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Welcome back to the Don't Get Last Guillotine Fantasy Football Podcast! I'm joined by returning guest Akash Patel (@YZR_fantasy) to deliver your ultimate Week 6 survival guide, complete with game-by-game Start/Sit decisions, Scary Starts, Shocking Sits, and an all-new Guillotine Defense/Special Teams (DST) streaming masterclass.Before setting your lineups, we break down the Top 10 WORST FAAB bids of Week 6. Stick around until the end for Akos’s roster post-mortem autopsy (exploring the risk of holding too much FAAB in half-PPR formats) and an essential breakdown of how to play fantasy defenses in elimination leagues without spending a dime.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📌 EPISODE BREAKDOWN & CHAPTERS━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━00:00 - Intro: Welcome Back, Akash Patel! (@YZR_fantasy)02:15 - Top 10 Worst FAAB Bids in Guillotine Fantasy Football Week 612:30 - Wide Receiver Starts And Sits For Guillotine Fantasy Football Week 622:00 - Tight End Starts And Sits For Guillotine Fantasy Football Week 630:00 - Quarterback Starts And Sits For Guillotine Fantasy Football Week 636:30 - Running Back Starts And Sits For Guillotine Fantasy Football Week 643:00 - Guillotine DST Strategy: Streaming Free Defenses Against Your Own QB!45:00 - Chopped Team Autopsy: Why Akash Got Eliminated (Half-PPR RB Theory)48:30 - Outro (Don't Get Last!)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━💡 KEY START/SIT & STRATEGY TAKEAWAYS━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• Quarterback Landmines: Bench Jayden Daniels against the 49ers juggernaut defense and consider benching Patrick Mahomes in a run-heavy Chiefs game script. Target high-volume shootouts with Kirk Cousins, Matthew Stafford, and Jameis Winston.• Running Back Floor Plays: Start MarShawn Lloyd vs. Dallas, Cam Skattebo vs. New Orleans, and smash start Rhamondre Stevenson against the Jets. Avoid Dameon Pierce against Carolina's sneaky run defense and fade the messy Chargers three-headed committee.• Wide Receiver Outlook: High-floor targets include Josh Downs (exploiting the middle of the Titans secondary), Khalil Shakir, and Jakobi Meyers. Fade all secondary Texans receivers (including newly acquired Marvin Harrison Jr.) until target volume stabilizes.• Guillotine Defense/Special Teams (DST) Hack: NEVER spend FAAB on defenses. Stream for free off waivers every week by targeting the defense playing against your own starting quarterback—it acts as natural insurance to protect your weekly scoring floor!━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔗 GUEST LINKS & CONNECT━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• Follow Akash Patel on X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/YZR_fantasy• Host: Joe Harris (@DontGetLast)• Listen to the Don't Get Last Podcast on Spotify & Apple Podcasts!━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━💀 WHAT IS GUILLOTINE FANTASY FOOTBALL?━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━In a Guillotine league, there are no head-to-head records or traditional playoff matchups. Each week, the lowest-scoring team across the entire league is instantly eliminated ("chopped"). The eliminated team’s complete roster is dumped onto waivers, triggering high-stakes Free Agent Acquisition Budget (FAAB) bidding wars among surviving managers. Ceiling doesn't matter—surviving the weekly cut line is everything!💬 JOIN THE CONVERSATION:Who is your top start/sit dilemma for Week 6? Did someone in your league blow their budget on Saquon Barkley or Jalen Hurts? Drop your matchups in the comments below, call your grandma, and hit the subscribe button to help us grow!#GuillotineLeagues #FantasyFootball #Week6Fantasy #StartSit #GuillotineStrategy #ChoppedFantasy #FantasyFootballAdvice #NFLStats #DontGetLastPodcast #FantasyWaiverWire

