Best Ball Strategy for 2026 + Buying the Dip? - Fantasy Football DFS & Betting
Fantasy Footballers DFS & Betting - Fantasy Football Podcast
The Fantasy Footballers
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🗓️ 12 June 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Fantasy Footballers DFS and Betting Podcast with your host, Kyle Borganoni and Matthew Betts. |
| 0:28.0 | Welcome in. It's Friday, June 12th here. |
| 0:33.3 | Famous footballers DFS and betting podcast. I'm your host, Cobbergenone, and I'm joined, |
| 0:37.8 | as always, by Matthew. The end is near, bets. The end is near. The end is here, Kyle. I'm telling you what, brother, on Monday, I am not taking a single step. I'm not going to move from the couch all day, which I'm sure my wife will really appreciate. But man, Iron Man Sunday is here. We'll see if I survive. And we'll see if the show goes on, which you'll know next week, whether I survived this race. If the show comes out in your podcast feed on Friday, all right, good news. We did it. If there is no show in your app next Friday, you know where to find me, which is probably the bottom of a reservoir in central Pennsylvania. That's what I was going to say. It's the swim bike run part, but the swim part. It's the swim part is where if you're going to go out, that's where you're going. Dude, so it's funny. My wife and I and a couple of friends were talking about this. You're like, are you nervous for the swim? I was like, I mean, not really because it's the start, right? So you're fresh. You have consumed so much food the day or the morning of the night before like Michael Scott. Yeah, Michael Scott carb loading. I'm going to be eating Fetuccine alfredo with my swim cap on at the start line. Okay. But I was like, yeah, I'm not that nervous about it. But my friend goes, oh, you know if it's less than 76 degrees, the water temperature, you can wear a wetsuit. I was like, wait, what? So the last like two weeks, I've been researching wetsuits. I finally got one off Facebook Marketplace from a lovely woman who wore it twice for also her Ironman things. And I don't know why. Don't ask. she was in a men's large, but I bought it for a very good deal and it fit like a glove. So now that I have that, I'm like, dude, if I, if I'm dying out there, you know, a thousand yards in, whatever, just take a little break. I'll be floating. I'll basically out there with an inner tube on and swimmies, just like my kids. So I'm ready to go. I am not nervous whatsoever. But it should be good, man. I'm excited about the experience. Whole family's going to be there. I think the girls are going to make some signs. Hopefully, hopefully cheer that on. So it should be a good day. That is fun. It's fun, especially the culmination. I think I like, I like this process and like our jobs where like every day you're building like a little bit to the culmination of like when the ultimate draft kit comes out. You and I just kind of like every day, just kind of put, same thing with training for anything. It's like, I'm going to just do the same thing over and over and over again. And it's going to pay off. So I like that. And I feel like that goes well with what we're |
| 2:52.0 | talking about today on today's show. We're being mostly looking at best ball strategy, |
| 2:56.7 | getting some of your questions related to things that have changed in 2026, things that have |
| 3:02.8 | changed with the NFL, the ADP landscape, and then how does that build towards building your rosters and hopefully taking down a tournament in the best ball street? So we'll talk about that. If you want all of our projections, best ball rankings, everything we've got, I just did a little update right before. I saw that. You want to tell people what you were updating? I do need to confess this. I have kind of been anti-Camp scataboo. Like when the ADP first came out, I was like, you know what, I know me. I'm like, if everybody's in, I'm out. And that's kind of how I've been on the Giants, right? Neighbors I've had buried for a long time. Dart is in a range where it's like, if he's there, he's there, but I'm not going for it. Malachi Fields doesn't even exist to me. And then Scataboo, I was like, man, there's other running mex in that range. And I've kind of slowly moved him up to a place where I'm still a little behind ADP, but I'm kind of realizing his potential and just like his overall skill set. It's like, okay, I think he's fine. We's going about RB 15-ish. Yeah, I was with you. I was behind initially just because it was like, let's just see how his recovery goes before we make any decisions of like in or out. Because like in the first five rounds, like you want to be confident in these picks. And now that we've seen, you know, him at OTAs in a limited capacity, like he's only going to get stronger as the summer goes on, obviously. And especially at that ADP, like you're not drafting him to be a top five guy, obviously. And so there is some outs where it's like, hey, if you do go RB, RB to start and he's your third guy, which that's kind of how people are drafting right now. The late season upside is certainly there, even if he's a little bit slower off of the injury. So yeah, I'm with you. He's just his profile is fantasy friendly, right? Catches the football. He's going to get the goal line roll, all those things. So, yeah, we'll see. I've made a couple of updates as well. Bumped down Alec Pierce |
| 4:50.2 | A little bit further as we get the goal line roll, all those things. So yeah, we'll see. I made a couple updates as well. |
| 4:49.0 | Bumped down Alec Pierce a little bit further as we get more and more injury updates on him. |
| 4:54.1 | And then I had Emmanuel Wilson as a pretty decent and relatively to this year's landscape. |
| 5:00.5 | This is a huge caveat. |
| 5:01.9 | The late round options at running back are not good, period, but a decent-ish click because |
| 5:06.7 | of the Zach Jarbonate injury and everything. |
| 5:08.6 | And then we got some news, Kyle. |
| 5:10.5 | The Halani Hive is out. |
| 5:12.2 | Oh, baby. |
| 5:12.8 | And about. |
| 5:13.7 | And apparently he is getting first reps with Judarian Price. |
| 5:17.4 | So I bumped Emmanuel Wilson down a little bit, just given that. But yeah, we'll see. |
| 5:22.3 | Obviously, we're about to enter the deadest of dead periods of the NFL where at least we get |
| 5:27.9 | something in OTAs. You know, you get a little injury news. You get some updates on potential usage. |
| 5:31.9 | And then you get some mini-camp stuff. And brother, mid-June to late July, so we'll see yeah there there's a certain point |
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