In the misguided, confusing, and potentially illogical words of Yogi Berra, it is deja vu all over again for tonight because we have a situation where we have a no-brainer, top pitcher in a good matchup who is going to be the shock of tonight. The problem is that guy has some weather concerns. We got to decide, do we go back to that well and risk a postponement like last night or do we ignore Zach Wheeler and look elsewhere? I don't know. So it's going to be a lot of fun. Let's get set for today's slate of MLB DFS. This is the FanDuel Live Q&A right here on the FanDuel YouTube, Twitch, Facebook and Twitter channels. My name is Jim Sonnis. I am a senior writer and analyst for numberfire.com. Here to take your questions on air for the next 25 minutes, 30 minutes, I should say to get you set for today's slate of MLB DFS. As always, after me, Erin Dolan will swing by and talk about game number two of the NBA finals and also John Sheeran of FanDuel Sportsbook and a swing by and talk with her as well. So that should be a whole lot of fun. That is going to be about 430 today. So make sure you stay tuned for that and get those betting questions ready for Erin and John at 430. But for right now, let's talk some MLB DFS and start things off with Jackie on Twitch. Good afternoon to you and everyone else tuning in. Good afternoon to you, Jackie, as well. Hope that last night was kinder to you for your Dinger Tuesday than it was to me. DJ, Ryu or Garcia? So this is Hun Jin Ryu or Luis Garcia to me. I think you kind of have to go Garcia. I'm not super into Garcia personally because the match is pretty tough with the with the athletics. So I'm not actively seeking him out. The problem is I just can't go Ryu. The form for Ryu is really bad. The numbers on the sheet that I have are over his past four starts. He has a 12 percent strikeout rate, a 5.44 skill, interactive era. And that's not necessarily good. And he's also facing the Orioles. Orioles actually pretty good against lefties. One on seven WRC plus decent amount of power, not a lot of strikeouts. Easily the best hitting situation on the slate for today. So I actually would choose to stack against Ryu over using as a picture.   So not a huge deviation there. That's fine for me. But I think that that's the better way to play things here is to stack against Ryu rather than use them as a picture. So it's just those two choices. I would go with Luis Garcia for today. DJ is saying that the weather in Chicago is not or is not going to play. He says the Cubs will not play. It's nasty here, but not postponed yet. I'm looking at dark sky weather. And this is the weather in Wrigleyville as of right now. And it looks like they're expecting the rain to go away. Presid probabilities are pretty low throughout the night. This is according to dark sky weather. I will say that this morning, Kevin Roth of Enroto Grinder said that this was definitely a little bit concerning. It looks like he saw some storms coming earlier on. We will see if this winds up playing. What I would do is defer to Kevin. Again, he's the actual meteorologist. I'm not I would check out what he says in his update at around 530 or so. Kevin Roth WX on Twitter to get an idea of what he thinks for today. As of right now, I think we probably are good to go because dark sky weather sees things coming out around Wrigleyville for today. So as of right now, I'm expecting that game to be good, but we shall see what he says later on again. Trust him over me every single time. Kyle, do you like a value stack around 3K and under of the Dodgers for tonight? So both the Dodgers and the Marlins are doing a bullpen game for today. And both those bullpens are actually pretty good. Let's take it to Ross Detweiler here because he is the announced starter for today for the Marlins. And it will be Jake Reed, former Minnesota twins starting for the Dodgers for today. Detweiler probably going to go about knitting, but so far this year he's been pretty good. So they're throwing out a decent pitcher to start off the game. Overall, their bullpen this year or the active roster bullpen has a 3.20 ERA, 24% strikeout rate, good, bad at ball numbers. So I'm okay being lower on the Dodgers. I'm also okay being lower on the Marlins because the Dodgers bullpen is pretty good. Jake Reed, I don't think we have a huge sample on Jake Reed thus far. Pretty sure he just got called up pretty recently, but either way, the bullpen for the Dodgers, very good, not one I want to stack again. So I'm pretty much okay ignoring that game for the most part, not getting super into either side there. Mateo, glad I didn't use DeGrom and Cash with my Padres. Mateo, you should have warned us.  Going back to the Padres, but I need at least two bats in my utility spot at the $27 salary point. Who do you like? Okay, so we're looking for a one-off here around $2,700. I'm guessing it's going to wind up being a Mariner or an Oriole because both those options are lower salaried. I think that they've got a decent amount of upside for today. Kevin Vigio, I believe, is 28, so we can't quite get to him. Let me check to make sure. Yeah, Vigio is $2,200, so we can't get to him. If you can make that work, Mateo, I'd go there. Austin Hayes, pretty good option. Probably going to bat second, I would assume. For the Orioles for today, he has some power at a good spot in the order, puts the ball in the air, good weather like him. Jake Fraley, it has as projected to bat eighth. I disagree with that. It'll probably bat fifth or so if I had to guess. $2,700 has some power, has some speed. I like that for sure. So Fraley and Hayes are probably the first guys I'd be looking to there as being high upside batters in the $2,700 range and on stacks that I like as well. So those are probably the top two options I give you, Mateo. If you can't get to Vigio at $2,800, I would say Fraley and then Hayes are going to be the guy sent out most to me. Jackie, it was kinder to me, but not in a winning sense. Just didn't lose as much. Yeah, so that's better. Not losing as much as a victory sometimes. That's good. Julius over on Facebook, Harper or Yastremski? In general, it's going to be Bryce Harper facing Alec Mills. And we also have the weather situation there and Mills, a guy who does get a lot of ground balls. The problem is I don't want to overthink it and I don't want to ignore Bryce Harper when it's compared to Yastremski. Yastremski is very good.  So if I'm choosing straight up between those two guys, give me Bryce Harper there. Although I will say I am more inclined to stack the Giants than to stack the Phillies for today. Jackie threw down $20 when the Braes went down today. So they pulled this win out of a nice little win. Good, like it. Let's go Braes, get Jackie some money over there on Twitch. DJ, he likes Yaz and Julius likes Yastremski as well. So they've done an island with Bryce Harper for today. Okay, Jackie, thoughts on the Red Sox lineup for today? They are not in the main slate. So I've not done a lot of research on that Red Sox game facing off with Andrew Heaney and let's see here. The lineup looks like pretty similar to what I would expect versus a lefty. So I would say whatever your expectations for the Red Sox keep them equal because that is in line with what I was expecting. Michael, is your stack hierarchy still Toronto, Baltimore and Seattle? As of right now, yes, because I haven't really seen a lot to really convince me to go elsewhere. I think the Giants are there. I think that they're not. I think that I'd put the Mariners firmly above them, but I think the Giants are at least in that same tier just because the downside of the Giants is always Park Factor. But if you look at for today, there's really only one good park on the slate from a hitting perspective and that's out in Baltimore. So the downsides, the opportunity cost in stacking in San Francisco is lower than what it usually is. So that's what I'd say there, Michael. I would say the Giants are in that tier. So it's kind of a tier of four for today with the three listed Toronto, Baltimore, Seattle, and then the Giants being in there as well. Jackie, some figure out how to use my fan dual points. If it's for the DFS side of things, you can go over here and scroll down to the enter with blank fan dual points. That's based on the the what's it called entry fee, the entry fee associated with the contest. You can enter with fan dual points there. So hopefully that helps to scroll down and find that as opposed to paying with cash for that one. DJ is Kikuchi worth a look at all against Domingo Arman. I think that Kikuchi is not totally out of play for today. The reason I couldn't quite get there is because the Yankees are pretty solid. They have a middling strikeout rate of 24% versus lefties and middling WRC plus at 100 Kikuchi. The numbers I have here are over his past four starts and Clinton actually asked about Kikuchi too. So this is pertinent for both of you on that one. I think that Kikuchi would probably be number four from a pitching perspective for me for today. It's Zach Wheeler number one by a wide, wide, wide margin. I'll go Alex Wood to Chris Paddock three. But then if I were to pick a fourth pitcher would be Yusuke Kikuchi. So if your process led you to Kikuchi, I'm okay with it. And I think that it does make sense. So Clinton and DJ, I am okay with Yusuke Kikuchi for today personally. It's Dr. Jerry over on Facebook. Good day, Jim. How do you rate these? Colorado, Arizona, Dodgers, Miami. If you were to play any and who is your favorite for today? I'm probably not going to stack any of them. The reasoning for not stacking the Rockies or the Diamondbacks is that they're both bad. And I have other bad teams and better matchups I can use. Antonio Censatella has been getting a little bit better recently. This is over his past four starts or sorry, eight starts with more four seed fastballs. His skill and track to be our race is 3.97. He has a 17% striking rate, which first Censatella is a lot higher than his baseline 41 or sorry, a 25% fly ball rate allowed and he's facing a bad team. So not super in Arizona. Also the roof is closed. Chase yield for today. So that's going to lower expectations or both offenses. The Rockies I think are palatable facing a Mirth of Castellanos. I'm not sure what Castellanos is going to do because he has been working like his one appearance was from the bullpen. So I guess there's a couple appearances, but like in triple A's numbers weren't good. So I'd rather stack the Rockies there Jerry than the Diamondbacks. The reason I'm not super jazzed to stack the Rockies is that they are hideous outside of course field like they're bad in general, but they're especially bad outside of course field. Again, the roof is closed. So Rockies tough for me to get to, but I would prefer them over the Diamondbacks. The Dodgers and the Marlins again, not super enthused there because of the bullpen situations. I think both those bullpens are pretty good. So the value in a bullpen game is lower than it would be otherwise. So to me, if I had to pick one probably going to Rockies, but none of those teams super high my list for today. Let's talk to Emmanuel. I need to catch her first base at $3,100 or less. Okay. Let's go over here to Fandall pull up catcher slash first base scroll down to $3,100. Okay. Lea Stiaz. No, Christian Walker. Meh, Kronoworth facing a lefty and Patrick Corbin posies banged up. Actually, probably if he plays it might want to be Buster Posey didn't play yesterday, but it sounds like it's not an injury. They'll keep out super long poses have been awesome this year. So I could get behind that