CHOP: The Guillotine Leagues™ Podcast

It's your first week of bidding on free agents in a guillotine league... and OMG awesome players are available! This never happens in a regular fantasy league! Do you push in all your chips or save ammo for later in the year? Get advice from guillotine veterans Paul Charchian and Brian Johnson for making the right calls with your waiver wire bidding.

The guillotine league season is looming and suddenly there's massive drama surrounding some of the highest-ranked running backs. Can you trust Alvin Kamara, Dalvin Cook, and/or Leonard Fournette? Is Joe Mixon significantly safer now than he was last week?

In a standard league, drafting a bust is a minor inconvenience. In a guillotine league, every bust can end your season. Paul Charchian and Brian Johnson identify the eight guys who are uniquely dangerous in a guillotine format.

At this time of year, every fantasy football podcast is touting sleepers. But at CHOP, we give you *guillotine-specific* sleepers who you can find in the mid-to-late rounds of your draft.

From the moment you complete your guillotine league draft, you start getting nervous about Week 1 But should you change your draft strategy to help ensure you aren't the first team eliminated? Charch and Brian talk through some of the notable players with brutal Week 1 matchups.

The forensic team of Paul Charchian and Brian Johnson identify the causes of death of a guillotine league corpse--aside from the beheading, of course.

Dud games cost heads! For guillotine leagues, the most important draft plan is to prioritize safety and consistency. Paul Charchian and Brian Johnson provide a wide variety of ways to evaluate players who will meet expectations, week in and week out.

Only in a guillotine league will you NOT play to win. Instead, you're playing not to lose! Reorient your thinking with the help of hosts Paul Charchian and Brian Johnson.

The inaugural episode of CHOP describes how guillotine leagues work, why they’re different from other fantasy football formats, and why they’re so incredibly compelling, fresh, and strategic. Hosts: Paul Charchian and Brian Johnson.