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Does The RB Dead Zone Exist Anymore? - Stealing Bananas

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Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.8 • 770 Ratings

šŸ—“ļø 17 July 2024

ā±ļø 54 minutes

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In this edition of SB Shorts, Ben Gretch, and Shawn Siegele discuss the foundations of the RB Dead Zone, debate whether the ADP evolution has rendered it obsolete, and explain how to play it in your drafts. Subscribe to the RotoViz YouTube Channel here! HOSTS Stealing Signals creator Ben Gretch (@Yardspergretch)Ā - Subscribe to Stealing Signals and Stealing Lines today. RotoViz co-owner Shawn SiegeleĀ (@FF_Contrarian) SPONSORS BetterHelpĀ - This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try atĀ betterhelp.com/ROTOVIZĀ and get on your way to being your best self. Underdog Fantasy – Get a 100% deposit match on your first deposit up to $100 when you sign up atĀ Underdogfantasy.com using this linkĀ or the promo code ROTOVIZ. Listeners of RotoViz Radio can save 10% on a one-year RotoViz subscription by visiting RotoViz.com/podcast or by using the promotional code "rvradio2024" at the time of purchase. GametimeĀ - Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use codeĀ ROTOVIZĀ for $20 off your first purchase. SHOW NOTES Email: RotoVizRadio@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What is the running back dead zone in 2024? And how do you exploit it? That's what we're going to talk about today.

0:21.4

On stealing bananas.

0:23.1

I'm Ben Gretch.

0:23.7

You can find my newsletter at Ben Gretsch.com with me as always is Sean Siegel.

0:28.8

You can find all of his great work over at Rodeviz.

0:30.6

Sean Smirking in the background because of my absurd introduction.

0:34.7

But that's right.

0:35.3

We are going to talk about the running back dead zone today,

0:40.2

which is something that has been a hot button topic for several years now in the fantasy industry.

0:47.1

At first, it was sort of not necessarily rejected, but took a couple of years to be widely accepted.

0:53.3

Then it seemed to shift

0:54.8

adp pretty dramatically in the last year or two last year on this show famously sean we were

1:01.0

very in on the running back dead zone trying to target it very heavily uh going after the breese hall

1:08.7

jimir gib Gibbs contingent.

1:11.4

There were names that didn't hit in that group.

1:13.2

J.K.

1:13.5

Dobbins gets injured.

1:15.6

And now this year, whenever I hear it discussed, I basically hear it said the dead zone

1:20.5

doesn't exist anymore because it's, you know, ADP has shifted things so much.

1:24.8

And I think that's, yeah, I'm sure that I, well, at least that I feel,

1:29.6

that that's an oversimplification, that that's, yes, ADP has shifted, but people want to now

1:36.8

remove the lessons that the, that the running back dead zone taught us from their entire

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