Welcome to the Ultimate Guillotine Fantasy Football Mid-Season Strategy Guide! I get a little deeper than usual with the mathematical, economic, and tactical principles needed to transition from early-season survival to winning your league championship.Most managers make the fatal mistake of playing scared—blowing FAAB early just to crawl into Week 12, only to have zero purchasing power when super-teams form. In this 40-minute overview, I'll explain why your league is currently experiencing FAAB deflation (and why your remaining budget has effectively doubled in purchasing power), how to self-assess your roster using the "3 J's" framework, and 5 tactical rules to maximize your championship equity.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📌 EPISODE BREAKDOWN & CHAPTERS (40:00)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━00:00 - Intro: Mid-Season Pivot & Playing to Win the Championship01:30 - Economics 101: Understanding FAAB Deflation in Guillotine Leagues06:00 - The Remaining FAAB Metric: Why Your Dollars Have Doubled in Value10:00 - The "3 J's" Self-Assessment Framework: Diagnosing Your Roster13:00 - Roster Tier 1: The Juggernaut (Why You Must Stop Spending Money)17:00 - Roster Tier 2: Just A Team / JAT (Buying Groceries vs. Big Splurges)19:00 - Roster Tier 3: The JIFU Team (How to Rebuild from Zero FAAB & Win)21:00 - Risk Theory: Why Taking High-Floor Risks NOW is Statistically Safer24:00 - Why And How We Bid In Guillotine Fantasy Football25:00 - JJ Zachariason Data: How Much Do Early Weeks Actually Predict?30:00 - Tip #1: Schedule Mapping & The Post-Bye Value Boost31:40 - Tip #2: Correlation Stacking & Shadow "Head-to-Head" Game Theory34:10 - Tip #3: Weather Risk Floors & Avoiding Catastrophic Duds35:30 - Tip #4: The "Always Be Selling" Bench Strategy & Roster Construction37:45 - Tip #5 & Philosophy: Championship Equity vs. Crawling to Week 1239:00 - Listener Community Shoutout & Outro (Don't Get Last!)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🧠 KEY CONCEPTS & STRATEGIES IN THIS EPISODE━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• The FAAB Deflation Phenomenon: In sharp leagues, roughly 40-50% of the total starting FAAB has already evaporated through chops and early bids. That means remaining FAAB is twice as valuable per dollar today as it was in Week 1. Stop paying Week 1 prices for Week 6 players!• The "3 J's" Roster Audit: 1. Juggernaut: High-floor studs, 600+ FAAB, zero bench depth. Do NOT buy luxury players like Brock Bowers—let your cash appreciate. 2. J.A.T. (Just A Team): Average floor with 1-2 holes. Buy cheap "groceries" ($15-$25 fill-ins) instead of blowing your budget on elite names. 3. J.I.F.U. (Joe, I F***ed Up): Low projections, depleted FAAB. Exploit trading, target cheap volume on waivers, and lean into variance.• Tactical Bench Management: Run a lean bench! Hold only ONE versatile backup flex (preferably an RB). If a player isn't in your starting lineup, aggressively trade them for FAAB before their value depreciates.• Shadow Head-to-Head Matchups: When battling another cellar team on the cutline, match their key players (e.g., starting Joe Burrow against their Ja'Marr Chase) to cap their ceiling.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━💀 WHAT IS GUILLOTINE / CHOPPED FANTASY FOOTBALL?━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━In a Guillotine league, there are no head-to-head records or traditional playoff brackets. Every single week, the lowest-scoring team across the entire league is instantly eliminated ("chopped"), and their entire roster is dumped onto waivers for remaining managers to bid on with FAAB. Surviving the weekly cut line is everything!💬 JOIN THE CONVERSATION:What percentage of FAAB is left in your league? Which of the "3 J's" describes your roster right now? Drop your questions and team dilemmas in the comments below, and please hit the buttons that give Joe that dopamine!#GuillotineLeagues #FantasyFootball #GuillotineStrategy #ChoppedFantasy #FantasyFootballStrategy #GameTheory #FAABStrategy #FantasyFootballAdvice #NFLStats #DontGetLastPodcast #StartSit