potentially trying to see there's nothing else here that stands out from a lower salary perspective. Ryan Mountcastle is $2,900. I actually do like him a pretty decent amount just because I like that stack for the Orioles. So I think that Mountcastle works. Luke Void is facing Kikuchi. If Torrens plays, he'd work as well. So I think that if we're looking for a catcher slash first base of $31 or lower, I would say I would circle probably Mountcastle because I'm very likely to be stacking that team. But also the other one to consider for me would be Buster Posey if he's able to get back in there for today. Kyle, what picture are you going to if wheelers off the table? It's either paddock or wood. I'm leaning towards wood right now just because wood has been steadier over the larger sample. Better park factor for today too. Facing the Cardinals, not a super imposing team overall. Better against lefties for sure. So that does make it worse and it would be if wood were a righty, but it's not a super imposing matchup. So I think that wood is going to be number one outside of Wheeler for me. Paddock too. Paddock got blasted when I used him against Arizona two starts ago, but it's been very good outside of that. So wood number one, paddock two and then Kikuchi would be a consideration for me as well as someone I would use there. Michael, okay. So the Toronto lineup is out and we had Julius asking about the Blue Jays stack for today. Julius, I am on board. Let's go through this lineup now. It's out. Thank you, Michael, for letting me know that that one was out. Marcus Semyon, Bichette, Guerrero, Springer. This is exactly what was expected. This is good. This is good. This is actually what we want here for the Blue Jays. So let's go over here to Fanduil. We're going to plug in Zach Wheeler and we're going to go to Biggio at second base. Probably going to be the first guy. I want to lock in just because he's like kind of the one guy who's not breaking the bank for you on this team. He's batting seventh. That's not super high, but I am okay with that just because I want access to this team. And even if it does come from the seven hole, that's still better than we'll be looking for elsewhere. So we've got that and let's check back at the lineup over here. Okay. So we have Tioscar batting fifth, Gritchick batting sixth numbers versus righties for this year. Gritchick is at a 185 ice. That's actually pretty good. So I think the Gritchick will be the second guy we'll plug in here does mean we're using the seven and eight guys as like kind of the building blocks of the stack. Someone's at the door apparently no one's ever at the door. That's like the third time I've heard the doorbell and like the two years over this house anyway. Biggio and Gritchick. I would say the two quasi salary savers here within this stack and then you're looking at what you want to prioritize outside of that. Obviously you can get to Vlad Guerrero Jr. Do it. You want to get there whenever you can. But let's assume that that's tougher. I would say Marcus Semi and is the number two priority on this team to 57 ISO versus righties. 46% fly ball rate. He steals some bases. He's disgusting across the board. $4,200 is a lot and it is higher than what Boba shed is at for today. He is $3900 but I think that's worth it. $3 gap between the two. Puppy is very excited. There's someone at the door. But I would say that that salary gap is not big enough given the count or the like upside gap between Semi and Bishat. So to me I would say go Semi in second among the studs after Vlad Guerrero Jr. Vlad's 46. So let's just see 2275. Okay. So we're probably not going to make that work. You're probably choosing one of the studs here. I would say a tail scar at $3,400 definitely works too. So there you go that. George Springer hitting the ball pretty hard recently. So I think that all these guys work. Puppy is very distressed that there's someone at the door. But she'll be fine. She's good. So I would say honestly anyone but if we're ranking out prioritizations on this team I would say Visio and Gritchick for the salary and a Wheeler lineup. If salary is no object I would say Vlad won Semi into probably George Springer number three and then I would go with Bishat for tail scar five or actually Gritchick five tail scar six and then Visio seven and salary is no object. They're hoping that helps to the Blue Jays for today. Jackie current the doctor's office for my grandma's appointments meant to wait and watch the playback after the stream. So good luck Jackie hope it goes well. Thank you for tuning in. DJ is Houston or Oakland a better stack stack the Cardinals or Giants don't stack the Cardinals. I like what a decent amounts don't go there would not stack the Astros sorry the AIDS because they face this Garcia not really into the Astros against John Manaya pretty good pitcher. Obviously they are tremendous versus lefties like does change things for sure but I'm not really into either side of that game personally just because the pictures there are both pretty good. I would stack the Giants though the Giants are definitely the number one stack of those options listed and kind of the one team I'm looking for for today. Let's talk to Patrick over on Facebook. Would you play Corbin playing in San Diego. Okay. So Patrick Corbin you're facing the Padres the numbers on Corbin over his past four starts with you are forcing fastballs 3.8 to skill interactive you are raised not bad but a lot of that's because his walk rate is so low at 3% 21% strikeout rates decent batted ball numbers the Padres definitely better versus lefties and versus righties. So I wouldn't actively look to stack against Corbin I think that like you we could see people potentially going to San Diego for today. I probably will not be one of those people just because I think that Corbin's been decent enough recently obviously the results are not great but I also don't see enough here to feel great about using Corbin's a pitcher. So I don't think it's an off the wall consideration given that he has gotten some strikeouts in this time but he won't be on my list personally just because the strikeouts recently haven't been quite high enough. Let's go to DJ. Would you use mild straw as one of your homerun challenge players absolutely nuts. I'm guessing this was a joke. So no I would not use mild straws on my homerun challenge players we see I see Jerry is giving a grand slam call for the bonus over on Fandle Cody Bellinger and a possible but I say he homers as well Peralta. Okay. So he's on Cody Bellinger for today and I'm assuming David Peralta most likely for Arizona. Let's go through some homerun picks for today the homerun picks from the podcast this morning where George Springer and Jake Fraley George Springer was a boring one because it's a match with Matt Harvey so everyone's going to want to go there. It's not contrarian it's not out there or anything. I just think it's you know a logical pick for today and I felt like going Vlad was like too boring so I didn't pick Vlad as my homerun call but George Springer is my boring homerun call facing Matt Harvey hitting the ball pretty well recently so we'll go George Springer for one. Jake Fraley is because I think he's really good but also because Domingo Armand has been slipping up here a bit recently. This is over his past six starts with more forcing fastballs. His foreseamer is not ideal. It's not a great pitch for him but he's using it more potentially because of the sticky stuff discussion can't get a grip on his off speed stuff whatever it may be either way the numbers of past sticks starts for Armand not ideal 4.94 skill interactive ER a lot of fly balls lot of hard contacts so for funsies I like Jake Fraley for tonight if we're looking homerun challenge enough to be as weird with your picks. So pull up the I don't really want to use a giant I guess for a homerun challenge type thing. I would say that like a Ryan Mountcastle or Trey Mancini type might make a lot of sense Mancini specifically get trying to ramp up for the homerun derby that he's got. So I think that if you want to use someone in the in the homerun challenge was a bit different but also makes a lot of sense Trey Mancini is probably that guy. So we'll go Springer Mancini and we'll keep Jake Fraley in there for funsies because again I think he's fun. So we'll go with those guys for some homerun calls for today. DJ I know how bad the Cubs are lately being a Cub fan is Travis Jankowski with a look since he is in the lineup. Okay. So the Cubs are facing Zach Wheeler. No, I would not. Jack with Zach Wheeler is tremendous good across the board 2.73 skill interactive ERA does not let apart contact. I would not use any Cubs for today. Michael would you prioritize lefties on San Francisco for tonight? Okay. So let's sometimes a lineup is out crazy early just refresh really quick to make sure it's not. Okay. So it's not but let's go through here. Check out the projected lineup here for the Giants and see what we should be cooking with for this one. Oh, sorry DJ. So you were talking about Jankowski for the Phillies my bad. I totally glossed over that. But yeah, facing Alec Mills guy who does suppress our contact. So I probably would not be there necessarily just because like if you're looking at him for a one-off Jankowski probably not going to the best upside because Mills does such a good job of suppressing our contact. So I wouldn't be looking at the Phillies for one-off outside of like Harper if you had the salary but they're probably better said to get to. So it's not totally off the wall but you know I wouldn't be getting there myself. Okay. Let's go back to the lefties here for San Francisco. All these guys have super low salary. So that's pretty fun. The one thing that to consider here with the with the Giants is we have to make sure it's going to be a guy who is going to stay in there for the entire game not get taken out due to a pinch hitter and stuff like that because they are very willing to take guys out for those reasons. Let's pull up the Giants numbers versus righties this year and they've obviously been tremendous across the board. So let's see who we should prioritize for today. Out there against Johan Obieto. So we got Yastremski if we're doing the projecting line up Yastremski Dickerson Posey Wade batting sixth most likely. Okay. And then we'll see if Posey does want to being in there. Okay. Brandon Crawford Yastremski those are great numbers. No belt obviously. Doug is a 221. So because the salaries are all pretty low I would say you should have the flexibility to kind of use whoever you want here. Dickerson let's check out Dickerson sometimes does leave for pinch hitters.  