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

What's up everyone, it's JJ Zacharyson, the editor-in-chief over at numberfire.com,

and this is episode 147 of the Late Round Podcast, one of the many shows that are part

of the number fire podcast network.

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The NFL goes through some pretty serious turnover each year.

Things come out of nowhere and perform well all the time, and then the opposite happens

as well.

And I think this has pushed fans and specifically fantasy owners to sort of devalue the process

of predicting team success.

Or maybe I should say fantasy owners care a lot less about season-long schedules, because

there's a lot of variance to predicting how good or bad a team is going to be at certain

aspects of the game.

And I get that, but how is it any different than when we're making fantasy football projections?

There's loads of variance with a player projection or a ranking, but even knowing that, fantasy

owners are utilizing those tools when they're drafting their fantasy teams.

So if it's okay to project a stat line for Todd Gurley, shouldn't it be okay to project

how a certain team unit is going to perform?

Now, I'm out of the belief that a player's schedule is everything.

This is just another piece to the preseason fantasy football puzzle.

But I'm definitely a believer that we should try and find every angle to gain an advantage

in fantasy football and looking at schedules is definitely one of those angles.

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