Welcome back to the Don't Get Last Guillotine Fantasy Football Podcast! This week, we deliver your ultimate survival blueprint for Week 6 chopped waiver wires, breaking down exact dollar-amount FAAB valuations (out of $1,000) for every fantasy-relevant NFL player.First, we go through the 3 Golden Rules of FAAB Management, highlight why the "Chop Line" flattens between Weeks 4 and 7 (aim for 90+ points!), and reveal how to exploit the "Second-Best Player" waiver bidding strategy. Then, we dive into a comprehensive game-by-game breakdown—covering every team from the Week 5 slate, plus post-bye valuations for the Chiefs and Panthers!━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📌 EPISODE BREAKDOWN & CHAPTERS (58:00)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━00:00 - Intro & The 3 Golden Rules of FAAB Strategy01:45 - Bye Week Planning (Weeks 6–9) & Avoid the Vikings Trap!03:00 - The "Chop Line" Data: How Many Points Do You Need to Survive?06:20 - The "Second-Best Player" Waiver Bidding Strategy08:15 - Eagles vs. Jaguars: Buying Back on Jalen Hurts, Devonta Smith & Parker Washington13:40 - Bears vs. Packers: Roschon Johnson Value & The Green Bay Backfield19:10 - Texans vs. Titans: Nico Collins, Woody Marks & Fading Carnell Tate24:30 - Bengals vs. Dolphins: Chase Brown Buy-Low & Ollie Gordon's True Worth29:20 - Raiders vs. Patriots: Brock Bowers, Ashton Jeanty & Rhamondre Stevenson34:00 - Vikings vs. Saints: Jordan Addison Bye Discount & Chris Olave37:45 - Browns vs. Jets: Quinshon Judkins Value & Garrett Wilson41:30 - Colts vs. Steelers: Jonathan Taylor Realism & Jaylen Warren Bellcow Role45:15 - Buccaneers vs. Cowboys: Bucky Irving, Dak Prescott & Javonte Williams48:20 - Giants vs. Commanders: Cam Skattebo & Jayden Daniels Bye Stash50:40 - Broncos vs. Chargers & Lions vs. Cardinals: Amon-Ra & Trey McBride53:00 - 49ers vs. Seahawks: CMC, Emanuel Wilson & JSN54:20 - Ravens vs. Falcons: Derrick Henry, Zay Flowers & Bijan Robinson55:30 - Post-Bye Bids: Panthers (Chuba Hubbard) & Chiefs (Kenneth Walker)56:45 - Bills vs. Rams Preview, Listener Victory Lap & Outro━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━💡 KEY STRATEGIES & FAAB VALUES DISCUSSED━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• The 90-Point Survival Rule: In Weeks 4 through 7, league cut lines flatten as bye weeks kick in. You do NOT need ceiling—you need a safe 90-to-100-point floor.• The "Second-Best Player" Hack: Instead of joining the league-wide bidding war on the marquee name (e.g., CeeDee Lamb), target the second-best player (e.g., Chris Olave or Devonta Smith) at a fraction of the cost.• Core FAAB Valuations (Out of $1,000): - Elite Difference Makers: Kenneth Walker (\$252–\$272), Brock Bowers (\$252), JSN (\$252), Bijan Robinson (\$252), Derrick Henry (\$202), Nico Collins (\$202), Christian McCaffrey (\$202). - High-Floor RB Targets: Rhamondre Stevenson (\$82–\$122), Jaylen Warren (\$122–\$162), Chase Brown (\$122–\$162 post-dud discount), Chuba Hubbard (\$102–\$132). - Sneaky Bye/Injury Fill-Ins: Emanuel Wilson (\$22–\$32), Ollie Gordon II (\$12–\$32), Roschon Johnson (\$3–\$12). - Wide Receivers: Parker Washington (\$152–\$182), Christian Watson (\$150+), Garrett Wilson (\$152–\$182).━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━💀 WHAT IS GUILLOTINE / CHOPPED FANTASY FOOTBALL?