887: The Pocket Passer Trap

The Late-Round Fantasy Football Podcast

Football, Fantasy Sports, Fantasyfootball, Sports

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🗓️ 11 June 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

The quarterback landscape in fantasy football has changed. Getting earlier-round guys is more acceptable, and late-round quarterbacks aren't as readily available. But there's a quarterback archetype that you want to generally avoid, and JJ talks about it on Episode 887.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	This is the late round podcast with your host, J.J. Zacharisa.
0:07.0	What's up everyone, it's J.J. Zacharison.
0:11.0	What's up everyone, it's J.J. Zacharyson in this episode 887 of the
0:16.7	late-round fantasy football podcast sponsored by Underdog Fantasy. Thanks for
0:21.8	tuning in. Almost exactly a year ago I published an episode of
0:25.6	the podcast called The Rise of the Early Round quarterback. Years and years ago
0:30.1	when I first started in the fantasy football industry, quarterback's ratings selected really early in drafts.
0:35.0	But based on supply and demand and predictability,
0:38.0	it didn't make much sense.
0:40.0	A late-round quarterback approach was much more approachable.
0:44.0	So I wrote about it.
0:45.0	I published the late round quarterback ebook in 2012,
0:48.0	and I've been brain-vobbing fantasy takes ever since.
0:52.0	We've been through a journey over the years. fantasy takes ever since.
0:53.2	We've been through a journey over the years.
0:55.5	In that 2014-to-2015 time frame, drafting a quarterback early was legitimately worthless.
1:02.4	When looking at top 18 quarterbacks by ADP in 2015, for example,
1:06.8	the correlation between where those quarterbacks were drafted
1:10.1	and the number of fantasy points per game that they actually scored was zero.
1:14.0	QB2s were getting you just as many points as QB1s.
1:18.0	We were terrible at predicting performance.
1:22.0	That all changed in 2020 and the reason it changed in my eyes
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