So I'm not super concerned about that but it's at least worth noting that's a consideration for today. Okay. Let's go with Crawford one because he feels shortstop. If I don't have utility selected we'll go Crawford one. Let's go with Yastremski to number three. I would like to get to Buster Posey. I know he's not a lefty as you had mentioned but I do think that if he's in there if he plays which is a concern or a question mark right now I would say he'd be number three for me despite the fact he's not a lefty after that we're probably looking at probably between I guess Wade based on where he tends to bat versus Dickerson and Wade does have some speed has shown some power this year so if we do get Wade batting sixth I actually might put him above Dickerson Dickerson is $2,500 though so I guess it depends I would say either guy works so I would say that's the way I would check out that but I think this is a solid one right here checking out Wade a tiny tiny bit of of Dickerson we'll see where things break from a sour perspective you need the savings like if you need to jump down $400 to go from Wade down to Dickerson do it that is totally okay very much on board with that so I would say potentially just one two three four if we get Posey in there for today for the Giants kind of boring but Wade is also a consideration there to see if he can you know differentiate a bit from the stack okay let's talk to Robert over on Facebook Hoskins is very high yeah he had a like a 40 point gain yesterday I think didn't matter because it was in my DeGrom lineups so that went to waste but yeah Reese Hoskins has shown a lot of power this year versus righties I know the plate discipline numbers have been I guess the word I would use is frustrating for for Reese Hoskins this year but the power has been there all year long 230 ISO for the year for Hoskins strikeout rate at 27% that's acceptable for sure so it's just because Alec Mills is such a good job of keeping batters on the ground this is over is it's only a four start sample since he let's see here since he did did did did rejoin the rotation so this is his four start since rejoin the rotation 17% fly ball right all out we're allowed that is a very low number so that's why I'm not like super into the Phillies for today there's also the weather can to consider not just the fact that there is some rain in the forecast but also because the wind was supposed to be blowing in it is still blowing in a 12 miles per hour as of right now it's 71 degrees it's a lot lower than it was previously so that's why I'm not super jazzed but either side of that game and it does play but you're right Reese Hoskins hitting the ball very well right now the Prince when looking at bats what are the best stats to look for good question let's go let's take so we've not talked about the Orioles yeah let's use them as an example here so we haven't really gone too much through them yet we'll pull up the Orioles numbers and look at lefties and I think the reason that I want to look at lefties here as an example is because we are dealing with small samples and that's always going to be the case we're looking at like platoon numbers looking at small samples so we see here with the Orioles looking at you know 80 or so plate appearances versus lefties that's not big enough for WRC plus to stabilize so to Prince if you're looking at just one stat I would not look at WRC plus and honestly I would actively ignore WRC plus just because there are so many misleading factors that can go into it over such a small sample so ignore WRC plus it's on the sheet but I would ignore it the thing I want to look at in a small sample depends on the size if it's a sample of this size like 80 or so plate appearances I will look at ISO because isolated slugging takes I think like 60 to 70 plate appearances to stabilize we are mostly there so we can say with a healthy amount of confidence but even though Cedric Mullins is a lefty he has lefties really well 210 ISO so far this year for him versus lefties 36% fly ball rate that's tremendous and obviously you can do a lot of damage once he hits the ball too so Mullins great Mancini great Mount Castle great Galvus is on the IEL so we can't use him Austin Hayes really high ISO versus lefties so that's what I look to first is ISO in this sample if it's a smaller sample and you have to make a determination on okay, is this guy someone who can realistically flash upside and be a tremendous option I would say look at strikeout rate if you're looking at a small sample strikeout rate stabilizes a bit more quickly than ISO so look at strikeout rate look at walk rate not because you want walks because you want guys we're seeing the ball well and doing stuff so that's not just for like platoons but also if I'm looking if a guy just came out the injured list I want to check out his strikeout rate his walk rate to make sure he's seeing the ball well stuff like that but then also look at his bad at ball data so for me when I'm trying to select batters at this point in the year we've had enough time for isolated slugging to stabilize so that's going to be one of the first stats I turned to try to maximize ISO in general you want to minimize strikeouts but for me I'm I tend to target lower strikeout pitchers so it's not as much of a concern for the individual batters as it would be for a stack so I would say check out the ISO check out the strikeout rate and go from there and especially in the small samples we tend to deal with I would actively be ignoring results based stats like WRC plus like those all encompassing results based stats because they do take a pretty long time to stabilize hopefully that is a helpful question or a helpful answer for you to print as you try to fill out your lineups for today that is all the time that we have here for today on the MLB DFS side of things but as always once again for today we've got more coming up for you Aaron Dolan is going to swing by and talk about game 2 of the NBA finals coming up tomorrow which should be a fun one we saw the Suns pick up a 1-0 lead last night and as Aaron predicted on the show Yannis and Ted Acumpo did play in that game so I'm going to bring on Aaron now and talk to her about game number one Aaron how did Yannis look in that first game like what are you thinking for him going forward based on what you saw last night I mean I think based on going forward he obviously played pretty well in that first game I expected that he was going to play I didn't think he was going to look as great as he did especially that first two quarters so I expect for game 2 he'll be fully healthy and fine and honestly they need to get a win in game 2 yeah absolutely so that's going to be a lot of fun and you're also going to have John Sheeran on a fan to a sports book on today so a lot of fun stuff here this is awesome yeah all right well Aaron good luck tell John that I say hi and have fun all right thank you Jim all right what's up guys happy Wednesday I feel like with the holiday it kind of throws you off a day but we are going to bring on John Sheeran director of trading at some point in this show kind of talk all things that happen in game 1 and talk about how the lines have currently shifted as we look at the NBA futures market as we look at the finals MVP market as well so we'll have him on in just a bit but quickly just wanted to wrap up about what happened in game 1 obviously Yannis did play in that game Suns covered the game went over as well I know that opening line we talked about this yesterday 2.17 and a half moved up to 2.19 and a half when it closed and as for the Suns they were laying five and a half points when they closed so we're going to bring on John Sheeran director of trading again to talk all things about these shifts I know a lot of you guys would be asking questions and you're more than welcome to ask questions directed towards me or John specifically but let's bring him on right now so we can get him in here in this chat hi John hi Aaron has gone good how are you thank you so much for joining us no problem happy to be on yeah happy to have you so obviously for game 2 we already have the Phoenix Suns they opened laying five and a half and the opening number was the same exact thing for game 1 but when we had game 1 and that line opened we knew that the Suns had more rest they had that home court advantage and also the status of Yannis was doubtful at the time so why do you believe that the Suns are not favored by more in game 2 at home after the outcome of game 1? yeah like you say obviously Yannis was a big doubt for the game and the spread at the same number kind of just reflects how much the books probably need to improve their performance levels and you know we all know about things like the zigzag theory and how you know the more you need a result normally the better it leads to your performance and I think that's a perfect case here where you know you don't necessarily see a movement in the line that reflects what we saw in game 1 more what the books probably need in game 2 and it's that idea of like one iteration of a game what do we really learn from it and I think over the grand sample we expect to you know improve improvements both from Yannis individually but also from the Milwaukee books entirely as a unit yes let's switch it over to the total so for game 2 it opened 221 and a half it's back down to 220 right now in game 1 that line opened at 217 and a half continued to move up like I mentioned at the beginning of the show do you believe that this was set four points higher just because all three games that these teams have played against each other including the regular season have gone over the total? I just think it's obviously much more you know there's much more pressure on every possession particularly when we get to the meaningful end of the game towards the end of it obviously it didn't happen last night given the blowout but normally if it's a close game possessions are longer it cuts down from that perspective and they mean more as well frankly in the finals so you know it's not unusual to see some sort of compression with the total overall I think that's what we're seeing here despite the game going on 223 points last night interesting so let's talk about the finals MVP market as well so CP3 is now moved from plus 155 to minus 145 after that game 1 win Devin Booker moves back from plus 250 to plus 550 do you think that the odds have shifted in favor Chris Paul solely on the fact that he had that 32 point performance yesterday he was obviously great for the team is this semi an overreaction to a game 1 performance or we see Chris Paul continue to lengthen if the Suns win game 2? Yeah, I think it's interesting from our perspective he was probably too short ahead of game 1 a lot of it was driven by the narrative going into the game obviously the redemption for Chris Paul and 16 years in the league and getting to his first finals so you know I think there was that story about him and then obviously we had the 40 point performance in the Western Conference finals as well from him so yeah we were a little surprised to see the gap we saw between Booker and Chris Paul but I think the narrative on top of the performance from Chris Paul last night is enough to drive the odds to where we see them right now where Chris Paul's you know pretty odds on prohibitive favors and you know it's going to take a pretty special performance from Devon Booker if the Phoenix Suns go on and win particularly in what might be a bit of a short series if we see a repetition of what we saw last night then obviously you know Devon Booker is even more ground to make up on Chris Paul than if we were to get 7 games Yeah and I think a lot of people are really riding off hoping to see Chris Paul really build on his legacy and get a ring finally let's also talk about the NBA finals series price so the Suns are favored they moved from minus 200 before game one to minus 300 currently on the Fandals Sports books but the Bucks also moved back to plus 240 for those tuning in how much do these odds shift per game? Yeah I mean obviously quite a lot is as you said we've gone from minus 200 to minus 300 on Phoenix and not alone was it a you know pretty decisive win from start to finish but you know I think for the matchups as well it looks pretty ominous for Milwaukee yes Yannis was far more effective than we thought he might be I didn't expect to see him for any of the series finals I know you had a view that we would see him so maybe we should get you have to help us out a little bit