1094: Mailbag - Stacking, Drafting for Upside, and More
The Late-Round Fantasy Football Podcast
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🗓️ 17 April 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Should you shoot for ceiling outcomes no matter the league format? Why is stacking so popular? Is Fernando Mendoza the obvious second pick in a superflex rookie draft? 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. |
| 0:15.9 | What's up, everyone? |
| 0:17.2 | It's J.J. Zacharisen. |
| 0:18.8 | In this episode 1094 of the Late Round Fantasy Football podcast, thanks for tuning in. |
| 0:27.2 | So as you guys know, I published the Late Round Prospect Guide last month. |
| 0:30.9 | And if you read that guide, then you know that I changed up the Zapp score scaling. |
| 0:34.8 | I even talked about that on a recent mailback episode. |
| 0:38.5 | The new scale works a whole lot better to give you an idea of where gaps occur from |
| 0:42.2 | prospect to prospect. |
| 0:44.0 | However, I'm getting a lot of feedback from people about interpreting the scores from before |
| 0:49.1 | and then now. |
| 0:50.1 | As in, if a player has a score of 80 right now, what would that score have been in the older |
| 0:55.0 | guides in the Zapp 1.0 scoring? |
| 0:58.6 | Because I get it. |
| 0:59.3 | You want some comparison. |
| 1:00.4 | It's interesting content. |
| 1:02.2 | So I figured I'd put it out there at the top of this episode. |
| 1:05.1 | In the post-draft version of the guide, there's going to be a chart, a conversion chart. |
| 1:10.4 | It's at the end of the guide and it shows you the approximate scores for each player in the |
| 1:14.6 | ZAP 2.0 scoring system versus the old Zapp scoring system, which was based more on percentiles. |
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