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The Late-Round Fantasy Football Podcast

246: Insights From Building Projections

The Late-Round Fantasy Football Podcast

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Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

4.83.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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After building fantasy football projections for t…

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0:00.0

What's up everyone it's JJ Zacharyson the editor-in-chief at Fandall and at number

0:16.0

fire dot com and this is episode 246 of the late round podcast one of the many shows

0:20.9

that are part of the number fire podcast network thanks for tuning in.

0:24.7

I've said this on the podcast plenty of times but I don't really use my projections when

0:28.4

I'm drafting.

0:29.7

Instead when I'm drafting I'm using the information that I extract while building those

0:34.0

projections.

0:35.4

And the difference between those two things is important.

0:38.1

When you use projections to draft you're going with more of a value based drafting approach.

0:42.4

You're not always capturing variants and you're not always capturing the fact that you're

0:46.4

going to be wrong.

0:47.7

It's really hard to be so tied to one number that number being the end projection.

0:52.4

When you have more of a loose approach and you're not tied down to what your end projection

0:55.8

is saying you're still utilizing those projections.

0:58.6

You're just doing so by remembering specific nuggets that you uncovered when building them.

1:03.1

You're finding where value is located.

1:05.6

You're more in tune with where volume can be had and situations where volume may be

1:10.0

harder to come by.

1:11.4

To me this is why projections are valuable.

1:14.4

It's not always about the end number.

1:16.6

It's about what goes into that end number.

1:18.6

My projections are all set and ready to go and I'll be changing them throughout the summer

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