you should have done the rv you should have made it electronic just like the original kenne but made it way more you could have done so much with the interior you could have lit up those computers you could have made it look absolutely gorgeous and putting that book t-rex in there would have made sense i feel like they've completely missed out on an opportunity there but i understand why they did this this from a marketing standpoint and the popularity you know you see all the numbers just about the most popular film just get the fence get the electrified tim your like recreate iconic scenes but obviously they ran out of ideas what you could have done is either done the rv because you got the book t-rex you just chuck that in there or the visitor center i'm assuming in order to cut costs they repurposed molds and stuff that they've already had in the past already made pre-made like tim like the fort explorer and still charged out the wazoo for products that we've already gone anyway guys this is you know i'm back in the uk for a little bit and we're gonna get back to toy unboxings i will do toy unboxings when i get back to japan i just still need to set up the space properly um and it will look great i promise but now that i'm here i'm ready i'm ready to see just what matel has released or just generally have fun but anyway guys if you enjoyed the video leave a leave a comment uh tell me what your thoughts are because you know us as a you know if it wasn't for us drastic toy enthusiasts we wouldn't have gotten all these amazing toys we wouldn't be complaining you know if if we were still stuck with hasbro and matel just came to us with this amazing project we would have backed it yeah 100% but we have kind of been spoiled with matel they've given us so many good things that now that they're giving us kind of a similar standard we're not happy we want better where are you guys if you enjoyed the video leave a like and until next time i'll see you guys later oh bye bye