Parity Podcast #1

Submitted by Geofford Seaborn on Mon, 2016-12-12 09:47

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So after some weather-induced delay I present episode 1, featuring Chris Keates: https://soundcloud.com/user-640277634/parity-podcast-episode-001/s-HhEw7
 
[Thanks to Bush for pointing out that my link was busted. It's been fixed.]
 
We talk salaries, parity, and fantasy. Plus, we make dubious predictions about week 6 match ups. Editing remains a little rough around the edges.

Carrie-Anne Whyte

Mon, 2016-12-12 11:21

Yup...made my day again :) Thanks boys!

Alessandro Cola...

Mon, 2016-12-12 15:15

I like this a lot. 

Alex Bush

Mon, 2016-12-12 15:37

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D_Z-D2tzi14/S8TffVGLElI/AAAAAAAACxA/trH1ch0Y3t...

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Hadrian Mertins...

Mon, 2016-12-12 23:29

Great stuff again! As an avid podcast listener, here are a few friendly suggestions to take it to the next level:

Introduce yourself and the guest. Don't assume everyone in the league (i.e. your audience) knows who everyone else is.

Keep rotating the guest to get a variety of perspectives and stories (excited for the "Justine Price: Unfiltered" episode).

Everyone likes to hear their own name, so say different people's names a lot.

Doing the predictions should be a regular segment to conclude each episode. I wouldn't make it more than 60 or 90 seconds since you're mostly speculating anyway, but if you and the guest could briefly predict a winner and a storyline in one sentence for each of the 4 games I think that could be a fun, rapid-fire way to end each episode.

15-20 minutes is the sweet spot. I would listen to a longer one, but I think some people will start to drop off.

Finally, as a longer term project, it would be awesome if you had player bios to draw on when talking about the people you don't know as well. As a coach, I've had to provide bio sheets to commentators for televised games so they can pretend like they know my players' deets (e.g. hometown, age, profession, years of experience, university, club team). I bet we could crowd-source a database like that in a Google doc (provided people are OK with that private info being shared).

My two cents! Keep up the good work!

Stacey Wowchuk

Tue, 2016-12-13 10:52

The committment is strong in you (and Lannister-like in that you pay your debts).  And a shout-out to Keatsie-pie for recognizing the "Cloake-Gregory" factor of said handblocks.  Ride or die, Keates. I got you.

Nicholas Aghajanian

Tue, 2016-12-13 13:01

but needs more coffee slurping...

Amos Lee

Tue, 2016-12-13 13:11

And more about a certain male's ability to defend against his own women in the end zone....

Nicholas Aghajanian

Tue, 2016-12-13 13:13

Sam would have caught that uncontested. 

Christopher Keates

Tue, 2016-12-13 13:34

... it was bourbon.

Kindha Gorman

Tue, 2016-12-13 13:48

When I listen to your podcast, I can't help but to think of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPpcfH_HHH8 

 

Good work, gentlemen!

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Jessie Robinson

Tue, 2016-12-13 14:19

Amazing, Kindha. One can only hope Geofford and guest of the week are wearing those sweaters.

Kindha Gorman

Tue, 2016-12-13 19:53

I've just been lovingly informed that Justine posted this exact reference in a previous thread. Sorry for stepping on your joke, J. 

Justine Price

Tue, 2016-12-13 20:29

Kindha, dahling. I'm always willing to share some Schweddy balls with you. It is Xmas after all.

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Kevin Hughes

Thu, 2016-12-15 11:56

I was considering building fantasy parity lol.

So many things to fix and improve on regular parity though. Maybe for next year

Laura Chambers ...

Thu, 2016-12-15 13:04

Kevin... your question is redundant. A resounding yes from everyone on fantasy parity. Maybe even work on this before you fix everything else. :)

Rob Ives

Thu, 2016-12-15 16:12

Fantasy could work like:

Pick 4 guys, 2 women

Salary cap = 4 x avg guy + 2 x avg woman

winner = person with highest total increase

Jon Rowe

Thu, 2016-12-15 16:32

I think you'd want more roster slots and building constraints. As an avid daily/season fantasy league player, this would be a ton of fun to play though!

How I'd see it:

- Pick 8 guys, 4 gals. Fantasy salary must remain under the week's league salary cap.

- Maximum 3 from a given team, minimum 1 from each team.

- As you mentioned, winner is the squad with the highest total salary gain.

Concern:

- Absentees. Unlike in pro sports we don't have a field of reporters telling us pre-game injuries... an absent player almost instantly would submarine your fantasy roster and there's virtually no way you could know about it. A possible work-around is to have a substitute "flex" player who is below the league average salary, whose scores are only counted if one of the starting roster is absent. But then of course you get crushed if your Mike Lee/Le'Veon Bell misses the game, and you've instead got a mid-salary Jon Rowe/Frank Gore.

 

Rob Ives

Thu, 2016-12-15 16:56

That sounds good.

GMs could report absences on Sunday so people could lock in their picks on Monday.

Last minute absences could be dealt with by auto-replacing the missing player with next closest lower salaried player of same gender.

 

Sebastien Belanger

Thu, 2016-12-15 19:41

Or Mike Lee's private email and phone number could be published so that we could just call him at home to make sure he'll be playing ;-)