5/25 MON
HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY
(7:38amET)
Today/tomorrow
-- FAUX 2026 Computer Simulated season 1.0...a 10-part daily series studying, going through the win-loss projections of the season a couple weeks at a time and then going through the playoffs.
-- DRD rankings will now settle into once a week (min.) publishing the DRD top 300+ updates and adding/updating commentaries, etc. Likely every THU or FRI the rest of the preseason.
-- Miscellaneous reports on things that come my way and more scouting reports to come. I have a backlog of them to get published already.
-- Next Scouting Report Kaelon Black coming up Mon/Tue (projected)
This Week’s/Month’s Agenda…
-- 2026 Draft Guide studies and commentary writing is about to start. More info on timings of the first reports to hit, etc., coming soon
-- DRD valuations/rankings top 300+ board updates/adds to everyday post-NFL Draft week and every week through the entire offseason.
-- Prospect grades by position and rookie rankings boards are being debuted, updated and added to daily/weekly up to kick off 2026.
-- Dynasty and Best Ball rankings audits/updates daily/weekly.
-- Holy series QB and RB done. Holy RB Handcuffs underway (on hold for draft, since we’re this close)
-- Full scouting reports on various prospects from now until the NFL preseason. Deeper looks at Demond Claiborne, Kaelon Black, Cyrus Allen and more all on deck.
-- Any FFM News & Notes or Special Reports during the day as I get them.
-- New coaching staff hire’s analysis series...going through the entire staff...I am working on the framework of how I want to present that. This will be a first ever series (for me) where I go beyond ‘just the new head coaches’. ETA in June to start it up.
== NEWS & NOTES & Xs ==
-- There’s like no football news of note right now, besides Dart-Trump-Carter...which is kinda news because there is nothing else, which I’ll get to commenting on that ASAP because I think it FF-matters. So, with nothing else in football to really comment on...let me roll out my one of my new initiatives/projects...and it’s not even about football, but it has some overlap, but it is on FFM.
Everyday this week, I plan to launch something I plan to change/do/eliminate/ask for assistance on. Today, an easy one...
My new project/concept is for the FFM Betting subscribers, but you don’t have to be into football betting at all to be a member of that/enjoy it.
...and just to reiterate, the FFM ‘Betting’ subscription initiative was intended to do two things:
1) Be a place where I could show my bets on games, teams, player props, the draft, etc., if anyone was interested/wanted to consider. And others could share their betting info or questions to me or the group, etc. What you bet and how you bet isn’t my goal or concern...it’s just sharing information.
*NOTE: And I plan to have my new 2026 betting ledgers up this week...I started making season bets now that the schedule finally got announced and able to begin to study the schedules.
2) As/more important...I wanted ‘Betting’ to also be an exclusive club/hangout where not only the gamblers could hang, but also a place where serious FF players/non-gamblers could hang and be among like-minded individuals to chat/pose FF questions or post breaking news, etc. And really it’s just for football talk/chat and mostly FF...but also betting discussions also take place especially more when the games are going.
And our club’s hangout spot is on Discord (FREE), because it’s one of the most universally accepted places for such a thing/chat room. And one of the best Apps or Websites there is for such a thing, tech wise.
If you subscribe to ‘Betting’, I will then send you a private invite to the Discord club...where many topics are discussed, not just betting. More FF is discussed than anything, especially right now with DRDs happening.
But now I am adding a new area to our Discord club that I’ve wanted to do for a while, something that I am also passionate about: I am adding an area for those FFMers/Betting subscribers to freely discuss the stock market/investing.
Why?
Why have a section of a football site for Stock Market talk? ‘
Folks, we are at a special time...a once in a lifetime, once in a decade or two or three time where the American and world-wide economy is going to change more than during the Dot Com era. And we’re about a 20-30% into this revolution. There’s still a-ways to go, and IN MY OPINION those who are invested in the AI/Tech revolution are gonna have a chance to make WAY more money in that area than in football betting or in FF title winning. Lives and generations will be changed with this.