━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━In a Guillotine league, there are no head-to-head matchups. Each week, the lowest-scoring team across the league is instantly eliminated ("chopped"), and their entire roster is dumped onto waivers for remaining managers to bid on with FAAB. Surviving the weekly cut line is everything!💬 JOIN THE CONVERSATION:Who got chopped in your league this week? Did you score a discount on post-bye Panthers or Chiefs? Drop your waiver targets and start/sit questions below, and please hit the buttons that give Joe that dopamine!#FantasyFootball #GuillotineLeagues #NFLFantasy #FantasyWaiverWire #FAABStrategy #Week6Fantasy #FantasyFootballAdvice #NFLStats #DontGetLastPodcast #StartSit

Welcome back to the Don't Get Last Chopped Fantasy Football Podcast! I'm joined by Kent Weyrauch (@KentWeyrauch) from Fantasy Football World and DraftAcxis.com to break down essential Week 5 Guillotine & Chopped survival strategy.First, I make Kent react to the wildest, most destructive FAAB bids from Week 4 waivers—in which at least 5 teams absolutely nuke their seasons.Then, we dive into full Start/Sit breakdowns across Wide Receivers, Tight Ends, Quarterbacks, and Running Backs, highlighting must-start high-floor plays, deep waiver streamers, and dangerous trap matchups to make sure your roster stays above the cut line. Finally, Kent walks through the post-mortem of his own recently chopped team to highlight the critical balance between holding FAAB and managing roster injuries.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📌 EPISODE BREAKDOWN & CHAPTERS (1:15:17)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━00:00 - Intro: Welcome Kent Weyrauch (@KentWeyrauch)02:15 - Honorable Mention Worst Bids08:20 - Top 10 Worst FAAB Bids In Week 428:40 - Wide Receiver Starts: Keon Coleman Monday Night Miracle & Jameson Williams34:15 - Wide Receiver Sits: DK Metcalf vs. Indy & Non-Trey Harris Chargers37:45 - WR Scary Starts & Shocking Sits: Dontayvion Wicks, Kendrick Bourne & Tee Higgins43:10 - Tight End Starts & Sits: Isaiah Likely, Kenyan Sadiq Bounceback & Mayer Trap48:30 - TE Scary Start (Greg Dulcich) & Shocking Sit (Mark Andrews)51:00 - Quarterback Starts & Streamers: Aaron Rodgers, Matthew Stafford & Jacoby Brissett54:20 - Quarterback Sits & Trap Matchups: CJ Stroud, Tyler Shough & Kyler Murray57:45 - QB Scary Start: Jaylen Daniels vs. Dallas Cowboys Defense1:00:15 - Running Back Starts: Bijan/Brian Robinson, David Montgomery & Ollie Gordon1:04:10 - RB Sits & Landmines: Tony Pollard, Tyjae Spears & Saints Backfield1:07:30 - Deep RB Scary Starts: Austin Ekeler & Corey Kiner1:10:00 - Chopped Team Autopsy: Kent's Roster Breakdown & When to Spend vs. Save FAAB━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🏈 KEY TOPICS & PLAYERS IN THIS EPISODE━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• The Week 4 FAAB Disaster Reel: Why spending 50%+ of your starting budget on ANYONE (much less Justin Herbert and Thomas Fidone) guarantees a slow bleed to elimination.• Wide Receiver Outlook: Why Keon Coleman is a prime Monday Night target with D.J. Moore banged up; Parker Washington's target volume; why you must sit outside receivers against Indianapolis; and Kendrick Bourne as a sneaky deep play.• Tight End Navigation: Why Isaiah Likely and Kenyan Sadiq offer elite bounce-back floor, while Michael Mayer and Tucker Kraft run into brutal defensive funnel matchups.• Quarterback Streamers: Safe weekly floors from Aaron Rodgers, Jacoby Brissett, and Matthew Stafford; why you must bench Kyler Murray and Jaylen Hurts; and Jaylen Daniels as a high-upside Thursday night runner.• Running Back Survival: Handling the RB injury apocalypse with David Montgomery, Brian Robinson Jr., and Samaje Perine; avoiding Tony Pollard against Houston; and scraping the wire for Corey Kiner.