10 Tips & Tricks to Win Your League + MEGALABOWL! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 8/19

Fantasy Footballers - Fantasy Football Podcast

The Fantasy Footballers Podcast delivers a high-energy episode packed with actionable tips for dominating your fantasy league, while spotlighting the

Key takeaways

• The Megalobowl is open to all fantasy players, featuring over 21,000 participants annually and offering life-long Foot Clan membership for winners.
• Injury updates reveal key player absences (e.g., Alvin Kamara, Tyler Beatish) that could impact fantasy value, especially for running backs like Travis Kelce and Devin Neal.

Main topics

• Megalobowl 2026: Rules, registration, and rewards
• Top 10 fantasy football tips and tricks for 2026

Notable quotes

"The Megalobowl is the largest fantasy football league. More than 21,000 of you played it last year."

"If you make the playoffs, which the top half of each league does, it's tournament-style, highest points goes forward each week until the championship."

Conclusion

With the Megalobowl now open for registration and expert tips on deck,

Transcript preview

Speaker 1 (0:03) Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to crush, humiliate, and totally destroy your competition and your fantasy football draft. It's incredibly simple, so let me just break it down for you. Ultimate Draft Kit. The Ultimate Draft Kit for the fantasy footballers is hands down the best fantasy tool in existence. I mean, come on. It's got sleepers, it's got busts, injury updates, full projections. This thing's even got full dynasty rankings. Don't overthink this. It's the only wingman you'll need this year. Head over to UltimateDraftKick.com and grab your copy right away. To Speaker 2 (0:48) the Fantasy Footballers Podcast with your hosts, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Speaker 4 (1:03) Welcome in. Speaker 4 (1:15) The Fantasy Footballers Podcast, Wednesday, August 19th. Mike Wright, Jason Moore, Andy Holloway in the building. In Speaker 3 (1:24) the Speaker 4 (1:24) house. Oh, the growls are percolating. The deuces are deucing as they do every day. Speaker 4 (1:36) But yeah, we got a, I mean, we can get straight to it. I mean, we got a big, what? Got a big announcement today. I don't want to hear the like subtle. Speaker 2 (1:43) Straight to what? Speaker 4 (1:46) What? People have been asking for a while. It's time. Go ahead, Jay. Go ahead. What's your announcement? Oh, baby. Speaker 2 (2:05) It's terrifying this year. It is terrifying. That's Speaker 4 (2:09) right. The Magala Bowl for 2026. It's Speaker 3 (2:14) time, baby. That graphic is awesome. Yeah, we have an aquarium Speaker 4 (2:19) in the back. But I would Speaker 3 (2:19) be remiss if I didn't point out some scale issues. Speaker 4 (2:22) Those footballs. The size of a boat. Those are large footballs. If you don't know what the Megalobowl is, it is the largest fantasy football league. It is the most prestigious of fantasy football leagues. More than 21,000 of you played it last year. It is Megalobowl.com. It's go time. If you're a Foot Clan supporter, you get an entry into the Megalobowl. Drafts will be held Friday, September 4th, all the way through Tuesday, September 8th. Kickoff is Wednesday this year. And you can, right this moment, go to megaloball.com and you can claim your draft slot today. Speaker 2 (3:05) Yeah, it's a fun league. We try to make all of the rules, all the settings exactly similar to how we play our League of Record, other than it's not a keeper format. You know, you're going to play against 12 people, randomly assigned, other Foot Clan members that... Oh! Speaker 2 (3:24) They love this game. The giant balls are back. I think I broke something Speaker 4 (3:29) for him, but it disappeared too soon. I wanted it back for the second time when Jason was talking. Speaker 2 (3:34) Yeah, but the leagues are really, really fun. You're going to be playing with other Foot Clan members. In the end, the last three weeks, if you make the playoffs, which the top half of each league does, it's tournament-style, highest points. goes forward each week until the championship. And at that final week, the winner of the Megalobowl is guaranteed a spot with us in the next year's Listener League. That's not all. An ultimate subscription. But wait, there's more. For life. Yeah, the ultimate Foot Clan membership. You will be a part of this forever. So a lot of cool reasons to play in the Megalobowl. Everybody loves it. Sign up. Make sure you do it now. There's plenty of draft slots to go around. We're going to play. Yeah, I'm Speaker 4 (4:22) in Speaker 2 (4:22) it. I've already got my draft slot. We've Speaker 4 (4:23) got Speaker 2 (4:23) draft slots picked Speaker 4 (4:24) out. I'm sure the deuces will be in there, and it'll be a great time. So you can do it now, megalobowl.com. Speaker 3 (4:30) Watching this, man. We need to make that screen like an aquarium more often. Oh, yeah. That's feeling good. Speaker 4 (4:35) Yeah, that was nice. I should add this, too. If you bought the Ultimate Draft Kit and you want to be in the Megalobowl and you're not a Foot Clan member, we will credit your full amount of the UDK towards an Ultimate Membership. So it's dollar for dollar all the way up until kickoff. It's just what we do every year because sometimes people