I have been investing on my own for like 25 years now...I got started before 9/11(2001) with a windfall $2,000 we received from a relative, which almost made me quit investing right away when I saw my first stocks invested in that next day the markets were allowed to be opened. I’m self-taught. A lot of the principles and mathematics I used to build FFM...it started doing similar things with the Stock Market. Fantasy Football players are like stocks, and stocks are like FF players. There are so many parallels between FF and the Stock Market, its crazy how much so.
I’ve tinkered with day trading, shorter-term trading, and long-term trading. I’ve lost big and gained big, in pockets of time, moving with the events and wars and recessions and bubbles, etc. I’ve learned to trade by trial and error/bumps and bruises. And in all my time, I’ve never seen anything like this current time period/the past 1-2-3 years...and the forecast/opportunity ahead for years to come...and it will not ever be in a straight line up, but a twist road journey to the destination...like a FF season.
When I left Corporate America, I had a 15-year-old 401K account to deal with. I had to move the account somewhere or the fees leaving it with my old company’s options would quietly hit me (many don’t realize that). So, I rolled it into my own 401K and IRA...accounts under my total control to buy and sell--and trading is mostly free in this era, and to set up your own account is free (they actually pay you for the move in many places depending upon how much you move is how much the bonus is). Now, I manage my money, not some corporate wuss using an investing playbook from 10+ years ago and robbing me blind in hidden fees you never see easily/at all.
I’m not saying I have some golden information or advanced techniques that we can all wildly gamble our way to billionaire status by years’ end. No. I’m a standard buy and hold/sell guy. Meat and potatoes. And there’s far better people than myself to listen to about the companies and the pros and cons of companies or industries, I think. And I’d like to share those people’s YouTube streams with you to try to get you (and me) to help become better investors and take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime event...and get to a better/earlier retirement and better growth than buying some corporate-run IRA with their generic fund options and praying they do something good but having little/no idea what they are doing. I just want a place for people of all stages of investing to share and talk about things that we saw/heard/read that day or week and help other’s out with their thoughts and questions. We can have each other’s backs. And like FF...we can cry some days and celebrate together other days.
If you think you’d like to join such a group/club chat, become a ‘Betting’ Subscriber on FFM...and then I’ll email you to get you into the Discord, and if you’ve not ever been on or heard of Discord, we can help you with that too. It couldn’t be any easier.
I love the Stock Market...it has taught me a ton on how to deal with buying/selling/valuating in Fantasy and dealing with the psychology of it...and dealing with all that in all the other areas of my life.
I hope there are a few other like-minded souls out there that would enjoy this. I am trying to get us all ahead in life and FF...or investing.
The stock market is closed Monday/today, but I will be adding the spot to hang out at to our Discord today, and I am going to post a perfect recent video as the very first post that sums up the investing opportunity at hand.
I am not selling any stock services or instruments or advice or anything related. I am simply a passionate investor trying to get to a great retirement someday...and we are in a once in a lifetime moment, I think. I want to learn and discuss with others. I hope (and think) there are others out there of the same passion/experience, or people who would like to try to get into it...this will be for newbies and veterans, because I want to try and help as many people get over, maximize their money...in Fantasy and/or in the market. I want to help myself too! In the end, the greatest way I think I could ever help you...or my friends and family, is to encourage them to explore getting into this market individually and/or learn how to and talk about it...for it not to be a mystery. It's easier than newbies would think...they want you to think it's too complex. It's a club sharing ideas and emotions and helping who asks...and it's NOT any paid-for professional financial advice and there is nothing in it for me but to try to give back to the community.
See you there a little time after I post this...then I’ll launch the spot and post the inaugural video you should listen to/watch to get an idea of what is happening RIGHT NOW and what is to come, from a thought-leader/investor's opinion...a guy I think is one of the best voices in the game but hardly anyone knows him and you won't find him on regular TV.