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔗 GUEST & HOST LINKS━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• Follow Kent Weyrauch on X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KentWeyrauch• Check out Draft Axis: https://draftaxis.com• Listen to Fantasy Football World: https://ffworldshow.com• Host: Joe Harris (@Don'tGetLast)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━💀 WHAT IS GUILLOTINE / CHOPPED FANTASY FOOTBALL?━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━In a Guillotine (or Chopped) league, there are no head-to-head records or traditional playoff brackets. Every single week, the lowest-scoring team across the entire league is instantly eliminated ("chopped"). That team’s complete roster gets thrown onto waivers, triggering high-stakes Free Agent Acquisition Budget (FAAB) bidding wars among surviving managers. Ceiling doesn't matter—surviving the weekly cut line is everything!#FantasyFootball #GuillotineLeagues #ChoppedFantasy #NFLFantasy #FantasyFootballWeek5 #StartSit #WaiverWire #FAABStrategy #NFLStats #DontGetLastPodcast

Welcome back to the Don't Get Last Guillotine and Chopped Fantasy Football Podcast! Where we break down critical waiver wire targets, FAAB bidding dollar amounts, and survival strategy heading into NFL Week 5 (Week 4 Chopped Waivers).In this episode, we detail the 3 Golden Rules of FAAB Management, answer listener mailbag questions on bidding too low, explore the "Friends with Benefits" wide receiver roster-stacking strategy, and go into every single NFL game from the week to provide exact dollar-amount FAAB valuations for running backs, wide receivers, tight ends, and quarterbacks.Plus: Stay tuned until the very end (1:10:00) to help me tell off a sketchy gambling sponsorship offer sent to the podcast!━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📌 EPISODE BREAKDOWN & CHAPTERS (1:11:20)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━00:00 - Intro & The 3 Golden Rules of Early FAAB Strategy03:30 - Bye Week Roadmap (Weeks 5, 6 & 7) + Sort Waivers by Roster %06:20 - Mailbag: What to Do If You're Bidding Too Low (Cast a Wider Net!)09:15 - The "Friends With Benefits" Stacking Strategy11:45 - Steelers vs. Browns: Jaylen Warren, Quinshon Judkins & Target Values17:00 - Colts vs. Commanders: Jonathan Taylor, Daniel Jones & Austin Ekeler23:15 - Patriots vs. Bills: Is Drake Maye Back? Romeo Doubs, James Cook & Kincaid30:30 - Jets vs. Bears: Fading the Jets Offense & Kyle Monangai's Big Day35:10 - Jaguars vs. Bengals: Bidding on Jamar Chase, Tee Higgins & Chase Brown41:40 - Giants vs. Cardinals: Malik Nabers, Trey McBride & Michael Wilson47:20 - Rams vs. Eagles: Kyren Williams, Puka Nacua & Saquon Barkley Injury Fallout52:45 - Packers vs. Buccaneers: Bucky Irving Concerns & Green Bay Backfield Mess56:30 - Titans vs. Ravens: Derrick Henry Revenge Game & Zay Flowers Breakout1:00:15 - Cowboys vs. Texans: C.J. Stroud, Dak Prescott & Javonte Williams Surge1:03:50 - Vikings vs. Dolphins & Chiefs vs. Raiders: Ollie Gordon, Worthy & Bowers1:06:40 - 49ers vs. Broncos, Chargers vs. Seahawks & Panthers vs. Lions (Bryce Young!)1:09:45 - Chopped Mourning: Rest in Peace Brandon Kola1:10:00 - Scam Sponsorship Mailbag: How Should We Reply? & Outro━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━💡 KEY STRATEGIES & TOPICS IN THIS EPISODE━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• 3 Rules of Early FAAB: Don't blow your budget on one player, plan 3-4 weeks ahead for NFL bye weeks (Chiefs & Panthers on bye in Week 5; Bengals, Lions, Dolphins, Vikings in Week 6), and ALWAYS sort waiver wires by roster percentage instead of projected weekly points.• Key FAAB Bidding Dollar Tiers: - High-Tier Target Values: CeeDee Lamb (\$182-\$222+), Zay Flowers (\$222-\$262), Brock Bowers (\$250-\$300), JSN (\$222-\$262), Kyren Williams (\$180-\$212), Jonathan Taylor (\$162-\$212). - High-Floor RB Values: Jaylen Warren (\$152-\$182), Chuba Hubbard (\$120-\$162), Chase Brown (\$160-\$180). - Discounted/Injured Stars: Ja'Marr Chase (\$112-\$152), Lamar Jackson (\$60-\$80), Drake Maye (\$32-\$42).