1091: Mailbag - ZAP Model Misses, Zero RB, and More
The Late-Round Fantasy Football Podcast
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🗓️ 3 April 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Who was the biggest miss in ZAP Model history? What would it take for the model to like Carnell Tate more than Jordyn Tyson? Why are people pivoting away from Zero RB? JJ answers those questions — and more — on this week's mailbag episode.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:06.3 | This is the late round podcast with your host, J.J. Zacharisa. |
| 0:15.7 | What's up, everyone? |
| 0:16.9 | It's J.J. Zacharisen. |
| 0:18.2 | In this episode 1091 of the Late Round Fantasy Football podcast, |
| 0:23.4 | thanks for tuning in. Before I get into the Melbaugh questions, I want to send a reminder for you to |
| 0:28.3 | check out the Late Round Prospect Guide. It's 170 pages of analytical information about this class, |
| 0:33.7 | and it includes information on second year players as well, all for 1999. |
| 0:39.3 | If you purchase now, you'll also get the post-draft version of the guide emailed to you |
| 0:43.4 | just hours after the NFL draft is over. |
| 0:46.1 | So check it all out, late round.com. |
| 0:49.5 | Okay, let's get to these mailback questions. |
| 0:53.5 | The first question this week is from Patrick on Patreon. |
| 0:56.2 | It says, what's the biggest miss in the Zapp model database? |
| 0:59.0 | And what is the takeaway? |
| 1:00.7 | So I get this question a lot. |
| 1:02.6 | And I do think my answer in the last mailbag about publishing the database, |
| 1:05.9 | publishing historical scores, it kind of goes back to this question being asked so frequently. |
| 1:11.8 | And I'm not saying that you're guilty of this, Patrick, but there is this fixation on finding these individual instances |
| 1:16.4 | where something was wrong. I'm going to be honest with you guys. The Zapp model has gotten |
| 1:20.9 | tons of things wrong. But the NFL has too. Teams get this stuff wrong all the time in the NFL draft. It's no different for me. |
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