LIVE Fantrax Gazette: Draft Review, Mailbag and a League Drafting in Real Time

A big first for the podcast: this one's recorded live, on video, with the community watching and chatting along. Tim and Karl (faces finally attached to the voices) run a season-opening Gazette while the last of the seven listener leagues drafts in real time in the background.They go league by league through the six drafts already done, armed with ruthless verdicts sent in by each commissioner. The best and worst picks, the surprise steals, the stacks, the manager who tanked his whole season in round five, and the running joke of certain players following certain hosts around every single year. Sean's in the live draft too, so he gets no mercy. Between rounds, the lads take a stack of mailbag questions from the Discord: whether blowing your entire FAAB budget on one post-draft signing ever works, how to think about the no-defenders-early principle, where Doku's injury drops him now, which players' stock has risen and fallen most since the club-by-club series, and how to set a multipositional player's slot. Plus the horse-sized-duck question a Newcastle-heavy chat had no business answering.It wraps with score predictions for opening weekend and the small matter of how you seed placement leagues when a seventh one throws off your perfectly balanced maths. Recorded live on August 20th, the night before kickoff.Everything runs through draftacademical.com and the Discord: 👉 https://discord.gg/FAuaGADgEA