Welcome back. It's Beyond the Box Score. I'm Dan Schneier. And I'm not joined, as always my co-host, Jacob Gibbs, who is off this week and recalibrating.

You know, Jacob. He'd spent too many hours watching the rookie film. I told him, you need to take a little bit of time to yourself. Get your brain fresh. We got a long season going. And so it gave me a chance to explore some things that I wanted to do in this little break. And one of these things I want to do is get on a few guests this week. and we're going to have another guest later this week,

Rich Rebar, who we've had on the show before,

and I know you guys love. In this little break, and one of these things I want to do is get on a few guests this week, and we're going to have another guest later this week, Rich Rebar, who we've had on the show

before, and I know you guys love. We'll do some rankings with Rich, but with JJ today, I want to do some other stuff. I wanted to talk a little bit about some of the things we don't get to talk a lot about on the show. So I think you'll really be excited about the show. our guest today is j jaccharicin uh j jay i want to get you to give the listeners a little bit of

background i'm sure most of them know you but for those who know you you'll really be excited about the show. Our guest today is JJ Zacharisen. JJ, I want to get you to give

the listeners a little bit of background. I'm sure most of them know you, but for those who don't

on what you're about, how you got your start in the fantasy industry, and kind of where your

analysis at the beginning has led you to where you are now. Yeah. Well, first off, thanks for

having me. I'm a data-driven analyst, first and foremost. I approach things via numbers, and so I always like to get that out of the way first because sometimes I go on other shows and they're like, why is this guy talking about his model so much? Why is he talking about number? That's the way I approach this stuff. Okay? So that's first and foremost. I still watch a lot of film. I still approach the game in that way.

But sort of my background, you know, I'm, I'm an unk in the space now at this point,

which is kind of crazy.

You know, I started back in the 2011, 2012 time frame where I wrote an ebook called

the late round quarterback, which is crazy.

But back then, it was like very against the grain to draft quarterback. I wrote an e-book called the late round quarterback, which is crazy.

But back then, it was like very against the grain to draft quarterbacks late in fantasy football.

So I wrote an e-book when e-books really weren't like super, super trendy or popular things that people really like put together.

So I put together an e-book.

And from there, it just kind of blew up a little bit over that next, or eight months, did a little bit of work at Rodo World, wrote a couple articles there,

actually wrote a couple articles. We talked about this on my show at PFF. And then about a year

after I published the lay-round quarterback e-book, I got a job at Numberfire. And Numberfire was consumer money ball was kind of the way

that we framed ourselves. And I was employee, I think, five there. And I was, you know, we were

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