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

What's up, everyone?

It's J.J. Zacharisen.

In this episode 1101 of the late round fantasy football podcast,

thanks for tuning in. I don't care about projections as much as others do in the fantasy

football space. I know that probably seems backwards because of my approach to fantasy football

being so analytics heavy. But it's true. I think projections are often overrated. And the reason I feel that way

is because they don't capture range of outcomes that well, generally speaking, and they don't capture

draft strategy. If you're in round eight of your fantasy draft, are you looking for median outcomes

or high-end outcomes? Are you looking at what's most likely to happen for a player or what could happen if

things break a certain way? This isn't to say that you can't project for a range of outcomes.

You can do a degree. And this isn't me throwing shade to the people who build awesome projections.

They're doing great work and it's not easy work to do. I'm just saying that I think people rely on

projections a little bit too much in the fantasy football world. The application is where I really

disagree. But that certainly doesn't make them worthless. I do projections every single year.

I don't maintain them throughout the summer and end of the season as well as I probably should

because that can often just be like a full-time job.

But I have them, I build them out, and I've been doing that for years and years.

And this year I got some help with them from late round zone Brandon Godula.

That was nice to get some relief with that process, so props to Godula for helping me out.

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