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Establish The Run Fantasy Football

2024 Playoff Best Ball Strategy with Justin Herzig (Episode 685)

Establish The Run Fantasy Football

Fantasy Football

Fantasy Sports, Sports

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Adam Levitan sits down with best ball guru Justin Herzig to talk through strategy for 2024 playoff best ball contests. They talk through optimal strategy and how to draft +EV teams.


In this episode, we discuss:

  • Roster construction

  • Advancement structure

  • Teams to target/fade

  • Adam & Justin draft a team

  • Much more


Links mentioned in the episode:

  1. ETR's Underdog Playoff Best Ball Rankings

  2. ETR's DraftKings Playoff Best Ball Rankings

  3. Justin Herzig's Playoff Best Ball Guide


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Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm going to go and Hello and welcome to episode 684 of the official established

0:20.0

the run.com podcast my name is Adam Levitan and yes I know you think fantasy is over I assure you it is not ton of the

0:28.8

FS action for the playoffs props action playoff contests and yes, the reason we are gathered here today,

0:36.2

playoff only, bestball.

0:39.9

To discuss this today, I am joined by a young man who is seemingly, pathetically, dedicated

0:45.0

his life to Best Ball over the last four years or so.

0:48.0

Has had some incredible results include winning Best Ball, One on Underdog, second in the 5, on Draft Kings this year,

0:54.0

It is, of course, everyone's favorite.

0:56.0

Best Ball Grinder.

0:58.0

Justin Herzig of both ETR and Own The Moment.

1:01.0

Justin, how's it going buddy?

1:03.2

Doing well, doing well. Yeah, I mean, when you can just find a niche within a niche within a

1:07.8

niche of an industry, you've got to specialize and apparently that's what happened with

1:11.5

basketball. It's a beautiful thing.

1:14.0

You guys know I love the super niche content.

1:16.0

Anyways, on today's show we're going to focus on, as I said,

1:20.0

those playoff only best ball tournaments on underdog and draft kings.

1:23.9

I would say, I'm going to get Justin's take on this, but I would say at least 10% of the people

1:28.9

drafting in these right now are just stone cold dead because they are not setting up their teams in a way that has enough

1:34.8

pieces in the final round in the Super Bowl to win.

1:37.2

So we'll cover today.

1:38.2

Basic strategy, we'll cover some advanced strategy, we'll get some micro takes off as well well and be sure to stay tuned to the end because we will do a live draft here and we will be servicing the audio listeners of course and we'll do a live draft at the very end of the show.

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