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This is the late round podcast with your host, JJ Zacharisa.

What's up, everyone?

It's JJ Zacharisen.

In this episode 1086 of the late round fantasy football podcast,

thanks for tuning in. All of you have heard me talk about draft capital on this show, especially

this time of year. When it comes to the Zapp model, when it comes to forecasting prospects at the next

level, draft capital is the single most important input to consider. And there's a lot of reasons for that.

For one, better players generally get drafted earlier. NFL teams, they might be stupid sometimes,

but they're spending millions and millions of dollars in an attempt to find the right prospect

at each draft pick. They're clearly going to be better at picking those players than most.

But also, when a team makes an investment, that player is likely going to have more immediate

opportunity, or opportunity in general.

When we're playing fantasy football, volume is everything.

And if that player has higher draft capital, there's a higher likelihood to see that volume.

Now, clearly it's not that simple. But those are two key reasons as to why draft capital

gets the signal that it does in models, and it's why it's important.

But with all that being said, with all this talk about draft capital being the thing that

we should care about most, you probably think that it's closer the only thing to care about.

But that's not the case at all. On today's episode, the truth about draft capital, why it's

important, but why it's not everything. Now, before I get to the analysis, I wanted to send a quick

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