buy the UDK and they're like, well, I want to be in the Megaloball. Speaker 3 (4:55) Don't wait until kickoff, though, because then you'll miss Speaker 2 (4:57) the draft. Yeah, don't do that. Just do it right now. And as far as how you do that, it's really easy. If you're logged in and you have the UDK, then it'll automatically, when you go to the Foot Clan membership page, it just automatically will show you the discount. Speaker 4 (5:10) Yep. So there you go. Megalobull.com. News Speaker 2 (5:16) and notes from around the league. Speaker 4 (5:20) By the way, we finally have our top 10 tips and tricks. Dang it. It's not tricks. It's tips and... Oh, it is tips and tricks. Tricks Speaker 3 (5:29) and Speaker 4 (5:29) tips. I've been doing this every day now. Oh, man. What else could it be? What is dementia? You know what I mean? What is that? How do you spell dementia, Jay? A-N-D-Y. We would Speaker 2 (5:39) tell you, but you won't remember. Speaker 4 (5:43) Okay. Yeah, that's today. We will have tips and tricks. You may not believe in any of mine after... this intro. Alvin Kamara, here's some news. Will miss at least one month due to a sprained MCL. Rumbelaya. And somehow Kendra Miller is back at practice. Speaker 2 (5:59) Oh, stop. I don't believe you. But Speaker 4 (6:01) Travis H. Ann Jr., big deal. Speaker 2 (6:03) Yes. Kendra Miller, Devin Neal, back at practice, but they are not the type of backs. I do worry about Travis H. Ann Jr. with Kamara involved. He is, you know... obviously a big part of this franchise, and he will take some of the receiving work. With him gone, Kendra Miller and Devin Neal are not going to eat into Travis H. Ann Jr. We'll talk more about him upcoming, but this is good news for Travis H. Ann Jr. Sorry, Camara. Speaker 4 (6:32) Quentin Johnson left Tuesday's joint practice against the 49ers with an undisclosed lower body injury, but is, quote, totally fine. Well, that, you know. Okay. Speaker 2 (6:41) Actually, what's ironic about this is that the news was about Quentin Johnson's injury, and then you see that and you go, oh, dude, my guy, Trey Harris. But then it turns out the truth is that Trey Harris was actually missing. He was gone for injury undisclosed, and Quentin Johnson's fine. So really the news is not that Quentin Johnson's injured. It's that Trey Harris is. Speaker 4 (7:03) Why don't you share the other news for the— No. Speaker 2 (7:07) I Speaker 3 (7:07) will not share it. Speaker 2 (7:09) Yeah, the all-world center that the Chargers picked up, Tyler Beatish. He's going to miss a significant amount of time. Sounds like a lot. Yeah, he injured several ligaments, damage to his ACL, and additional injuries to his left knee. He is seeking second opinions on how to deal with it, so we don't know for sure. I mean, as of right now, we just assume he's gone for the season. TBD, it could change, but it's... Terrible, awful, very bad, no good news. And Slater, their left tackle, also currently injured. His is much better. He's going to miss a little bit of time. I mean, yes, it is better than Speaker 3 (7:52) potentially missing the whole season, but didn't they say it was a flare-up? I thought I had read that, so maybe I'm speaking out of turn here. Speaker 2 (7:59) No, I'm unaware if it was a flare-up or not. Speaker 4 (8:03) Yeah, that's not great. Kyle Shanahan said after Tuesday's practice, Mike Evans experienced tightness. This is quadriceps. Mike Evans Speaker 3 (8:12) did Speaker 4 (8:12) the Grandpa Simpson Speaker 3 (8:13) gif. He Speaker 4 (8:15) got Speaker 2 (8:15) back out there and goes, nope. Also, I heard a foot injury on top of this. Mike Evans is falling apart. He should never have gone near that substation. Speaker 4 (8:27) They're running out of wide receivers not named Strip Club right now. Yeah. Speaker 2 (8:34) It is confirmed that Slater is a flare-up, but the timeline is supposed to Speaker 3 (8:39) be about two weeks. I say flare-up as in because he's coming off a torn patella, so it's that. Yeah. Speaker 2 (8:47) That's not good. That's Speaker 3 (8:48) not Speaker 2 (8:48) good. That's not what you want to hear. It's like having a quadriceps injury after having a quadriceps injury. Speaker 4 (8:53) For Mike Evans? Yeah. Speaker 2 (8:54) Yeah. Speaker 4 (8:55) Carnell Tate, undisclosed absence from practice. It Speaker 2 (8:59) was, he took a very big hit, and they weren't saying whether or not he had a concussion, but he didn't participate in the next day's practice. So dealing with something, but it seemed like it was head-related. Did Speaker 4 (9:13) you know Jerome Ford was a member of the Commander's Nation? I did, yeah. And he is now on injured reserve. So then Speaker 3 (9:20) he's toast? He's out for the year? Is that what you're saying? I just see injured reserve. Speaker 2 (9:25) I don't think injured reserve guarantees loss for the year right now. Kyle, Speaker 4 (9:29) is it the whole year? Speaker 2 (9:31) Man, Jerome Ford was not a part Speaker 3 (9:33) of it. Speaker 2 (9:33) No, but Rashad White Speaker 4 (9:34) is not practicing. I mean, right now it's Bill. Speaker 3 (9:41) So, and then Speaker 4 (9:42) Jalen McMillan back at practice for the Buccaneers, Speaker 3 (9:44) which. That is news that that team needed. Speaker 2 (9:48) Yeah, I mean, there was more news on Emeka Igbuka. He was wearing one of those