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== QUOTES & QUOTABLES (pulled from an internet A.I. search, I try to make sure it’s accurate but some of it is ‘trust in AI’) ==
-- Jaxson Dart’s running plan for 2026? https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/jaxson-dart-hopes-to-make-mature-decisions-when-running-with-the-ball
-- (PFT) Via Mike Reiss of ESPN, Kyle Williams has focused on improving his lower-body strength during the offseason. He has gained five to eight pounds.
Per Reiss, Williams says he’s in the range of 190 to 193 pounds.
Williams hopes to do more work in the middle of the field. He’s also intent on building chemistry with quarterback Drake Maye and mastering the team’s playbook.
Your moment of Zen for this day...
Johnny Football’s first MMA fight: https://x.com/ChampRDS/status/2058449961566523820\
== New Daily Series ==
Let’s rank The Best players/The Most Important players in the NFL!
The NFL does that series each summer where the players (and maybe others?) vote on the top 100 for the prior season, and the outcome (to me) is like a voting by people who never watch football besides highlights and people without a clue voting in very bizarre ways. You know this series, right?
Well, I was wanting to do a kinda top 100 type thing myself, but I am going to tone it down to the top 64...but using two players from each team, so it may be more of a true top 40-50(?) with some forced stragglers on there for the player’s after 40-50+...but it should be ‘close enough’ and ‘interesting enough’, and I guarantee my rankings will be way different than the NFL voting.
I’ll do a team a day, two players from it and when we get enough you’ll see 4-5 tiers develop. I’ll go alphabetical order, but to switch up my usual pattern...I’ll do a reverse alphabetical order. We start with Washington and add two more each day until we get to Arizona.
*When I have an offensive lineman, I’m going to add their overall grades from PFF last year for some context...XX Overall Grade/rank at their position...XX/x, XX/x Pass/Run Block grade with the rank at their position for 2025.
Joe Burrow, Justin Herbert/Patrick Mahomes, Caleb Williams, Matt Stafford, Tristan Wirfs (93/2nd OT...85/4th, 92/3rd), Penei Sewell (95/1st OT...80/11th, 97/1st), Trent Williams (92/3rd OT...80/12th, 93/2nd), Garrett Bolles (89/5th OT...91/1st, 81/14th), Baker Mayfield
Cam Ward, Jaxson Dart, Jayden Daniels, Creed Humphrey (89/1st OC...84/1st, 89/2nd), Puka Nacua, Andrew Thomas (90/4th OT...87/3rd, 85/7th), Rashawn Slater (2024 numbers: 91/2nd OT...90/3rd, 78/15th), JaMarr Chase, Justin Jefferson, Drake Maye
Jordan Mailata (88/6th OT...82/6th, 82/6th), Laremy Tunsil (85/8th OT...89/2nd, 75/21st), Grey Zabel (From Wk14 on, the SEA march to SB: 82/8th OG...79/10th, 82/5th...9 grades in the playoffs), Brock Purdy, Tetairoa McMillan, Sam Darnold, Quinn Meinerz (89/1st OG...71/20th, 92/1st), Zach Tom (84/7th OT...79/15th, 82/12th), Kolton Miller (hurt 2025, 2024: 81/14th OT, 82/11th, 72/25th), Aaron Brewer (87/2nd OC...71/10th, 92/1st), Joe Thuney (78/5th OG...88/1st, 71/15th), Quinyon Mitchell, Christian Gonzalez, Dak Prescott
Sauce Gardner, Jaycee Horn, Derek Stingley, Christian Darrisaw (healthy...he’s top tier, but injuries are killing him), Jared Goff, Tyler Linderbaum (80/4th OC...63/22nd, 84/4th), Daniel Jones, Jordan Love, Aaron Rodgers, Travis Hunter, Peter Skoronski (79/5th OG...85/2nd, 73/10th)
Joey Porter Jr., George Pickens, Myles Garrett, Malik Willis, Breece Hall, Parker Washington, Carson Schwesinger, Kelvin Banks (74/29th OT...70/41st, 76/19th), Will Anderson, Armand Membou (73/31st OT...74/31st, 72/27th), Erik McCoy (68/16th OC...84/1st, 62/25th)
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