Dynasty Compass is your guide to building a fantasy football team that lasts. Hosted by Jeff Blaylock—fantasy analyst, Footballguys contributor, and dynasty strategist—this show helps you find direction in a noisy fantasy football world. Each episode delivers short, actionable advice for dynasty managers: trade strategy, rookie draft tactics, roster-building frameworks, and more. Whether you’re contending now or rebuilding for the future, Dynasty Compass helps you orient your team toward lon ...
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Dynasty Compass | The Island of Broken Toys
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27:53Injuries derail seasons — but for dynasty managers, they can also open a window of opportunity. In this episode, Jeff Blaylock explores The Island of Broken Toys: a place where productive but injured players lose short-term value but retain long-term potential. Jeff outlines how to identify real broken-toy opportunities, calculate appropriate trade…
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Dynasty Compass | Trade Deadline Strategies
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25:06Episode 14: Preparing for the Trade Deadline (North/South/East) Big Idea: The deadline compresses time. Bad, strategy-less moves harden into months of regret. Know your direction first, then act. North – Perennial Contenders Goal: Fine-tune, not overhaul. Questions: Which marginal improvements will help the most? Does the move help now and next yea…
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Dynasty Compass | Boosting Your Win-now Lineup
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22:56Using our compass metaphor, the West is home to Win-now teams. Jeff offers some strategies for dynasty managers looking for late-season boosts to their lineups. 🧩 Key Takeaways What a Starter Boost is How Bench Boosts fit What win-now teams can sell (picks, broken toys, prospects, surplus), What they should buy (rentals, certainty), and When to pul…
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Dynasty Compass | The Currency of Dynasty
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26:45Rookie draft picks are possibilities, not performance. In this midseason guide, Jeff shows how to price picks vs. players, when flexibility earns you value, and how to decide between possibilities or points based on your team’s direction. Quick reality check on pick outcomes, a practical exchange-rate for common trades, and a reminder: direction be…
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Dynasty Compass | Are They Who We Thought They Were?
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27:20Six weeks in, it’s time for a midseason bearings check. Jeff Blaylock breaks down six questions to decide whether your dynasty roster should stay the course or change direction. Key Takeaways The six questions that clarify your roster’s true direction How to tell if the cavalry is coming or if you’ve already hit your ceiling Why all-play and median…
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Saying goodbye is hard — but necessary. In this episode, Jeff Blaylock (The Other Jeff B) walks through how to decide when to drop or move on from underperforming players in dynasty. We’ll look at the three traps that keep managers holding too long — sunk cost, wishcasting, and false insurance — and how to replace emotion with forecasting. Jeff als…
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Death, taxes, and bye weeks — three certainties, but only one we can actually plan for. This week on Dynasty Compass, Jeff Blaylock (The Other Jeff B) tackles the challenge of bye-week management. In this episode, you'll learn How to apply the Five Kinds of Players and Startability Ladder to navigate bye weeks The four kinds of "bye week crunches" …
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Description: Knowing how to value trades is only half the battle. This week, we move from studying the map to sailing the seas — actually making dynasty trades. Topics include: The Three Fs of trading: Fairness, Flexibility, and Fitness Building a reputation as a good trade partner Identifying mismatched needs and finding the right partners How to …
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Description: Who won this trade? That’s the question social media always demands an answer to. But in dynasty, the only correct answer is both. In this episode of Dynasty Compass, we study the map before we sail the trade winds. Topics include: Why context matters more than consensus rankings Draft picks as the true “currency of the realm” Learning…
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Most dynasty managers approach waivers with two questions: How much should I bid on this player? Should I spend early or save for later? Both are the wrong starting point. In this episode of Dynasty Compass, Jeff Blaylock walks through the FAAB Four — the four fundamentals that will help you stop wasting FAAB and start making sharper, more strategi…
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The NFL season is here! That means it’s time to move from offseason building into in-season roster management. In this episode, Jeff shares a repeatable weekly schedule that will keep you on top of your dynasty team without burning out. In this episode: What to do each day of the week during the NFL season The three levels of effort: Essential, Com…
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Dynasty Compass | 5 Kinds of Players on Your Roster
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27:36Episode 4 — The Five Player Types on Your Dynasty Roster The NFL season is almost here — rookie drafts are finished, and it’s time to cut down rosters to league size. In this episode, Jeff breaks down the five kinds of players you’ll find on every dynasty roster and explains how to think about each one when making lineup and roster decisions. In th…
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Dynasty Compass | Training Camp Signals vs. Static
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28:17Week 2 of the preseason is in the books, and the news firehose is wide open. But which reports are signals worth acting on — and which ones are just preseason static? In this episode of Dynasty Compass, host Jeff Blaylock (aka The Other Jeff B from Footballguys) breaks down how dynasty managers can separate meaningful camp information from misleadi…
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Dynasty Compass | A Very Special Expo-sode
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20:40Title: Dynasty Compass | A Very Special Expo-sode Description: This week on Dynasty Compass, Jeff Blaylock (aka The Other Jeff B from Footballguys) discusses his first-ever trip to the Fantasy Football Expo in Canton, Ohio, and the three biggest nuggets of wisdom he’s bringing back for dynasty managers and content creators alike. You’ll also get fr…
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In this episode of Dynasty Compass, host Jeff Blaylock discusses the importance of having a strategic direction for managing dynasty fantasy football teams. He identifies the four primary directions a team can take: North (perennial contender), West (win now), South (rebuild), and East (aiming for the last playoff spot), and outlines the traits and…
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Dynasty Compass is your guide to building a fantasy football team that lasts. Hosted by Jeff Blaylock (The Other Jeff B), the show delivers sharp, strategic advice for dynasty managers—whether you're rebuilding, reloading, or gunning for a title. Short, actionable episodes. Long-term thinking. No fluff. Just direction.…
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