This is the Lay-Round podcast with your host, JJ Zacharyson.

What's up everyone, it's JJ Zacharyson and this is episode 643 of the Late Round Fantasy

Football Podcast sponsored by Fandall.

Thanks for tuning in.

A few weeks ago I put an old episode of the show in the podcast feed on the Running

Back Dead Zone.

This week I talked about ambiguous backfills.

There was one specific thing that those two episodes told us about the Running Back

Position in Fantasy Football.

And it was that you generally want to avoid running backs with average draft positions

in the fourth, fifth and maybe sixth round of your fantasy drafts.

But I think fantasy managers sometimes take advice like this way too far.

When I say to avoid running backs in those rounds, I just mean generally.

Fantasy football is a probability driven game.

My analysis of the things that I say, none of it's for certain.

Nothing I say when I'm predicting things is 100% right.

But the studies that I do can help us increase our probability of being right more than our

leaguemates.

The truth is I actually don't think that the Running Back Dead Zone is an area of your

fantasy draft that you need to avoid at all costs.

I do think that you should avoid being overweight with running backs from that area of the

draft.

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