more off on Aaron but you sent in lines yeah I was pretty surprised to see him and very surprised to see how effective he was and how much like himself he looked but it does look a little bit almost in terms of the matchup I think the guard play that we particularly saw from Payne and Johnson on top of Booker and Paul as well as you know pretty dominant performance from Ayrton on the boards it looks pretty ominous for Milwaukee moving forward yeah Ayrton was absolutely incredible last time I'm glad I took his over for his rebounds props but there's obviously some markets that are available like players series point average for example some of those became available even more players in the last 24 hours should betters expect to see more markets available in the upcoming days in terms of this NBA finals yeah I mean look at we continue to try and make sure the customers of the best opportunity to bet on whatever element of the game whatever element of the series that they want to bet on and like you say that involves more specific player averages and player markets over the entire series rather than each individual game so the team continue to work as hard as they can to produce you know more engaging content for betters and letting the better choose what they want to bet on like I said is the kind of key element for us so we will continue to work hard and try and embellish the product as best we can yeah I'm really enjoying already watching this NBA finals some great markets available again and while we're having your dynamites we'll just ask you game five tonight NHL Canadians were able to pull off the overtime when last game obviously able to force a game five but the Lightning heavy favorites they can win the Stanley Cup back to back seasons now are you seeing any short money at all come in on the Canadians or is the entire world on the Tampa Bay Lightning because looking at the money right now I'm pulling it up right now on odds fire I believe it was 98% of the money was on Tampa Bay Lightning money line yeah I mean that looks pretty much exactly what I'm seeing in the fieldbook here and yeah I think we've been lucky that the guys did a great job here in terms of concentrating on Tampa Bay and we were quite sweet on them even when the Avalanche was still in the series and you know the Stanley Cup market was one that we're pretty aggressive on the Avalanche and we wanted to try and keep betters away from betting Tampa Bay with us and thankfully that's transpired like you say right now heavily dominant on Tampa Bay and I think we all expect the Stanley Cup to be closed out tonight and I expect to see a pretty dominant performance from the lightning closed out tonight I'm thinking the Tampa Bay lightning absolutely take it but John thank you so much for joining us here on this Q&A I'm sure all of our viewers and listeners and if you're watching absolutely enjoy this got some great insight for you and I'm sure we will be having you back on next week to talk even more about the NBA finals appreciate it Aaron have a good day yes thanks for coming on alright guys let's answer some questions it's Jackie Moon saying hello I'm back CP3 is getting the MVP if he stays healthy and they win as John Sharon said a lot of this is around the narrative which is why I wanted to ask him specifically if it was an overreaction to his performance in game one let's say he went out there and he only scored 10 points for example and Devin Booker had 50 points I'm sure the line would have semi-moved in favor of Booker and not back and maybe Chris Paul would have just moved up just a tad but I like that I have Chris Paul winning MVP I said this morning when I went on more ways to win which is a great show that is streaming for Fandall so you should definitely be tuning into that they had some great insight today Lisa Kearney was leading that but all around yeah I have CP3 you know winning it all after the game yesterday I know I tweeted out I was like I'm taking I'm fading the public I'm taking the under and I'm also taking bucks five plus five and a half terrible tweet we'll never do that again we'll never absolutely fade the public again learned my lesson there even though most of the times it does work out I wasn't surprising on his plate we talked about this yesterday I was expecting him to play in this game I knew that he wasn't practicing with the team so I kind of felt that maybe the bucks were pulling a little bit of I don't know the word trying to fool us just to tatt us betters and to thinking that he wasn't going to play in that game but it looked great in the first app I thought it was actually going pretty well and then you can kind of get into some of the why don't we pull it up here we go get into some of the more stats as the other thing that I wanted to mention since we talked about it yesterday for the suns they did cover that first half spread that was the only thing that went well for me yesterday and ate and over rebounds other than that I didn't do too hot yesterday but you always rebound here in bed and we always rebound and you guys remember you can drop any questions in sorry I kind of look like I get distracted because I'm reading and trying to see if any of these questions flood in Mr. Jack can be saying I think even if Booker ever just 40 it's going to be CP3 as you mentioned and as John mentioned as I mentioned as you just mentioned it does seem like that would be the case without having a ring so if he wins I or if the sons when I do think obviously it seemed very deserving for him but looking at the stats from yesterday it doesn't seem too bad the Milwaukee bucks shooting 46% from the field gold range 3.44% 16 to 36 which is pretty good for them so I feel like this wasn't an absolutely terrible game nobody played you know terribly Chris Middleton took his under in points thinking he was going to hit under 26 and a half he has 29 Giannis 20.17 rebounds I mean he seriously looks like he was not injured whatsoever like that extended me absolutely did not bother him whatsoever which is a good thing I'm glad because now we're gonna have a really good series and it's not going to be sons and four even though it technically could still be that I don't see that happening the bucks out of some respect for themselves have to win at least one game I said sons in six being kind of talk about that in a little bit but like three parlays but through them in with some losing legs doesn't that stink when one player and one part of your parlay you're really thinking it's like out of all the legs 16 plus rebounds gosh yeah he killed it yesterday yeah look at all the like Booker 27 Paul 32 8 and 22 points Macal Bridges 14 8 and 19 rebounds would you look at that his rebounds props definitely going to be high for the next game but exciting things I mean I think the biggest takeaway from this game is it seems like the bucks actually like technically played well so I think the sons are going to be able to close it out sooner rather than later I feel like the bucks went into a lot of game sixes game sevens able to come back obviously we knew that against the Brooklyn that's when they were up to game so there's obviously the potential that happens but I I don't know I'm not Milwaukee bucks winning a ring unfortunately let's why don't we get into some of the odds right now Fandall sports book as we talked about sons laying five and a half basically the same exact line as game one which was interesting we asked John about that as well as why this is that way because we know that Yannis is going to play in this game and also why it isn't even longer considering that the sons had one by so many points last game as for the total obviously it's sort over surprising that it's set a little bit higher I also think that when you're betting into a series regardless the first game is the hardest games because you don't know how these teams actually stack up against each other yes they played against each other in the regular season but the stakes were not the NBA finals getting a championship ring type of pressure so I think after game one you kind of have a better read on how things are going to go between these two teams obviously things are going to switch so that the teams can prepare and continue to win the sons we'll do what they can again and the Bucks are going to try to adjust their game plan I'm sure we can click into this market a little bit but we'll just go through some of these top tabs obviously as you can see the Fandalsports book looks a little different than it did yesterday we had a little update over the night so hope you guys like this but does look a little bit different today alright NBA finals championship here we go sons minus 300 you're not going to lay that number at this point Bucks plus 240 if you think the Bucks are going to come back and win plus 240 not a bad price also as we talked about yesterday you can bet on the NBA finals series betting the series spread so this shifted a lot it's still the same minus one and a half but yesterday the sons minus one and a half was that plus money and the Bucks plus one and a half was I believe it was minus 140 something but now plus money so what I also mentioned yesterday is if you don't have a good read on this and you want to kind of wait out the games betting on four games five games six games seven games this is where you still see some type of value and it's interesting to see seven games plus 195 I guess you're thinking this is really going to go the distance I personally do I said sons in six I think the Bucks like I mentioned they have to get a win at least I know a lot of people were originally saying five games but maybe when the Milwaukee Bucks go home they'll play a little bit better I always feel like they've played better at home all right player futures as we talked about the narrative Chris Paul look our continue this just Yannis sticking around the same spot 500 Booker moving back jumping past Yannis plus 550 Chris Middleton moving down eight and 12 to one drew holiday 45 to one McCall bridges Brooklope as Jay Crowder I would not be betting into any of these I wouldn't even bet on eight and or drew holiday Chris Middleton I mean this seems to be that came down overnight I could see out of all these players Middleton if the Bucks were to win and he was able to put up a ton of points but I still think they would give it to Yannis with a narrative and same thing with Chris Paul it just it seems like it's going to be either one of these two but I would wait for the Chris Paul number because I think if let's say they win the next game it's going to move out if the Bucks win game three it might move back down might get it minus 120 or something like that so I think I would wait in terms of this market Mr. Jackie Moon I feel like he's always coming on here has to be six or seven if I'm guessing I currently have a bet for sons in seven I think what do you mean you think I feel like you got to know what your bets are Benjamin Cruz I told you all to bet the over on Brooke Lopez with the money sign good for you and yet you could bet on the Brook Lopez for the series what he's going to average and all those players are actually more players I should say are starting to become available as you could see series top point score we talked about this yesterday and then for the series most total assists series most total rebounds kind of get into those here's what I was talking about yesterday this point average now you have Chris Paul you have 8 in I feel like we should have an 8 in series rebound average because after last night we should have that Chris Middleton series here