It's projection season talking through some of the most interesting takeaways from my first 15 team projections. That's what we're going to talk about today on Stealing Pananas. I'm Ben Gretch. You can find my newsletter at Ben Gretsch.com with me as always is Sean Siegel. You can find all of his great work over at Rodeaviz. And Sean, as we've been talking about in the pre-show, as you know, because I've been messaging you over the weekend. I've been deep in the lab on projections. I've got 15 teams done, been really grinding through them at a little bit of a quicker pace than usual, which doesn't mean they're taking any less time. I often get asked, how long do these take? It's at, at least an hour team. You really got to, for me, like, I'm endlessly curious. I love this process because it

causes me to, to test things I didn't even know, I believed, and go look at the data, think through

how I expect the team to, you know, operate and how good they'll be. And it's a very thorough process for me.

I have to answer a lot of different questions about the usage and the efficiency of a lot of different players and the overall volume for a team just to get one team's projection done.

A lot of numbers go into that.

And I want to be able to defend every little number that I put in.

So I spend a lot of time on it.

So yeah, it's been a long weekend.

I'm a little bit wired.

I was telling you before the show, just bouncing through all of these different numbers.

But when we talk about the projections this time of year, every year, you like to discuss them on the show a little bit. You've, the last couple of years,

like to ask me some questions about things that I found or things that I'm uncovering or digging

into when I go through this process. And I always really enjoy that as well. So I've been sending you

some notes about things that I thought were interesting, some of the takes that we've discussed,

showing up, I think, in my actual projections as very viable. Some other stuff, maybe harder to

see. That's the fun part about the projections, is really getting into the team volume stuff

and what would need to happen for this type of thing to occur.

And so we've talked a little bit about that behind the scenes. I've given you a list of some of the

things that I thought were most interesting and also access to my sheet. So you've been looking at some of it.

And I know you have some of your own thoughts and some of your own research and addition. And there's just so many layers that we can start to peel back.

It's a really fun element.

I know you were ready to talk about this like a month ago.

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