hard sole shoes to protect the toe, which from what they were saying, things came back clean. It's just not a great sign for the grade of whatever turf toe, if it's turf toe he's dealing with, which it's turf toe. Speaker 3 (10:13) But what about me, Jay? Yeah. Give me something to break. Ted Hurst. Yeah. Speaker 2 (10:21) Really, what about Chris Godwin? Who cares? Speaker 3 (10:25) Yeah. And Tez? No, Chris Godwin looking like a mighty nice value right now. Speaker 4 (10:33) All right. I don't think we have other news unless anything's been happening. I mean, we either have, like, injury news that's real or injury news where they're like, that player just left and went to the tent and then went right back out on the field. And then you're like, Speaker 2 (10:44) oh. We get those a lot. I freak out many times a day. Oh, Speaker 3 (10:47) man, that Olave Speaker 2 (10:47) pump fake yesterday. Oh, yeah. Unnecessary. Olave's taken it. That was head injury, right? Speaker 4 (10:53) Wasn't it a concern about head? Oh, Speaker 2 (10:54) man, I didn't see that. If it was that, I would have probably peed my pants. I think I really would have peed my pants. Really? If Speaker 3 (11:04) it Speaker 2 (11:04) was a head injury. That's what your reaction is to a real extreme injury. Speaker 3 (11:07) I Speaker 2 (11:07) would have done it Speaker 3 (11:07) on purpose. I would have done it just. In Speaker 2 (11:10) protest? Speaker 3 (11:10) Yeah. So not like a scared pea. No, no, Speaker 4 (11:12) no. Speaker 3 (11:12) I would have sat there until Speaker 2 (11:14) it was time. This is for you, Olave. This is for you. Golly, golly. Speaker 4 (11:21) Well, we have our 10 tips and tricks we want to share with you. It's a big show, so we're going to kick it off right now. Speaker 2 (11:29) Tips and tricks. Speaker 4 (11:35) All right. It is time to jump in. Each of us contributing three different ideas for 2026 in terms of things to pay attention to, things that we're learning. We always try to bring you something new in this episode each and every year. So let's get it going. Number 10. All right. Number 10, loosely titled Out of Your Depths. I wanted to take a look and see how much. depth you actually need to win at fantasy. I've said it for years that Mike is Mike's championship last year. I mean, and his dynasty team have been built on a lot of depth and the unwillingness to trade away some of that depth mid season and held onto it. And it paid off. I don't Speaker 3 (12:18) know when to consolidate. And Speaker 4 (12:19) I've always said, I adore putting together that perfect best starting lineup, but how much depth do you actually need? So let me give you some uncomfortable math to start off. 27%. That is the chance. That is uncomfortable. That is very uncomfortable. Speaker 3 (12:33) Yeah, I hate that. That Speaker 4 (12:34) is the chance of Jason peeing his pants on a daily. No. The chance of a running back playing a full season, 27%. That is, you know, any running back. Seven out of ten missed games. Last year, here's some more math, only six of the top 24 wideouts that were drafted played a full season. Two of the top 12 drafted receivers played every game. Speaker 4 (13:01) some level setting there for the amount of injury and things that you're going to deal with. Here's uncomfortable math part two. Since 2010, only about 36 % of running back one picks actually beat their draft slot. Speaker 2 (13:16) Gross. Speaker 4 (13:17) So you have injury risk, you have missing games, and then you have performance risk. So basically the math is saying that roughly half of your first nine picks will either underperform their cost or get injured. And you're probably going to cough up 12 to 15 stars due to injury. So not surprisingly, you need depth. That is the answer to the question. So maybe we don't always realize it and you try to thread the needle. Maybe you can get really lucky. Some of the best NFL teams are the healthiest teams at the end of the year. That's nice. But what strategy do you apply per position and how should you think about that? So briefly, I just want to talk about running back position when it comes to depth. Injuries transfer value for that team very predictably in the sense that the backup for the team or the committee back generally steps into that role. So you know, I mean, we've named a bunch of guys this offseason, Blake Corum, Tank Bigsby. You know that there are top tier backups. and committee situations that are valuable to target. Menungai is one of them. Kenny Gainwell is one of them. These are draft day targets that you can add knowing that they're going to have a direct predictable value if the starter goes down. On the other hand, top-tier wide receivers, if they go down, the targets on that team tend to scatter around. Not very many teams are the Pickens, CeeDee Lamb situation. So what that means for wide receivers, or what this tip kind of alludes to, is that it's much tougher to predict or pre-draft the players that are going to benefit from injury, even though you know injuries are going to happen at the wide receiver position. So the way I like to think about it is you can get predictable value transfer with depth running back selections. But the waiver wire is really going to be the place that you win when it comes to finding a valuable wide receiver. And this