we go true holiday Brooke Lopez so yesterday this Brook Lopez was 14 and a half this is now 13 and a half what he's going to average but it's interesting that we have some of these markets and other thing like I mentioned yesterday definitely be digging on the Fandall sports book during this time because you will find like for example some of these players weren't available yesterday they popped up in the last five hours because this morning I was looking and they weren't available so always be checking on here I know it looks a little bit different but you'll adjust your eyes just fine let's get into the game see if they have any player props available alright so we have the normal things some of them already up player points just becoming available oh look at this this looks totally different than last time you don't have to click into the tab make a Fandall making this making it a lot easier when I'm talking about it as well alright Giannis 26 and a half Middleton 25 and a half this is interesting because last game it was 26 and a half I said take the under wondering why it's 25 and a half when he had 29 points the last game Drew Holiday Brooke Lopez let's see Devin Booker 28 Chris Paul 22 and a half I feel like Chris Paul every time that he has a standout game I'm saying to take something under for him then he has a standout game and then they said it at 22 and a half when I feel like that should be higher and Devin Booker I feel like should come down the tad from 28 and a half maybe he'll go off in game too maybe he was given CP three just a little little time to take the ball there Benjamin Cruising the value on Booker for MVP MVP is great I absolutely agree with you I think out of the entire board he does have the best value right now again it just comes down to the narrative of you know who plays better I mean Booker plays the next couple of games 10 times better than Chris Paul he averages 45 points 50 points has one of those crazy games that he can have and we that that we know we can have it is really good value props to Fandle for the update yes props to Fandle this is actually so aesthetically pleasing now not that it wasn't before but you got to click into every single person I know sometimes on the chat I would be like searching things through Command F which is a great thing to do if you're ever trying to cheat on tests I used to do that you could quickly look something up command command F and you'll find it really quickly all right let's continue looking down see all these are becoming available right now I wish I could get into kind of all my picks for tomorrow but I haven't gone through specifically each entire market because again the game is tomorrow night so things are going to change up a little bit kind of find out more things we can see for example like player points match bet a Janus is he was questionable then it was a game time decision then obviously he played and I feel like the line started to shift after the videos started coming out of Janus on the court dribbling and kind of warming up like that's when people really know he was probably going to play I'm interested to see what rebounds is going to be for 8 and 12 and a half so yesterday it was 11 and a half took the over there worked out he had 19 rebounds of course yesterday so specifically wanted to see him Janus also considering 17 rebounds there we go crazy crazy crazy so yeah all the rebounds we can actually do match but now for rebounds maybe we could do that before and I just skipped over it because there were so many little tabs and now we can actually see what's going on it's Mr. Jack I mean saying I've still have never used my laptop or Fandle just mobile I'm the same way I always use the mobile app I as you can see I'm not even logged in on my computer I feel like if you are live bedding absolutely use your computer I feel like it's way faster I know a lot of times in the NFL season I feel like my friends sit around with their laptops not to sound very I don't want to say to Cheddar it but we would sit around with laptops and live bed and that was kind of the way we did it instead of doing it on our phones you can you know click things in a lot quicker than you can on your phone I feel alright we have all those player combos first half second half still hopefully how do I move over sorry guys I'm adjusting just as you guys are here we go okay why do we not have that here probably under half air and let's get our head out of the sand here we are alright sons minus two and a half as we talked about yesterday they've been hitting this a ton of time especially when they're playing at home I gave off a pretty crazy stat yesterday let me find that for you because this stat is actually very compelling to want to take the first half at all times okay sons are 27 and 13 against to spread in the first half is home favorites it's pretty much convinced me that I'm going to take sons minus two and a half don't know about you but that's how I'm feeling there why don't you guys drop some more questions below and we'll talk about some more things the other thing I wanted to mention obviously minus 255 looking at the money which is absolutely insane for this game I mean 98% of the money 92% of the bets on the Tampa Bay Lightning to win I'm assuming people are throwing this in a parlay because you're not going to take it minus 255 I don't really know anybody that takes the puck line either so over seems to be the play here from what people are looking like 76% of the money 62% of the bets total at five and a half right now personally I'm not going to be betting on this game wish the flyers weren't as crappy as they were and I was talking about the flyers being in this right now but here we are Oh don't want to be touching NFL we're not NFL season quickly just looking at this we can already see more money coming in again it kind of looks identical Phoenix money line for them to cover seeing morning more money come in on the over so it seems to be the same kind of situation and what's interesting is the line is actually been bet down a point and a half even though I'm not sure how I will want to play that total for tomorrow but we'll kind of see how things shake out Mr. Jackman saying I think the lightning close it out in game five I also think that I think the entire world actually thinks that tonight I'm pretty sure I saw a video of the mayor somebody hoping that it was going to come back to a game fives that they could obviously win at home which is much cooler than winning on the road I if I could win obviously celebrating I mean obviously you get back pretty quick but still it's not the same let's see we'll also look quickly at some trends because I will not be on tomorrow I will be on a bleacher report TNT show the group chat Friday I'll be on my way to Miami to do a fandal event called fantasy over the weekend so I am honestly only trying to give you the trends currently that we can see and some of the numbers that we're seeing because again not going to be on tomorrow the walkie Bucks are for no and against the spread locks six and one in their last seven games playing on one days rest I don't really think that's a very important trend I would kind of just disregard that some of these you can see you can factor these in but sometimes it feels like like for example sons are nine and two against a spread in their last 11 after scoring a hundred points are more in their previous game like I don't know how much I'd really factor that in not huge then straight up record of course it is because they're playing against all winning teams because they're in the playoffs so I just try to make the point that sometimes when you read these trends into your research really try to figure out what you want to focus on and what's trends that you actually want to follow because some of these can seem even though they're obviously great trends it just can be a little confusing over five and one the last six meetings in Phoenix over is five and on the last five meetings between these teams head how that game to goes was great having John Sheeran on last thing I'll mention it's Jackie Moon saying yeah I heard a lot of their family members couldn't go to Montreal for travel restrictions so I'm sure they'll be extra motivated to close it out in front of their family yes travel restrictions not fun I feel like a lot of stuff still going on related to covid so it's getting better everything's getting better but at the same time there's always going to be still those restrictions a little bit Jackie Moon also saying I've never really looked at yeah I think again it kind of when looking at them it might scream something but is it really a training when to follow I know a lot of people kind of follow the day trends as well not too into the day trends it's kind of cool once one says you know a team's five no in the last you know five Wednesday games but I don't really know how helpful that is in term of betting to be honest but anyways guys thank you for joining me today on this Q&A show thank you for your questions everyone that answered as always we still the same game parlays this hit yesterday twenty five dollars for thirty five hundred and as you can see we still have an update to everything here so go through the Fandalsports book find some more markets oh NBA boost 60 plus total points scored in the first quarter the NBA finals game too that just went up see you got to monitor these things or else you don't see it alright guys well I will see you next Monday hopefully in terms tuning into this Q&A three looking ahead to game four I hope you have a great weekend I was about to say holiday weekend but that just happened and I will see you guys next week


Hello and welcome everybody to this session here at OER 22. I am very excited in a moment to introduce you to Erica Hargreaves who is going to lead the session for us and I also wanted to encourage you all to have a look at the other resources that are available from the OER conference and if you're still within the time frame of the conference month then also our social space on this court and I wanted to say a very big thank you to Erica for sharing a really important topic with us here today and I'm really looking forward to hearing all about it so Erica without further ado I'm gonna hand over to you welcome thanks so much Marin I'm thrilled to be here and I am thrilled to be sort of chatting sort of web web three stuff and ways of using web three to sort of build sustainability and creativity and innovation behind your open educational initiatives so this this was a journey that I started on a few years back and actually spoke on sort of the early stages of not when I was I hadn't been wised up to web three then but on on sort of our sustainable funding journey to sort of find different ways of building sort of sustainable funding pathways into open educational projects as well as sort of storytelling projects for social good and sort of a journey that that that this conference was was part of the early story of so so it's great to be back and and and also that you know David Porter from from this from from the open ed community sort of gave me several nudges and and helps helps sort of propel me on the way way with this this journey so so I'm very thankful to him for that so my whole journey into web three it began and I know I spoke about it at last year's conference but it began with the the web monetization standard and sorry Erica just to jump in there I'm not sure if you're sharing any visuals but they're not okay do you see my face or no I'm at the moment we're seeing nothing oh you're seeing nothing