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🗓️ 13 May 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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JJ made a controversial dynasty trade a couple of weeks ago, and it's sparked a lot of discussion online. On Episode 990, JJ discusses the trade, but, more importantly, he digs into why the reaction is part of a larger fantasy football problem.
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0:00.0 | This is the late round podcast with your host, J.J. Zacharisa. |
0:11.6 | What's up, everyone? It's J.J. Zacharisen. In this episode 990 of the late round fantasy football |
0:17.7 | podcast, thanks for tuning in. |
0:21.3 | Every once in a while, I do episodes like this one where I kind of just go. |
0:24.7 | I don't have the clearest goal in mind when I put together my little show sheet, but |
0:28.6 | I know there's a general message that I'm trying to get across. |
0:32.0 | And today's message is the following. |
0:34.1 | We need to get away from this black and white thinking that's rampant in fantasy football. |
0:39.0 | Maybe it's hot take culture taking over. |
0:41.5 | Maybe it's the fact that clicks are more important than more genuine content. |
0:45.8 | Whatever the reason, the fantasy football world seems to be losing the gray area, |
0:50.4 | when that's the opposite of what actually should be happening. |
0:54.0 | As we mature with this game, as this game becomes more and more popular and we become more and |
0:59.1 | more interested in it, you would think there'd be more recognition to the fact that variance is |
1:03.6 | everywhere within it. |
1:05.5 | Like, I've been around for a while now. |
1:07.7 | I've been doing this as my job for 12 years at this point. |
1:12.4 | I sort of grew up in the fantasy football space starting when I was in my early 20s, childless living in an apartment |
1:17.4 | with my girlfriend who's now my wife, thinking I had the answers when I had none. And trust |
1:22.6 | me, I know that 12 years from now, I'll be looking back at this exact moment, probably saying |
1:27.4 | the exact same thing. But as I've be looking back at this exact moment, probably saying the exact |
1:27.9 | same thing. But as I've watched the fantasy football space grow into the awesome community |
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