━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━💀 WHAT IS A GUILLOTINE / CHOPPED LEAGUE?━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━There are no head-to-head records or traditional playoff brackets. Every single week, the lowest-scoring team across the entire league is instantly eliminated ("chopped"). That team’s complete roster gets thrown into the free agent pool, triggering intense weekly FAAB bidding wars among surviving managers. Ceiling doesn't matter—surviving the weekly cut line is everything!💬 JOIN THE CONVERSATION:Who got chopped in your league this week? How much FAAB are you dropping on the waiver wire? Leave a comment below, give the video a thumbs up (give Joe that dopamine!), and don't forget to submit your funniest reply to the sketchy sponsor email!#FantasyFootball #GuillotineLeagues #NFLFantasy #FantasyWaiverWire #FAABStrategy #Week5Fantasy #StartSit #NFLStats #DontGetLastPodcast #FantasyFootballAdvice

Update! The wrong audio was briefly available for this episode, the error has been corrected and we are now live for real! I apologize for the inconvenience! Welcome back to Season 4, Episode 20 of the Don't Get Last Chopped Fantasy Football Podcast! I'm joined by football data specialist Jon (@mibpj) from YunoSports.com to bring you the ultimate survival blueprint for Week 4 of the NFL season.In a Guillotine / Chopped fantasy league, ceiling doesn't matter—SURVIVAL is everything. One bad lineup choice or bust candidate can get your team instantly chopped. Today, we break down critical Week 4 Starts, Sits, Scary Starts, and Shocking Sits across Quarterback, Running Back, Wide Receiver, and Tight End, plus review the most outrageous FAAB bidding mistakes of Week 3.Stay tuned until the final segment for an exclusive live demonstration of UnoSports.com, covering NFL data slicing in "The Lab," weekly team injury metrics, and the 4th-quarter clutch drive analyzer!━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 EPISODE BREAKDOWN & CHAPTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 00:00 - Intro: Welcome Jon (@mibpj) & Setting Up Week 4 02:15 - The Worst Week 3 FAAB Bids 09:40 - Week 4 Wide Receiver Starts & Sits: Deebo, Jameson Williams & Fading the Bears 18:10 - WR Scary Starts & Shocking Sits: Malik Nabers vs. Christian Watson Regression 25:30 - Tight End Strategy: Darren Waller, Revenge Narratives & The Dalton Kincaid Trap 34:10 - Quarterback Breakdown: CJ Stroud, Target Matchups & Sits to Avoid Elimination 43:30 - Running Back Survival Guide: High-Floor Starts, Sneaky Backups & Brutal Matchups 52:15 - RB Scary Starts & Shocking Sits: Fade Javonte Williams & Keaton Mitchell Upside 1:01:20 - Guillotine RB Game Theory & Navigating Thin Waiver Wires 1:07:00 - UnoSports Walkthrough: "The Lab" & Meet "Chad" the AI Data Engine 1:13:40 - Advanced NFL Metrics: Live Team Health Index & The Joe Burrow Clutch Debate 1:18:20 - Fantasy League Sync Tools, Free vs. Pro Features & Outro ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 LINKS & RESOURCES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📊 Explore UnoSports & Test "The Lab": https://yunosports.com 🐦 Follow John on X / Twitter: https://twitter.com/mibpj🎙️ Subscribe to the Don't Get Last Podcast for weekly survivor & waiver wire advice!━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💀 WHAT IS GUILLOTINE FANTASY FOOTBALL? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ In a Guillotine / Chopped league, there are no head-to-head records or traditional playoff brackets. Every single week, the lowest-scoring team across the entire league is instantly eliminated ("chopped"). The eliminated team’s entire roster is released to the waiver wire, triggering high-stakes Free Agent Acquisition Budget (FAAB) bidding wars among surviving managers. Playing Guillotine requires high-floor players, risk mitigation, and disciplined budget management. 