okay I would be just wanted to double-check sorry about that yeah we can yeah okay sorry that's funny yeah no I'm I will bring up some visuals throughout but I'd sort of stage this as a bit of a different different style of more workshop based where where we're gonna go spend some time on a mirror board and stuff like that I will put up those in our in the discord community a little later on after after the talk just just in case people want to kind of explore around and an experiment with ideas within that but yeah do you want me to start again from the top now that you can see me or sorry we're a bit of a troubled troubled teenager here so yeah so so where my story began with sort of exploring web three was with the web monetization standard which is actually considered to be an API that is open web however the way it's currently working is when I get into sort of explaining what that is is coil is is currently the main is well it's the only provider right now for the web monetization standard and their way of making it work is is with a digital wallet and so for those of you that are new to web 3 basically web 3 is the is the whole web that's that that's tied to elements of the blockchain so with the web monetization standard while it's open web it is also because of because of a connection right now and how it's working it does have a connection with with with the blockchain and so it's it can be considered to be web 3 as well as as well as open web but I'm going to just sort of take you through and introduce you to some of these things like the web monetization standard a new sort of web 3 application that I discovered the other day which is using using Brave browser to earn for your towards your digital content and and then further going into to some NFT experiments that we've got going on at present and the beauty with all of this is there are ways that the open ed community can play with all of this to keep their content open but at the same time be earning towards making that content sustainable and we're certainly doing that with the experiments we've been running in the last year which has just been with the web monetization standard we're making our maintenance costs on our content sustainable so so the web monetization standard pays for all of our maintenance costs on on our various digital applications and things like that and because of some of the additional sort of bonus ways of earning in that community over the the last year we've actually done more than build maintenance fees we've built some experimental money and so that's what I've been been using with our early NFT experiments right now but I will take you through all that quickly here I'm gonna share my screen and I'm going to take you through to are you seeing my current screen here that says how to become a web monetize yeah okay I'm gonna quickly just close the door because there's a loud lawnmower outside figure you don't need to hear that so so as I mentioned what the web monetization standard is is it's well as as the artist rescue trust likes to call it it's a financial fist bump between a creator and their audience but basically it's it's it's a JavaScript API that allows for the creation of a payment stream to go from a website visitor to a website now just because there is this ability for that payment screen to happen that doesn't mean that anybody's putting up any paywalls or anything like that on the content if you look right now on my screen you'll see there's this little coil button and this little green thing right there and that right there is because I do have a coil membership so that means that normally it would mean I'm paying $5 a month US to support other to support the content of creatives online that have web monetizer content and so whenever I'm on some of these content that's web monetize there is a little stream of payments that goes through but right now there's an opportunity that that has been offered through Mozilla festival but that is open to other people who go and sign up for free Moz Fest ticket they'll get sent a six month prepaid membership from coil to basically spend their money on visiting different digital content online that is web monetized and so I'm kind of hoping that we can get this message out to the open ed community so that those some of those accounts can be used to support some great open educational resources out there now the beauty is that for some of these content to be web monetized they do not have to pay into this membership that is entirely and completely free and to do that you just go to coil.com backslash creator and it'll allow anybody to go in and start to monetize their content for free and as I said you know even if I didn't have that membership for example this content that I'm on right here this is all freely accessible same thing with all of our story to go content like right here while the site is web monetized there's no paywalls anybody can can access this this for free and so what I've done recently is in addition to on story to go where we've created a course in teaching people all about how to to start web monetizing their content so that they can start earning to their open educational resources their open courses things like these articles that that I've been writing on story to go there's with that there I've built a whole pile of tutorials that walks you through all the steps and also explains what web monetization is and what web monetization is not so it's not anything to do with data mining affiliate marketing advertising rather it's it's about making the web sort of a more equitable place so that creators and creators from all around the world and different parts of the world can can can earn on equitable footing you know from these different from different people sort of exploring exploring and spending time on their content online so that is all right there I will share links to all this in the discord so that anybody who wants to go through and learn about it can when I first learned about it and initiated this on our sites it literally I did it within well the whole initiation thing the toughest part and this is like the biggest block right now for people sort of getting into this community are the digital wallets and so the longest part of setting this whole thing up was setting up a digital wallet you're probably your best bet is to go there's two right now that are working with it which are upholds and gate hub I do know that in the UK a lot of people tend to go I think I think gate hub might be out of the UK but upholds seems to be the one that's been working better for and has been a bit easier for a lot of people but I do admit that's the one hiccup and had I not kind of being nudged in this direction by David Porter and had not been like you know kind of done the research on the interledger foundation who's who's the foundation that's behind the web monetization standard and realize that you know that everything was above board it would have you know it would have been kind of it would have been a stumbling block for me just because it's if you haven't set up a digital wallet before it it's kind of you know it's it's bit of new ground a bit outside certainly outside of my comfort zone initially but that is you that is as I said the biggest stumbling block the rest of it is relatively easy and in even setting up the digital wallet isn't so depending on where you live in the world it isn't so hard there's there's still some places that because of different government policies with financing and stuff like that that it's not that it's a bit more difficult to set up or or can't be set up yet but but yeah if you once you get through the steps of setting it up and get through the uncomfortableness of something new the rest of this is super super easy the first day that that that that I set up everything on our site I got sent my first like little notification from up hold saying that that we we earned a little bit of money that day and since then there's barely ever a day that I don't get that little email from up hold saying here's how much you've you've earned from your digital content today um so similarly I'll share this but this sort of walks you through the steps of getting startups like getting set up with the web monetization standard it's one of the beauties of it and one of the things I quite love about it is I can actually have my different writers and teachers on story to go set up a payment pointer of their own on the back end of like on our author page on we're running our sites off of wordpress and so there's a wordpress plug-in for it that makes it really easy and so on each of our author's pages they can set up their own payment pointer which you know kind of ends up being like a nice little pad on the back for them because it's kind of like they're receiving well it's like it's basically the receiving royalties for for their writing or for for their course content so this young fellow here is Bjorn he's our newest writer on our team and has been creating our NFT art for us and so I I sort of nudged Bjorn in the direction of uh of setting up of you know sort of getting his payment pointer before I shared his first article here on on the journey he's taking us through as an art therapy student and it was during MozFest so it was why we were sort of running with these experimental accounts where MozFest has has given out the six months of prepaid membership so people at MozFest have these accounts so when they're going and looking at his content which they were at the festival, he started to earn and right now because of those accounts too this is the other exciting bit with them is when I go here there is an experimental feature right now where people can get can give a tip so I've already tipped Bjorn for his articles before and so because I've only got a limited amount of tip money and I'm hoping if some people in the open ed community start to web monetize their content that I can go spend some tips in the open ed community so I'm not going to not going to tip him right now but basically this is one of the beauties is it is it allows you to at the moment send some tips and they are all prepaid by coil so it's like this little bonus money that coils giving us at the moment to to spend on on great content so I'm going to repaid by coil so it's like this little bonus money that coils giving us at the moment to to spend on on great content out there and content that's doing good so yeah so this is part of what I mean so excited about and so there's and there's all sorts of really cool things there's ways of of web monetizing podcast there is mural which is this really kind of fun interactive storytelling tool that allows you to you know add layers of sound and video and photos and written words to create these these these beautiful sort of art storytelling pieces. There's ways of web monetizing mainstream platforms like if we go to coil here I'm already signed in so I'm just going to go to my settings here and if I go into my web monetize content you can see that I have web monetized our different YouTube channels that literally just took me clicking through to the channel and you can see here you know you get the little sign in thing from from from Google between coil and it takes a matter of seconds to do that. So yeah so that's been that's been kind of something I've been really enjoying exploring and using and and sharing this last year and right now there's some some great opportunities for people in the open ed community to experiment with this and to to share a little bit of that that goodness that coils giving everybody around