This is the Lay-Round Podcast with your host, JJ Zacharyse.

What's up everyone, it's JJ Zacharyse in the Editor-in-Chief over at numberfire.com,

and this is episode 125 of the Lay-Round Podcast, one of the many shows that are part

of the number fire podcast network.

Thanks for tuning in.

If you looked at the title of today's episode and you said to yourself, I've seen that

title before.

It's because you probably have, or you have if you've been listening to the show for a while.

When the draft concluded last year, I realized that I wanted to share analysis of the draft

and how it impacted fantasy football the same way that I do it in my head.

And that's by looking at the investments these teams made in certain players and certain

positions, because a lot of times it can give us an idea of the type of team they want to be.

Because as we know, volume drives fantasy football, and volume is often dictated by how

a coaching staff simply views a player.

If they like him, he'll be on the field.

If not, he won't.

Through the actions made by teams in the draft, you can tell not only how teams may be feeling

about new personnel, but existing personnel as well.

Now this is definitely oversimplifying what goes into a volume equation.

Don't get me wrong.

To prepare myself for this podcast, I finished up initial projections for the 2018 season,

and when I build out projections, it's not as simple as they like this guy, so he'll

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