This is the late round podcast with your host, J.J. Zacharisa.

What's up everyone, it's J.J. Zacharison.

What's up everyone, it's J.J. Zacharyson in this episode 887 of the

late-round fantasy football podcast sponsored by Underdog Fantasy. Thanks for

tuning in. Almost exactly a year ago I published an episode of

the podcast called The Rise of the Early Round quarterback. Years and years ago

when I first started in the fantasy football industry, quarterback's ratings selected really early in drafts.

But based on supply and demand and predictability,

it didn't make much sense.

A late-round quarterback approach was much more approachable.

So I wrote about it.

I published the late round quarterback ebook in 2012,

and I've been brain-vobbing fantasy takes ever since.

We've been through a journey over the years. fantasy takes ever since.

We've been through a journey over the years.

In that 2014-to-2015 time frame, drafting a quarterback early was legitimately worthless.

When looking at top 18 quarterbacks by ADP in 2015, for example,

the correlation between where those quarterbacks were drafted

and the number of fantasy points per game that they actually scored was zero.

QB2s were getting you just as many points as QB1s.

We were terrible at predicting performance.

That all changed in 2020 and the reason it changed in my eyes

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