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The Late-Round Fantasy Football Podcast

Becoming a Best Ball Bro: Leaning Into the Hype?

The Late-Round Fantasy Football Podcast

The Late-Round Fantasy Football Podcast

Football, Fantasy Sports, Fantasyfootball, Sports

4.93.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

JJ and Rich kick off the show and have a short talk about things happening in the best ball world before 4for4 Fantasy Football's Connor Allen joins. Conner explains how he approaches the Milly Maker this late during draft season, how he handles hyped players, whether he cares about the preseason, and so much more.

 

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0:00.0

So Rich, I was doing a live stream on the YouTube channel yesterday. I did two millie drafts in a row.

0:06.5

The first draft went really well. It was actually the third millie draft in a row that I'd done

0:10.8

live stream-wise that was just awesome. And then I'm like, yeah, sure, I'll go with another draft.

0:16.2

And as I'm drafting, I sneeze. Okay. So as I sneeze, you know, like Flemm starts to formulate

0:24.1

my nose and stuff like that. Because I'm a human being. I'm not an alien. And I can't like talk as

0:30.3

well. It's just kind of like gross sounding and feeling. So I'm like, all right, guys,

0:34.0

give me one second. I'm going to go blow my nose. Okay. I have a short

0:39.0

SM7B microphone, which to those who are in the podcasting space, you know that that's a good

0:44.7

microphone. Like, it's an expensive microphone because this is my job. Yeah, right. Right, right. Like,

0:50.5

this is my job, so I want the microphone to be good. And usually, like, I'm in the

0:55.1

front of my house where my office is, there's lawnmowers going on outside. There's people screaming at times in my house, outside my house. You know, it's just a neighborhood thing. Kids are playing, all that kind of stuff. Nothing gets picked up on this mic. Like, I could even walk away or, you know, walk two or three feet from the microphone, it would not pick up my voice.

0:55.8

Okay. picked up on this mic. Like I could even walk away or, you know, walk two or three feet from the

1:11.8

microphone. It would not pick up my voice. Okay. But yesterday, because my bathroom is right behind this

1:16.7

wall, yesterday I get up and I go and I blow my nose. And lo and behold, the sure 7msb or 7B

1:25.3

picks up a freaking nose trumpet.

1:29.8

The biggest blow your nose noise that you have ever heard in your life.

1:34.1

And everyone on that stream heard it.

1:36.6

And all I got to say is, guys, I'm a dad.

1:39.5

Deal with it.

1:40.5

I'm JJ.

1:41.3

And last year I tried my hardest to become a best ball bro. I drafted over 500 teams. I talked to some of the most successful bestball players in existence and I admittedly had mixed results. So this year I'm going to chase that title once again. My plan is the max enter draftings millionaire maker and I'm going to document all of it while talking to the brightest best ball minds on the planet.

2:01.6

Last year, I didn't quite get there.

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