also just state here to the nice thing right now with those accounts is when you go to set those up. They don't ask for it's not like one of those things where they ask for you to put in your your your wallet like they don't ask you to put in your credit card or anything like that at the end of the six months. Nobody is going to ask you to continue paying for that so so yeah so so that's great and you can still have your content all all web monetized. Now I think I'm just checking back here because I think there's a comment. It was just me posting in case anybody has questions so I will give you a shout out yeah I'll give you a shout out Erica if any particular questions come up. Okay great and Mark just just so you're so you're aware we kind of we were originally going to go through this I've been sort of changing how I've been going through this simply because the fact that initially it was just Marin and I hanging out so I did have a more interactive presentation plan so if you do want to sort of dart into the more interactive stuff. I'm happy to do that if you would rather sort of just just listen and learn I can do that too so so so there's there's those various opportunities the thing I'm going to share now we've got more people here. I'm going to share in the link. There's this is something that that I've kind of started doing from that whole web that whole mozfest community online, but I've got a document that is a little Google Doc it's got a lot of the links that I'm talking about in the presentation in it today. And for some reason it's not letting me add it to the chat. Huh. Okay. Yeah, the chat's not working. Sorry. If you just click on everyone. That's where the. Ah, yes. In that document there it's like it's a way both for people who are who are on the on the chat today to to connect with each other and to share each other's contact details. But there's also a variety like all the different links that I'm talking about within the within the conference or within the session the workshop today. And the space for asking questions both both during this time and and afterwards. And then I'm also going to just share because I've got a brainstorming board that I set up in mural. So I will share the link to that as well. And I believe I put it on our. Yes, I did put it on our document. So I'll also add that in our our chat here too. So, um, Now, so that's that's one of the web three three ways that that I've been earning. Now I had a friend who came up for a visit. Two weekends ago and he shared with me another way of earning which I was unfamiliar with, but it's it's brave. It's a new well it's not a new browser they've been around for a while but it's one of these browsers that has been web browsers that's been designed. So that you can see here it's being designed with kind of the idea of privacy in mind and you know people so that you know big text not not mining all of your data. And so he told me that one of the things that they're doing is when you set up brave on on your like as you know as as a search browser for yourself. You can it normally blocks all the ads, but you can say that you're fine with seeing some ads and you will start to earn in their crypto currency which is called I believe that I don't know what the bigger acronym because I've only been playing with it for a couple of days. But the beauty with this whole bat system is it also has this area where you can also be a creator and you can sign up as a creator. So, and the beauty with this is the things that you can sign up and link are your own website, your YouTube channel, your Twitch, your, your Reddit account. I believe I'm trying to think for a second there I was thinking you could set up your discord too but I don't think you can yet, but but there's other things to like your Twitter account. And so I did that the other day and once again, it took me, you know, and I've got a fair number of accounts that that could be web monetized and I think I did the whole like all the accounts within an hour. So, you can see right now like, you know, our, our romancings, which is our travel travel storytelling YouTube. It's, it's, it's connected along with like, you know, with our various different media platforms. And so, so I only really started experimenting with this last week, but it's telling me that that so far, you know, in the first couple of days of playing with this. You know, I got sort of 0.401 bat so it's not earning me any huge amount of money, but this is like just these little tiny ways that you can kind of earn towards your different open educational pieces out there, and they don't create any barriers to anybody entering them, and using them. So it's kind of seems to me like it's a win-win, especially since it allows me to web monetize, like to basically earn in multiple ways from, for example, our YouTube channels. They're web monetized using the web monetization standard plus we're using, we're using, I'm now using Brave and they're, they're earning that way too. And when you sign up as a creator, it actually also allows you to accept tips. So if you go to my, while I'm using Brave, if you go to my Twitter account, you will see, and it's not just my Twitter account. It's everybody's Twitter accounts here that it allows me to tip different people. So if I wanted to, I could press tip and I could send Stephanie here, you know, a certain amount of money or certain amount of bat for her post. Now, I don't, because I only started doing this the other day, I don't really have much bat yet, and I think it hasn't gone into my wallet yet. Unlike the web monetization standard, it doesn't seem to happen immediately. So, so I can actually tip anybody at the moment. So I will not demonstrate that right now. And you can see like it's got this little dashboard so so far this month and we're only on day three I've made, you know, 0.705 bat, which is about 42 cents us so which, you know, sure it's not a huge amount of money but it I figure, you know, all those little bits and pieces towards our open ed resources are are are a good thing. And it's otherwise just money I'd be leaving on the table. Now, when we were talking about the web monetization standard to me you're talking about their wallets. This wallet with brave well they have their own wallet that you can set up on here. They also work with two different wallets and one of them is uphold. So, so I've, I've linked mine to to my uphold wallet here. So yeah, so that's just a new discovery that I had the other day. And Why we've got Mark on the call. Mark, you're just waking up in California I'm doing the same thing in BC. Mark, I don't know if you're feeling in an interactive mood right now if you just want to listen. But if you are over on our sort of experimenting with web three and open education or mirror board here. I've got this section here on and I don't know if you missed the opening part of our talk but what do you think about when you hear web three. And if you're, if you just want to listen right now just just type in the chat that you're just happy listening. Thanks Erica. I think Mark saying happy listening I'm really enjoying this as well. Okay. Okay, so I will hop over into our NFT experiments then and so to show you where I took this where I took these experiments this last fall. And having fun using project work in my master's which is now very closely nearing its end, although I've probably been doing the master's much longer than most people you know spend doing theirs. Because you know my part doing a part time sort of thing. But so I used a master's project in the fall to start diving down into seeing what all this buzz about non NFTs which are non fungible tokens are online and if there was a way of utilizing them for sustainable funding solutions with open education and open culture. And so one of the things like there's there's a lot of confusion about what exactly non non fungible tokens are and around ownership and things like that around them. And I know it was a bit of a barrier for me when I was sort of approaching this question and not really being sure if there was a way of tying. With open education because of this whole idea of ownership when it comes to NFTs and I was also a little bit leery because I was thinking, you know, for me where this would be really great is if there was a way that NFTs could provide seed funding to our our different web series and documentaries and things like that. But everywhere where I'd seen people doing examples of that. They were using it in a way that they were creating like collectible tokens that then were linked to the series and it was about giving like exclusive audience access to that group of people. Now, obviously with open educational materials, sort of a token to create exclusive access kind of doesn't really mesh together. And so what I sort of when I when I started kind of going down down this road and and looking into to this. The first thing was tackling. Okay, what exactly is a non fungible token. And, you know, I know we've all heard things like, you know, people selling their tweets so so I did a workshop on this yesterday and that was one of the questions in the workshop was the thought that, you know, an NFT could be a tweet. Well, no, it can't be a tweet. But what it can be is basically these non fungible tokens are a digital asset that has a smart contract attached to it and that smart contract exists on the blockchain. So the non fungible token could be a screenshot of that tweet. Now, and that does bring into question. Okay, where is the value in that. And as we've recently seen in the news where there was I think the first tweet that happened on Twitter. Somebody sold the screenshot of and made a ridiculous amount of money and now that ridiculous amount of money is a much, much, much, much smaller amount of money so the person who bought that NFT lost money on it. But if you think about it, anybody can take a screenshot of tweets. So, so, so there wasn't kind of that lasting power with that that NFT. So where some of these the the more interesting things are happening around kind of, you know, value around NFTs is around things like, like, where these NFTs unlock different sort of experiences and so when I referenced like the tell the, you know, sort of another media source that that was earning in this way that was a web series called stoner cats. And they have totally funded this web series to ridiculous amounts of money on on basically selling these different collectibles, like from the series and anybody who owns one of these collectibles has exclusive access to the series. Now, so granted, there's a lot of famous people behind this project, but I decided like, you know, well, I started looking around and I started finding some other projects that were more, more had heart behind them. And in this case, it's actually got hard in the name because it's the anatomical hearts project. And that we're doing things that were all about social good out there so this is kind of a similar idea, although these ones aren't. Oh, they I do think there is a sort of unlock in them. Because I think you might get access to the coloring book, although I'm not entirely sure on that point. But this this is a woman. And in my journey, I met her and have spoken with her a number of times and she's she's absolutely lovely. And she started to create these anatomical hearts pictures when her daughter had three open heart surgeries within I believe the first 11 years of her life. And so this was kind of her coping and her way of dealing with it. And so at the beginning of the pandemic she actually started to turn these