💬 JOIN THE CONVERSATION: What was the craziest FAAB bid in your league this week? Who is your top survivor play for Week 4? Drop your start/sit questions in the comments below, and we'll help you stay off the chopping block! #FantasyFootball #GuillotineLeagues #NFLFantasy #FantasyFootballWeek4 #StartSit #FantasyFootballAdvice #NFLWaiverWire #UnoSports #NFLAnalytics #FantasyFootballRankings

In today’s Week 4 waiver wire breakdown, we’re diving deep into the math and game theory behind Guillotine and Chopped-league-style fantasy football. Surviving until the end requires balancing roster safety with long-term FAAB capital. We get into the statistical "Expected Value" of your FAAB budget, how to price mid-tier floor stabilizers versus elite superstars, and why holding all your cash can actually kill your team.Plus, we run through full Sunday game recaps, injury fallout (Devon Achane, Jaylen Coker, Baker Mayfield, Justin Jefferson), droppable quarterbacks, and exact dollar-amount FAAB bid recommendations for EVERY major target on the wire.Key Takeaways & Strategy Rules:The Golden Rules of Guillotine FAAB: Why you shouldn't blow 500+ on top-tier bids early, how to exploit exponential FAAB inflation, and why low-balling the chopped player pool works.Bye-Week Planning: Look 2–3 weeks ahead to scoop up stash players for free instead of panic-bidding later.Roster Sorting Hack: Why you must sort the waiver wire by Roster Percentage rather than projected points to find injured stars (Puka Nacua, A.J. Brown, Justin Jefferson) sitting on the wire for cheap.FAAB Expected Value (EV): Why spending 250 on a solid starter (Javonte Williams tier) yields better long-term survival equity than saving 100% of your budget or overpaying 500+ for one player.Episode Timestamps00:00-2:15 – Intro: Week 4 Waiver Wire & Guillotine Strategy Mindset02:15-04:10 – The 3 Core Rules: Avoiding Mega Bids & Casting a Wide FAAB Net04:10-05:45 – Bye-Week Preparation: Planning 2–3 Weeks in Advance05:45-07:30 – The Waiver Sorting Hack: Target High-Roster% Zero-Projected Players07:30-10:45 – Advanced Strategy: The Math of FAAB Expected Value (EV) to Week 1210:45-14:50 – Case Studies: Aaron Jones vs. Bijan Robinson vs. Javonte Williams14:50-16:30 – Surviving vs. Thriving: Why Floor Beats Upside in Cut Leagues16:30-21:15 – Chargers at Bills: Justin Herbert Droppable? & James Cook Bidding21:15-26:40 – Browns at Panthers: Jaylen Coker Injury, Darren Waller & Tet McMillan26:40-33:20 – Lions at Jets: Geno Smith Surge, Garrett Wilson & Breece Hall Concern33:20-38:50 – Colts at Texans: Jonathan Taylor Trap, Tyler Warren & Houston Woes38:50-42:10 – Chiefs at Dolphins: Devon Achane Injury Fallout, Rashee Rice & Backup RBs42:10-46:20 – Giants at Titans: Cam Skattebo & Tennessee WR Volatility46:30-51:45 – Bengals at Steelers: Chase Brown Dip, Jaylen Warren Takeover51:45-56:10 – Seahawks at Commanders: Marcus Mariota Stunner & Backfield Chaos56:10-1:00:40 – Patriots at Jaguars: Dropping Drake Maye & Bhayshul Tuten Bids1:00:40-1:04:30 – 49ers at Cardinals: Brock Purdy MVP Tier & Jeremiah Love Breakout1:04:30-1:07:45 – Vikings at Buccaneers: Baker Mayfield Out, Justin Jefferson & Addison1:07:45-1:12:15 – Ravens at Cowboys: Lamar Jackson Floor, Zay Flowers & CeeDee Lamb1:12:15-1:16:15 – Raiders at Saints: Brock Bowers Dominance & Tyler Shough Fantasy Magic1:16:00-1:18:45 – Rams at Broncos: Kyren Williams, Matthew Stafford & Receiver Values1:18:45-1:22:00 – Falcons at Packers: Drake London Explosion & Jordan Love Outlook1:22:00 – Wrap-Up: Subscribe & Hit the Buttons That Bring Serotonin!

