7/11/26 - 8-Team PPR Mock Draft Strategy | How to Win Shallow Fantasy Football Leagues

**Ryan Weiss** (0:00)
Good morning, what is up? Welcome to Mock It Like It's Hot, Club Fantasy's Weekly Mock Draft Show. Believe it or not, I did not make a big deal last week. This is our 101st episode. Probably should have freaked out about the 100th episode, but 101, and we're taking you back to Fantasy 101 We're doing a little smaller mock this week. An eight team mock, eight.
Not 18, eight. Seems really small, but a lot of us probably started that way. And with a smaller league, you can have some pretty big problems. There's a lot of good players. Let's get into it.
What is up? Welcome to Mock It Like It's Hot Club Fantasy's Weekly Mock Trap Show. I am your host, Ryan Weiss, with me every week. Austin and Joel Gentleman. Happy Saturday morning to you.

**Joel** (1:07)
Good morning, good morning.

**Ryan Weiss** (1:09)
Yes. Austin, how are you doing?

**Austin** (1:11)
I'm excited to do, doing good. Excited to get a 18 league. Had some tech issues this morning, so, you know, working through that, but here we are.

**Ryan Weiss** (1:19)
Yeah, and Austin just let us know in the private chat, he may switch to his computer at some point with different camera, different audio. I'm going to start with a comment, because some people are going to scoff at an 18 league. Andrea is not, because Andrea's home league is 18, which we found out last year during this show. And I also want to point out, we're a smaller channel, folks. I appreciate each and every one of you tuned in every week. You guys are literally the best.
We have had two videos in our history cross 10,000 views. Our 14-team Mock and last year's 8-team Mock. So people love the small leagues, people love the big leagues. Or there's not enough content, so they have to come look at my ugly mug to figure out how to draft these leagues. But I'm excited to talk 8-team. Let's go ahead and get started, as we always do. And then we're going to talk more Vince Mapstone. He thought he was drafting 8-teams by himself.
So that's how conditioned we are in fantasy. I'm gonna go ahead and throw the Mock Up on the screen and break down some of the settings. I'm gonna click start Mock Draft right now. I did set this as a minute clock. It's only 14 rounds. This is gonna be a pretty quick draft. I like to start, as I always do, thanking the people who are mocking with us. Beats by Dre is taking the 101 spot. Joel took the two. Andrea at the three. Duarte at the four. Sawad again at the five. Frito Bandito at the six. That's an awesome name. Austin took the seven and our buddy Vince Mapstone at the eight. The draft has started. The picks are going in. Let's talk a little bit about the league settings. As I mentioned, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight teams. That's it. Believe it or not, this is how a lot of fantasy started. And believe it or not, if you want to have fun with fantasy, you don't need that many teams. There are office leagues out there where you're lucky if you can find seven people to play fantasy football with you. So don't league shame. That's something we do not do here. For the actual settings of this, it's a pretty basic PPR draft. I kept the settings roughly the same as what a home league would be. I added one extra flex. So one QB, one tight end. I don't have kickers and defense. Take those last. Two running backs, three wide receivers, and two flex spots. So that's the only thing I kind of added.
Other than that, it's a pretty basic PPR league. I want to do a couple of housekeeping before we get started. If you have not joined our discord yet, you need to. The intros are, excuse me, the invites for these mocks go to the discord before they go anywhere else. If you want to mock draft with us, you want to be in that discord. But we also share our best ball rosters. We do a lot of really cool stuff over there. It's definitely worth your time and it's definitely worth your money because it's free. So you can get in there, hang out with some really cool people. I just dropped the link in all of the channels. It's also in the description of this video. And then my last thing before we actually start talking about 18 leagues as a plea, if you guys would like, I just realized we lost Austin and I think we have him back already. So I'm gonna bring him back up on the screen now.