Grinding The Variance (A Davis Mattek Fantasy Football Pod)
Davis Mattek
- 161
- Episodes
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
About Grinding The Variance (A Davis Mattek Fantasy Football Pod)
The audio podcast feed for Davis Mattek’s DFS, fantasy football, and best ball streams on the Davis Mattek YouTube channel and elsewhere.
- Publisher
- Davis Mattek
- Category
- news · sports
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 13 Oct 2025
- Latest episode
- 19 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
161 episodes in the feed.
19 Oct 2026
Still the Best to Ever Do It
Sign Up And Try Out Sport.Fun: https://pro.sport.fun/nfl/join?partne (https://pro.sport.fun/nfl/join?partne)... 40% Off Of LiveLineIQ w/ code DAVIS: app.livelineiq.com/davis 🦆SIGN UP FOR FLOCK FANTASY (Rankings, Advice, Personalized Questions → https://flockfantasy.com/signup?code= (https://flockfantasy.com/signup?code=)... Get a deposit bonus and free pick on Underdog: https://play.underdogsports.com/vgwg/ (https://play.underdogsports.com/vgwg/)... Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro: Gibbs & Walker Having All-Time Seasons 1:17 - Half the League Has No Fantasy-Relevant Players 2:57 - BBM Advance Rate Leaderboard Walkthrough (Walker, Hubbard, Watson) 3:12 - Jaylen Warren & Rico Dowdle Timeshare 3:51 - Davante Adams Injury & Bad Injury Reporting 5:49 - Second Round Wasteland: Who Are You Happy With? 6:48 - Matthew Golden Leads NFL in Unrealized Air Yards 7:28 - Kyren Williams Mouthing Off to Beat Writers 9:21 - Tuten Game & Davis’s Jeremy Bernard Exposure 11:32 - Davis’s BBM Portfolio & Top Team 12:25 - Why Kenneth Walker Is Better in KC Than Seattle 13:27 - Scanning First/Second Place Teams on BBMDB 16:51 - Cam Skattebo Benched 18:41 - Only ~30 Players Matter This Year 20:04 - Which Offenses Feed Their Best Players? (Team-by-Team) 22:43 - Bengals Condensed Offense Debate 25:35 - Overall Portfolio & Auto-Draft Dalmatian Experiment 26:27 - NBA Best Ball Exposure, Overlay & Draft Young Guys 30:18 - The Dead List: Season-Ending Injuries 36:24 - The Spiritually Dead List 41:21 - Filtering BBM to Teams With No Dead Players 43:20 - Lesson: You Can Take Multiple Zeros and Still Advance 49:10 - sport.fun Lineup Recap & Pack Opening 53:36 - Eliminator Sweats: Mike Evans Needs 8 Points 58:04 - Grading Davis’s Season-Long Decisions (Golden, Worthy, Downs, Helm) 1:01:05 - Wish I Did 3-5-7-3 Harder & Chuba Hubbard Exposure 1:02:05 - NFFC High Stakes Teams Check-In 1:03:07 - FFPC All-Play Week Check-In 1:07:09 - Spite Main: Peter Benches Jeremy Bernard 1:10:16 - DraftKings SPY Recap: Bijan Over Walker Mistake 1:11:00 - Josh Dombrowski Underdog Shipper & No Broncos Cope 1:12:36 - DraftKings Best Ball: Advancing 28 Teams 1:15:55 - Pre-Draft Teams & Top Scoring DK Team 1:17:02 - Streaming Years Comparison: 9% to Great Season 1:18:43 - SF/WAS Showdown Inputs & Christian Kirk Call 1:21:49 - Touchdown Survivor Dead & Guillotine League Update 1:25:35 - Showdown Sim Results & Jayden Daniels Captain Build 1:31:30 - Slaughter Island Advancing 68 BBM Teams 1:32:07 - Pick’em Build Attempt (Desktop Site Tilt) 1:37:07 - PTP Draft: Caleb Williams Stack (Bears/Patriots Thursday) 1:40:41 - Texans Confusing Usage: Tank Dell, Noel, Bootie 1:42:31 - Main Slate Preview & Q-Tags 1:43:52 - Colston Loveland Rest of Season Outlook 1:46:21 - First Touchdown Market & Christian Kirk Bet 1:47:17 - Jacoby Lane Full-Time Role & Huntley Fakeout 1:49:51 - Tight End Scrolls & Terrance Ferguson IR Timing 1:51:31 - Rest of Season Rankings Update (Lane, Price, Loveland, Golden) 1:55:40 - Nuking Skattebo & His 11% Advance Rate 1:58:17 - Who Has the Most Justin Herbert & Gunner Helm Teams? 1:59:58 - Unreported Commanders Injury Rant 2:01:47 - Romeo Doubs on IR & Commanders Roster Shuffle 2:03:10 - Rankings Update: Jacobs Up, Rashod White Boost, Ekeler Pickup 2:05:12 - Main BR Up but Small (NBA Focus) 2:07:19 - Main BR Draft: Bijan, Hubbard, Infinity Golden, Kirk Ruled Out 2:12:04 - Drafters High Stakes Check & Wrap-Up 💎 Join the channel for Discord access + Perks → / @davis_mattek 👕 Grab Slappy the Seal merch → https://davis-mattek-shop.fourthwall (https://davis-mattek-shop.fourthwall).... 📝Drafters Best Ball ($100 Deposit Bonus) → https://drafters.com/refer/davis (https://drafters.com/refer/davis) 🎯 Premium Tools & Content: Run The Sims (10% off w/ ENDGAME) → https://www.runthesims.com (https://www.runthesims.com) 📩 Stay Connected: Podcast → https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast)... Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com (https://pcm.adswizz.com) for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