anatomical hearts into a coloring book. And then somebody sort of nudged her in the direction of selling them as NFTs. And so she's done quite well from that. And if you click on the different hearts, you discover that. Oh, she hasn't got them all mapped out here. But I believe there is a certain amount of this money from her hearts that goes to a charity. And, and then there's also royalties attached these hearts so that if anybody resells them, she will get a certain percent back in royalties as the artist. Now, where I found something that was even more interesting was this project called emotion monsters. And this was born out of this woman who's she's an artist she's a DJ and she is a medical school student. And she was finding that when she kids were coming into the emergency room and they were exhibiting men like emotional health issues, they weren't getting treated very well. And so she wanted to do de stigmatize sort of, you know, hang ups around till health and she decided to like start this campaign of doing that through creating these different emotion monsters that are getting sold as NFTs. Her original ones were pictures these these video ones are are new, but the sales and she outlines it here. Now, part of the interesting part about this is she's as a part of the sales she's giving the rights to make derivatives of these monsters. But if people make a derivative of those monsters and they sell them out there. She's requested that, I think, I think 10% of the sales from that go to some sort of mental health charity. I think she gets 10% in royalties back as the artist. And in her own sales that she's doing out here to she's got both those two things in there when she's making her own sales but she's also sort of the money is going towards making a children's book that features different emotion monsters in there. And I believe with the NFT, anybody who's got the NFT gets access to the to these emotion monsters as well. So sorry, not to the book that's coming out. And so as I said, I'm definitely going to be checking them out. Oh, I know, I know. And the story behind the whole thing is fabulous. I actually I learned about her and I've got it in in the first my initial write up that I did it's it's in there. There's a link to a podcast that I believe was on Ed Surge, all as they were sort of initially expert like exploring this whole idea of NFTs. And yeah, it's it's right. Yeah, it's search right there and they interviewed her on it and she's just lovely and I've since like engaged with her on Twitter and yeah, I absolutely love what she's doing. Yeah, just timing heads up where in our last five minutes. Okay, so, so yeah, so what I what I've been doing is I I sort of took this idea I liked I've mapped what we started doing based on her stuff, but I made the initial mistake of the early days of our stuff so this is naturally ours and this is just our first rendition which which we're currently remapping out right now but beyond the artist I showed you earlier, he's been creating these different images based on the first season of naturally ours for us with the idea that every image that when we sold it, you know, there would be 10% would go to nature charity in the areas that we're filming. 10% would go back to Bjorn as our artist to so that he could, you know, make a little extra in royalties towards his his his education. And, and then the rest would go to, you know, both filming future seasons and the educational materials behind our yeah, but are like the building of our educational materials tied to the series. And so we weren't so with these I because obviously I can't pay him properly to create so many images that we could like we'd either have to price these these these tokens really really high. So I decided you can actually create from one project you can create as many tokens from that project as you want so I tried initially I thought okay well we'll we'll create 99 of these and we'll charge you know on par with what the the problem is, is people do seem to want this exclusivity in in these collectible tokens that they're doing, especially like, because I'm not famous so it's not like the stoner cats where they're going to, you know, just blindly like you know throw throw buddy at what what we're doing. And even though, you know, each of these comes with links to our series and the educational content. It's open educational so it's, it's, I mean we don't specify that in there but but we also don't tell them they're getting exclusive content. So, so this wasn't really I'd started realizing that this probably wasn't going to work. And there were like some extras that they would get like, for example, our full length documentaries. We typically only do it film fest and because we have licenses with them with mainstream broadcasting sites they're usually not like openly available the way are the smaller web series versions are. So we're going to make that accessible to them. And then we were also playing on the idea but mind you everybody is has got access to this. When you're building NFTs, they're really big on there being a discord community for kind of behind the scenes and to connect with the creators. So usually you want to have your NFTs also linked to your discord community so that was going to be an aspect of it, but it wasn't working. So what we have done is we realized that what people have been doing in this space is they've been creating what's called generative art. And I've got a link in our document that explains how to do it and it's actually not the tear like it's at first I thought oh how are we possibly going to do that but it's not too too difficult. You basically create layers to your artwork so we've got these base our layers now and beyond created a whole pile of them. And then there's other base layers that we have that he's created like different hats and different beaks and things like that. So what they've done is you then run it through a generative program which is all free and all openly accessible and I've added links within our Google Doc to how to get to this stuff. But when you run it through the the program. I just ran it through once where I sort of ran it through to create 20 hours and you end up getting all these different hours. Now this all of a sudden becomes accessible to, and I could see this with the penguins from from the conference to create something like this where you've got these different layers. And then you can each of these becomes its own individual token that there's only one copy of in existence so that they now become like almost like these collectible playing cards. And we then put the same kind of policies and that are like the same sort of, you know, access where they're a token that goes to supporting our series and all the educational contents. And, you know, we can think about doing like a couple little extras that we might just do for our token holders later on like maybe like there's a monthly chat with, you know, different people involved in the project whether it's like Kelly doing a filmmaking tutorial, or me doing some sort of nature nerdy bit out in the woods with people teaching them about a plant or something like that. So, so, so this is how like we're kind of approaching this at this stage of the game. And we're finding right now we're in the zone of exploring different environmental environmentally friendly blockchains to be sharing these on. And for those people that are interested in that I can get more into that. Happy to sort of set up a conversation and chat more about that and sort of we're actually with that. We're actually and I'm just going to click off of this the screen share right now, but we're actually do you know where to close the screen share Marin that's easy. Yeah, just click that little camera. Yeah. So yeah, so we're, I've been meeting with a group of different artists from all sorts of different disciplines every Tuesday. And we have chats about NFTs and different ways of using them for social good and all sorts of things like that. And anybody who wants to be invited to any of those discussions. Shoot me an email. It'll be in Google Doc which I will share over in the discord community so so we can we can chat we can we can brainstorm. Like when you're talking open ed to like, there's all sorts of other different ways that that could be used besides besides the way we're using to build stuff out there right now.  So maybe there's a little added bit where they're paying for something at the end of the course to to have their work evaluated through. And maybe that is tied to a smart contract that basically is tokenized and and is is is a proof that they've they've they've done the work to earn whatever certificate or whatever badge. So there's there's there's that's that's another example of how this could be utilized with with open education and it's really all about, you know, sort of, you know, starting to brainstorm and dream. One of the conversations that came up in last week's chat with these artists groups is how some gallery owners are now taking real paintings and so this is just a painting like a sort of a sort of artsy photograph painting and what they would do is they would take the painting and then break it into like 1000 little tiny images of that and then they're then selling that those images, like at least half of them as NFTs out there. But where that where the smart contract with that whole thing is then linked to the original piece of artwork. And when they sell the original piece of artwork in the gallery.  And then there's like, there's the whole side to have. And I don't know if this stats right I have to look it up but one of the women in our group last week mentioned that apparently 80% of the people buying and selling NFTs on this one marketplace were under the age of 18. So that's the case, and probably want to start thinking about like having some NS, like education around, you know, determining values around things like this and actually would work really really well for a business class like of, you know, exploring the whole concept of buying and trading and, and things like that in there and in our sort of early exploration of some of the environmentally friendly blockchains and marketplaces we I think I stumbled upon that because I was finding on like the blockchain, a lot of the pieces of artwork were sort of valued super super low like just a few cents to a few dollars for a piece, and I'm fairly certain that is that younger kid audience kind of experimenting with this and learning all about buying and selling and trading this. So yeah, there's, it's, it's really all about it's in that space right now where it's all about thinking up the possibilities and creating those possibilities. Rather than, and I think that's where this is exciting and where it's exciting to kind of like, I'm hoping to find some people out there that you know kind of want to join in the conversation on on how we can play with this with with open and, and create some of those opportunities out there that that might not exist yet, or that nobody's dreamed up yet. And as a result then. Congratulations. That is a very exciting vision. And I have to say, Erica, I learned a lot of new stuff just by listening to you and I'm definitely inspired. I've got an odd background so I'm very interested in joining in with that. I'm just going to wait a moment and to see if Mark has any particular questions, but we still have time for that. But because we want to give a bit more space for discussion, I am going to stop the recording here. So from us here all at OER 22. Thank you so much for an amazing presentation.