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Make a Weekly Fantasy Sports Brief: Must-Starts, Sits & Waiver Picks
This week's must-starts, must-sits and waiver priorities — in a brief your league actually hears before kickoff.
The Fantasy Sports Brief template turns your weekly start/sit research and waiver targets into a tight, repeatable audio briefing. Drop in this week's matchups, injury news, and rankings, pick a punchy lead voice plus an analyst sidekick, and ship a 4-7 minute brief your league mates actually listen to before lineups lock. Use it as-is for fast turnaround, customize every voice, music cue and script prompt, or save your own version as a reusable weekly template.
A Fantasy Sports Brief is the audio version of the start/sit text thread that blows up every week before lineups lock. Instead of skimming ten ranking pages and a wall of injury tweets, you get a tight, ordered rundown — who to start, who to bench, and which waiver names to claim first — delivered in a few minutes you can hear on the drive to work or while making dinner.
It works because fantasy advice is time-sensitive and repetitive in the best way: the same segments (must-starts, must-sits, waiver priorities, the upset special) recur every week, only the names change. That makes it perfect for a template. You feed in this week's data, the AI shapes it into a confident on-air script, and Pollinator Studio renders it with real voices — so you can ship the same polished brief every Tuesday and Sunday without ever opening an audio editor.
How to make one with Pollinator Studio
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Start from the Fantasy Sports Brief template
Open the template library and select the pre-built Fantasy Sports Brief template — one click loads a ready-made structure with must-start, must-sit and waiver segments, a lead voice plus an analyst sidekick, an upbeat sports music bed, and intro/outro prompts already written. You can publish from here as-is, or customize any part before you generate. If you only have ten minutes before lineups lock, the as-is path gets you a finished brief fast.
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Drop in this week's data and rankings
Feed the brief your source material: paste your tier list and start/sit notes, drop a topic like 'Week 9 RB start/sit and waiver priorities', or point it at a URL of your weekly rankings or matchup preview. List the specific names you want covered — must-starts, fades, and the top 3-5 waiver adds with FAAB or priority context. The more concrete the player names, matchups and injury notes you give it, the sharper and less generic the script comes out.
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Cast your hosts and set their delivery
Pick voices from the 73-voice library and preview them before committing. The default setup pairs a confident, fast-paced lead (the one making the bold calls) with a steadier analyst voice for the reasoning and the waiver math. Set each host's pace and delivery per anchor — turn the lead up for energy on the must-starts, keep the analyst measured on injury caveats. You can run up to 4 anchors if you want a debate format or a separate 'waiver wire' segment host.
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Tune the script, intro and outro prompts
Edit the AI script prompt to lock your tone — hot-take confident, data-first, or somewhere between — and tell it to rank picks in order of confidence and always give a one-line reason. Customize the intro to brand your show and stamp the week ('Welcome back to the Week 9 brief'), and write an outro that drives action: set lineups before kickoff, claim waivers tonight. Add pronunciation rules at the workspace or project level so tricky player and team names land correctly every single week.
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Set length, add cover art, and render
Choose a runtime that fits the format — 4-5 minutes for a quick start/sit, 6-7 if you're adding deep waiver analysis or a second sport. Generate or upload cover art (a clean scoreboard or team-color motif reads well at thumbnail size). Add a music bed and transitions from the 83-track licensed library to separate segments, then render. Async rendering means you can queue it and come back to a finished MP3 in moments.
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Download, distribute, and save your template
Download the MP3 to share straight into your league chat or Discord, or one-click distribute via RSS to Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Amazon Music to build a real weekly show. Once your voices, music, prompts and length feel right, save the whole thing as your own custom template — next week (and next season) the only thing you change is the player names.
Make it your own
The Fantasy Sports Brief template is ready to use as-is — one click and you're generating. But every part is editable: swap any of the 73 AI voices and set each host's delivery and pace, change the background music, edit the AI script and intro/outro prompts, set the length, and add your own or AI-generated cover art. Use the Fantasy Sports Brief template exactly as built for a one-click weekly brief, or reshape every part: swap from 73 voices and set each host's delivery and pace (energetic lead, measured analyst), change the music bed and transitions, edit the AI script, intro and outro prompts for your league or sport, set the runtime, and add AI-generated or uploaded cover art. Save your dialed-in version as your own custom template so every week is a single click.
Prefer to start from scratch? Build your own custom template and save your setup to reuse for every future episode.
Tips for a great sports episode
- Order picks by confidence, not position. Tell the script prompt to lead with your strongest must-start and most certain fade — listeners remember the first three calls, so put your boldest, best-supported takes up top.
- Always pair a call with a one-line 'why.' 'Start him, smash spot vs. a bottom-five run defense' is far stickier than a bare name. Bake the reason-per-pick instruction into your script prompt once and it carries every week.
- Lock injury caveats to the analyst voice and slow its pace slightly. Hedged, conditional advice ('if he's active, he's a top-12 play') sounds more credible from a measured delivery than a hyped lead.
- Use workspace pronunciation rules for player and team names you know the engine fumbles — it saves you re-rendering when a name comes out wrong, and the fix sticks for the whole season.
- Re-record only the data, not the format. Save your dialed-in setup as a custom template so each week's brief is just a fresh paste of rankings plus one render — consistency is what turns a one-off into a show people subscribe to.
What you can do with Pollinator Studio
- 100+ ready-made templates — one click to start
- 73 AI voices — preview + per-host delivery & pace
- AI script from a URL, pasted text, or a topic
- 83-track licensed music + transition library
- AI-generated (or upload your own) cover art
- One-click RSS distribution to Spotify, Apple & Amazon
Try the Fantasy Sports Brief template free
30 minutes of audio per month. No credit card, no microphone.
Start freeFrequently asked questions
How fast can I turn this around before lineups lock?
Fast enough for game-day decisions. If you use the template as-is and paste in your rankings and player notes, you can go from data to a finished MP3 in a few minutes — async rendering does the heavy lifting while you grab the file or queue distribution. The slowest part is you deciding the calls, not the tool.
Can I cover more than one sport or league in a single brief?
Yes. You can run up to 4 anchors, so a common setup is a host per sport or a dedicated waiver-wire segment voice. Add a section to your script prompt for each sport and use transitions from the music library to separate them. For very different audiences, save a separate custom template per sport instead.
Will the AI just regurgitate generic advice?
Only if you feed it generic input. The script quality tracks your data — give it specific player names, matchups, snap/target trends, injury status and your actual tier opinions, and it builds the brief around those. Vague topics produce vague briefs, so lead with concrete names and reasons.
How do I publish this as an ongoing weekly show?
After rendering, use one-click RSS distribution to push the episode to Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Amazon Music. Keep your saved custom template so every weekly episode uses the same voices, music and intro — listeners get a consistent show, and you only swap in the new week's picks.
Can I match the voices to a specific show vibe?
Absolutely. Preview all 73 voices and set delivery and pace per host — a high-energy lead for bold calls, a calmer analyst for the reasoning. Pick the pair that fits your brand, save them into your custom template, and they'll carry week to week.