19 Oct 2026
What Mattered in Week 6
Davis cuts through some of the noise and talks about things that mattered in Week 6 of the NFL season before Monday Night Football. Sign Up And Try Out Sport.Fun: https://pro.sport.fun/nfl/join?partne (https://pro.sport.fun/nfl/join?partne)... 40% Off Of LiveLineIQ w/ code DAVIS: app.livelineiq.com/davis 🦆SIGN UP FOR FLOCK FANTASY (Rankings, Advice, Personalized Questions → https://flockfantasy.com/signup?code= (https://flockfantasy.com/signup?code=)... Get a deposit bonus and free pick on Underdog: https://play.underdogsports.com/vgwg/ (https://play.underdogsports.com/vgwg/)... 💎 Join the channel for Discord access + Perks → / @davis_mattek 👕 Grab Slappy the Seal merch → https://davis-mattek-shop.fourthwall (https://davis-mattek-shop.fourthwall).... 📝Drafters Best Ball ($100 Deposit Bonus) → https://drafters.com/refer/davis (https://drafters.com/refer/davis) 🎯 Premium Tools & Content: Run The Sims (10% off w/ ENDGAME) → https://www.runthesims.com (https://www.runthesims.com) 📩 Stay Connected: Podcast → https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast)... Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com (https://pcm.adswizz.com) for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
19 Oct 2026
The Worst NFL DFS Lineup I've Ever Seen
Sign Up And Try Out Sport.Fun: https://pro.sport.fun/nfl/join?partne (https://pro.sport.fun/nfl/join?partne)... 40% Off Of LiveLineIQ w/ code DAVIS: app.livelineiq.com/davis 🦆SIGN UP FOR FLOCK FANTASY (Rankings, Advice, Personalized Questions → https://flockfantasy.com/signup?code= (https://flockfantasy.com/signup?code=)... Get a deposit bonus and free pick on Underdog: https://play.underdogsports.com/vgwg/ (https://play.underdogsports.com/vgwg/)... Timestamps: 0:00 - Week 6 Slate Recap: Only One Premium Player, Cheap Values Everywhere 1:24 - Jahmyr Gibbs 66% Owned Last Week, Nate and Davis Dupe Each Other 2:00 - Cash QB Options: Stafford, Caleb Williams, Tanner McKee 3:35 - Sammy Played Deshaun Watson at QB 4:56 - Chuba Hubbard Was the Best RB Play on the Slate 6:19 - Rams Aren’t Good: Kyren Williams and the Blake Corum TD 9:10 - Caleb Williams vs. Stafford: Was Caleb a Cash Play? 10:42 - Davis and Nate’s Duped Cash Lineup 11:06 - Drake London Over Malik Nabers Regret 13:16 - Kyren 63% and Germie Bernard 54% Owned: There’s Still an Edge 14:05 - Isaiah Likely Was the Easiest TE Play; Failed Lock Swaps 15:47 - Xavier Worthy vs. Dallas Goedert Debate 17:06 - KC Concepcion Over Worthy and Bernard 18:55 - Sammy’s Worst Lineup Ever vs. Optimal 20:23 - Drake London Is Too Slow (Bucky Irving Comparison) 21:42 - Ranking Sammy’s Cash Mistakes: Likely, Concepcion Over Bernard 24:30 - Bijan Robinson Over Ken Walker: Record-Low Usage at That Salary 27:11 - Tournaments: D’Andre Swift and Davis’s “Nate Team” 28:14 - Davis’s Big GPP Team: Post-Lock Sims and Walker Over Bijan 30:04 - Combo Ownership: Worthy/Bernard, Bijan/Puka, Titans D 32:14 - Nate’s SPY Team: Rhamondre After the TreVeyon Henderson News 34:28 - Sammy’s SPY Team: Four Rams and Kelce in the Flex 35:00 - Is Stafford Dust? Vegas Still Favors the Rams 36:51 - Kelce With Rashee Rice Out; London/Burden Dome Correlation 37:35 - Rome Odunze vs. Luther Burden 38:34 - Playing the WR2 When the WR1 Is Chalk; Davante Adams Caps Puka 40:08 - Davis’s Bad Red Zone Lineup: Tanner McKee and Josh Downs at $5,800 42:46 - Nate’s Milly Maker Team: Daniel Jones, Downs, Keenan Allen 44:31 - Why Nate Faded Chuba Hubbard (Trevor Etienne Usage) 47:41 - Shoutout to Josh Dombrowski: First Place in the Main 48:30 - Friend’s Brevyn Spann-Ford Anytime TD Parlay 💎 Join the channel for Discord access + Perks → / @davis_mattek 👕 Grab Slappy the Seal merch → https://davis-mattek-shop.fourthwall (https://davis-mattek-shop.fourthwall).... 📝Drafters Best Ball ($100 Deposit Bonus) → https://drafters.com/refer/davis (https://drafters.com/refer/davis) 🎯 Premium Tools & Content: Run The Sims (10% off w/ ENDGAME) → https://www.runthesims.com (https://www.runthesims.com) 📩 Stay Connected: Podcast → https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast)... Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com (https://pcm.adswizz.com) for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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