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The Late-Round Fantasy Football Podcast

381: Finding Breakout Running Backs

The Late-Round Fantasy Football Podcast

iHeartPodcasts

Sports, Football, Fantasy Sports

4.83.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Is there a process for spotting running backs who far outperform their average draft position in the late rounds? Are there any similarities that they had during their breakout season? JJ analyzes the topic on Episode 381, and he provides a...

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0:00.0

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

0:05.6

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

0:17.2

and this is episode 381 of the Lay-Round Podcasts, one of the many shows that are part of

0:21.8

the Fandall Podcasts Network.

0:24.3

Thanks for tuning in.

0:26.0

Last week I talked to you guys about a study that I did on finding League winners in Fantasy

0:30.2

Football.

0:31.5

The results told us that generally speaking, difference makers in fantasy are coming from

0:35.6

the early rounds of drafts.

0:37.4

It's really hard to find Lay-Round gems, especially a wide receiver.

0:42.4

Now like I mentioned on the show, you could define League winner in two main ways.

0:46.6

League winners could be considered players who just far outperformed every other player

0:50.7

at their position.

0:51.7

That's how I defined it.

0:53.9

You could also see which players exceeded expectation most.

0:58.2

Essentially, the most valuable players.

1:01.3

Today's episode focuses more on that, but with a twist.

1:05.2

A couple of years ago I did a study on how to spot breakout running backs in Fantasy

1:08.8

Football.

1:09.8

Last year, I gave picks on my favorite Lay-Round running backs based on that study.

1:15.0

But this past week I revised the study a little bit.

1:17.7

I wanted to update things to see if anything changed.

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