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The Late-Round Fantasy Football Podcast

35: Sifting Through the News With Adam Schefter

The Late-Round Fantasy Football Podcast

iHeartPodcasts

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

4.83.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Volume drives everything in fantasy football. And…

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0:00.0

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

0:12.0

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

0:16.3

and this is episode 35 of the Late Round Podcast, one of the many shows that are part of

0:20.4

the number fire podcast networked.

0:22.4

Thanks for tuning in.

0:23.7

And Fantasy Football Volume is King.

0:25.5

We know this.

0:26.3

You can have a wildly efficient running back or wide receiver, but without volume, that

0:30.6

player is meaningless to the game.

0:32.8

On the flip side, not all Fantasy relevant players are good at football.

0:36.6

They're not always efficient.

0:38.4

As mediocre as Todd Gurley was last season, he was still an RB2 in almost all leagues.

0:43.0

It surely had nothing to do with his 35% success rate or his 3.2 yards per carry average.

0:48.3

Gurley toted the rock 278 times in 2016.

0:52.2

He was important in Fantasy Football, based on volume.

0:55.4

And we're projecting how offensive skill players are going to produce for Fantasy purposes,

0:59.7

volume naturally drives everything.

1:02.1

From a projection standpoint, I take a top down approach.

1:05.1

I looked to project team tendencies based on a list of factors, and then I split up the

1:08.9

rushing and receiving workload in terms of market share, or the percentage of team rushes

1:12.9

or targets a player will consume in his offense.

1:16.0

There are, again, a lot of different inputs that go into getting accurate market share

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