Guillotine fantasy football strategy, worst FAAB bids, and full positional Start/Sit advice for this week! In this episode, we break down the biggest overpays and bidding mistakes from chopped leagues, followed by comprehensive Start/Sit rankings across Quarterbacks, Running Backs, Wide Receivers, and Tight Ends to help keep your roster alive and avoid elimination. 📌 TIMESTAMPS / CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Top 10 Worst FAAB Bids in Guillotine Fantasy Football 26:00 - Start / Sit Guillotine/Chopped Wide Receivers 49:00 - Start / Sit Guillotine/Chopped Tight Ends 1:02:00 - Start / Sit Guillotine/Chopped Quarterbacks 1:15:00 - Start / Sit Guillotine/Chopped Running Backs 🏈 TOPICS DISCUSSED: - The biggest FAAB overpays & bidding mistakes in Guillotine / Chopped leagues - Floor vs. ceiling Start/Sit strategy for elimination formats - Positional breakdowns: WR, TE, QB, and RB survival targets - Roster management and waiver strategy to avoid getting chopped 🔔 Subscribe to Don't Get Last for weekly Guillotine Fantasy Football strategy, FAAB bidding breakdowns, and Start/Sit advice! #GuillotineLeagues #FantasyFootball #FAABStrategy #StartSit #FantasyFootballAdvice #GuillotineFantasyFootball #ChoppedFantasyFootball #KnockoutFantasyFootball

After a slew of Week 2 injuries, who might be on your guillotine/chopped/knockout league waiver wire and how much should you spend to acquire them? Tune in to find out now!#fantasyfootball #guillotinefantasyfootball #choppedfantasyfootball #knockoutfantasyfootball

What do you do when half of the NFL is down a starting wide receiver? How do you recover from a Kyler Murray or Brock Bowers injury this early in the season of guillotine fantasy football? Is Jalen Coker the greatest player of all time? We answer all these questions and more today, breaking down Week 2 Starts and Sits for Guillotine/Chop/Knockout Fantasy Football!#fantasyfootball #guillotinefantasyfootball #chopfantasyfootball #knockoutfantasyfootball

Owen from Chop Fantasy Football.Com joins me on the show today as we break down every game from week 1 of the NFL season and how you should bid on the players in them in Guillotine, Chop, and Knockout Fantasy Football!#fantasyfootball #guillotinefantasyfootball #chopfantasyfootball #knockoutfantasyfootball

If you have Brock Bowers, AJ Brown, or Davante Adams in a guillotine fantasy football league, a chop fantasy football league, or a knockout fantasy football league, this episode is for you! We break down the best starts, sits, and pickups you can make before Week 1 starts in your chop leagues. Plus, stick around until the end for a brief guide on how to spend your FAAB depending on your league!#fantasyfootball #guillotinefantasyfootball #chopfantasyfootball #knockoutfantasyfootball

Breaking down the best guillotine fantasy football draft strategies out there, plus some good guillotine fantasy football tips to help you win your league in a breeze! #fantasyfootball #guillotinefantasyfootball

Today we break down some of the most valuable sleepers and breakouts in guillotine fantasy football, and of course we talk about the biggest busts in guillotine fantasy football as well. The wrong pick will sink your ship! Find out who they are here! We're taking Jalen Coker over Carnell Tate. We're taking Jaylin Noel over Alec Pierce. We're taking Dallas Goedert over Travis Kelce. You don't win your league swinging for the fences around these parts, you win your league aiming for MID. #fantasyfootball #guillotinefantasyfootball

How do the players on the Steelers, Bengals, Browns, and Ravens stack up on your guillotine draft board? Find out here! Also be sure to check out our guillotine leagues in the links below!Normal PPR:https://sleeper.com/i/QBMZmbkQj3qw432 Person League:https://sleeper.com/i/V98LnE0OPA2Rk#fantasyfootball #guillotinefantasyfootball