2023 PLAYOFF SWARMS
“Never bring a stack to a swarm fight…” - Abraham Lincoln
Hey Yall! My name is GOYAADi, the Patron Saint of Slow Drafts…I Commish the STANLEY NAPKIN, the “Slowest-Drafting Highest-Scoring Tournament in the World”…probably* Any Napkin Vets in the house??
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Whoa, nice rawrs yall…impressive. Well welcome back! Napkin drafts don’t start til August so I’m gonna help you win some best balls.
Feel free to snag your Napkin league(s) early, same Nap scoring - same Nap channel…
ALLLL RIGHT…
Since this is going to blow some minds (and I’ve got my ‘nice’ shoes on) let’s eeease in. Here is the Playoff Schedule for every Team in 2023, presented in 8-Bit Tecmographic.
Everyone sees Houston and Tennessee playing in weeks 15 and 17…right? Derrick Henry, two shots at the Texans, bookending the fantasy playoffs…can I get a confirmation rawr?
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Ok great! What? Dude in the back didn’t? Oh snap! Bring him up! Bring him UP!
Front row, Sir! Welcome!
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What if I told you…there are other, possibly BETTER, schedule quirks we can leverage, or “swarm”…to maximize our Playoff Game Stacks and have our roster “restack” itself every week…all available right now in phone-sized TecmoVision cheat sheets …just like the one above…
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… and you can go save them now without reading a damn thing more….
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HOW TO READ SWARM CHARTS
LIT PILLS = STACKED
GRAY PILLS = UNSTACKED
+GRAY PILL = +2.0 PGS
PGS = LIT PILLS / # of Teams
Ex: 4w2 = 4 Playoff Games Stacked with 2 Players = 2.0 PGS
Sorry for Math…
Draft from the Left
Opponents (Week 15-16-17) on the Right
Got it?
Let’s GO!
SWARM 0
HOU-TEN
PGS: 2.0 (4w2)
This is not a swarm…this is a stack. Even though you get 2 out of the 3 playoff weeks stacked, and with just two players you stack 4 out of 6 total playoff starts. Drafting players from Houston and Tennessee…is only a stack.
SWARM 1
10 WHO?
PGS: 2.0 (8w4)
Remember those two gray pills, from like three seconds ago? Seattle and Cleveland…scroll back up…so, what if…we drafted players from Seattle and Cleveland, our previously GRAY PILL teams, too?
Your Houston and Tennessee players are now stacked every. single. week. (of the fantasy playoffs)
Now THAT is a swarm, to the tune of 2.0 PGS (pronounced “pigs”, bc why not) out of a perfect 3.0 available playoff games…but, THIS swarm has a week 16 focus, and these aren’t exactly offensive juggernauts sooo I’m not recommending this as a swarm you would want to target. However…a contrarian might be buying while everyone is selling…like the Derrick Henry 3rd Round Discount I’ve been seeing. Just saying…
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SWARM 2
QRUSH aka QB Rush aka ARRUH-CHUH-PHUH
PGS: 1.5 (6w4)
This is a swarm of Top Rushing QBs who play each other (in the playoffs) a tick more than the average bear (Chi-town pun intended). This strategy needs to be implemented immediately in the draft in order to achieve some semblance of a competent roster. Brown-Hurts, Fields-Moore, London, Conner is the best start I’ve been able to do more than once. Still trying to sneak a Devonta or a top-3 pick in with that somewhere, maybe pivot to a Pitts…I digress, facing the better score each week of Jalen Hurts AND Justin Fields (who I hear is Jalen Hurts 2.0) is a tall order, and this roster also starts with two potential WR1s. I would hope when I make it to the playoffs I see a bunch of fellow QRUSH, pronounced “crush”, teams in there as well. It’s the combo that gets stronger as the game goes on, just like a great rushing offense…
Plus, you have a lot of flexibility with your remaining roster to catch some free 2.0 GRAY PILLS that would slightly increase your roster’s PGS.
If you were to…totally by accident of course…draft players from both the 10 WHO? and QRUSH swarms, you would achieve 18 Playoff Game Stacks with 8 Players (18w8), giving you a final combined PGS of 2.25, the second highest possible PGS score in 2023.
That means your players are stacked against “each other” 2.25 times out of 3 fantasy playoff games…
Guy in front, you still with me? KC-Cincy single correlation? …get him some water…
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SWARM 3
NFC REVOLVER aka ROUND ROBIN
PGS: 2.0 (6w3)
This threesome, like most, is easier to pull off then it is to do well…
A rotating and reloading game stack each week keeps this correlation high throughout the playoffs. I try to throw in a TB player or two for the double 17 stack.
An ideal start to this team might look like Cooper Kupp, Saquon Barkley, Chris Olave (if you should be so lucky…) who would be game-stacked in 6 of their 9 fantasy playoff games. Barring that amazing luck coinciding with your desire to deploy this strategy, there are plenty of late receiving options and a few zero RB candidates if you find yourself in a WR Avalanche room.
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SWARM 4
DEATH STAR formerly D4RTH V4DER
PGS: 2.33 (14w6)
This is my personal favorite…it’s like a 3 phase interlocking transformer that just grows stronger each week of the playoffs. This is also the schedule quirk with the highest overlap among a group of teams, heretofore known as “PGS” or “Pigs” (write that down).
4 Stacked Players in 15, 4 Stacked Players in 16, all 6 Stacked in Week 17…
If I hadn’t said this yet…You’re welcome.
You can also mix in a lil KC-Cincy or a Minny-GB from the 1.01 type picks.
Miami-Baltimore can be a nice side dish. You can even add an a la carte IND-LV when you ‘accept’ those 3rd round values into your RB Group.
It’s like the gift that keeps on giving, until a small group of space fighters blow up your steeze.
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